:00:07. > :00:14.Tonight at Ten - Egypt has a new interim leader, a day after the
:00:14. > :00:16.President was ousted. A show of strength by the military, but the
:00:17. > :00:22.former President's supporters say what's happened is an affront to
:00:22. > :00:28.democracy. As the caretaker President is sworn in, the
:00:28. > :00:34.international community urges an early return to the ballot box.
:00:34. > :00:37.we need to happen now in Egypt is for democracy to flourish and for a
:00:37. > :00:40.genuine democratic transition to take place. We'll have the latest
:00:40. > :00:42.from Cairo, where the former President is under arrest.
:00:42. > :00:44.Also tonight: Six years after Madeleine McCann disappeared in
:00:44. > :00:50.Portugal, the Metropolitan Police says it has new evidence and new
:00:50. > :00:54.theories. Jon Venables, one of the killers of
:00:54. > :00:56.James Bulger, is to be released from prison a second time.
:00:56. > :01:05.Labour's Tom Watson resigns as the party's election co-ordinator amid
:01:05. > :01:07.the continuing row over union influence.
:01:07. > :01:17.And another dramatic showdown at Wimbledon sets up Germany versus
:01:17. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:53.caretaker leader, a day after President Morsi was deposed by the
:01:53. > :01:56.armed forces. Adly Mansour pledged to stay in power only until a
:01:56. > :01:59.replacement had been elected. But there's no hint of when that might
:01:59. > :02:08.be, and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Mr Morsi, are
:02:08. > :02:12.in detention. Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo.
:02:12. > :02:21.They put on an airshow as the sun went down over Tahrir Square on the
:02:21. > :02:25.first full day of military control. It was a celebration of a take-over
:02:25. > :02:30.that went so smoothly that some Egyptians believed the generals must
:02:30. > :02:37.have started working on the details not long after the ousted President
:02:37. > :02:42.took office a year ago. There was another display in the morning, just
:02:42. > :02:50.in case anyone didn't know who is in charge now, time to coincide with
:02:50. > :02:54.the public revival of an old alliance. The security forces ringed
:02:54. > :02:59.Cairo's Constitutional Court for the swearing in of the new interim
:02:59. > :03:03.President. Adly Mansour was picked to be interim President by the
:03:03. > :03:07.generals, presumably because he will be co-operative. The court was the
:03:07. > :03:11.Muslim Brotherhood's most obstructive enemy. Last year as a
:03:11. > :03:19.judge Mr Mansour scrapped a law that stopped former members of the must
:03:19. > :03:25.be ram regime standing in elections. -- of the Mubarak regime standing in
:03:25. > :03:30.elections. The Egyptian Army have if anything an even worse inheritance
:03:30. > :03:34.than the one that made President Morsi's job so hard. Egyptians are
:03:34. > :03:38.impatient for better lives. The top priorities are keeping the peace and
:03:38. > :03:46.the economy. The generals and the new President need to come up with
:03:46. > :03:49.results quickly. Political honeymoons here are short. Many
:03:50. > :03:55.Egyptians who support democracy will not call what's happened a military
:03:55. > :04:01.coup, even though soldiers took power from an elected President, and
:04:01. > :04:05.they include Egypt's most internationally prominent opposition
:04:05. > :04:10.leader, Mohamed ElBaradai. I am pretty confident they know they've
:04:10. > :04:19.been called by the people to avert a civil war. It is a painful measure,
:04:19. > :04:24.nobody wanted that, but Mr Morsi declared himself as a Farrow and --
:04:24. > :04:28.as a pharoah, and then we got goo a fist fight. Isn't the whole point of
:04:28. > :04:33.democracy that if you want to change you wait until the next election,
:04:33. > :04:38.you don't go to the street? You have to put troops on the street if you
:04:38. > :04:45.want to avoid what's happening in Somalia. Is 2345 a real risk here?
:04:45. > :04:52.Of course. Across Cairo dozens of top Madeleine McCann have been
:04:52. > :04:59.detained. Many of them have been given travel bans We acknowledge
:04:59. > :05:03.that we have mistakes, our country was broken. You know the story of
:05:03. > :05:08.the economy under Mubarak's regime. Everybody knows the story. Do you
:05:08. > :05:13.think that one year is enough to repair everything? To heal all the
:05:13. > :05:17.wounds? But among the lines of Morsi supporters guarding the area they
:05:17. > :05:25.are still occupying near the presidential Palace, there is much
:05:25. > :05:29.more public anger and impatience leaders here now are restraining us.
