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driest and brightest. Thank you. Now we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This is BBC Newsline. Tonight's headlines. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Tributes are paid to the BBC Broadcaster Gerry Anderson | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
He was just a very charming man. He could talk to anybody. He could talk | :00:22. | :00:36. | |
to the Queen, he could talk to a little woman who had lost her | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
budgie. Two DUP ministers warn about | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
the serious impact budgets cuts I am putting it up to the Executive | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
that I'm not carrying out the cuts, so if they want someone to do it, | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
they can find someone else. One of the key players in the peace | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
process, the former Taoiseach Albert It's a story of bright days | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
but chilly nights to end the week. Scotland decides whether or not to | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
independent, I am in and Northern Ireland seeing the parts played by | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
an Irishman and Scotsman. Hello | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
and welcome to tonight's programme. A one-off, a broadcasting legend the | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
like of which we'll never see again. Just some of the tributes | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
paid to Gerry Anderson. The airwaves have been filled today | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
with friends and listeners describing | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
Gerry Anderson as the best of them. He was on air for a quarter of a | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
century, until illness took him out Today, the great | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
and the good paid their tributes. But it was his humour and his easy | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
relationship with his listeners, ordinary people everywhere, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
and his roots in the place he called Stroke City, that most marked | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Gerry Anderson as unique. Maggie Taggart looks back | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
on his life. ruined that moment! To radio and | :01:53. | :02:13. | |
television audiences, Gerry Anderson meant humour, music and a wry look | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
at life. Born in Stroke City, he soon showed a talent for music and | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
performing. Focus daily show on radio Ulster, and for his television | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
programmes, Gerry Anderson won acclaim and audience affection. He | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
was also a guitarist and an early break came on the Manchester music | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
scene where he worked the clubs. Tours of the UK and abroad followed | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
with his band. In Canada, he joined a band called Ronnie Hawkins and the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Hawks. Back home, he settled long enough to study for a degree in | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
sociology and social anthropology. Then a postgraduate diploma in | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
education. He tried teaching but it became clear his place was in a | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
radio studio or in front of a camera. This was a shirt factory. | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
1500 girls worked in there. He developed a new style of | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
broadcasting. He transformed radio broadcasting, no question about | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
that. He was a breath of fresh air. We hadn't heard anyone like him | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
before. It was irreverent, cheeky. He was very creative. Thank you and | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
welcome. As a daily radio show presenter and a chat show host and | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
documentary maker, his humour and ability to connect with people | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
resulted in a cluster of awards. God is in heaven, Elizabeth is on the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
throne, and the door will open in two hours. He was a man of wit and | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
mischief, two hours. He was a man of wit and | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
insight into what he did, and he will be sadly missed by all | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
insight into what he did, and he a show band guitarist to chat, Gerry | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
proved to be an awkward mismatch, but then he made documentaries for | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
the BBC station. It is two years since he was at his radio Foyle | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
microphone but even so his death has been a shock to his comics. He was | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
humorous and friendly. He was someone that would always be your | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
friend. If you, he could be quirky in his own little way, but he was a | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
friend of mine. And I will sorely miss Gerry Anderson. Always looking | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
for the Google in every situation, Gerry Anderson has said his final | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
goodbye. Gerry Anderson has said his final | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
explained how much she loved the job he was so good at. I come in here | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
and I just enjoy myself. I never regard it as a chore. Don't talk | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
anybody, but I would have done it for nothing! | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Many of those whose lives Gerry Anderson touched have been sharing | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
their sadness at his death and their memories of him on Twitter. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
He had an impact on the lives of those from all ends of the spectrum, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
from the comedian Paddy Kielty, to the Deputy First Minister and Stroke | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
City native, Martin McGuinness, who said he "brightened all our lives." | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
The DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson tweeted about what he would miss about the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
broadcaster, while the television presenter Christine Bleakley called | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
him "a broadcasting legend, a gentleman and a great friend." | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Many of the tweets talked about the broadcaster's genius. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
The actor and playwright Dan Gordon described him as " | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Its echoing, isn't it? gathering reaction. | :05:42. | :05:58. | |
Its echoing, isn't it? a toilet? Yes, you are missing! Very | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
