:00:08. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten, the race for the American presidency now
:00:10. > :00:11.heading for a showdown between Donald Trump
:00:12. > :00:16.After the biggest electoral test so far, Trump strengthens his
:00:17. > :00:20.position and claims he can now unite the Republican Party.
:00:21. > :00:25.People are going to find that a little bit hard to believe.
:00:26. > :00:31.Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one
:00:32. > :00:41.An equally strong showing by Hillary Clinton, who is now the clear
:00:42. > :00:44.favourite to take the Democratic nomination.
:00:45. > :00:46.The stakes in this election have never been higher.
:00:47. > :00:49.And the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has
:00:50. > :00:54.We'll have the latest on the race and the tensions
:00:55. > :00:56.in the Republican Party at the prospect of a Trump nomination.
:00:57. > :01:03.Mr Johnson, you've never apologised to this 15-year-old girl, will you
:01:04. > :01:09.do it now? The former England footballer
:01:10. > :01:11.Adam Johnson faces a jail sentence after being convicted of sexual
:01:12. > :01:13.activity with a child. The latest from Greece
:01:14. > :01:16.on the migration crisis as the EU plans to offer emergency
:01:17. > :01:17.humanitarian aid. Plans in Scotland to reform council
:01:18. > :01:20.tax with bigger bills for the most And the man who created one
:01:21. > :01:26.of the great British television And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:27. > :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. > :01:57.all in action. The race for the American presidency
:01:58. > :02:08.seems to be heading for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton
:02:09. > :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. > :02:26.took 7 of the 11 states being contested while Ted Cruz won
:02:27. > :02:30.three and Marco Rubio took just one. On the Democratic side
:02:31. > :02:32.Hillary Clinton took seven states while her rival Bernie
:02:33. > :02:36.Sanders took four. But it's not just a matter
:02:37. > :02:38.of counting states. The winning candidate must secure
:02:39. > :02:41.the support of a number of delegates Clinton needs 2,383 delegates to win
:02:42. > :02:44.the Democratic nomination, Trump needs 1,237 to win
:02:45. > :02:54.the Republican nomination, So let's start with the Republicans
:02:55. > :03:01.and, as our North America editor Jon Sopel explains,
:03:02. > :03:02.a more conciliatory note How to stop the Trump juggernaut,
:03:03. > :03:11.or in his case private jet. The next President
:03:12. > :03:18.of the United States. Campaigning in Ohio,
:03:19. > :03:20.he had the air of a man who, whatever the elements might throw
:03:21. > :03:26.at him, was going to prevail. So at his victory party later
:03:27. > :03:28.last night in Florida, Donald Trump hinted,
:03:29. > :03:31.with his one-time rival but now supporter Chris Christie standing
:03:32. > :03:35.awkwardly behind him, I know people are going to find that
:03:36. > :03:43.a little hard to believe but believe I think we are going
:03:44. > :03:49.to be more inclusive. I think we are going
:03:50. > :03:51.to be more unified. I think we are going to be
:03:52. > :03:54.able to unify the party. I hope to be able to get
:03:55. > :03:56.along with everybody. On some key policies
:03:57. > :03:58.like immigration he seemed to be dialling
:03:59. > :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. > :04:08.the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify,
:04:09. > :04:10.and when we unify, there's nobody, This has been a toned down,
:04:11. > :04:25.much more conciliatory Donald Trump at his news Conference,
:04:26. > :04:27.stressing that he is a unifier of the Republican
:04:28. > :04:29.Party, gone were the It's almost as though
:04:30. > :04:36.he's looking beyond this process to when he is
:04:37. > :04:39.the Republican nominee. This man is arithmetically
:04:40. > :04:43.best placed. Senator Ted Cruz won
:04:44. > :04:46.three states last night. To the other anti-Trump candidates
:04:47. > :04:49.he had a simple message, So long as the field
:04:50. > :04:56.remains divided Donald Trump's path to the nomination
:04:57. > :04:58.remains more likely. After Super Tuesday it's
:04:59. > :05:08.Wash-up Wednesday, and there are no signs that any of the other main
:05:09. > :05:11.contenders will pull out. Marco Rubio was an early
:05:12. > :05:14.voter here in his home state of Florida
