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Immigration takes centre stage in the referendum debate | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
as the annual figures show the numbers are up. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The difference between those coming in and those | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
That is pushing up our population growth, it is putting huge pressure | :00:12. | :00:26. | |
on housing, on services such as the NHS, on | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
We'll be getting reaction from voters | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
500 migrants rescued by the Italian Navy, | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
after their overcrowded boat capsizes in the Mediterranean, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Tata Steel workers fear for their pensions as the government | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Police and protesters clash as France's fuel dispute deepens - | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
motorways blocked and flights delayed. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
And they said he didn't stand a chance - now reports say | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Donald Trump has the Republican Party nomination wrapped up. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
A first for Britain's No 2, Aljaz Bedene. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
He's through to the third round of a Grand Slam | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
at the French Open, but it's Novak Djockovic next. | :01:18. | :01:40. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
The Leave campaign in the EU referendum debate have seized | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
on the latest figures to ram home their argument that immigration | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Net migration to the UK - that's the difference | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
between the numbers coming and leaving - in 2015 was 333,000. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
That's the second-highest level ever recorded. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
More than half, 184,000, came from inside the EU. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
The government acknowledged the figure was too high but insisted | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
it was sticking to its aim of getting the number down | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has our first report. | :02:12. | :02:23. | |
My name is Anatoly, you can call me Tony, I'm originally from Latvia and | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
I came to the UK in 2012. My name is Victoria Poon I am from Latvia, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Riga. I came to Scotland in 2011 because my husband found a job here. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
I was born in Lithuania and in 2004, I stay here permanently. The names | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
and nations, not just the numbers, waves of workers and families who | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
have come to the UK perfectly legally from around Europe. I wanted | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
to stay. I think you need to control the level of migration. I think the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
UK should stay in the EU. My son was born here and he feels more British. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
But EU immigration again at record levels today, with a big increase | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
from bog area and remain your, is central to the decision over whether | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
we stay or go. -- from Balgarry and Romania. Leaving's chief cheerleader | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
says immigration is not just too high but trashed his own party's | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
plan, too. I think that they share the scandal of the promise made by | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
politicians repeatedly that they can cut immigration to the tens of | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
thousands, and then to throw their hands up in the air and say there is | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
nothing we can do. You said it was cynical to make that promise and | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
stay in the EU. That is a different thing, you are suggesting it was | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
misleading people, that we can't do it? I think it is cynical to say | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
that we can continue to control immigration from the EU when we | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
can't. And he will use that to try to get you on side. The campaign has | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
been a B in Westminster for weeks, but it is testing on the stump now, | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
too. Believe it or not, this gorilla has complained to the police about | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
allegedly being punched. One man ended up on the ground in the | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
frenzy. The trouble for the government side is that they are | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
miles of their immigration target. In 2010, they promised to get | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
immigration under 100,000. Right now, it is more than three times | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
that. But roughly half is from outside the EU. Reducing net | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
migration to the sustainable levels that existed before Labour lost | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
control in the 1990s remains absolutely the right focus because | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
of the pressure on public services and the speed of rate of change. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
That remains the intent of this government. But campaigners who want | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
to stay inside the EU say the outers are whipping up fear. This poster | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
from Operation Black Vote controversially captures that | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
concern. But the man he was Home Secretary when Eastern European | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
countries joined says leaving would be no solution. The Leave campaign | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
by talking in theory but not demonstrating in practice what they | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
would do on something as crucial as immigration, I think they are | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
misleading people. Did you imagine anything like the numbers of people | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
coming from other European countries to this country when you were Home | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Secretary? There's no question in my mind that we did not anticipate back | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
in 2004, the numbers who would come. A clear conclusion, with the benefit | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
of looking back. Deep feelings, strong arguments over immigration, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
that outers hope to turn into votes. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Well, among the towns up and down the country which have seen a sharp | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
influx of migrants in recent years is Goole in East Yorkshire. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
So how do people there feel about immigration and how | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
could it affect their votes in the referendum? | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
Our Correspondent Danny Savage has spent the day in Goole | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Done? George, Goole is a town with a | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