good. Memories of a legend. Behind the laughter, there is sadness. It | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
is a difficult day for colleagues and friends of a man described as a | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
broadcasting genius. After all, the Queen is very friendly with me. Much | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
is never met you. -- but she has never met you. People loved his | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
partnership with Sean Coyle but it was his relationship with the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
listener and public that set him aside. In his native Derry, he was | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
adored. Many today are mourning the loss of one of the city's most | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
famous sons. Unique talent. Very, very entertaining, very skilled | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
interviewer. He will be missed. I loved his music and his work. And | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
they mean they -- and they renamed it Stroke City. He was an | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
intelligent man. He was a great icon of the town. That popularity | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
stretched further than his birthplace with tributes pouring in | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
from fans and colleagues across Northern Ireland. My favourite | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
moments were handovers with Gerry Anderson when I knew that even for | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
me he was being incredibly dangerous, and then sat cheeky, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
cheeky laugh, when he was basically saying, I know this is right on the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
edge. At the end of the day, he was good enough to get away with it. He | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
was less well-known for his talents as a singer and bass player. He had | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
that gift that he could make the hairs stand on the back of your neck | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
when he hit those high notes. It is the saddest day for me. Those who | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
loved and new Gerry Anderson are now coming to terms with the loss of an | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
I'm joined now from our Foyle studio by Mickey Bradley | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
It goes without saying that he's irreplaceable. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
He is. In the office today, his desk behind Sean Coyle's, it has been | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
empty since November 2012, but today there is definitely something | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
different about the place. There is a mixture of extreme sadness and | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
amazing humour. Everybody has their favourite Gerry Anderson story, | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
either from what he said to them or on-air. And a moving tribute from | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
his wife this afternoon. Yes, Christine has had an awful two | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
years. And a sign of how strong the family was that they bought that. In | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
a very low-key way because thankfully, there wasn't that huge | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
media coverage of his illness. People would wring every day but | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
they would be very respectful to ask how he was. Our line is that he was | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
ill and whenever he recovers he will be back on air. And that was the | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
truth up until today. And his humour, it became part of the heart | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
and soul of Northern Ireland. Absolutely. And it is because of his | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
roots. I know it's been said before, but he was very working class. Gerry | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
was Derry and he could connect with people, no matter where you were | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
from. He could talk to anyone, as you mentioned. He could talk to the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Queen and to the wee woman looking for her dog. He would go and listen. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
He was very compassionate as well. As well as being very witty and very | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
cutting. Especially with Sean Coyle, which is fair enough. But he was a | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
very kind person which didn't come across as much on the radio or on | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
the TV as it should. And, yet, for such a public figure, a very private | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
man. Yes, I remember the last day he was at work. I was in the room with | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
him along with one of our editors and he was saying, right, I'm going | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
away now, I'm going to have this procedure. He says, do you want us | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
to contact you? He says, no. I'll be fine. And he was. He went, and he | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
just did everything at his own pace and the way he wanted to do it. And | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
that is how it was with Gerry. Our condolences to everyone in Foyle and | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
thank you for joining us this evening. An Ebola scare in County | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Donegal. The details are sketchy, but what can you tell us? The | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Republic's health service executive has confirmed that isolation | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
procedures have been put in place at a hospital in County Donegal after | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the suspected death of a man from the south-west of the county because | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
of the Ebola virus. Now, it is deadly, it has no known cure, and it | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
seems to be confined to Western Africa, and the way to deal with it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
is through quarantine and through very, very good hygiene. We | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
understand the man who died had recently returned from Sierra Leone. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
And a priest who had been working in Sierra Leone died in Spain last | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
week. The place where this man had been working, we understand, a | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
number of people that had contact -- contract had the disease. The WHO | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
says that about 2500 people have contacted them with Ebola, and 1300 | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
have died. The results of the test on the Donegal man will be conducted | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
tomorrow. -- will be known tomorrow. Tonight two DUP ministers are | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
