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David Cameron's direct appeal to the people of Scotland not to tear | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
The Prime Minister's message is backed by Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
as all three UK-wide party leaders reach out to Scottish voters. | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
Because I will be heartbroken if this family of nations which we have | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
put together and has done amazing things together was torn apart. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
But for Alex Salmond and the yes campaign it's more | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
a case of Westminster leaders who can't be trusted. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
What we are seeing today on the other side is Team Westminster | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
jetting up for the day because they are panicking in their campaign. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
We'll be talking to some undecided voters, asking them what factors | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
The price of caring for relatives with dementia. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
A charity claims those with the disease and their families face | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
care costs equivalent to more than ?20,000 a year. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
How the giant stones of Stonehenge may not stand alone after all | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
as evidence of a vast network of religious shrines is uncovered. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
The first Invictus Games for injured servicemen and women is about to get | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
We're live 30 metres under Oxford Street as we take | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
a close-up look at progress of the ?15 billion Crossrail project. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Good evening from Edinburgh, where David Cameron came today with a | :01:37. | :02:09. | |
message to Scotland's voters urging them not to embrace independence | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
in next week's referendum, saying he'd be heartbroken | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
He asked people not to vote for independence as a way of expressing | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
He said he loved his country more than he loved his party. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Mr Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have all travelled to | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
But Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, said the three Westminster | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson has the latest on | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
You are looking at a man who knows his tombstone may read the Prime | :02:37. | :02:51. | |
Minister who presided over the break-up of Britain. You are | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
listening to a man whose voice began to break as he made a plea for | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Scotland to stay. It is your decision, it is the Scottish people | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
who decide, but please be in no doubt that the rest of the United | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Kingdom is watching, listening, holding our breath and we care | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
passionately about this family of nations and we would really be | :03:11. | :03:24. | |
desperately sad to see it torn apart. David Cameron spoke to | :03:25. | :03:25. | |
workers in Edinburgh's financial district in a way he has never | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
spoken before. I think people can feel it is like a general election, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
where you can make a decision and then five years later make another | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
decision. If you are fed up with the effing Tories, give them a kick and | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
then... But this is a decision not about the next five years. It is a | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
decision about the next century. It is a decision that is staring | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
emotions and testing tempers. A passionate debate between Scots | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
about what their country should choose. Down the road, the other man | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
who should have been in Westminster at Prime Minister's Questions. Ed | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Miliband said he had come to Scotland to fight for fairness, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
justice and equality. I say the best way to achieve those values is | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
together, not apart. I say don't choose an irreversible separation. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Choose to stay together on the basis of those values. Solidarity, social | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
justice, together not alone. From the head, not the heart -- from the | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
heart, from the soul, vote no in this referendum. What he and they | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
are up against is the ever onward march of yes. The campaign that | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
simply can't stop smiling. They believe that every flight from | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
London adds up to thousands more votes for them in Scotland. What we | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
are seeing on the other side is Team Westminster jetting up to Scotland | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
for the day because they are panicking in the campaigns. What you | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
call Team Westminster don't have a vote. The people who may stop you | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
are Team Scotland to voting no. Why don't you talk about them more | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
rather than people in London? For the last month and certainly the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
last weeks of the campaign, we have engaged in a conversation with | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
fellow citizens. Alex Salmond knows that his epitaph could be the man | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
who is the founding father of Scottish independence. To complete | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the Westminster set today, Nick Clegg made the journey from London | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
to Selkirk. It is a decision for ever. It is not a decision you can | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
make now and undo tomorrow. It is a decision that will last forever. So | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
what do drinkers in this pub make of all this talk of independence | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
being, well, the end of the world? Do you feel like this is a big deal? | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Yes, it feels huge. It is on everyone's lips. Constantly thinking | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
about it, constantly reading about it. A bit scared? Yes. Properly | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
scared? Yes. I think it is a huge stab in the dark. He is a no and she | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
is a yes but both could yet change their minds, both unimpressed by the | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
pleas from Westminster. David Cameron raced out of Scotland just | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
as he raced in. His message? Very simple. This is not about me, this | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
is not about those he called the effing Tories, it is not about the | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
next five years. It is forever. Nick Robinson, BBC News, Edinburgh. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
With just eight days to go and with recent polls suggesting | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