:05:15. > :05:16.which holds its primary He didn't quite say get lost
:05:17. > :05:23.to Ted Cruz but he came close. Last night was supposed
:05:24. > :05:25.to be Ted Cruz's night, we beat him in half
:05:26. > :05:28.the states on the ballot, we won Minnesota,
:05:29. > :05:30.we picked up a lot of delegates and we feel great
:05:31. > :05:32.about what the map looks There's still a long way to go,
:05:33. > :05:37.only a third of states have voted. But so long as the opposition
:05:38. > :05:39.to Trump is divided, then the property mogul
:05:40. > :05:44.looks safe as houses. As we mentioned, Hillary
:05:45. > :05:47.Clinton took seven states in her campaign to become
:05:48. > :05:50.the Democratic presidential nominee. And she used her victory speech not
:05:51. > :05:53.to attack her party rival Bernie Sanders, but to focus
:05:54. > :05:56.on the man who's increasingly likely to become her Republican
:05:57. > :05:58.opponent in November, Donald Trump, as our North America
:05:59. > :06:04.correspondent Nick Bryant reports. Super Tuesday, where the length
:06:05. > :06:10.of the queue at your victory rally And it wasn't long before
:06:11. > :06:19.the supporters of Hillary Clinton celebrated thumping
:06:20. > :06:21.wins in big states. That when the contest moved
:06:22. > :06:30.to the American South, into states with large
:06:31. > :06:31.minority populations, She is sounding already
:06:32. > :06:41.like the presumptive nominee, and in a year of rage,
:06:42. > :06:46.chose healing words. I believe what we need in America
:06:47. > :06:50.today is more love and kindness. So her speech took a knock
:06:51. > :06:53.at her Democratic rival, The rhetoric we are hearing
:06:54. > :07:03.on the other side has Trying to divide America
:07:04. > :07:11.between us and them is wrong, Hillary Clinton clearly believes
:07:12. > :07:25.she's seen off the challenge from Bernie Sanders,
:07:26. > :07:27.and that the candidate standing between her and her
:07:28. > :07:29.dream of becoming America's first female
:07:30. > :07:34.president is Donald Trump. From Bernie Sanders,
:07:35. > :07:36.not quite a swansong, But to Hilary Clinton he's now more
:07:37. > :07:42.of an irritant than a threat. Parts of his speech last night
:07:43. > :07:45.sounded like he was composing This campaign is not just
:07:46. > :07:49.about electing a president, it is about making
:07:50. > :07:57.a political revolution. But Hillary Clinton still
:07:58. > :07:59.has treacherous waters From visitors at this alligator park
:08:00. > :08:09.close to her victory rally, reminders of the pool
:08:10. > :08:12.of resentment against her that feels She's lied to the people
:08:13. > :08:17.over and over and You've got a trust
:08:18. > :08:20.problem with Hillary Well I can tell you I'm not
:08:21. > :08:25.going to vote for her. So Super Tuesday has
:08:26. > :08:37.potentially set up an electoral blockbuster
:08:38. > :08:49.with the most outlandish of scripts. The real-life anti-politician
:08:50. > :08:52.against the consummate insider. Donald against Hillary.
:08:53. > :08:54.Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Palm Beach,
:08:55. > :09:03.Hillary Clinton seems very confident of her path to the nomination, do
:09:04. > :09:09.you think Donald Trump can be equally confident of his path? If
:09:10. > :09:13.you simply concentrate on the maths you would say Donald Trump's path is
:09:14. > :09:17.very difficult, we totted up the total number of votes is received in
:09:18. > :09:21.other states that have voted so far. 10 million people have voted, only a
:09:22. > :09:30.third of those have gone to Donald Trump. There is an anti-Donald Trump
:09:31. > :09:35.majority, or you could or you could or you could. The way. Ted Cruz
:09:36. > :09:40.isn't going to step down for Marco Rubio and vice versa. All the time
:09:41. > :09:45.you have more than three or four candidates in the fight and one
:09:46. > :09:49.person standing there, Donald Trump, Donald Trump winds, which is the
:09:50. > :09:52.nightmare scenario for the Republican establishment because
:09:53. > :09:57.they are not buying this, Donald Trump the new more emollient
:09:58. > :10:00.Republican, they believe he is polarising and divisive and come
:10:01. > :10:07.election day Hillary Clinton woodwind cause it does look like
:10:08. > :10:12.it's going to be Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. You would have
:10:13. > :10:15.imagined that scenario a year ago? -- who would have imagined?
