:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten, the race for the American presidency now
:00:09. > :00:09.heading for a showdown between Donald Trump
:00:10. > :00:18.After the biggest electoral test so far, Trump strengthens his
:00:19. > :00:22.position and claims he can now unite the Republican Party.
:00:23. > :00:26.People are going to find that a little bit hard to believe.
:00:27. > :00:32.Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one
:00:33. > :00:39.An equally strong showing by Hillary Clinton, who's now
:00:40. > :00:41.the clear favourite to take the Democratic nomination.
:00:42. > :00:47.The stakes in this election have never been higher.
:00:48. > :00:50.And the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has
:00:51. > :00:54.We'll have the latest on the race and the tensions
:00:55. > :00:57.in the Republican Party at the prospect of a Trump nomination.
:00:58. > :01:05.Mr Johnson, you've never apologise to this 15-year-old girl, will you
:01:06. > :01:06.do it now? The former England footballer
:01:07. > :01:09.Adam Johnson faces a jail sentence after being convicted of sexual
:01:10. > :01:11.activity with a child. The latest from Greece
:01:12. > :01:14.on the migration crisis as the EU plans to offer emergency
:01:15. > :01:18.humanitarian aid. Plans in Scotland to reform council
:01:19. > :01:21.tax with bigger bills for the most And the man who created one
:01:22. > :01:27.of the great British television And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:28. > :01:35.News, we'll have the latest from the Premier League title race
:01:36. > :01:37.with Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal
:01:38. > :02:02.all in action. The race for the American presidency
:02:03. > :02:07.seems to be heading for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton
:02:08. > :02:09.when the election Both candidates strengthened
:02:10. > :02:13.their positions as favourites, in the major primary contest that
:02:14. > :02:15.took place yesterday On the Republican side Donald Trump
:02:16. > :02:27.took 7 of the 11 states being contested while Ted Cruz won
:02:28. > :02:30.three and Marco Rubio took just one. On the Democratic side
:02:31. > :02:34.Hillary Clinton took seven states while her rival Bernie
:02:35. > :02:36.Sanders took four. But it's not just a matter
:02:37. > :02:39.of counting states. The winning candidate must secure
:02:40. > :02:42.the support of a number of delegates Clinton needs 2,383 delegates to win
:02:43. > :02:49.the Democratic nomination, Trump needs 1,237 to win
:02:50. > :02:56.the Republican nomination, So let's start with the Republicans
:02:57. > :03:03.and, as our North America editor Jon Sopel explains,
:03:04. > :03:05.a more conciliatory note The next President
:03:06. > :03:18.of the United States. Campaigning in Ohio,
:03:19. > :03:21.he had the air of a man who, whatever the elements might throw
:03:22. > :03:26.at him, was going to prevail. So at his victory party later
:03:27. > :03:30.last night in Florida, Donald Trump hinted,
:03:31. > :03:34.with his one-time rival but now supporter Chris Christie standing
:03:35. > :03:36.awkwardly behind him, I know people are going to find that
:03:37. > :03:43.a little hard to believe but believe I think we are going
:03:44. > :03:48.to be more inclusive. I think we are going
:03:49. > :03:51.to be more unified. I think we are going to be
:03:52. > :03:53.able to unify the party. I hope to be able to get
:03:54. > :03:56.along with everybody. On some key policies
:03:57. > :03:57.like immigration he seemed to be dialling
:03:58. > :03:59.back the rhetoric. But it was the Republican party
:04:00. > :04:02.leadership that he was most notably reaching out to, and yes,
:04:03. > :04:05.his new favourite word again. I would love to see
:04:06. > :04:11.the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify,
:04:12. > :04:14.and when we unify, there's nobody, This has been a toned down,
:04:15. > :04:27.much more conciliatory Donald Trump at his news conference,
:04:28. > :04:30.stressing that he is a unifier of the Republican
:04:31. > :04:32.Party, gone were the It's almost as though
:04:33. > :04:38.he's looking beyond this process to when he is
:04:39. > :04:40.the Republican nominee. This man is arithmetically
:04:41. > :04:45.best placed. Senator Ted Cruz won
:04:46. > :04:49.three states last night. To the other anti-Trump candidates
:04:50. > :04:51.he had a simple message, So long as the field
:04:52. > :04:57.remains divided Donald Trump's path to the nomination
:04:58. > :05:00.remains more likely. After Super Tuesday it's
:05:01. > :05:10.Wash-up Wednesday, and there are no signs that any of the other main