the result could be too close to call, it's now a battle to win over | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
A so-called poll of polls collated by the website | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
What Scotland Thinks based on six recent polls suggests that of those | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
who expressed a view 48 percent are in favour of independence with 52 | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon has been back to meet | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the undecided voters she spoke to last month in Fife to see | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
It is the known as the Kingdom of Fife, a bellwether area politically, | :07:13. | :07:29. | |
and an indication of how people vote here could be an indication of how | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
people vote across Scotland. We brought people here six week and | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
could go to watch the first televised debate. They all said they | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
were undecided. They are snapshot of the people both sides have been | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
trying to win over. Among them, Scott Ford and his sister Lauren | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Dailey, both in their 20s and both solicitors. There was more substance | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
to it that not enough. You said there was not enough information | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
when you were listening to the first debate. How are you feeling now? I | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
still don't think enough information has come out. I go between yes and | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
no everyday. I think yes is a leap into the dark but potentially so is | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
no. You undecided at the beginning of this so how are you feeling now? | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
I think my vote in September will be yes. Various facts and figures have | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
influenced me and I feel my vote is not just for myself, but three | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
people, myself and my two children. Karen McGregor is in her 40s and | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
works as a carer. She was undecided when we last spoke to her so has she | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
made up her mind? I am 60% no and 40% yes. What factors are | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
influencing your decision? I think it is the pound, the currency. The | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
yes camp keep the pound but we would not be in control of it. It would | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
have to be set by the Bank of England. If we are in Europe, we | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
will be ruled by Europe and the euro and that worries me. There is a | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
really big conversation going on not just here in Fife but across | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Scotland. Families and friends discussing what they want for this | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
country's future, engaged in politics in a way rarely seen. And | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
it is the discussions taking place amongst undecided and still | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
persuadable voters that could decide the outcome of this referendum. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Lorna Gordon, BBC News. One of the biggest names in pensions | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
and savings, Standard Life, which has been based in Scotland | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
for nearly 200 years, confirmed today it was preparing to transfer | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
parts of its business to England The company said in a statement | :09:32. | :09:47. | |
these were precautionary measures in relation to the uncertainty around | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
Scotland's future. The Bank of England Governor Mark | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
Carney today sought to reassure banking customers that there would | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
be financial stability after Our business editor Kamal Ahmed | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
reports. With eight days to go, it was time | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
for a message of reassurance. The governor of the Bank of England, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
pushed by MPs, said there were plans in place to ensure that everyone's | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
bank accounts were secure whatever the outcome of the independence | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
vote. We have been doing contingency planning. We have contingency | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
plans. And we would obviously implement them if at all required in | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the short term to support financial stability. Behind the rather ornate | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
walls of the Bank of England, they are planning what to do on September | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the 19th if there is a yes vote on September the 18th. High Street | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
banks that I have spoken to are privately demanding a major | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
announcement first thing in the morning. They want reassurance for | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
customers with accounts both North and South of the border that those | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
accounts are still backed by the Bank of England and the UK | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Government. The Governor of the Bank of England is not the only one | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
making contingency plans. Today the insurance giant Standard Life wrote | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
to its shareholders saying that uncertainty around Scotland's future | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
meant that it had plans to transfer people's pensions, long-term savings | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
and investments South of the border. Those who support independence have | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
responded saying that the risk of financial instability is being | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
overplayed. I think that people are worrying unnecessarily. I do not | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
believe that will happen because these are strong economies. Scotland | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
is open for business and so is the rest of the UK. Not everyone agrees. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Today the chief executive of BP, the biggest investor in the North Sea, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
said it was important to maintain the integrity of the UK. Politicians | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
from the no campaign echoed that view. It is Alex Salmond's Black | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Wednesday, if you like. It is clear that firms like Standard Life would | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
have to relocate operations out of Scotland in the event of | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
independence. Major firms like BP and Shall think that being in the UK | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
makes the industry stronger and would encourage more investment. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Three High St banks have told the BBC they are preparing for the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
possibility of a yes vote, making sure there is plenty of money held | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
North of the border to reassure the public. The Bank of England has also | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
made it clear it is ready to act. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson has joined me in Edinburgh. You were | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