:10:16. > :10:17.The former England and Sunderland footballer
:10:18. > :10:19.Adam Johnson has been found guilty of sexual activity
:10:20. > :10:23.A jury at Bradford Crown Court found him not guilty
:10:24. > :10:27.Before the trial he'd admitted a third charge
:10:28. > :10:29.of sexual activity with the 15 year-old girl,
:10:30. > :10:37.The judge has warned he's facing a 'significant custodial sentence',
:10:38. > :10:44.as our correspondent Ed Thomas reports.
:10:45. > :10:50.He was a ?10 million England footballer. And in his own words
:10:51. > :10:57.Adam Johnson said he was a rich, arrogant man. Things came easy, he
:10:58. > :11:03.said. One night, driven by boredom, he was alone with a 15-year-old
:11:04. > :11:09.girl. He met the child here, a car park. A Flynn fanatic, she idolised
:11:10. > :11:14.Johnson. Inside his range Rover, to prove she met her hero, she recorded
:11:15. > :11:21.their meeting. -- a Sunderland fanatic. Innocent football talk.
:11:22. > :11:28.What came next was the abuse of a child. The jury heard it was classic
:11:29. > :11:33.grooming. Johnson knew she adored him. Outside court his victim asked
:11:34. > :11:38.the police to tell her story. What happened in his car has turned my
:11:39. > :11:41.life upside down, I've lost all my confidence and my schoolwork has
:11:42. > :11:47.suffered. I now feel used and let down by him. It's been the hardest
:11:48. > :11:51.year of my life. I've had to face so much abuse after he claimed his
:11:52. > :11:57.innocence and I was made out to be a liar. Adam Johnson sent hundreds of
:11:58. > :11:59.messages to the schoolgirl. After handing over a signed shirt, he
:12:00. > :12:22.texted, you owe me. What did his employers know? The
:12:23. > :12:27.court heard he met the club in May last year and admitted kissing the
:12:28. > :12:33.child. But still he was allowed to play. Week after week the footballer
:12:34. > :12:40.walked out to represent Sunderland and despite the private confessions,
:12:41. > :12:44.in public, to fans, Johnson denied the abuse. The court was told every
:12:45. > :12:51.time Adam Johnson went on to this pitch the 15-year-old girl suffered
:12:52. > :12:55.excruciating pain. For a year she was called a liar. At one point she
:12:56. > :13:03.broke down and told her father she wanted to die. Some supporters feel
:13:04. > :13:07.cheated. At first he'd done nothing wrong, then lied to his fans, likes
:13:08. > :13:11.to everybody. Would you have supported him if you'd known what he
:13:12. > :13:17.did? No, definitely not. Would you have wanted him on your pitch? No.
:13:18. > :13:23.Mr Johnson, you've never apologise to this 15-year-old girl, will you
:13:24. > :13:27.do it now? There were no apologies from Adam Johnson. Outside or inside
:13:28. > :13:33.court. The millionaire footballer who thought he could do what he
:13:34. > :13:37.wanted. This case has exposed a darker side of the national game
:13:38. > :13:41.because there was an intense focus in court on what Sunderland football
:13:42. > :13:44.club new or did not know. We've had a detailed statement from the club
:13:45. > :13:49.tonight. In it it says if they'd known Adam Johnson was going to
:13:50. > :13:53.plead guilty to any of the charges they would have sacked him on the
:13:54. > :13:57.spot. As for Adam Johnson, he left court today with a warning from the
:13:58. > :13:59.judge. Go home, say goodbye to your daughter, when you return to be
:14:00. > :14:06.sentenced you will be going to jail. In a clear sign of growing concern
:14:07. > :14:09.about the migration crisis - the European Commission has
:14:10. > :14:10.announced unprecedented plans to spend emergency humanitarian aid
:14:11. > :14:13.- inside the European Union - The package will make 540 million
:14:14. > :14:17.pounds available over The money can be spent
:14:18. > :14:20.on tents and other shelter, food, medical aid and
:14:21. > :14:32.other basic services. The number of migrants entering
:14:33. > :14:35.Greece continues to rise - more than 110,000 arrived
:14:36. > :14:37.during January and February. One of the main pressure points -