:05:29. > :05:39.The angry people here they have a lot of energy. They are against what
:05:39. > :05:40.
:05:40. > :05:45.happened. We are against this, we accepted the democracy. Two Egypt
:05:45. > :05:49.exist now. One is made up of supporters of the former President,
:05:49. > :05:53.raging and waiting. The other is centred on Tahrir Square and on all
:05:53. > :06:00.the Egyptians who believe that their country and their revolution has
:06:00. > :06:09.another chance. Someone needs to bridge the gap
:06:09. > :06:12.between them or Egypt won't be able to solve its enormous problems.
:06:12. > :06:15.David Cameron says he hopes there will be genuine change in Egypt,
:06:15. > :06:18.with a swift return to democracy and free elections. But satisfying the
:06:18. > :06:20.demands of all sides in a heavily polarised country seems an almost
:06:20. > :06:29.impossible task. Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins
:06:29. > :06:35.considers the road ahead. There is no doubting who won the contest on
:06:35. > :06:40.Cairo's streets, who is celebrating. The Army gave the anti-Morsi
:06:40. > :06:44.protesters exactly what they wanted - he's gone. But the day after, as
:06:44. > :06:49.people drift back to something like routine, how does Egypt recover from
:06:49. > :06:52.this coup, how does it build stable democracy after the failure of the
:06:52. > :06:56.first experiment? We never support in countries the intervention by the
:06:56. > :07:01.military, but what now needs to happen, what we need to happen now
:07:01. > :07:05.in Egypt, is for democracy to flourish and for a genuine
:07:05. > :07:13.democratic transition to take place and all parties need to be involved
:07:13. > :07:17.in that. That's what Britain and our allies will be saying to Egyptians.
:07:17. > :07:22.The timetable is vague. The military say that a return to democracy and
:07:22. > :07:27.free elections are the destination. For now there is an interim
:07:27. > :07:30.administration acting as care takers and there'll be a national reckon
:07:30. > :07:34.reconciliation committee, including young people, who have played such a
:07:34. > :07:39.huge role in the protests. Drawing up a constitution will be the most
:07:39. > :07:44.challenging task. Will it try to prohibit the establishment of an
:07:44. > :07:48.Islamic state in Egypt? Will the Army now take more of a back seat?
:07:48. > :07:53.If they do try to limit religion in politics, they risk ayenating all
:07:53. > :07:56.those who support the Muslim Brotherhood. They are putting a
:07:56. > :08:02.tough rhetoric, a resistance rhetoric that they will not accept
:08:02. > :08:07.this, that President Morsi is the legitimate elected President in the
:08:07. > :08:13.country and they will resist this kind of coup. As soldiers keep watch
:08:13. > :08:16.on the streets, Egypt's top general is promising not to exclude any one
:08:16. > :08:21.or any movement from Egyptian politics, but the Army's political
:08:21. > :08:26.dominance does pose a dilemma for its principal paymaster, the United
:08:26. > :08:31.States. President Obama says he is deeply concerned. He won't use the
:08:31. > :08:34.word coup. That would trigger an automatic end to American funding
:08:34. > :08:39.for Egypt's military, seen in Washington as vital to the country's
:08:39. > :08:44.stability. Egypt is entering another dangerous period in its stumbling
:08:44. > :08:49.search for democracy. So far it has proved impossible to unite the vast
:08:49. > :08:54.majority of the people behind the vision they can share.