population of about 20,000. Roughly 15% of the population are foreign | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
nationals who have arrived in the last 15 years or so. When it comes | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
to migration, opinion is divided. Some businesses see it as an issue | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
-- Central bank and others try to see it as a positive thing but there | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
are also lots of people who feel threatened and unsettled by it. So | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
when it comes to the EU referendum, migration is a big deal here. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Out in the Vale of York, a busy packing plant sees British | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
80% of the workforce is from Eastern Europe. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
The prospect of leaving the EU is a worrying one. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
One thing is for sure, it won't be as easy as it is now. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
It is easy now to get people to fill my business | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
But we have some really good local ones, we just don't | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
A few miles away in Goole, you could be greeted in 15 languages | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
Built for 200, it now has 400 pupils, mainly due to migration. | :07:07. | :07:20. | |
Although they work hard to sing from the same sheet. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Currently, the classrooms are full to bursting. | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
There are literally one or two places left in each class. | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
Having recently increased it to 50 per year group as well. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
I would still say it is a good thing. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
I would still say it is a good thing. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
But again, it is enhancing the curriculum, really | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
ensuring those children are international mindedness. | :07:44. | :07:44. | |
Not all primary schools across the country have that experience. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
As far as public services, Goole is overwhelmed. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Shirley Marshall has lived here for 60 years and she's not alone | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
The parents take the children to school and I can't understand | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
I think the parents should be learning the language, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
so that the school does not have the responsibility | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Migration, good or bad? Bad. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Why? There's too many of them. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Do you think migration stops you and your friends getting jobs? | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Yes, I have seen that happen as well, like factory work, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
for example, you find a lot of migrants get the jobs easier, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
because they are willing to work for less. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
But because of migration? Or other things? | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Yes, because of other things as well but migration is a big problem. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
It feels like the issue of migration is at a crossroads. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
And the BBC's Reality Check team has been looking | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
at the migration figures and the arguments behind them. | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Plenty more at BBC.co.uk/realitycheck. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Today brought another tragedy at sea. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
Some 80 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean as they made | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
But it's what happened yesterday which has grabbed | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
More than 500 migrants were rescued by the Italian Navy | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
At least five people died when the boat sank | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
With the number of refugees arriving in Europe from the East slowing | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
down, the numbers coming to Italy from North Africa show | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
This time last year, over 47,000 people | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
So far this year, nearly 38,000 have made the journey. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
James Reynolds is in Porto Empedocle in Sicily. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
James? George, thanks very much. The clear | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
weather has led to a recent surge in migrant journeys and rescues and | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
migrant shipwrecks happen regularly. Normally, nobody witnesses them but | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
this Italian rescue ship filmed one boat going down. Just a warning that | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
you may find some of the images in this report distressing. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Italy's Navy approaches the migrants' overcrowded boat. On deck, | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
the migrants are desperate to see their rescuers. They crowd forwards, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
causing the boat to tilt. Then it capsizes. A handful find refuge on | :10:14. | :10:26. | |
the overturned hull. Others have to swim to their lives. Many have no | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
life jacket. They try to reach the rescue boats in front of them. The | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Navy has just minutes to save hundreds from drowning. The captain | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
of the rescue ship orders his sailors to throw life jacket into | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
the sea. Migrants swim towards them. The Navy dispatches a small rescue | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
boat. Sailors drag this man from the sea. He is too exhausted to show any | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
relief. More make it onto the overturned hull. Some managed to | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
board life rafts. In the end, the Navy rescues almost everyone it | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
finds. This afternoon, the rescue ship arrived here in Sicily. The | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
survivors of the shipwreck are lucky to be alive. They will believe they | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
owe their lives to the Italian rescuers who picked them from the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
sea and who have now brought them to dry land. The captain led the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
rescue. I asked him to describe what happened. We needed to throw into | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
the water as much as we could, what ever was able to float, we sent into | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
the water, so that people were able to catch it and grab it and stay | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
alive. Italy will question the survivors further. Who, if anyone | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
was steering the migrant boat? Might anyone still be missing? The | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
country's Navy is still at work in the Mediterranean. These pictures, | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
shot earlier today, show migrants waving their lives from a half | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