:14:38. > :14:40.is the border with Macedonia - from where our correspondent
:14:41. > :14:41.Danny Savage reports. In northern Greece, tented villages
:14:42. > :14:44.have sprung up on military sites. Hastily built, this is the emergency
:14:45. > :14:47.plan to house migrants. They feel these sites
:14:48. > :14:54.are a dead-end. So as soon as they get
:14:55. > :14:57.off the buses they This family from Syria
:14:58. > :15:00.tell me why they A tent isn't much of a life,
:15:01. > :15:17.you can't stay in a tent The camp give us everything
:15:18. > :15:28.like food and shelter but we didn't come here and we didn't walk
:15:29. > :15:30.through the sea to just We have arrived in humanity
:15:31. > :15:34.to live a life like But here a taxi driver
:15:35. > :15:40.is never far-away. A mass of humanity
:15:41. > :15:44.gathered in tiny tents, living in hope that one day soon
:15:45. > :15:47.they might get out of here. The gate they will
:15:48. > :15:49.have to pass through But at the present rate it
:15:50. > :15:52.would take about two months just to clear
:15:53. > :15:54.this one campus. So with people piling up in Greece,
:15:55. > :16:01.the EU has today announced it's going to spend a lot more money
:16:02. > :16:04.on trying to tackle this issue. It's set to spend up
:16:05. > :16:06.to 700 million euros on things like food,
:16:07. > :16:18.tents and medical aid. Much of the money will go directly
:16:19. > :16:19.to aid agencies, who say it's helpful, but it's not a long-term
:16:20. > :16:21.solution. What is really to be
:16:22. > :16:24.done is to have a common policy, European
:16:25. > :16:32.policy, how to manage These people who flee war,
:16:33. > :16:36.persecution, and want to seek asylum and request protection. As the
:16:37. > :16:41.politicians argue about a long-term solution to this crisis, they argue
:16:42. > :16:45.here, too. It's the volatile atmosphere but this is right at the
:16:46. > :16:51.front of the queue, so nobody moves away. More money may be coming to
:16:52. > :16:55.see off a humanitarian crisis, but what these people really want is to
:16:56. > :16:57.pass through this portal to a better life.
:16:58. > :16:59.Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in Brussels.
:17:00. > :17:14.This new fund is all about speed. The EU already offers grease some
:17:15. > :17:18.support over the migrant crisis at accessing the cash is a long
:17:19. > :17:22.bureaucratic process and time is of the essence. Well over a million
:17:23. > :17:27.refugees came to Europe last year. Now 25,000 migrants are stranded in
:17:28. > :17:32.Greece with more people arriving every day. With looming humanitarian
:17:33. > :17:36.crisis here at home, what do you want to do is mimic the way to
:17:37. > :17:39.distribute aid in disaster zones around the world. Once a fund has
:17:40. > :17:43.been approved by all EU countries most of the cash will be channelled
:17:44. > :17:49.through the UN and other agencies on the ground. But bosses in Brussels
:17:50. > :17:53.readily admit it's just a sticking plaster to solve the migrant crisis
:17:54. > :17:57.they say needs to be tackled at its roots. First in the Middle East. In
:17:58. > :18:01.the meantime the deal has to be made with Turkey. It's where most asylum
:18:02. > :18:05.seekers and others are jumping on board those people smugglers Dennis
:18:06. > :18:15.to make their way to Europe. There is an EU Turkey meeting on Monday.
:18:16. > :18:19.It can't be up to Turkey, an outsider, to solve the EU's
:18:20. > :18:22.problems. To work together effectively as a whole the 28
:18:23. > :18:25.countries of the EU need to put aside their differences over the
:18:26. > :18:33.migrant crisis. Those differences are gaping.
:18:34. > :18:39.Any attempt to negotiate a new trading relationship with EU
:18:40. > :18:41.countries if the United Kingdom left the union wouldn't be quick or
:18:42. > :18:44.straightforward according to the government.
:18:45. > :18:48.It's published a new assessment - of the dangers it says the UK
:18:49. > :18:51.will face - if it votes to leave - in the referendum in June.