:05:11. > :05:13.contenders will pull out. Marco Rubio was an early
:05:14. > :05:15.voter here in his home state of Florida
:05:16. > :05:17.which holds its primary He didn't quite say get lost
:05:18. > :05:22.to Ted Cruz but he came close. Last night was supposed
:05:23. > :05:25.to be Ted Cruz's night, we beat him in half
:05:26. > :05:27.the states on the ballot, we won Minnesota,
:05:28. > :05:29.we picked up a lot of delegates and we feel great
:05:30. > :05:32.about what the map looks There's still a long way to go,
:05:33. > :05:38.only a third of states have voted. But so long as the opposition
:05:39. > :05:40.to Trump is divided, then the property mogul
:05:41. > :05:48.looks safe as houses. As we mentioned, Hillary
:05:49. > :05:50.Clinton took seven states in her campaign to become
:05:51. > :05:53.the Democratic presidential nominee. And she used her victory speech not
:05:54. > :05:57.to attack her party rival Bernie Sanders, but to focus
:05:58. > :06:01.on the man who's increasingly likely to become her Republican
:06:02. > :06:03.opponent in November, Donald Trump, as our North America
:06:04. > :06:05.correspondent Nick Bryant reports. Super Tuesday, where the length
:06:06. > :06:13.of the queue at your victory rally And it wasn't long before
:06:14. > :06:23.the supporters of Hillary Clinton celebrated thumping
:06:24. > :06:27.wins in big states. That when the contest moved
:06:28. > :06:31.to the American South, into states with large
:06:32. > :06:33.minority populations, She is sounding already
:06:34. > :06:43.like the presumptive nominee, and in a year of rage,
:06:44. > :06:45.chose healing words. I believe what we need in America
:06:46. > :06:52.today is more love and kindness. So her speech took a knock
:06:53. > :06:54.at her Democratic rival, The rhetoric we are hearing
:06:55. > :07:03.on the other side has Trying to divide America
:07:04. > :07:06.between us and them is wrong, Hillary Clinton clearly believes
:07:07. > :07:22.she's seen off the challenge from Bernie Sanders,
:07:23. > :07:24.and that the candidate standing between her and her
:07:25. > :07:26.dream of becoming America's first female
:07:27. > :07:34.president is Donald Trump. From Bernie Sanders,
:07:35. > :07:35.not quite a swansong, But to Hillary Clinton he's now more
:07:36. > :07:43.of an irritant than a threat. Parts of his speech last night
:07:44. > :07:45.sounded like he was composing This campaign is not just
:07:46. > :07:50.about electing a president, it is about making
:07:51. > :08:00.a political revolution. But Hillary Clinton still
:08:01. > :08:02.has treacherous waters From visitors at this alligator park
:08:03. > :08:17.close to her victory rally, reminders of the pool
:08:18. > :08:19.of resentment against her that feels She's lied to the people
:08:20. > :08:23.over and over and You've got a trust
:08:24. > :08:26.problem with Hillary Well I can tell you I'm not
:08:27. > :08:30.going to vote for her. So Super Tuesday has
:08:31. > :08:39.potentially set up an electoral blockbuster
:08:40. > :08:44.with the most outlandish of scripts. The real-life
:08:45. > :08:46.anti-politician against the consummate insider,
:08:47. > :08:50.the Donald against the Hillary. Our North America editor
:08:51. > :09:04.Jon Sopel is in Palm Beach, Libby Clinton seems very confident
:09:05. > :09:09.of her nomination, but do you think Donald Trump can be equally
:09:10. > :09:12.confident? If you simply concentrated on the maths you would
:09:13. > :09:17.say Donald Trump's path is difficult. We totted up the total
:09:18. > :09:22.number of votes received, 10 million have voted, only a third have gone
:09:23. > :09:25.to Donald Trump. So there is an anti-Donald Trump majority. And all
:09:26. > :09:28.you need to do is get the other candidates out of the way and have
:09:29. > :09:32.one person fighting him and Donald Trump should be beaten. But the
:09:33. > :09:36.politics of that is so much more compensated because Ted Cruz isn't
:09:37. > :09:40.going to step down from Marco Rubio and vice versa. So all the time you
:09:41. > :09:45.have more than three or four candidates in the fight and one
:09:46. > :09:49.person standing tall, Donald Trump, then Donald Trump wins, which is the
:09:50. > :09:53.nightmare scenario for the Republican establishment. Because
:09:54. > :09:58.they are not buying this Donald Trump the new, more only into
:09:59. > :10:00.Republican. They believe he is divisive and polarising, and come
:10:01. > :10:05.election day Hillary Clinton would win. It does look like, as Nick
:10:06. > :10:09.Bryant was saying, it is going to be Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump,
:10:10. > :10:14.and who would have imagined that scenario a year ago? Thank you.