submerged craft. At least 30 bodies were recovered. James Reynolds, BBC | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
News, Sicily. Canada's ambassador to Ireland has | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
tackled a protester at an event in Dublin to remember British soldiers | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
who died during the 1916 Easter rising. The protest disrupted the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
ceremony, calling it a disgrace, before being removed forcibly by | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Kevin Vickers. The ambassador is already well known. He became a | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
national hero in Canada after shooting dead a jihadist gunman who | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
entered its parliament, two years ago. | :12:45. | :12:45. | |
The pension benefits of Tata's steelworkers could be reduced - | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
that's after the Business Secretary proposed changes to the way annual | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
Lower pension commitments might make Tata Steel's UK operation more | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Labour have warned that such a move would set a worrying precedent that | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
could affect the pensions of millions of other workers. | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
Our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith is outside | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
the Port Talbot steelworks for us now. | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
George, the idea of changing pensions of people who are already | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
claiming his controversial, going from the higher retail to lower | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
consumer prices index and said, we are told, up to ?2 billion but it | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
would take a change in law. The whole idea is to lighten the load | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
for any potential buyer, and maybe even after all of this process, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
enticed Tata Steel to stay in the UK but it could also have far reaching | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
consequences. The government has given just four weeks the | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
consultation to take place. One industry in crisis, two people whose | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
livelihoods depend on it. Tony spent 44 years as a steelworker. Now he's | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
a pensioner. You earned that when you are working, you paid into it | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
and you deserve it. Jason is ebbing the Port Talbot plant can give him | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
decades more employment. Those would be affected by today's proposed | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
pension cut. Both are concerned about where it might lead. The job | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
is first, it's the job we've got to look after. But as I've said, we're | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
not about to jump in feet first and accept over the top cuts, which are | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
too deep. This is going to make it more attractive to the buyers coming | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
in but there's also got to be an element of fairness. It's OK to do | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
it now, then ten years down the line, something else happens. Both | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
belong to a pension scheme that dates back to the 1970s, when | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
British Steel was one of our biggest employers. The name over the door | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
has changed a few times by the British Steel pension plan rolls on. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
There are now 130,000 members, the vast majority no longer working in | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
steel. At ?15 billion, the pension is worth more than all of Tata Steel | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
UK but there's a deficit of ?485 million, with more money going out | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
coming in. According to the government, that is putting off | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
potential buyers, and endangering the jobs of 11,000 workers. We owe | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
it to them, their families and their communities to do everything we can | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
to secure the future of their industry. But what could it mean for | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
other workers? We must also, Mr Speaker, ensure that it avoids | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
setting a potentially dangerous precedent for the millions of other | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
occupational pensioners who currently enjoy RPI indexation | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
rights. The government insists the change would be unique to Tata but | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
some in the industry are concerned it could signal a change for other | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
defined benefit, or DBE, pensions. They need to be very gathered about | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
not rushing in and not doing anything too hastily which could | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
have wider implications for the whole of DD pensions. For Port | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Talbot's pensioners and workers, weeks of uncertainty remain. But | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
they know saving therein history will come at a cost. Hywel Griffith, | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
BBC News. And still to come - | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
from fishing village to city centre, four weeks before the EU referendum, | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
we check the mood in Scotland. It's Woakes for Stokes, | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
as England get ready for tomorrow's second Test | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
against Sri Lanka in Durham. The in-form Chris Woakes | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
gets the nod to replace Trade unionists in France have | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
stepped up their industrial action against controversial labour | :16:35. | :16:49. | |
reforms. In Paris, police have | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
clashed with protestors. The dispute, which has been running | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
for two months, is deepening. From today, 16 of the country's 19 | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
nuclear power stations are affected. There's also been disruption | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
at oil refineries, ports And with half-term holidays | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
about to begin, flights are delayed Our Paris correspondent, | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Lucy Williamson, sent this report Centuries ago, they marched | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
for liberty, equality. Today it was for overtime wages | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
and the 35-hour week. Unions here say the government | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
is trying to boost the economy The government says it's simply | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
trying to create more jobs for young people, | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
like these two young women. If we just start to give away our | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
rights, what would it be next? We have to say we are not agree | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