:18:52. > :18:54.But the Leave campaign says the document is 'dodgy'
:18:55. > :18:56.Our deputy political editor James Landale reports.
:18:57. > :18:59.It's 8.00am on Friday, 24th June, the headlines.
:19:00. > :19:07.The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union.
:19:08. > :19:15.What if this is the news we wake up to after the referendum in June?
:19:16. > :19:17.What might it mean for Britain's economy?
:19:18. > :19:20.Today, the Foreign Secretary set out a series of possible answers,
:19:21. > :19:23.option that is he claimed would all cost jobs
:19:24. > :19:26.None of the options that are remotely likely to be
:19:27. > :19:29.deliverable comes close to matching the deal that we already have
:19:30. > :19:31.None of the options that are remotely likely to be
:19:32. > :19:34.deliverable comes close to matching the deal that we already have
:19:35. > :19:37.So why would we take a leap in the dark?
:19:38. > :19:40.Why would we risk the affect of years of uncertainty
:19:41. > :19:46.In its dossier the Government set out possible alternatives
:19:47. > :19:52.If Britain copied Norway, it would get significant access
:19:53. > :19:56.to the EU's single market, but no say over the rules.
:19:57. > :19:58.It would also have to pay into the EU's budget and accept
:19:59. > :20:01.the free movement of EU citizens across its borders.
:20:02. > :20:03.If Britain copied Canada, it would get a free trade agreement
:20:04. > :20:06.with the EU, avoiding red tape and demands for cash,
:20:07. > :20:09.but there'd be less access to EU markets and it could take years
:20:10. > :20:19.Or the UK could just fall back on basic rules laid down
:20:20. > :20:25.With no obligations to the EU, but potentially accepting tariffs
:20:26. > :20:29.Downing Street have published this document to try to focus attention
:20:30. > :20:32.on what it sees as the uncertainty involved in leaving the EU
:20:33. > :20:35.and to try to force its opponents to talk about something
:20:36. > :20:42.But ministers campaigning to leave the EU say this was just another
:20:43. > :20:43.dodgy dossier, scaremongering that would fool nobody.
:20:44. > :20:46.Back in the 1990s, David Cameron worked for Norman Lamont
:20:47. > :20:56.Today, the former Chancellor, said his one time prodigy had got it
:20:57. > :21:03.wrong and Britain should leave the EU.
:21:04. > :21:06.Why won't the Leave campaign spell out precisely what Brexit will mean
:21:07. > :21:07.to the British economy and its trading relations
:21:08. > :21:11.Obviously, you can't spell out every single detail of which sectors
:21:12. > :21:14.will be affected in each way, but Britain will get and needs,
:21:15. > :21:16.in the event of Brexit, a special trade arrangement giving
:21:17. > :21:27.full tariff-free access to the single market.
:21:28. > :21:32.That is easily negotiatable, for this reason.
:21:33. > :21:36.The EU needs access to us every bit as we need access to them.
:21:37. > :21:38.So both sides here at Westminster are trying to predict what life
:21:39. > :21:41.might be like outside the EU, but they're very different visions
:21:42. > :21:52.James Landale, BBC News, Westminster.
:21:53. > :21:56.BMW - the German motor manufacturer - has sent an email to workers
:21:57. > :21:58.at its subsidiary Rolls Royce cars in the UK -
:21:59. > :22:01.spelling out the risks for them if the UK left the European Union.
:22:02. > :22:03.Our business editor Simon Jack is here.