:10:15. > :10:15.The former England and Sunderland footballer
:10:16. > :10:18.Adam Johnson has been found guilty of sexual activity
:10:19. > :10:23.A jury at Bradford Crown Court found him not guilty
:10:24. > :10:29.Before the trial he'd admitted a third charge
:10:30. > :10:31.of sexual activity with the 15 year-old girl,
:10:32. > :10:35.The judge has warned he's facing a 'significant custodial sentence',
:10:36. > :10:44.as our correspondent Ed Thomas reports.
:10:45. > :10:52.He was a ?10 million England footballer. And in his own words,
:10:53. > :10:57.Adam Johnson said he was a rich, arrogant man. Things came easy, he
:10:58. > :11:03.said. And one night, driven by boredom, he was alone with a
:11:04. > :11:08.15-year-old girl. He met the child here at a car park. Sunderland
:11:09. > :11:10.fanatic, she idolised Johnson. Inside his range Rover, to prove
:11:11. > :11:18.she'd met her hero, she recorded their meeting.
:11:19. > :11:26.Innocent football talk. What came next was the abuse of a child. The
:11:27. > :11:31.jury heard it was classic grooming. Adam Johnson knew she adored him.
:11:32. > :11:35.Outside court his victim after police to tell her story. What
:11:36. > :11:38.happened in his car has turned my life upside down. I lost all of my
:11:39. > :11:44.confidence and my schoolwork suffered. I now feel used and let
:11:45. > :11:48.down by him. It's been the hardest year of my life. I've had to face so
:11:49. > :11:56.much abuse after he claimed his innocence and I was made out to be a
:11:57. > :11:59.liar. Adam Johnson sent hundreds of messages to the schoolgirl. After
:12:00. > :12:06.handing over a signed shirt, he texted:.
:12:07. > :12:20.He then told her to delete the messages. So what did his employers
:12:21. > :12:26.know? The court heard he met the club in May last year and admitted
:12:27. > :12:32.kissing the child, but still he was allowed to play. So week after week
:12:33. > :12:37.the footballer walked out to represent Sunderland, and despite
:12:38. > :12:41.the private confessions, in public, to fans, Johnson denied the abuse.
:12:42. > :12:45.The court was told every time Adam Johnson went on to this pitch, the
:12:46. > :12:52.15-year-old girl suffered excruciating pain. For a year she
:12:53. > :12:57.was called a liar. And at one point she broke down and told her father
:12:58. > :13:04.she wanted to die. Some supporters feel cheated. Because at first he'd
:13:05. > :13:08.done nothing wrong and then he lies to his fans and everybody. Would you
:13:09. > :13:12.have supported him if you'd have known what he did? No, definitely
:13:13. > :13:18.not. Would you have wanted him on your pitch? No. Mr Johnson, you
:13:19. > :13:24.never apologised to this 15-year-old girl, will you do it now? There were
:13:25. > :13:27.no apologies from Adam Johnson outside court or insight. The
:13:28. > :13:34.millionaire footballer who thought he could do what he wanted. This
:13:35. > :13:38.case has exposed a darker side to the national game because there was
:13:39. > :13:43.an intense focus in court on what Sunderland football club new or did
:13:44. > :13:47.not know. We've had a detailed statement from the club tonight, in
:13:48. > :13:50.it it says if they had known Adam Johnson was going to plead guilty to
:13:51. > :13:54.any of the charges they would have sacked him on the spot. As far Adam
:13:55. > :13:58.Johnson he left court today with a warning from the judge. Go home, say