warning about the serious impact cuts will | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
have on their Stormont departments. The Health Minister Edwin Poots says | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
he is appalled at receiving only ?20 million | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
after requesting ?160 million. His party colleague | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
Nelson McCausland has also warned today that Housing Executive rents | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
could rise, and there could be job losses because his department is | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
losing ?29 million. Here is our Political | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
reporter Stephen Walker. Edwin Poots wanted ?160 million | :12:29. | :12:41. | |
extra for kids health department but he got just ?20 million in a new | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
budget revealed earlier this month. He says the cuts mean nursing | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
recruitment will be affected, there'll be less money for drugs and | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
operations be cancelled. I have no intention of making these cuts, so | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
it goes back to the Executive that they need to step up to the plate | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
and provide the money to do it, we potentially break the budget, they | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
find another minister to do it, or the Executive takes the decision | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
that it is going to the Executive takes the decision | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
cuts. Earlier this month, the finance minister, Simon Hamilton, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
criticised Edwin Poots' party colleague in an overspend in the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
department. Some wonder if this developer and is part of a DUP power | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
struggle. I'd like to think it isn't party politics. It would be shocking | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
if the health of the people of Northern Ireland was being used as a | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
political pawn. I'd like to think that the current health minister is | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
finally doing the right thing, standing up for the service, | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
finally doing the right thing, standing up for the people. Others | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
insist that Edwin Poots has created a political crisis in his own | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
department. He has effectively tendered his resignation. The health | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Department at this time doesn't need this crisis. And the leadership | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
needs to be stabilised by this minister or a new minister. The | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Ulster Unionists are wondering whether this is about internal party | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
politics. I don't know what is at play. Is this a leadership ploy by | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Edwin Poots or is he trying to assert himself into what will be a | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
leadership battle? There could be all sorts of things going on within | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the DUP and between the DUP and Sinn Fein. What is clear that at the | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
heart of this government is we have dysfunctionality. Edwin Poots' | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
figures don't add up, the Executive says, which raises questions about | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the budget management. Today, Edwin Poots wasn't the only DUP minister | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
to warn of dark days ahead. The social development Minister, Nelson | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
McCausland, says his department has to save ?29 million and he says that | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
will lead to an increase in Housing Executive rents and he said it could | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
lead to job losses and an increase in the waiting time for those | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
looking for accommodation. Whether it is housing or health, this new | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
financial climate is beginning to take hold. | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
The former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds has died at the age of 81. | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
The Fianna Fail politician, negotiated the Downing Street | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
Declaration with John Major in 1993, and was considered to have played | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
a significant role in the peace process in Northern Ireland. | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
Here's our Political Correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
Albert Reynolds was, in many ways, as unlikely a Taoiseach as he was a | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
peacemaker in Northern Ireland. A love of country and western, | :15:43. | :15:56. | |
allied with a head for business, saw him by a string of dance halls and | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
he invested his money in various businesses, including a dog food | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
factory. As a late starter in politics, he made up for lost time, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
becoming Taoiseach in February 1992 after the fall of his ally, Charles | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
hockey. I declare Albert Reynolds to have been nominated for appointment | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
as president of tea shop. -- of Taoiseach. I believe in improving | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
standards of living. And I believe that the business community are up | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
to it and may have a major contribution to make. | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
to it and may have a major contribution to Unionists were not | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
impressed when he came to Stormont saying that articles two and three | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
were not for sale. He also controversially supported the Adams | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
peace process which led to the Downing Street Declaration. This is | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
a historic opportunity for peace. We hope that everybody will grasp it. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
He came along as Taoiseach at the right time. He was concerned about | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
the bloodshed and mayhem he saw in Northern Ireland, and he was | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
prepared to take risks to try to put it right. And I think the fact he | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
was prepared to take political risks for peace, knowing it might end | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
badly, marks him out as a very special kind of person. The | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
declaration stated that the people of Northern Ireland should be free | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