:22:04. > :22:14.And why do you think it's significant? In a way it's not what
:22:15. > :22:20.they said, it's how they've chosen to say it. This is a direct internal
:22:21. > :22:21.e-mail device under the employees. The decision on whether to stay in
:22:22. > :22:52.the EU or not... Company managers have already
:22:53. > :22:55.endorsed one campaign or the other, signed letters to newspapers, the
:22:56. > :23:01.question is whether this direct form of communication, to employees,
:23:02. > :23:03.referencing job security, is appropriate. The vote to leave
:23:04. > :23:08.campaign said it definitely isn't, they call it scaremongering and
:23:09. > :23:11.called it intimidation. This exchange you may remember from the
:23:12. > :23:15.Scottish referendum came late in the process and controversially looks
:23:16. > :23:17.like we've three and a half months to go this exchange has come very
:23:18. > :23:21.early. Simon Jack. A brief look at some
:23:22. > :23:24.of the day's other news stories. A man has been found guilty
:23:25. > :23:27.of raping 5 women and attacking 2 others - after meeting them
:23:28. > :23:29.on the internet dating site Jason Lawrance from Liphook
:23:30. > :23:32.in Hampshire was described He used two profiles on the website
:23:33. > :23:36.to meet seven women. Offering the Meningitis B vaccine
:23:37. > :23:40.to all children is 'not cost effective' - and would be
:23:41. > :23:43.a waste of NHS money - It's offered to children
:23:44. > :23:46.in their first year of life. But more than 800,000 people signed
:23:47. > :24:00.a petition for it to be given The United Nations Security Council
:24:01. > :24:05.has unanimously voted to impose new sanctions against North Korea. In
:24:06. > :24:08.this bolster its latest nuclear test in January. The measures were drawn
:24:09. > :24:11.up following an agreement between the US and China, which is North
:24:12. > :24:17.Korea's main ally. Nicola Sturgeon First Minister of
:24:18. > :24:22.Scotland has announced plans to reform council tax if the SNP holds
:24:23. > :24:26.on to power in May's elections. People living in more expensive
:24:27. > :24:29.homes would face higher charges and the nine-year council tax freeze
:24:30. > :24:35.would come to an end. Party critics have accused the SNP of shying away
:24:36. > :24:37.from reform. Scotland editor Sarah Smith tells us...
:24:38. > :24:41.I've never seen a cooker quite as crowded as this one.
:24:42. > :24:43.A lesson in home economics today for the First Minister,
:24:44. > :24:45.Nicola Sturgeon, at a school near Edinburgh.
:24:46. > :24:48.As she announced a council tax revamp that will see some people's
:24:49. > :24:53.The money raised, ?100 million, she says, will go to education.
:24:54. > :24:55.It's part of what is a balanced approach.
:24:56. > :24:58.Asking people at the top to pay a bit more, helping reduce
:24:59. > :25:01.the burden on those at the buttom, but also making sure
:25:02. > :25:03.that we generate additional revenue and ensuring that additional revenue
:25:04. > :25:15.At present, people in the most expensive homes in Scotland pay just
:25:16. > :25:19.three times what's charged on the least valuable properties,
:25:20. > :25:24.Under the SNP's plans, households in the top four council
:25:25. > :25:26.tax bands will pay more from next April.
:25:27. > :25:28.Increases of between ?105 a year, up to over ?500.
:25:29. > :25:31.Councils will also be able to raise taxes across the board
:25:32. > :25:41.Parents at this playgroup, in one of the more affluent parts
:25:42. > :25:43.of Edinburgh, will find their bills will rise because properties
:25:44. > :25:46.in the Scottish capital are among some of the most expensive
:25:47. > :25:51.From next year, around a quarter of Scottish households will find
:25:52. > :25:54.they are paying more in council tax.
:25:55. > :26:10.That's a lot of money to find and I think that will put a lot
:26:11. > :26:14.I work part-time, so I suppose that's quite a big ask,
:26:15. > :26:17.to find a wee bit of extra money there for that.
:26:18. > :26:19.But it depends what we're going to get for our money.
:26:20. > :26:22.It might be quite difficult to find the money for that but,
:26:23. > :26:25.at the end of the day, everybody's kind of got
:26:26. > :26:30.This is a clear signal from the SNP that, if they win the Scottish
:26:31. > :26:33.elections in May, better off Scots are going to have to start paying
:26:34. > :26:35.more and it's not just the council tax increase,
:26:36. > :26:39.they're also likely to say that they'd put up the top rate of income
:26:40. > :26:44.Local authorities have clashed with the Scottish Government
:26:45. > :26:47.because they've not been allowed to raise the council tax
:26:48. > :26:51.They will now get more money next year, but they don't think the plans
:26:52. > :26:55.I'm really surprised that there's so little being announced,
:26:56. > :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. > :27:04.The SNP had promised a more radical rethink of local taxes,
:27:05. > :27:07.but those plans have now been shelved.