:13:59. > :13:59.goodbye to your daughter, because when you return to be sentenced
:14:00. > :14:03.you'll be going to jail. In a clear sign of growing concern
:14:04. > :14:10.about the migration crisis, the European Commission has
:14:11. > :14:13.announced unprecedented plans to spend emergency humanitarian aid
:14:14. > :14:15.inside the European Union The package will make ?540 million
:14:16. > :14:24.available over the next three years. The money can be spent
:14:25. > :14:26.on tents and other shelter, food, medical aid and
:14:27. > :14:28.other basic services. The number of migrants entering
:14:29. > :14:30.Greece continues to rise, more than 110,000 arrived
:14:31. > :14:34.during January and February. One of the main pressure points
:14:35. > :14:37.is the border with Macedonia, from where our correspondent
:14:38. > :14:42.Danny Savage reports. In northern Greece, tented villages
:14:43. > :14:47.have sprung up on military sites. Hastily built, this is the emergency
:14:48. > :14:52.plan to house migrants. They feel these sites
:14:53. > :14:56.are a dead-end. So as soon as they get
:14:57. > :14:59.off the buses they This family from Syria
:15:00. > :15:02.tell me why they A tent isn't much of a life,
:15:03. > :15:09.you can't stay in a tent The camp give us everything
:15:10. > :15:19.like food and shelter but we didn't come here and we didn't walk
:15:20. > :15:22.through the sea to just We have the right in
:15:23. > :15:26.humanity to live a life like
:15:27. > :15:27.everybody does. But here a taxi driver
:15:28. > :15:33.is never far-away. A mass of humanity
:15:34. > :15:38.gathered in tiny tents, living in hope that one day soon
:15:39. > :15:46.they might get out of here. The gate they will
:15:47. > :15:47.have to pass through But at the present rate,
:15:48. > :15:56.it would take about two So with people piling up in Greece,
:15:57. > :16:05.the EU has today announced its going to spend a lot more money
:16:06. > :16:09.on trying to tackle this issue. It's set to spend up
:16:10. > :16:11.to 700 million euros on things like food,
:16:12. > :16:17.tents and medical aid. Much of the money will go
:16:18. > :16:19.directly to aid agencies, helpful, but it's not
:16:20. > :16:22.a long-term solution. What is really to be
:16:23. > :16:26.done is to have a common policy, European policy,
:16:27. > :16:29.how to manage these people who flee wars and persecution,
:16:30. > :16:34.and want to seek asylum and to request
:16:35. > :16:38.some protection. As the politicians argue
:16:39. > :16:40.about the long-term solution to this It's a volatile atmosphere,
:16:41. > :16:44.but this is right at the front More money may be coming
:16:45. > :16:48.to see off a humanitarian crisis, but what these people really
:16:49. > :16:51.want is to pass through this portal Our Europe editor,
:16:52. > :17:08.Katya Adler, is in Brussels. What is new about this money, in the
:17:09. > :17:12.form of it? Well, this new fund is Huw is about speed. The EU offers
:17:13. > :17:17.Greece some support over the migrant crisis. Accessing that cash is a
:17:18. > :17:20.longed and bureaucratic process. Time is of the essence. Well over a
:17:21. > :17:25.million refugees and others came to Europe last year. Now 25,000
:17:26. > :17:30.migrants are stranded in Greece with more people arriving every day. With
:17:31. > :17:35.looming humanitarian crisis here at home, what the EU want to do is
:17:36. > :17:40.mimick the way it distributes aid in disaster zones around the world.