:08:54. > :08:58.Live to Cairo and our Middle East editor. Jeremy, what can you tell us
:08:58. > :09:03.about the latest phase, the latest intentions of the Muslim Brotherhood
:09:03. > :09:07.in responding to what's happened? Don't forget a lot of the leadership
:09:07. > :09:13.is now in jail or detained in different ways, including President
:09:13. > :09:18.Morsi. Tomorrow of course, Friday, traditionally potentially a
:09:18. > :09:23.flashpoint, after the noon prayer, but there are reports this evening
:09:23. > :09:29.that Muslim Brotherhood or at least Morsi supporters were set upon in a
:09:29. > :09:32.town north of Cairo and that they were badly beaten, even reports
:09:33. > :09:35.perhaps of people being killed. It is unclear at the moment. It is an
:09:36. > :09:39.illustration of the potential for danger, of the difficulties of
:09:39. > :09:44.what's going on at the moment. The Army is taking a gamble. It
:09:44. > :09:48.calculates it can contain any rage that arises because of what's
:09:48. > :09:53.happened to the Muslim Brotherhood and to its position of leadership in
:09:53. > :09:57.this country. But that is by no means certain. That's why so many
:09:57. > :10:01.Egyptians, even though down here in Tahrir Square they are celebrating,
:10:01. > :10:08.that's why so many Egyptians are worried about the immediate future
:10:08. > :10:18.and what it might bring. Thank you. And for more detail on the interim
:10:18. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:23.government in Egypt, go to the BBC Scotland Yard has started its own
:10:23. > :10:28.investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal six
:10:28. > :10:32.years ago. Officers say they have "genuinely new lines of inquiry" and
:10:32. > :10:35."new evidence" following a two-year review of the case. They have
:10:35. > :10:39.identified 38 people of interest across Europe, including 12 from the
:10:39. > :10:48.UK. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have welcomed the
:10:48. > :10:54.development, as Richard Bilton reports. It is a grim mystery that
:10:54. > :10:57.still holds a nation, what happened to Madeleine McCann? Since the night
:10:57. > :11:01.she disappeared more than six years ago there've been precious few
:11:01. > :11:06.clues. But a British police review of the evidence thinks there is a
:11:06. > :11:10.chance to solve the case. This is an important moment for Madeleine.
:11:10. > :11:15.Everything we are doing is focused towards trying to find Madeleine
:11:15. > :11:19.McCann. There are no guarantees of any outcome but I can assure you of
:11:19. > :11:24.our absolute determination to try to establish what's happened to her.
:11:24. > :11:28.Madeleine McCann was nearly four when she vanished from a holiday
:11:28. > :11:34.apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007. Four months after she
:11:34. > :11:40.disappeared her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were named as suspects
:11:40. > :11:44.or arguidos. That status was later dropped and Portuguese police said
:11:44. > :11:48.they had no case to answer. The family campaigned for a British
:11:48. > :11:52.review of the evidence. The Prime Minister David Cameron asked the
:11:52. > :11:59.Metropolitan Police to get involved. The review has involved 37 officers
:11:59. > :12:03.for two years. It has generated nearly 4,000 new lines of inquiry
:12:03. > :12:07.and crucially identified 38 so-called persons of interest. The
:12:07. > :12:13.38 individuals on the list are spread across five countries - the
:12:13. > :12:16.UK, Portugal and three other unnamed locations. 12 of them are British.
:12:17. > :12:22.Madeleine McCann's parents are not on the list. Nor is anyone who knew
:12:22. > :12:26.Madeleine before she disappeared. This is an unusual and controversial
:12:26. > :12:30.investigation prompted by the Prime Minister, costing millions already,
:12:30. > :12:35.and funded directly by the Home Office. It is a unique case in every
:12:35. > :12:39.sense. It was such a high profile case at the start. It has remained
:12:39. > :12:42.high profile. It is not going to go away unless the money is spent to
:12:42. > :12:46.investigate it properly. Today Madeleine McCann's parents said they
:12:46. > :12:51.welcomed the shift from review to investigation, which they hoped with
:12:51. > :12:55.be a step towards justice. The start of an investigation is a significant
:12:55. > :13:04.development, but this involves police forces from across Europe and
:13:04. > :13:09.there's a long way to go yet in the case of Madeleine McCann. Labour MP
:13:09. > :13:14.Tom Watson has resigned as the party's election coordinator, over
:13:14. > :13:19.the continuing row over union influence in the selection of a
:13:19. > :13:24.candidate in Falkirk. Nick Robinson is with me in the studio. What is
:13:24. > :13:28.going on? It is about much more than the fall of one member of Ed
:13:28. > :13:31.Miliband's Shadow Cabinet or the selection of one individual to
:13:31. > :13:37.represent Falkirk. It is, if you like, a battle for the future of the
:13:37. > :13:41.Labour Party. Tom Watson, now gone as election coordinator, he says he
:13:41. > :13:45.has resigned. Ed Miliband's people seem to imply he was sacked. He was
:13:45. > :13:49.long accused by his detractors in the party of trying to reshape the
:13:49. > :13:53.future of the party, to ensure the sorts of people that become the next
:13:53. > :13:59.generation of MPs are people like him. Tough, working class, not
:14:00. > :14:04.Blairite. He once complained about the arid desert of pragmatism, the
:14:04. > :14:10.lack of belief in the Labour Party. In Falkirk, the suggestion was that
:14:10. > :14:14.Unite signed up and paid for more than 100 people to be members of the
:14:14. > :14:20.Labour Party just before they would have a vote on who their next
:14:20. > :14:23.candidate would probably be. The leader of the union, after Labour
:14:23. > :14:27.have intervened to suspend individuals, to suspend that
:14:27. > :14:32.membership scheme, the leader, Len McCluskey, has called this a
:14:32. > :14:36.disgrace, what is being said about his union, and a smear. People are
:14:36. > :14:43.saying on Ed Miliband's behalf that he will not be pushed around. When
:14:43. > :14:48.Tom Watson resigned, he said that it is time that the Labour Leader
:14:48. > :14:54.relaxed and listened to his favourite band. One of the tracks is
:14:54. > :15:00.called Blood sport. The other is called I Want To Break You In Half.
