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It's one of 16 bills. Among the others are reintroduction of the

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pricing for alcohol and the promise to find re-employment for

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unemployed teenagers. Straining at the leash. Ministers

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say spending cuts mean it is right to round up Scotland's police into

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a single force. Also the fire service. That is because Alex

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Salmond's top priority is to boost the economy. With growth comes work,

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with work come security and confidence. With confidence comes

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prosperity and a deeper sense of well-being, not just for

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individuals and families but for the wider community. Other measures

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include minimum pricing to counter alcohol abuse, a Bill to tackle

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sectarianism in football, and the reform of social care to include

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Where are the dog whistle policies? The measures that caught out? The

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broad strategy remains unchanged - to govern sensibly, while urging

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Scots to take more power. And so, Alex Salmond promised learned or

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training opportunities for every 16 - 19-year-old who has not already

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got something in place. Controversy there will be, but the Democrats

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strongly oppose a single police force. The Government's plans will

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have an immediate increased cost in already challenging times, risking

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a frontline policing. organisations never say the money

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that they promised. But how about the dog that didn't bark? No place

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in this programme for an early referendum on independence. Bring

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it on, say opposition leaders. first minister has a mandate for

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this now. He has a majority in this Parliament. He has had a draft bill,

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or so he said. He has no credible excuse for not bringing VAT bill

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forward. They are always quick to complain about the powers they

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don't have, but struck dumb when it comes to answer about what they

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would do and how they would pay for it. The referendum is still on hold.

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Ministers plan to tread that path later. The focus now, more powers

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to tackle the economy. Brian Taylor joins me now from

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Parliament. So we got confirmation of a single police force. Where

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does this go next? A ministerial statement of tomorrow which will

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set out more details, a case for change - he will rely heavily on

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the costs that he believes can be saved. Millions of pounds on buying

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things like uniforms for police officers across the eight forces.

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There will be a consultation on the detail, but there is a deadline on

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this, and he is adamant this will happen.

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I would suggest that what we want to do, and they remind this

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restructure has not taken place in theory, it is in the context of

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real policing. I would think as professional police forces that we

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would want to be restructured and ready for the challenges of the

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Commonwealth Games. When will we get more details about

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those measures and the jobs and training? The full details become

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the next week on that package of support for teenagers. Beyond that,

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towards the close of the month, an updated economic strategy. Eight

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dual strategy from the SNP Scottish government, doing what they can for

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the economy with the existing powers, while inviting Scots to

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agree and infer how much better things could be with more powers

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moving towards independence. Thank you for that update. There will be

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more analysis of the Government's that fitted programme on a

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specially extended Newsnight Scotland this evening on BBC Two at

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11pm. Hope for the best but prepare for

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the worst this winter - that is the message from the man in charge of

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getting us ready for the snow, ice and freezing temperatures of the

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months ahead. The transport minister Keith Brown was launching

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exercise polar storm in response to last winter's chaos when motorways

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were closed, drivers stranded, and a government minister resigned.

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This is key route on Scotland's road network was completely closed

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to traffic during the worst of last year's winter, as were many other

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roads right across Scotland. In fact, just about every kind of

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transport you can think of was seriously disrupted at one time or

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another. There were huge knock-on problems to those trying to provide

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sometimes basic or even lifeline services.

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It was the worst winter for 40 years. Last December, much of

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Scotland ground to a halt, many services and supplies were

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disrupted across the country. should stress that these are fresh

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warnings from the metaphors. hours Madam Deputy Speaker travel

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chaos hit the central belt. Hundreds of drivers had to sleep in

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their vehicles in sub-zero temperatures. Accusations flew and

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the Transport Minister was forced to resign. I am sorry we have

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caused these difficulties by not having the quality of response

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needed. We had a uniquely bad winter last year and we had to

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respond to that. It is clear that in terms of getting traffic of

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motorways, there is more we can do. We have now got a situation where

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we can get the central reservation open, or put HGVs onto the hard

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shoulders when it is very bad. Haulage firms increase -- insist

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they have increased their resistance. Drivers are more

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educated as to how to drive, and they can have snow tyres fitted to

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get through deep snow. It is the investment we are making. From

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specialist ambulances, many agencies have already invested

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millions in improvements. Better facilities and communication with

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the public are considered vital if severe winter weather strikes again.