:17:41. > :17:44.Once the fund is approved by all EU countries, most of the cash will be
:17:45. > :17:48.channel through the UN and other agencies on the ground. Bosses here
:17:49. > :17:53.in Brussels readily admit this is just a sticking plaster to solve the
:17:54. > :17:56.migrant crisis they say it needs to be tackled a at its roots in the
:17:57. > :18:01.Middle East. In the meantime a deal has to be made with Turkey. That is
:18:02. > :18:06.where most asylum seekers andened others are jumping upon the dinghies
:18:07. > :18:10.to make their way to Europe. There is an EU-Turkey meeting in Brussels
:18:11. > :18:15.on Monday. Turkey's ambassador to the EU told the BBC it can't be up
:18:16. > :18:20.to Turkey, an outsider, to solve the EU's problems. To work together
:18:21. > :18:25.effective as a whole the EU's 28 countries need to put aside their
:18:26. > :18:29.differences over the migrant crisis, but those differences, Huw, are
:18:30. > :18:30.gaping. OK, Katya, thanks very much once again for the update there in
:18:31. > :18:38.Brussels. Katya Adler. Any attempt to negotiate
:18:39. > :18:40.a new trading relationship with EU countries, if the United Kingdom
:18:41. > :18:42.left the European Union, would not be quick or
:18:43. > :18:44.straightforward, according It's published a new assessment
:18:45. > :18:48.of the dangers it says the UK will face if it votes to leave
:18:49. > :18:50.in the referendum in June. But the Leave campaign says
:18:51. > :18:53.the document is "dodgy" Our deputy political editor,
:18:54. > :18:57.James Landale, reports. It's 8.00am on Friday,
:18:58. > :19:03.24th June, the headlines. The United Kingdom has voted
:19:04. > :19:05.to leave the European Union. What if this is the news we wake up
:19:06. > :19:11.to after the referendum in June what might it mean
:19:12. > :19:15.for Britain's economy? Today, the Foreign Secretary set out
:19:16. > :19:20.a series of possible answers, options that he claimed would all
:19:21. > :19:23.cost jobs and push up prices. None of the options that
:19:24. > :19:26.are remotely likely to be deliverable comes close to matching
:19:27. > :19:30.the deal that we already have So why would we take a leap
:19:31. > :19:36.in the dark? Why would we risk the affect
:19:37. > :19:39.of years of uncertainty In its dossier, the Government set
:19:40. > :19:45.out possible alternatives If Britain copied Norway,
:19:46. > :19:51.it would get significant access to the EU's single market,
:19:52. > :19:54.but no say over the rules. It would also have to pay
:19:55. > :19:57.into the EU's budget and accept the free movement of EU
:19:58. > :20:01.citizens across its borders. If Britain copied Canada,
:20:02. > :20:05.it would get a free trade agreement with the EU, avoiding red tape
:20:06. > :20:09.and demands for cash, but there'd be less access to EU
:20:10. > :20:12.markets and it could take years Or the UK could just fall back
:20:13. > :20:19.on basic rules laid down with no obligations to the EU,
:20:20. > :20:23.but potentially accepting tariffs Downing Street have published this
:20:24. > :20:30.document to try to focus attention on what it sees as the uncertainty
:20:31. > :20:33.involved in leaving the EU and to try to force its opponents
:20:34. > :20:36.to talk about something But ministers campaigning to leave
:20:37. > :20:43.the EU say this was just another dodgy dossier, scaremongering
:20:44. > :20:47.that would fool nobody. Back in the 1990s, David Cameron
:20:48. > :20:50.worked for Norman Lamont Today the former Chancellor,
:20:51. > :20:58.said his one time prodigy had got wrong and Britain should
:20:59. > :21:02.leave the EU. Why won't the Leave campaign spell
:21:03. > :21:05.out precisely what Brexit will mean to the British economy
:21:06. > :21:07.and its trading relations Obviously, you can't spell out every
:21:08. > :21:12.single detail of which sectors will be affected in each way,
:21:13. > :21:15.but Britain will get and needs, in the event of Brexit,
:21:16. > :21:21.a special trade arrangement giving full tariff-free access
:21:22. > :21:27.to the single market. That is easily negotiatable,
:21:28. > :21:30.for this reason. The EU needs access to us every bit
:21:31. > :21:35.as much as we need access to them. So both sides here at Westminster
:21:36. > :21:38.are trying to predict what life might be like outside the EU,
:21:39. > :21:41.but they're very different visions James Landale, BBC News,
:21:42. > :21:50.Westminster. BMW, the German motor manufacturer,
:21:51. > :21:52.has sent an email to workers at its subsidiary Rolls Royce cars
:21:53. > :21:56.in the UK spelling out the risks for them if the UK left
:21:57. > :22:00.the European Union. Our business editor,
:22:01. > :22:14.Simon Jack, is here. Why do you think it's significant?