:15:00. > :15:03.Not particularly helpful. Jon Venables, one of the killers of
:15:03. > :15:07.two-year-old James Bulger, is to be freed from prison. The parole board
:15:07. > :15:12.has confirmed that approved the release following a hearing last
:15:12. > :15:18.month. He was sent back to prison in 2010 after admitting downloading and
:15:18. > :15:23.distributing indecent images of children.
:15:23. > :15:26.At the age of ten, Jon Venables became one of the two youngest
:15:26. > :15:30.convicted murderers in British modern history. He abducted
:15:30. > :15:36.two-year-old James Bulger from a shopping centre. He and schoolmate
:15:36. > :15:40.Robert Thomson took the toddler away, tortured and murdered him.
:15:40. > :15:45.Tonight, lawyers for the toddler's family reacted to the news that
:15:45. > :15:48.Venables is to be released again. The biggest fear is that an innocent
:15:48. > :15:55.person is going to be injured or killed as a result of what appears
:15:55. > :15:58.to be a further experiment that has not been thought through.
:15:58. > :16:04.November 1993, Venables and Thomson were jailed for murder. They were
:16:04. > :16:08.both freed in 2001. In 2010, Venables returned to jail, having
:16:08. > :16:12.been given a two year sentence for uploading and distributing images of
:16:12. > :16:18.child sex abuse. In 2011, he was denied parole. The reasons were not
:16:18. > :16:22.given. Now, parole has been granted, again, without explanation.
:16:22. > :16:26.Ever since the little boy's battered body was discovered on a railway
:16:26. > :16:32.line, the horror of his death has haunted this town. James Bulger's
:16:32. > :16:36.mother, Denise Fergus, has said she still feels raw about the moment to
:16:36. > :16:42.20 years ago when she came shopping here with her son and let go of his
:16:42. > :16:49.hand. Tonight, she said she still feels that John Venables cannot be
:16:49. > :16:52.trusted and that he remains a danger to the public. Both Thompson and
:16:52. > :16:56.Venables are on licence. Tonight, the Ministry of Justice explained
:16:56. > :17:00.the term, saying that the life licence last for the rest of their
:17:00. > :17:04.lives and they may be recalled to prison at any time for breaching
:17:04. > :17:08.licence conditions. Additionally, they will be subject to strict
:17:08. > :17:11.controls and restrictions for as long as their risk requires them.
:17:11. > :17:16.Venables was originally barred from returning here, to Merseyside. It is
:17:16. > :17:23.not known when he will be released or if he will be given another new
:17:23. > :17:25.identity. Now, the pound has fallen sharply
:17:25. > :17:28.against the dollar after the Bank of England warned the financial markets
:17:29. > :17:32.they were wrong to assume that interest rates were likely to rise
:17:33. > :17:36.any time soon. The monetary policy committee took the unusual step of
:17:36. > :17:40.issuing a statement about interest rates after it announced the cost of
:17:40. > :17:44.borrowing would stay up 0.5%, the record low level which was set more
:17:44. > :17:52.than four years ago. The committee was the first attended by the new
:17:52. > :17:56.governor Mark Carney. Two Central bank bosses, one
:17:56. > :18:02.message. Mark Carney of the Bank of England and Mario druggie of the
:18:02. > :18:10.ECB, both come in effect, said the same thing to their audiences. --
:18:10. > :18:14.Draggie. Mark Carney's first week in the job, the bank made an unusual
:18:14. > :18:18.intervention after markets started assuming that the first rate rise
:18:18. > :18:21.since record lows was getting closer. The Bank of England said
:18:21. > :18:26.that this was wrong, that market rates should not be reflecting
:18:26. > :18:30.tighter monetary policy, higher rates, because the Bank of
:18:30. > :18:36.tightening monetary policy is for quite a time to come. There is
:18:36. > :18:39.evidence that the economy is gathering momentum. Figures on car
:18:40. > :18:43.sales show a sharp rise. And this Birmingham factory that makes
:18:43. > :18:48.components is happy with the way things are going. Export orders are
:18:48. > :18:52.up, and so our sales to British car-makers. There is definitely a
:18:52. > :18:58.recovery. The orders we have won over the last three years are more
:18:58. > :19:03.than �32 million worth of business. It is a very busy and exciting time.