part of the group following the leaders today. What was your | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
impression of what if anything they achieved? What will be fascinating | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
will be to see if people listened to the message, saw the messenger and | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
blocked out the message. I don't think any voter particularly after | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
today can be in any doubt about how much this vote matters, how much the | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
politicians and the rest of the United Kingdom want them not to vote | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
for independence, and the fact that this vote could well be | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
irreversible. It is forever. On the other hand of course, Alex Salmond | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
is delighted these guys have got on the plane from Westminster. Every | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
time they do, you think that is another vote for him. There is some | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
frustration also among the Labour Party in Scotland, who fear it is a | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
huge distraction from the substance. There is some frustration also among | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the Labour Party in Scotland, who fear it is a huge distraction from | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
the substance independent from the Governor of the Bank of England. One | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
little straw in the wind here, and we watch them all now, don't we? And | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
others opinion poll out tonight which shows another clear turn to no | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
clear lead. The significance is not numbers. Any poll can be wrong. The | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
real significance is no movement in this opinion poll in recent weeks. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
None at all. We will talk later. Thank you. We will be back later | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
with a look at the timetable of likely events, depending on that | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
result and the impact on key areas of policy. We will also be speaking | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
to Brian Taylor, our Scotland political editor. Back to you. | :14:00. | :14:00. | |
Thank you. Families caring for people with | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
dementia are paying a so-called New research by the Alzheimer's | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Society says most care is provided They say it can cost | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
the equivalent of ?20,000 a year. Our health correspondent | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. They've just four years, dementia | :14:15. | :14:30. | |
has taken a terrible Carl on Bill. But as well as dealing with the | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
reality of his swift recline, -- decline, his wife has seen it take | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
their life savings. It has taken everything. Financial worry is | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
constant. I lay awake at night when I do get to sleep, worrying about | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
this and how to pay for that. Without my family I don't know where | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
I would be. Campaigners argue that when it comes to the kind of social | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
care Bill needs, families have to cope largely on their own. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Researchers calculate the health and social care costs of dementia across | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
the UK are now running at ?26 billion each year. But today's | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
report says that those with the condition, their carers and families | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
shoulder two thirds of the costs, more than ?17 billion. The | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Alzheimer's Society says that bill's story is all too familiar. A | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
family whose life was torn apart by a diagnosis of dementia to be left | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
not just with an emotional and physical burden, but also with a | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
huge financial cost as well. If you have cancer, you get all your | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
support on the NHS. If you have heart disease, you get all your | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
support on the NHS. If you have Alzheimer's and other kinds of | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
dementia you do not get support on the NHS. You have to pay for it | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
yourself. But ministers in England say they are making changes to help | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
families cope. The battle to improve the way that we look after people | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
with dementia and the support we give to families looking after | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
someone with dementia and the way we as a society react to people with | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
dementia, that is the litmus test of our commitment. With the number of | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
dementia patients predicted to reach 2 million within the next 40 years, | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
experts say radical solutions to funding social care are urgently | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
needed. Dominic Hughes, BBC News, Stockport. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg head to Scotland to make | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
direct appeals to voters not to tear apart the United Kingdom. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
And still to come - Princes William and Harry arrive | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
for tonight's opening ceremony of the Invictus Games - but the Duchess | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Two hospital A units close as part of a re-organisation of the NHS. | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
And Scotland Yard warns children from London are being used to run | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Last week, President Obama was marvelling at the splendid | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
But now it appears that the giant stones may not be quite | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Using the most detailed underground maps | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
ever made of the earth, scientists have uncovered what's believed to be | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
a vast network of other shrines - including one that's a mile wide. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
The archaeologists say it's allowing them to explore what civilisation | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
The scientists involved in this project say it is so special, they | :17:29. | :17:42. | |
have learned more in the past four years than in all the archaeology | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
done around here in the past 100 years. They have used specialist | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
equipment to look below the ground, not only by Stonehenge itself but | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
the surrounding area, in order to find out what led up to Stonehenge. | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
What they found was spectacular. It is one of the most studied | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
monuments on earth, but the Stonehenge landscape is still giving | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
up its secrets. These are clearly man-made, not natural. Over four | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