:27:08. > :27:09.The tax landscape in Scotland is changing, gradually.
:27:10. > :27:21.Tony Warren the man who created Coronation Street, one of the
:27:22. > :27:25.world's most successful television series, has died at the age of 79.
:27:26. > :27:29.He was in his early 20s when he created the drama that went on to
:27:30. > :27:29.become something of a national institution. Will
:27:30. > :27:42.Gompertz looks back at his life and achievements. A typical day on
:27:43. > :27:46.Coronation Street. Back off Mrs Sharples as fast as you can. Elsie
:27:47. > :27:52.Tanner and Ena Sharples going at it hammer and tongs. The iconic
:27:53. > :27:59.characters were the invention of the show creator Tony Warren. He made a
:28:00. > :28:02.drama out of everyday life. It gave working-class northern women a
:28:03. > :28:08.starring role. I write better for actresses than I write for actors, I
:28:09. > :28:11.did then. I mean I'm gay and I had very bad experience of straight
:28:12. > :28:15.people at school, so I didn't have too high an opinion of them. I wrote
:28:16. > :28:22.about women because I found women easier to understand. Flaming
:28:23. > :28:27.Muriel. Stan, shut up! The show was originally commissioned for a quick
:28:28. > :28:29.six-week burst in 1960 but it was a hit and has become the
:28:30. > :28:34.longest-running soap opera in the world. You know, dear, I feel just a
:28:35. > :28:40.little giddy. It's inspiration were the goings-on of the terrace houses
:28:41. > :28:43.of Tony Warren's beloved Manchester. This is Coronation Street, the
:28:44. > :28:47.physical realisation of Tony Warren's imagination, to my left is
:28:48. > :28:52.the Cornershop. Over there the medical centre. Of course, behind
:28:53. > :28:56.me, the legendary Rovers return where the characters meet in the
:28:57. > :29:03.evening for a drink and a chat. It was his life, he loved every aspect
:29:04. > :29:12.of it. I think he did say Coronation Street was his family. Well today
:29:13. > :29:17.we've lost the father of our family. Tony Warren also wrote novels and
:29:18. > :29:19.other TV series but it's for his pioneering work with Coronation
:29:20. > :29:23.Street that he is likely to be remembered. Without Tony warrant you
:29:24. > :29:25.wouldn't have had Coronation Street but you wouldn't have had
:29:26. > :29:32.crossroads, Emmerdale and Eastenders. Because he broke the
:29:33. > :29:36.mould. Tony wrote for real people, he knew that the public once they
:29:37. > :29:42.started to see them would fall in love with them. Tony warrant never
:29:43. > :29:46.left Coronation Street, you was always there offering advice, making
:29:47. > :29:55.suggestions, keeping things real. It was his show. It always will be.
:29:56. > :30:01.Tributes to Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street, who has died.
:30:02. > :30:05.The US astronaut Scott Kelly has returned to Earth after spending
:30:06. > :30:10.almost a year on board the International Space Station. He
:30:11. > :30:14.along with a Russian cosmonaut spent 340 days in space, twice the length
:30:15. > :30:16.of a normal state, and a record for an American. He's been reflecting on
:30:17. > :30:19.his experiences. Scott Kelly, back on Mother Earth,
:30:20. > :30:31.after 340 days in space. I would like to relinquish command
:30:32. > :30:34.of the International Space Station to my friend and colleague
:30:35. > :30:37.here, Tim Kopra. You know it's somewhat
:30:38. > :30:40.of a harsh environment. You know, you never
:30:41. > :30:45.feel perfectly normal. You know, it's kind of like I've
:30:46. > :30:48.been in the woods camping You know, the space station
:30:49. > :31:10.here is a magical place. We've been following your Instagram
:31:11. > :31:13.feed down here, it is spectacular. I could go another
:31:14. > :31:40.year, if I had to. Scott Kelly, the US astronaut back
:31:41. > :31:46.on Earth after 340 days in space. A quick reminder that Newsnight is
:31:47. > :31:49.coming up on BBC Two. We are live with the after-shocks of super
:31:50. > :31:56.Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Join me now on BBC Two,
:31:57. > :31:58.and at 11pm in Scotland. Now it's time for the news where you are.
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