and we will fight until the end. We want our rights to be equal, | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
our future generation, our generation, the former | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
generation, we all need these Many in France accept the need | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
for a more flexible economy, but among the unions | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
there is a sense of anger and betrayal that a socialist | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
government could be the one Hours after the government said it | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
would consider modifications to its labour reforms, | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
this is the response of the unions: more demonstrations, | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
more strikes, more disruption. With petrol stations | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
running out of fuel, oil tankers wait outside French | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
ports, sitting out the strikes. The protesters may be a minority, | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
but they drive France's trains, work its nuclear plants | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
and process its oil. With strikes beginning to bite, | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
the prime minister has hinted TRANSLATION: It's out | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
of the question to change the framework of the labour reform, | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
but there can always be some But union leaders say that | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
unless the law is scrapped, Because this dispute - | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
over pay, working hours, and the role of the unions - | :19:15. | :19:27. | |
is also the battle between two All of this will be worrying for | :19:28. | :19:42. | |
anyone thinking of coming to France for half term, not least scenes like | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
this, a queue of 20 cars or more, one man told me, he'd been waiting | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
45 minutes to fill up his tank. That's because the situation here is | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
so unpredictable. No-one knows which petrol stations will be open when, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
because the deliveries have become so erratic. When you add to that the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
fact that panic buying is raising demand by about three times compared | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
to normal, petrol stations, even those that have deliveries, are | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
running out quickly. The advice to anyone coming over to France next | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
week - fill up the tank before you cross the channel. | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
Many thanks. In America, it's being reported that | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
Donald Trump has won enough support from delegates to become | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
the Republican Party's Let's cross to our North America | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
editor, Jon Sopel. I can remember saying this man | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
didn't stand a chance. We probably reported it on this programme. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
George, for all the talk that there was going to be brokered | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
conventions, riots in the streets, back-room deals, forget it - it | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
seems Donald Trump has won this at an easy canter. Who's saying it? The | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Associated Press news agency, which has tallied up the votes and says | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Donald Trump has 50% plus one with many races still to go. Remember, | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
there were 1 other Republican hopefuls -- 16 other run hopefuls | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
wanting to win the nomination. Mr Trump has swatted them aside. It is | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
an extraordinary achievement, partly by force of personality. Partly by | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
ripping up the political rule book, but mainly by speaking to the | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
concerns of ordinary American people who feel the country is going in the | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
wrong direction, Donald Trump has done it. In Japan today Barack Obama | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
has said world leaders feel rattled by the fact that Donald Trump has | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
secured the nomination, but what we're talking about now, in reality, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
is that the only person that stands between Donald Trump and getting his | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
keys on the White House is whoever emerges as the democratic nominee, | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
presumably Hillary Clinton and her campaign is beset by difficulties. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
One of only two women, serving whole life sentences | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
in a British prison, has lost her bid for | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
compensation for being kept in solitary confinement | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
One of only two women, serving whole life sentences | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
in a British prison, has lost her bid for | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
compensation for being kept in solitary confinement | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
without the authorisation of the Justice Secretary. | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
Joanne Dennehy was jailed in 2014 for the random murders | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
of three men on separate occasions in Cambridgeshire. | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
She'd been kept in solitary after a plan to escape | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
using the severed finger of a prison guard to open biometic security | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
Vauxhall has begun to offer compensation to some Zafira owners | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
who've seen their cars destroyed by fire because of a problem | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
Last week, Vauxhall said they will recall nearly 250,000 | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
vehicles for a second time to try and fix the problem. | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
A Vauxhall owners group campaigning on Facebook are asking drivers | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
offered compensation not to accept it without getting | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
The referendum on Britain's future in the European Union takes | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Polls in Scotland have consistently suggested that around two thirds | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
of Scots are in favour of remaining in the EU and that Scotland | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, has been gauging the mood among | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
voters and looking at the issues which concern them most. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
Some of Scotland's most remote communities feel very positive | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
On the Isle of Islay, the ferry docks at a harbour | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
entirely rebuilt with millions of pounds of EU funding, | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
Europe consumes about half of the island's exports | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
A recent surge in sales at the Bruichladdich Distillery | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