years, the project to map what lies beneath has found everything from | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
the existence of this circular henge... It is a very short distance | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
from Stonehenge. To giant pits, channels and monuments. 17 new | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
structures that nobody knew existed. It is just amazing. This | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
wooden long barrow is among the most spectacular finds. It is a communal | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
burial site on 6000 years ago. It represents the very origins of | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
ritual and religion. It is extraordinary to think that there | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
have been samey investigations of this landscape and the land we are | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
standing on now and nobody before has suspected all of this. Six | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
square miles were mapped using radar that looks into the ground to chart | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
the evolution of civilisation that began 10,000 years ago. Even here, | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
at the well-known and well researched site near Stonehenge, | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
they found something new. Beneath my feet, the radar discovered around 60 | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
holes, two metres wide, all part of a new unknown structure they are | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
calling the super henge. It all proves that Stonehenge is not an | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
isolated structure. It is part of a landscape where multiple memories | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
and traditions started in Britain. In a drive to build ever more | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
incredible monuments en route to the most enigmatic one of all. | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
It's the brainchild of Prince Harry - the Invictus Games will soon be | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
More than 400 injured servicemen and women | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
from 13 nations will compete against each other over the next four days. | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
But before that, 5,000 people will watch the opening ceremony | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Our Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is there. | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
No cake tonight, which is no great surprise but William and Harry will | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
be a very shortly for the opening ceremony. It is very much at | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Harry's personal instead and that the Invictus Games are taking place. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
-- personal instigation. London's Olympic park, busy once | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
again with international athletes, preparing to compete and push | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
themselves to the limit. Yet these athletes have a very special | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
camaraderie. They have all seen military service and suffered life | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
changing injuries. They are from the UK and 12 other nations. 400 of | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
them, in all. They are here by Royal appointment. Prince Harry has made | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
it his business to chivvy enough people to make it happen. It has | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
been his initiative. He has been closely involved. It is a cause that | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
matters to him. To get them together here and see them interact with each | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
other makes the difference to me. It is seen how they bounce off each | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
other, the banter, camaraderie, brotherhood, regardless of what | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
country you are from. You have got people sharing stories of their | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
injuries. For me, it is very special to sit back and watch it. Terry is a | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
former soldier from The Parachute Regiment. He lost his right leading | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Afghanistan, six years ago. He says sport has been the most important | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
factor in his recovery. I've always had something to aim for and look | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
forward to. From everything in the army, to getting injured, then | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
aiming for everything in sport, it means a massive amount. The | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
competitors will use some of the Olympic facilities, competing in | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
nine different sports. It has all been arranged in a matter of months. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
To organise the event on this scale took us seven years in the Olympic | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Games and we have had six or seven months but this. It has been a | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
gargantuan task. The Invictus Games will be opened by Harry and William | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
tonight and continue until Sunday. More now on our main story tonight - | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Scotland's referendum campaign. Attention is now focusing sharply | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
on the likely timetables for action that will follow | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
a Yes or a No result. There's more being said | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
about the key areas of policy - in Scotland and UK-wide - | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
that could be affected. Reeta Chakrabarti has been | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
looking at the options. So much hangs on next week's vote, | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
whether you look at the economy, defence all the way we are governed. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
We have put together a timetable of the events ahead, if Scotland votes | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
yes next week, or indeed no. If it is a yes, the Westminster election | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
next May will, Alex Salmond hopes, he followed in March 2016 by | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Scottish independence. Scottish elections will take place two months | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
later. It is a tight deadline and there are already questions over | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
whether it is realistic. If it is no, the promise of more powers the | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Scotland means the timetable is much less complicated but still full, | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
with formal proposals the devolution in November, and draft laws early | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
next year with the aim of getting the changes through before the end | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
of this Parliament, another tight deadline. What will the result | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
either way mean for the UK's defence, place in the world and its | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
constitution? If it is yes, there will be huge | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
political and constitutional uncertainty. Would David Cameron and | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Ed Miliband survive? Could the next government be formed with temporary | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Scottish MPs? There might have to be another general election when | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