:19:03. > :19:09.For house prices, the Halifax reported the biggest annual increase
:19:09. > :19:14.for three years. They were up 3.7% on a year earlier. The average price
:19:14. > :19:18.is �168,000, although there are big regional variations. Kerry and Mark
:19:18. > :19:22.have every reason to celebrate. 18 months ago they tried to sell their
:19:22. > :19:27.Bristol home, but there were no offers. When the house went back on
:19:27. > :19:32.the market recently, it was a different story. It was valued at
:19:32. > :19:40.�10,000 more this time, the first people that viewed it offered the
:19:40. > :19:43.asking price. What was your reaction? Shock and overjoyed.The
:19:43. > :19:47.construction industry had a tough time in the last year or so, partly
:19:47. > :19:50.due to public sector cutbacks. That is one reason why economic growth
:19:50. > :19:56.overall has been held back. In some parts of the sector that are signs
:19:57. > :20:00.of a turnaround. The developer at this site west of London has sold 30
:20:00. > :20:03.flats before they are even finished. The boss says prospects
:20:03. > :20:08.for residential and commercial property are looking stronger.
:20:08. > :20:13.still think that the secretaries finding it very tough. -- the sector
:20:13. > :20:17.is finding it very tough. The headwinds continue, but we can see
:20:17. > :20:22.signs of light at the end of the tunnel. The Bank of England would
:20:22. > :20:25.not disagree with that. The foundations may be in place, but it
:20:25. > :20:31.could be some time before the recovery is firmly established
:20:31. > :20:36.across the UK economy. In South Africa, there have been
:20:36. > :20:40.more recriminations among the Mandela family. Nelson Mandela's
:20:40. > :20:45.grandson, Mandla, has accused some relatives of seeking revenge against
:20:45. > :20:49.him. Yesterday, the bodies of three of Nelson Mandela's children were
:20:49. > :20:53.exhumed at the home and have been reburied in original graves. There
:20:53. > :20:58.has also been a dispute about Nelson Mandela's health. There is flash
:20:58. > :21:02.photography in this report. A gloomy stage for the next act in a
:21:02. > :21:07.venomous family feud. Three of Nelson Mandela's children were
:21:07. > :21:11.reburied here today, brought back to the private cemetery where the
:21:11. > :21:15.former president will one day be laid to rest. The graves had been
:21:15. > :21:20.moved by one of Mandela's grandson 's, prompting other relatives to go
:21:20. > :21:26.to court and, yesterday, the police to break into the grandson's home to
:21:27. > :21:32.exhume the bodies. Today, the same grandson utterly condemned his
:21:32. > :21:39.relatives for challenging his authority. Individuals have
:21:39. > :21:48.abandoned their own families and heritage, and decided to jump on the
:21:48. > :21:51.Mandela wagon. Wellwishers outside Mandela's hospital today. But the
:21:51. > :21:55.infighting has reached here as well. Relatives have claimed in court
:21:55. > :22:02.documents that the 94-year-old is in a vegetative state. A close friend
:22:02. > :22:07.who has seen him told us today that simply was not true. He was not
:22:07. > :22:13.speaking. He has a chew into his lungs, so he cannot speak. Dashed
:22:13. > :22:18.Shoop. But he is moving his mouth, as though he's trying to speak. And
:22:18. > :22:26.I am quite satisfied that he is responsive to what I was saying.
:22:26. > :22:31.Today, Nelson Mandela's wife was also sounding relatively up beat.