to decide their own fate. The first IRA cease-fire followed in August | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
1994, allowing Albert Reynolds to be ever more balls. He brought Sinn | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Fein into the forum in Dublin and he posed for the famous triple | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
handshake involving Gerry Adams and John Hume. That was vital, it was | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
key. Our strategy within Sinn Fein at the time was to try to be in a | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
position where we could put a proposition to the IRA which would | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
result in the IRA calling a unilateral cease-fire. Critical to | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
all of that is was the role of the Irish government, the administration | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
and the White House. And John Hume. And I think that the fact that all | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
of those people, Clinton, Hume, Adams, Reynolds, they showed | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
themselves to be visitors, the coming together of all of those | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
elements was very convincing in terms of the IRA making their | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
decision to call the cease-fire. All his process -- progress with | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
Northern Ireland was beginning to unravel. The final straw was | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
appointing an Attorney General. Will Ahern had been criticised over his | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
extradition of a paedophile priests to Northern Ireland. Reynolds was. A | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
sign but not without reference to his role in Northern Ireland. I've | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
taken this decision for the good of the country and in the interest of | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
stability, and, in particular, to ensure continuation of the peace | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
process. He was beaten by Mary McAleese in the race to become | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Fianna Fail's presidential candidate in 1997 and retired in 2002. Like | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
John Major, Albert Reynolds is, in many ways, a forgotten man of the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
peace process but his contribution is, nonetheless significant. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
The 44-year-old was shot in the right thigh | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
It happened at Wallasey Park in the north of the city last night. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
The 46- and 47-year-old were arrested by police today. | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
The shooting is believed to be connected to an ongoing feud | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Well, there were grave predictions that changes to GCSEs would damage | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
results - but students have proved that wrong, with results here better | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
than in England and Wales. Our education correspondent, Maggie | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
It's all change for GCSE students as new rules imposed on England impact | :19:59. | :20:12. | |
on Northern Ireland. Although three quarters of exams here with a local | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
board, is counterparts in England are no longer allowed to use the | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
modular system which divides the cause into smaller sections. They | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
went back to linear testing at the end of quarters in what was | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
described as a bid to make the system more robust. Principals | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
worried that system more robust. Principals | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
less able pupils and so moved away from English boards. Some of our | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
subjects, certainly, have now moved to Northern Ireland boards because | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
they have seen that, in actual fact, the pupils were worse served | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
by the fact that there is less coursework. As it turned out, | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Northern Ireland students have once again improved their grades. The | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
results are this school have improved and across Northern | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
Ireland, students have done better than those in England and Wales. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Even in the subject of English, which are shown a worse performance | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
in England and Wales, students here have actually performed better. For | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
these students, the grades printed on the letters are more important | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
than policy changes. I got three a grades and a A*. Not too good. What | :21:14. | :21:25. | |
you down? I thought I would get a B grade, or a C. School principals | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
told me they have another reason to use the local board. They say the | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
service they get is much better than the | :21:39. | :21:39. | |
The director of public prosecutions says he's powerless | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
to refer sentences in a notorious animal cruelty case for review. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Politicians and the police had criticised the suspended sentences | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
given to a gang of four from east Belfast as being too lenient. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
You may find some aspects of Kevin Magee's report disturbing. | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
There was outrage last March when four men, 43-year-old Jeremiah | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Kirkwood, seen here, and two of his sons, 23-year-old Chris and | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
20-year-old Wayne, seen here on the left. And 19-year-old Jamie Morrow, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
in blue. They were given suspended sentences for a series of animal | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
cruelty offences. Jamie Morrow had been caught with images on his phone | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
showing dogs attacking a cat. The rest of the video is too disturbing | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
showing dogs attacking a cat. The in neglect or ignorance. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
showing dogs attacking a cat. The of cruelty involved. It was | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
horrendous. Of the scale. Won while the prosecution could not say if any | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
of the scale. Won while the prosecution could not save any led | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
to charges prosecution could not save any led | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
finally admitted they caused unnecessary suffering to animals. | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