independence happens and labour may struggle to form a majority without | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Scottish MPs. If it is a no, with the promise of extra power, more | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
devolution to Scotland, have to be matched in the rest of the UK? | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
English MPs would want to make English laws by themselves. Either | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
way, the way this place does business is going to change. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
The UK likes to think of itself as a medium-sized country which punches | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
above its weight. If Scotland voted yes, with the loss of nearly a third | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
of the UK's territory, though only 8% of its population, it might be | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
harder to argue. It would lend support to those who say British | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
influence is in decline anyway and we should lose our permanent seat on | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
the UN Security Council, for instance. Allies would also be | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
worried about the knock-on effect on VE you and NATO will stop if | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Scotland voted no, everything would be more stable. But it would still | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
reinforce worries that Britain's future was becoming more uncertain. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
If Scotland votes yes, it would expect its fair share of the British | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Armed Forces. The Scottish Government said it would have its | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
own air force, navy and army made up of around 12 fast jets, two warships | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
and an army of around 3500 regular troops. An independent Scotland says | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
it would be free of nuclear weapons by the end of the decade which means | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
moving the fleet of four Trident submarines from their base on the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Clyde, which could cost billions of pounds. If it is a no, little will | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
change but Britain's Armed Forces have been shrinking and could still | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
face further cuts. A yes vote would also mean huge | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
questions about the currency and what the rump of the UK will be | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
called. Westerns which would need very urgent answers. -- questions | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
which would need. Our Scotland political editor Brian | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
Taylor is here. We have had business argument is | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
today and arguments to the heart so which will dominate? It was | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
intriguing the Prime Minister was in an Edinburgh finance house, | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
addressing people working in business and yet his primary pitch | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
was emotional. It is about the heart and his attachment to the UK, not | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
purely as a business entity but as an advantage for the people of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Scotland and the rest of the UK. Those who advocate the union are | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
getting example rated, infuriated with what they claim is a refusal by | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the other side to engage with the arguments from business, the | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
complaints, warnings and concerns. The other side there are also tipped | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
arguments to be made but there is a Delphic approach by the other side. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
They know they will be only talking up a downside for the prospects, and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
they are likely to stick with the other argument about empowering the | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Scottish people. I think we will hear from Alex Salmond and more that | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
on 18th September, the people of Scotland will have their own | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
sovereignty in their hands and they can choose to share it again with | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Westminster or give it to themselves. This has become quite a | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
remarkable argument and a remarkable referendum. Thank you for joining | :26:46. | :26:46. | |
us. It's been a glorious day here | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
in Edinburgh - For most of us, it will. That seems | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
to be the way of it at the moment, fine days and chilly nights. This | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
was a typical countryside scene this morning, temperatures down to 4 | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
degrees but with the sunshine, they bounced back as high as 21 or 22 in | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
a few places by this afternoon and it's not like summer. What a | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
contrast with conditions in the West. In North America, a plunge of | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
cold air, and across the northern plains of the US and the Canadian | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
prairies, we have had a taste of winter with a Christmas card scene | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
in Alberta in the last 24 hours. A real shock to the system to them. No | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
snow in the forecast from EU will be pleased to know but it will turn | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
chilly under the clear skies with fog patches forming. One or two in | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
the south and more widespread in the North. Temperatures will fall quite | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
sharply down into the low single figures in the outer suburbs and | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
some oral spots. Higher than that in towns and cities. -- rural spots. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
The cloud will creep further west into central areas through the day | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
from the east in the morning. A different kind of day for some. The | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
best of the sunshine further west and another fine day to come across | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
westernmost England, much of Wales and the West Midlands. More cloud | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
further east but fairly moth-eaten, allowing some brightness and | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
temperatures doing well in the sunshine, up into the low 20s, and | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
the wind fairly light. Any morning fog will clear from the Glens of | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
Scotland and we are set fair, a bit more towards the east and it will be | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
somewhat cooler. On Friday, slow and subtle changes, a bit more cloud for | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
some of us a bit less for others and a notable breeze developing across | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
some southern areas but in the sunshine, we will do pretty well | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
with temperatures into the low 20s. This weekend, it stays mostly dry, a | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
bit cloudier and it will turn windier in general. | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
That's all from the team here in Edinburgh. | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
I'll have more at ten - but now on BBC One, we join | :28:49. | :28:50. |