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We have visited Scandinavian airports and change our plans in

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order to learn from the Scandinavian airports. We have

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invested �1.8 million in new equipment, which will enable us to

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reopen the runway twice as quickly as last year. It is too early for

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forecasters to predict whether we will have to struggle through more

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prisons, or be able to relax and admire the stunning scenery. But

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everyone is being urged to be better prepared. Improvements

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include better weather forecasting. The Met Office is promising better

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warnings across many more different formats, such as social media

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networks. But there is also an emphasis that it is

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responsibilities of all of us to take heed of those warnings when

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they come, and also to be prepared, whether at home, in the car, or at

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work, should this severe winter weather strike Scotland for a third

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year running. You're watching Reporting Scotland.

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Still to come: 100 years of life on the "broo". We look back at a way

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of life for generations of Scots that looks set to end.

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In sport, Scotland's Euro 2012 dream is still alive, but did they

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get some help from the ref? We hear from the man who says yes. And how

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about this for a culture clash? Scotland's rugby players arrive in

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New Zealand for the World Cup. All this to come.

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The leaders of an international drugs gang are facing lengthy jail

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sentences after being found guilty of smuggling up to �40 million

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worth of cocaine into the UK. Keith Blenkinsop, Lindsay Harkins were

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convicted at the High Court in Glasgow, along three of their

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couriers, Andrew Burns, Robert Dalrymple and James Elvin. It was a

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handful of rogue �20 notes which led to police tracking down began.

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Keith Blenkinsop is no stranger to large-scale drug-trafficking. Court

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seven years ago with �12 million worth of cannabis on a yacht near

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Barcelona, he did time in Spain. Later, he returned to his hometown

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of Annan and his old ways. He teamed up with Lindsay Harkins, a

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Helen's Birdman with a base near Barcelona. There, he sourced

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cocaine took sourced to Keith Blenkinsop for distribution here.

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For three years, a team of carriers flew repeatedly to Barcelona from

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Glasgow, Prestwick and Newcastle. The gang used sheet of hard plastic

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wrapped in parcel tape like this, and then sandwiched for drugs in

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between. These were then concealed in a variety of suitcases and

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rucksacks. They were adopted by one of the men as -- by his skills as

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an upholsterer. Two of the couriers were Andrew Burns and Robert

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Dalrymple. They were each found in possession of two kilos of cocaine

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worth �200,000 on the street. If that amount was smuggled on every

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trip, the vast scale of the operation can start to be

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understood. Certainly, for the flies be analysed there was

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potential for them to have brought cocaine into the UK and Scotland

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with a street value of between �9 million wholesale and �60 million.

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That figure could obviously be far higher. The gang changed huge sums

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of sterling into Euros to buy the drugs in Spain, a jury -- using a

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vast network of exchange shops, post offices and travel agents.

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Then one Korea tried to buy currency at this store in Carlisle.

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An employee realised some 20 than its work can to fate. The career

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spilled the beans. He became a key witness. The trial was complex and

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lasted five weeks. It did the jury today is to reach the guilty

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verdicts. The men will be sentenced on 4th October.

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Some of the other stories across Scotland this Wednesday: a teenager

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has pleaded guilty to murdering a young mother of two in a knife

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attack about a row over garlic bread. Jamie Ellis stabbed her more

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than 30 times at her home in Livingston. The High Court in

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Edinburgh heard that her two young children were asleep at Russian --

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upstairs. Ellis, 18, faces a life sentence.

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The Scottish Court Service says it could be 2013 before an appeal

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hearing into plans to build an Aberdeen bypass takes place.

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Campaign group Roadsense has launched a fresh legal bid to block

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the construction. The bypass was originally given the go-ahead by

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Scottish ministers in 2009, but campaigners may be forced to drop

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the action if they cannot have Edinburgh Castle welcomed over

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205,000 visitors this month, making it a highest number of visitors

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since records began. A series of odd incidents have been

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happening in the East End of Glasgow. Police are reporting Arab

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-- investigating a report of two men in a silver car approaching

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young children without a pocket and striding off. The same surface --

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Dora -- story has ever done Aberdeen and the West End of

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Glasgow. It has been widely talked about on social networking sites.

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He is clearly strange behaviour for any adult to indulge in. But I have

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to be quite clear, there has been no attempt to interfere with any of

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his children. So I am not entirely sure what is going on at the

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present time. Julie Peacock has been looking into the story.

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It is bizarre. And it has been fuelled by the Internet. It has

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turned into something of an abduction scare story. We are

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hearing that there are hundreds of postings on social media websites.

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All presenting the same story of a man approaching children with a

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puppet. We have heard of this happening in Aberdeen, Fife and

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also rumours of three cases in Blantyre. That police do stress

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that none of these stories are true. They are just rumours that have got

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out of hand from that initial incident in the East End of Glasgow.