:22:15. > :22:25.It's how they have chosen to be say it and to whom. A direct internal
:22:26. > :22:41.email to employees. It starts as follows:
:22:42. > :22:51.It goes on to say, this is the punch line: Company managers have already
:22:52. > :22:56.endorsed one campaign or the other or signed letters to newspapers. The
:22:57. > :22:59.question is whether this direct form of communication to employees,
:23:00. > :23:03.referencing job security, is appropriate. The vote Leave campaign
:23:04. > :23:07.who I shared it with said it's not. They called it scaremongering. They
:23:08. > :23:11.called it intimidation. This exchange, you may remember from the
:23:12. > :23:15.Scottish referendum came late in that process. Controversially, it
:23:16. > :23:21.looks like we are three-and-a-half months to go this exchange has come
:23:22. > :23:25.early to this one. Simon thank you very much. Simon Jack there for us.
:23:26. > :23:28.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:23:29. > :23:31.A man has been found guilty of raping five women and attacking
:23:32. > :23:33.two others after meeting them on the internet dating site,
:23:34. > :23:36.Jason Lawrance, from Liphook in Hampshire, was described
:23:37. > :23:40.He used two profiles on the website to meet seven women.
:23:41. > :23:42.Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost
:23:43. > :23:44.effective" and would be a waste of NHS money,
:23:45. > :23:49.It's offered to children in their first year of life,
:23:50. > :23:52.but more than 800,000 people signed a petition for it to be given
:23:53. > :23:58.The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to impose
:23:59. > :24:03.They are in response to its latest nuclear test in January.
:24:04. > :24:05.The measures were drawn up following an agreement
:24:06. > :24:13.between the US and China, which is North Korea's main ally.
:24:14. > :24:16.Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, has announced plans
:24:17. > :24:19.to reform council tax if the SNP holds on to power
:24:20. > :24:22.People living in more expensive homes would face higher charges
:24:23. > :24:27.and the nine-year council tax freeze would come to an end.
:24:28. > :24:31.But the party's critics have accused the SNP of shying away from genuine
:24:32. > :24:33.reform of local government finance as our Scotland editor,
:24:34. > :24:39.I've never seen a cooker quite as crowded as this one.
:24:40. > :24:42.A lesson in home economics today for the First Minister,
:24:43. > :24:44.Nicola Sturgeon, at a school near Edinburgh.
:24:45. > :24:47.As she announced a council tax revamp that will see some people's
:24:48. > :24:54.The money raised, ?100 million, she says, will go to education.
:24:55. > :24:56.It's part of what is a balanced approach.
:24:57. > :24:59.Asking people at the top to pay a bit more, helping reduce
:25:00. > :25:08.the burden on those at the buttom, but also making sure
:25:09. > :25:10.that we generate additional revenue and ensuring that additional revenue
:25:11. > :25:21.At present, people in the most expensive homes in Scotland pay just
:25:22. > :25:23.three times what's charged on the least valuable properties,
:25:24. > :25:27.Under the SNP's plans, households in the top four council
:25:28. > :25:29.tax bands will pay more from next April.
:25:30. > :25:31.Increases of between ?105 a year, up to over ?500.
:25:32. > :25:34.Councils will also be able to raise taxes across the board
:25:35. > :25:42.Parents at this playgroup, in one of the more affluent parts
:25:43. > :25:46.of Edinburgh, will find their bills will rise because properties
:25:47. > :25:48.in the Scottish capital are among some of the most expensive
:25:49. > :25:54.From next year, around a quarter of Scottish households will find
:25:55. > :25:56.they are paying more in council tax.
:25:57. > :26:08.That's a lot of money to find and I think that will put a lot
:26:09. > :26:12.I work part-time, so I suppose that's quite a big ask,
:26:13. > :26:14.to find a wee bit of extra money there for that.
:26:15. > :26:17.But it depends what we're going to get for our money.
:26:18. > :26:20.It might be quite difficult to find the money for that but,
:26:21. > :26:23.at the end of the day, everybody's kind of got
:26:24. > :26:29.This is a clear signal from the SNP that, if they win the Scottish
:26:30. > :26:32.elections in May, better off Scots are going to have to start paying
:26:33. > :26:34.more and it's not just the council tax increase,
:26:35. > :26:37.they're also likely to say that they'd put up the top rate of income
:26:38. > :26:43.Local authorities have clashed with the Scottish Government
:26:44. > :26:45.because they've not been allowed to raise the council tax
:26:46. > :26:51.They will now get more money next year, but they don't think the plans
:26:52. > :26:56.I'm really surprised that there's so little being announced,
:26:57. > :26:58.from the point of view of just adjusting the bands,
:26:59. > :27:01.it looks very much to me tinkering around the edges.