The storm of unnecessary suffering to animals. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
plain that the suspended sentences were too lenient. The director of | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
public prosecutions said he could do nothing about it. It is governed by | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
a statute. It is a piece of legislation. This type of case, you | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
are talking about, is not currently in the list of cases which I can | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
consider for referral. The Justice Department said animal cruelty cases | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
will form that I perform part of the case that will be referred. In the | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
case of the Kirkwood and Jamie Morrow, as things stand, their | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
sentences cannot be increased. In the future, but could only happen if | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
legislation here at is amended. That could take some time. | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
The Orange Order in Scotland has defended | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
the staging of a pro-Union rally and parade - five days before next | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
Critics of the Order say it will stir up Scottish Sectarianism. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
In the second of two special reports, | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports on the 'orange and green' influences | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
The campaign is being fought with flags on some streets in Glasgow. | :24:00. | :24:11. | |
For Scottish independence and against. Neighbour, against | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
neighbour. The rivalry is generally good natured, but there is concern | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
about a mass rally by the Orange Order in Edinburgh next month. This | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
happens just before the referendum. More than 10,000 people are | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
expected, but the order says their critics should stop blaming. I think | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
for the chattering class in Scotland were spluttering into their skinny | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
lattes are the fault of the order taking to the streets. But that is | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
what we do. We are parading organisation and it is a democratic | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
way of expressing your view. We are careful about this March, it is | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
really a celebration of Britishness and Scottishness. And it will have | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
carnival elements and that's the way were going about it. Among those | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
campaigning for independence is Fergal Bolton. Born in Ireland are | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
now a Glasgow councillor for the Scottish National party. My own | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
family history was involved in Ireland's move towards | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
independence. I'm proud of that fight, that I had a grandfather who | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
was involved in Irish independence movement. In years to come, my own | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
grandchildren here in Glasgow or wherever they happen to be, will be | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
able to set the other grandfather from Ireland who was doing and did | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
his bit for Scottish independence. Will you win? yes. The opinion polls | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
suggest otherwise. The results could be close. I got nothing against | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
England or English people. It is against the centralisation of | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
Government in London. They don't know the aspects of the Scottish | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
people. But at a nearby cricket match, a very different view of | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
England. Looking back, growing up, a lot of the same kind of cultural | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
influences that Scotland had, England had as well. Popular TV | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
shows, all of that kind of stuff. But just because you all voting no | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
it is mean you are less page article is passionate about being Scottish. | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
The vote takes place for weeks today. After that, we will know | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
whether the UK is going to stay intact be reduced in size. And | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
become, as one Glaswegian putter, Little Britain. | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Spee macro good evening. As we go through this evening and overnight, | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
those clear skies mean ten bidders will drop away really quite | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
markedly. Down to single figures, parts of the cooler than that. In | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
some rural areas. The clear skies overnight at us up for a good day | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
tomorrow, actually. A dry and bright start, if a little on the poolside. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
We do still have a few showers around as we go through the day, | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
but, on balance, it is more a day of sunshine and showers. It's not going | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
to be terribly warm. We have a north-westerly breeze coming in, | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
that is holding down the temperature is, quite a cool air mass coming in. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
So highs, as we go through tomorrow, are 14 or 15 degrees. They will feel | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
relatively pleasant but it will not be warmer. That cool theme continues | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
through into the weekend. Saturday will be the brightest of the days, | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
before a change comes through on Sunday. It is all down to this ridge | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
of high pressure, which is giving us a bit of protection in our weather | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
before this front comes through, bringing with it rain for Sunday. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
So, this is how it shapes up for Saturday. Quite a bright day, bit of | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
a repeat of Friday. Certainly plenty of bright conditions around, the odd | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
isolated shower, be not warmer. Highs of 14 and 15 degrees again. | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
Sunday, temperatures are on their way up but so is the rain, arriving | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
as the traveller from the West as we go through the day. Make the most | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
Friday and Saturday it is going downhill by Bank Holiday Monday. | :28:00. | :28:03. |