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We had even had a headmaster in Aberdeen and he had to hold an

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assembly to reassure pupils that this was just a rumour that had got

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out of hand, and the police are trying to say that people need to

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get perspective here, and realise Veronique three cases in the East

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End of Glasgow. They are saying that parents do not need to be

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unduly alarmed, but a asking them to tell children not to talk to

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strangers. There are 29,000 households in

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Scotland where no one has ever worked and which are dependent on

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welfare benefits. But in the next few weeks, the UK Government is

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expected to announce a major overhaul of the system, replacing

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the numerous benefits with one, the Universal Credit. That will also

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mark the end of 100 years of "the broo".

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In Scotland was not economic blackspots, generations have now

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become dependent on benefits. But finding a job in the current

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climate is not easy. Four I had been handing out curriculum vitae,

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and nobody has got back to me. unemployment benefit was introduced

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in 1911, it had real impact north of the border, because at first, it

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only applied to certain jobs like shipbuilding. But it was a stop gap,

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not a solution. By the 1930s, the economy was stagnating. The

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government stumped up the cash to finish building the world's biggest

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ocean-going liner. It was a boost for jobs and pride on Clydeside. In

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the post-war years, the welfare state extended benefits to protect

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people from cradle to grave. The economy was doing well.

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Unemployment levels remained low. Then in 1979, Margaret thatcher

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came to power. I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He

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did not riot, he got on his bike and look for work. And he kept

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looking until he found it. economic landscape. And change for

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ever. If the whole community was affected. Shops had to be closed,

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public houses were closing. There was nobody there was money to spend

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in the community. Gradually, more and more people were moved off

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unemployment benefits and on to sickness benefits, where they were

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not included in the jobless figures. Four when you had been on

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incapacity benefit for two years or more, your are more likely to

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retire or die and get a job. It is not unemployment benefit. It is not

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a transition between jobs. It becomes a benefit for life. Trying

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to end benefits for life is one of the biggest challenges facing the

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government. 100 years after it was introduced, are we about to come

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full circle, and see the multitude of benefits replaced by just one?

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And you can see more up on that story tonight, when Sunni mayor

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resents '100 Years On The Broo'. That is on BBC One Scotland at

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10:45pm. The government's planning to merge

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Scotland's police forces into a single national force. It is nearly

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40 years since the last big reorganisation took place, and

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Reevell Alderson has been speaking to some of the offices to remember

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it. -- officers who remember it. Keeping pace with technological

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developments has always been vital We have stopped the car and

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apprehended the driver. Until 1975, there were 20 Scottish police

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forces are based on the old counties and cities. But then as

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now, reorganisation was in the air. Harry Morris, now an author or

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humorous books about the police, was a city of Glasgow policeman,

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who overnight became a Strathclyde officers. He noticed a change in

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the style of policing. All this sudden, there was the disappearance

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of men in the street. I do not know what the exact reasons for all this

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work, but they did seem to be, you would maybe have four big men, and

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then all this sudden you're getting someone who would do Mady U13s

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beats. The last reorganisation occurred when his ashes were ins

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fashion for or detectives. Scotland's longest service officer

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remembers the time of when amalgamation has brought together

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all rivalries. There was always talk of nicknames. But what we

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found at that time, you could always tell the people from Glasgow,

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they could not do joined-up writing was the impression. But they gave

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as good as they got. There was no issue with them. A lesson in how to

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put handcuffs on a suspect. Today's recruits still need to learn the

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basics of policing, of whatever the They do not make them like that any

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more! We can still dream of Scotland

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qualifying for next year's European Championships feisty our win over

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Lithuania. Well Craig Levein blamed that the referee for his team's

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defeat on Saturday, one Lithuanian players as last night's match

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official help to the Scots. The 1-0 win means Scotland can still

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qualify for the finals of Euro 2012. The goal that gave Scotland victory

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over Lithuania. But according to one of the Lithuanian players, last

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night, the referee was on Scotland's side. It is my opinion,

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my personal opinion, they were crying all week after the Czech

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Republic, and today, he help them. Do you think the referee in

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tonight's game was on Scotland's side? Definitely. There was

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certainly nothing contentious about Scotland's first tap penalty award.

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But the captain could not convert. And overall, it was owner of the

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night was up and, as chances came and went. But once his hero is how

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it finished. It means Scott and still have a chance of finishing

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second and claiming the play-off place. But that depends on getting

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results in the two remaining qualifiers against Spain and

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Liechtenstein. We also need to hope that the Czech Republic slip up

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against their final opponents. Others got an squad remains upbeat.