:27:02. > :27:03.The SNP had promised a more radical rethink of local taxes,
:27:04. > :27:05.but those plans have now been shelved.
:27:06. > :27:07.The tax landscape in Scotland is changing, gradually.
:27:08. > :27:16.Tony Warren, the man who created Coronation Street,
:27:17. > :27:20.one of the world's must successful television series,
:27:21. > :27:25.He was in his early 20s when he created the drama,
:27:26. > :27:28.which went on to be become something of a national institution.
:27:29. > :27:30.Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, looks back at his life
:27:31. > :27:37.She'd never been short of a man in their house since
:27:38. > :27:53.As fast as you can before I really get my rag out.
:27:54. > :27:56.Elsie Tanner and Mrs Sharples going at it hammer and tongs.
:27:57. > :28:04.Tony Warren made a drama out of every day life that gave women a
:28:05. > :28:08.starring role. I write better for actresses than act ors. . I did
:28:09. > :28:11.then. I'm gay. I had bad experience of straight people at school. So I
:28:12. > :28:16.didn't have too high an opinion of them. So I wrote about women,
:28:17. > :28:25.because I found women easier to understand. The show was
:28:26. > :28:29.commissioned for a quick six week burst in 1960. It was a hit and is
:28:30. > :28:34.the longest-running soap opera in the world. I feel just a little
:28:35. > :28:39.giddy. It's inspiration was the going on in the terrace houses of
:28:40. > :28:46.Tony Warren's beloved Manchester. This is Coronation Street, the
:28:47. > :28:51.physical realisation of Tony Warren's imagination. Of course
:28:52. > :28:56.behind me is the legendary Rovers Return the characters meet up in the
:28:57. > :29:03.evening for a drink and a chat. It was his life. He loved every aspect
:29:04. > :29:09.of it. I think he did say that Coronation Street was his family.
:29:10. > :29:17.Well, today we've lost the father of our family. Tony Warren also wrote
:29:18. > :29:19.novels and other TV series. It's for his pioneering work with Coronation
:29:20. > :29:23.Street that he's likely to be remembered. Without Tony Warren you
:29:24. > :29:31.certainly wouldn't have had a Coronation Street a Kcossroads,
:29:32. > :29:34.Emmerdale or EastEnders. He broke the mould. He wrote for real people
:29:35. > :29:40.hechl knew that the public, once they started to see them, would fall
:29:41. > :29:44.in love with them. Tony Warren never left Coronation Street hechl was
:29:45. > :29:48.always there, offering advice, making suggestions, keeping things
:29:49. > :29:53.real. It was his show. It always will be his show.
:29:54. > :29:56.Tributes there to Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, who
:29:57. > :30:05.has died. The US astronaut, Scott Kelly,
:30:06. > :30:08.has returned to Earth after spending almost a year on board
:30:09. > :30:10.the International Space Station. He, along with Russian
:30:11. > :30:11.Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, spent 340 days in space -
:30:12. > :30:14.twice the length of a normal stay He's been reflecting
:30:15. > :30:19.on his experience. Scott Kelly, back on Mother Earth,
:30:20. > :30:32.after 340 days in space. I would like to relinquish command
:30:33. > :30:35.of the International Space Station to my friend and colleague
:30:36. > :30:39.here, Tim Kopra. You know it's somewhat
:30:40. > :30:42.of a harsh environment. You know, you never
:30:43. > :30:46.feel perfectly normal. You know, it's kind of like I've
:30:47. > :30:49.been in the woods camping You know, the space station
:30:50. > :31:11.here is a magical place. We've been following your Instagram
:31:12. > :31:22.feed down here, it is spectacular. I could go another
:31:23. > :31:30.year, if I had to. Scott Kelly, the US astronaut,
:31:31. > :31:33.back on Earth after 340 Tonight on Newsnight,
:31:34. > :31:41.we're live with the aftershocks of Super Tuesday from
:31:42. > :31:43.Capitol Hill in Washington. Join me and guests live now
:31:44. > :31:51.on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time
:31:52. > :31:55.for the news where you are.