has seen the distillery brought out of mothballs, | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
now producing ten million bottles a year and providing much-needed jobs. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
They're convinced leaving the EU could have dire | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
consequences for an industry the island relies on. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
It has really lifted the local economy in a very dramatic way. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
And the thought that it might actually be threatened in some way | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
is really quite scary, and the idea that we may return | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
to those dark ages, which many, many, many people on this | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
island will remember, doesn't bear thinking about. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
Whisky is one of Scotland's biggest exports. | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
They admit they don't know what would happen | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
to sales if we leave the EU, but say even that uncertainty could | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Of course, people won't choose how to vote based purely | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
on whether or not they think EU membership is good for business. | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Less than two years after the independence | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
referendum here in Scotland, voters know this is a decision | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
The EU referendum also raises questions of identity | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Voters must look into their hearts as well as their heads. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
In Edinburgh, people who are campaigning on each side | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
to leave and to remain, think perceptions of national | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
identity may help explain how Scots will vote. | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
We're used to having a split identity, we would identify | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
ourselves as being both Scottish and also British, | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
which are two quite separate identities. | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Perhaps we're more accepting of having this third European identity. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
Whilst those who want to leave feel they have lost control | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
of the decisions that govern their lives. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
There's a lot of things that we don't get our say | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
in because of the EU having their own rules. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
We've got tons of things that we would like to control over here. | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
They take them over to the European Union | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
and they're like, no, you can't have that. | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
There are plenty of sceptics in Scotland. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
In what remains of the country's industrial belt near Glasgow, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
workers worry about immigration and its impact on jobs. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
In a factory full of hydraulic pumps, many destined for Europe, | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
worries about the economic impact of leaving the EU are dismissed. | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
Trade will continue, they're certain. | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Think we're to get out of this perception if we leave the EU we're | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
pulling up a drawbridge at Calais and right, we're off on our own. | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Pragmatically, realistically, that is not going to happen. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Intriguingly, the parts of Scotland most eager to leave the UK | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
and become independent are also the parts most likely to vote | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
If they do so in large enough numbers, it could be Scottish votes | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
I'm now in Glasgow, where later tonight there will be a special BBC | :26:30. | :26:43. | |
debate on the EU referendum. Four politicians, two on either side, | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
taking questions from an audience of young voters. They have a slightly | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
different take on the issues. They want to know what Brexit would mean | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
for further education, for people looking for their first job. You can | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
see that here on BBC One at 8pm. Beach weather for some today. Sheena | :26:56. | :27:08. | |
in Shetland sending this photo. The residents enjoying the sunshine. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Look closely, those are seals. You need a few layers of blubber on, | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
temperatures only 9 Celsius. It was gloriously sunny. Sunny across | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
southern areas through the UK today. Elsewhere, it has been a rather grey | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
day. Lots of cloud across central parts, staying dull and misty | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
through the evening and drizzly rain through central Scotland. In the | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
south-west, we've seen sunshine today. Now thunder storms are | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
approachingment there'll -- approaching. Staying damp and | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
drizzly for a time through central Scotland. Sunshine through the North | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
West. Further round of thunder storms across parts of Wales, | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
south-west England in the afternoon. The risk of intense rain here. Grey | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
and cool on the East Coast. Elsewhere, dry, bright, bit of | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
sunshine, 21 Celsius is possible. Into the long weekend then, we are | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
going to see heavy showers around. Initially across the south-east. | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
Then again potentially through the day the risk of thunder storms for | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
Wales and south-west England. Very much hit-and-miss. Sunshine sees | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
temperatures high teens maybe 20 Celsius. Again cooler and perhaps | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
grey on some of those North Sea coasts. By the time we get to Sunday | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
not such a great a risk of showers across the south-west. Greater risk | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
of thundery showers in the far North West. They'll be fairly well | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
scattered. Many places looking dry. Where it's cloudy only in the teens. | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
For many of us the weekend looks half decent. There will be heavy | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
showers to dodge Monday, though. Big question marks about Monday. It's | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
giving as forecast as a headache. The message at the moment if you | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
have plans for bank holiday Monday - stay tuned to the forecast. | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :28:51. | :28:53. |