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To housing and some of the football we have played has been really good.

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We have a good result against Denmark, the last two games have

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been good. Very nearly six points. And I think that shows a

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progression. Scotland's Euro 2012 hopes might be slim, but it is not

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over get. Celtic's Emilio Izaguirre says he

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is aiming to return to action before Christmas. That is a bit of

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a hopeful prognosis. Last season's player of the Year programme and an

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ankle at the start of the season, and is still wearing her cast. He

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is fit enough to do some public relations work for the club. He

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says it has been a trying time for him. I was very sad for him and for

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his family, especially in the last month. That sort of thing happens

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in football, so he hopes to recover soon, because he loves playing

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football. Frustration for him and were Andy Murray at the US Open.

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His match against Donald Young was rained off yesterday. So far today,

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they have only managed three games because of the weather. They have

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all gone with Sara's. The American was leading in the first set.

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Scotland's rugby players have arrived in New Zealand. That is

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where they will play their opening group match against Romania. They

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were given quite a welcome. There were plenty of locals with Scottish

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raids by the looks of things. There was a pipe band, and even an man

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with a big novelty... Best of all, there was a traditional Maori hakka.

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I do not know if that was a welcome more a warning, but one kilted Kiwi

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expects the Scots to get off to a winning start. Has what are very

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fit and very motivated. New Zealand is a great place to hold the World

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Cup if you are Scottish. There is a lot of support for Scotland. And

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the Games ahead against Georgia, Argentina. That is the sport. I'm

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sure we will see plenty more hakkas as the World Cup continues.

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Just before we go to the weather, a reminder that Fergus Muirhead is

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back with us in two weeks, and he will be taking another look at how

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to protect your income if you fall ill. Income protection and critical

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ill. Income protection and critical illness - what options are

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available and which is best? Send available and which is best? Send

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Let's take a look at the weather. We had some bright spells today,

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but there were also plenty of showers. If we look at the radar

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from earlier we can see those shares are centred on the west, and

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some were quite heavy. Three this evening and overnight we will keep

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the shares in many places, but the wind will gradually ease it. We

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keep showers in the West, but they will gradually ease off a fraction

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as we head overnight. Drier towards the east, there will see some clear

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spells developing here. Overnight, the wind will ease, lows dipping

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down to about nine degrees Celsius. There will be some clear spots

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where they go as low as five degrees Celsius. A bright start in

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the ease tomorrow, the West keeping the showers. But they will be less

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frequent and light at are the ones we saw today. Similar temperatures

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to today, highs of 15 or 16 degrees Celsius across the country, but the

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winds will be light so it will feel warmer. In the North East is very

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well see the best of the brightness. Temperatures of around 17 or 18

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degrees Celsius, it cooler in the final at. Into tomorrow evening, we

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will see a bit of that change. This band of rain pushes into the

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country and will cover all parts overnight. Low-pressure is pushing

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in across the country. That really set us up for Friday, of which is

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looking like a fairly wet days. Certainly a wet start across the

:25:52.:25:56.

whole country. That rain will continue moving northwards as we go

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through that day. There will also be some warmer weather coming in,

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it will be a little cloudy but highs of around 20 degrees Celsius.

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I am already thinking about the weekend. We will have low-pressure

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swelling around, so it is looking like it will be quite unsettled -

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wet and windy, with longer spells of rain. It is generally looking a

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bit miserable! Scotland's police forces are

:26:27.:26:29.

speeders and it had merged into their national force. Alex Salmond

:26:29.:26:33.

confirmed the move as he outlined the SNP government's programme for

:26:33.:26:38.

this session. It is one of 16 bills. Among the others either re

:26:38.:26:41.

introduction of minimum pricing for Argos.

:26:41.:26:46.

Some of Britain's most influential economists have called for the 50 p

:26:46.:26:50.

tax rate to be scrapped. They say it is doing lasting damage to the

:26:50.:26:54.

economy and putting off people thinking of investing in Britain.

:26:54.:26:57.

The Chancellor says that tax is only temporary.

:26:57.:27:01.

The Scottish Government is urging organisations and individuals do

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hope for the best but prepare for the worse this winter. The key

:27:05.:27:08.

agencies involved in keeping transport and public services

:27:08.:27:11.

operating in severe weather were involved in exercise poorer storm

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today, to make sure lessons were learnt from the chaos of last

:27:15.:27:18.

winter. Paying for childcare has left

:27:18.:27:23.

thousands of families struggling with debt. A new survey by Save the

:27:23.:27:26.

Children found that four out of 10 families said the cost of childcare

:27:26.:27:30.

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