:22:31. > :22:38.Although he may sometimes be uncomfortable, very few times he is
:22:38. > :22:47.in pain. But he is fine. I think the best gift that he has given to this
:22:47. > :22:54.nation again is the gift of unity. That unity may not extend to
:22:54. > :22:58.Norseman della... -- Nelson Mandela's relatives. But there was a
:22:58. > :23:03.strong desire to focus on his achievement and legacy, and not the
:23:03. > :23:13.squabbles of his relatives. Tonight, another candlelit vigil for
:23:13. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:25.semifinals day, with much at stake for all four players, none of whom
:23:25. > :23:29.has won a grand slam title. She is the new, smiling star of
:23:29. > :23:34.Centre Court. Sabine Lisicki, crowd favourite and now Wimbledon
:23:34. > :23:37.finalist. With Agnieszka Radwanska, she produced one of the matches of
:23:37. > :23:44.the championships. Lisicki, who knocked out Serena Williams,
:23:44. > :23:50.ultimately edged an epic deciding set, 9-7. For her fans, her family
:23:50. > :23:55.and, above all, Lisicki herself, the most emotional of victories. Ella
:23:55. > :23:58.Wimbledon is my favourite tournament, I love it so much. I
:23:58. > :24:04.don't know, it is just my favourite tournament and I can't believe that
:24:04. > :24:09.I am in the final. Earlier, Kirsten Flipkens's fairy
:24:09. > :24:12.tale came to an end at Wimbledon. A year ago she was diagnosed with a
:24:12. > :24:16.life-threatening blood clot. But she could not continue her remarkable
:24:16. > :24:19.progress, thrashed by Marion Bartoli. Tomorrow, all eyes will
:24:20. > :24:25.once again turned to this man. Andy Murray has been on the practice
:24:25. > :24:30.courts, preparing for his fifth Wimbledon final. Surely, never have
:24:30. > :24:36.expectations been so high. Murray, who faces JG analects, seemed
:24:37. > :24:43.relaxed as he signed autographs. A lot of hopes will rest on his right
:24:44. > :24:47.hand. Sir Walter Scott, creator of Ivanhoe
:24:47. > :24:55.and Rob Roy, has been described as the world's first bestselling
:24:55. > :25:00.author. His home, Abbotsford House, has undergone a �12 million
:25:00. > :25:06.restoration programme and has been officially reopened by the Queen.
:25:06. > :25:10.He called it his conundrum castle. Others call it a neo-Gothic baronial
:25:10. > :25:14.mansion. It is Abbotsford, the grand home that Sir Walter Scott built for
:25:14. > :25:18.himself in the Scottish Borders. It is where he lived, worked and wrote
:25:18. > :25:21.novels including Ivanhoe, that made him and Scotland world famous. His
:25:21. > :25:25.influence on both sides of the border was profound and
:25:25. > :25:31.far-reaching. He personally orchestrated George IV's historic
:25:31. > :25:35.trip to Edinburgh, in which the king wore a tartan kilt, a form of
:25:35. > :25:38.national dress that Scott helped popularise. Sir Walter Scott was
:25:39. > :25:42.fiercely proud of his native country, as can be seen by the coats
:25:42. > :25:45.of arms representing the families that protected the borders against
:25:45. > :25:49.the English. But he was also a fully signed up member of the British
:25:49. > :25:54.establishment. Some say that in his heart he was a nationalist, in his
:25:54. > :25:58.head a unionist. But that was the politics of around 200 years ago. I
:25:58. > :26:03.wonder if he were alive today what side he might take on autumn's
:26:03. > :26:08.independence referendum. The key importance of Robert Scott and his
:26:08. > :26:12.contemporaries, they lived at a time when they could envisage the effect
:26:12. > :26:16.of annihilation of Scottish history and the extension of Scotland as an
:26:16. > :26:19.entity, as a nation, and, from a different perspective, to do
:26:19. > :26:21.something about it. In terms of a modern age, he would certainly have
:26:21. > :26:28.been for the parliament and monarchy. I would like to have
:26:28. > :26:31.thought that he would like to move towards independence. There is no
:26:31. > :26:37.doubt that he fought his country's corner. His home is full of objects
:26:38. > :26:41.each collected celebrating its past. In the opinion of one of the current
:26:41. > :26:46.leading novelist 's in the country, Scott would always have wished to
:26:46. > :26:52.have remained part of the union. referred to England as our sister
:26:52. > :26:58.and ally. I think that is consistent position. He would certainly deplore
:26:58. > :27:01.any Anglophobia in a referendum debate. I suspect he would be happy
:27:01. > :27:06.with further devolution, but he would not like to see the United
:27:06. > :27:12.Kingdom broken up. Scott was one of the great figures of the Romantic
:27:12. > :27:16.period. The vision of Scotland as a country of tartan warriors remains