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Tonight on Reporting Scotland: Just one question? Three-quarters of the | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
people who got in touch with the UK Government about the independence | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
referendum say they want a Yes-No vote on Scotland's future. But many | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
responses came from a Labour party website. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
The deadline comes and goes for Rangers bids. There has also been a | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
surprise one from the Continent. Total's Elgin platform's been | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
leaking gas into the North Sea for ten days. Tonight, one of the last | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
men to leave explains what happened. We trained for it regularly. We | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
have drills every week. I never thought this would happen. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Also tonight: The computer game that's good for some children. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
are going to put the goggles on again. Eye specialists in Glasgow | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
find that playing games in these goggles can help treat "lazy eyes". | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Good evening. Most people who took part in the UK government's | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
consultation on the independence referendum say Scots should be | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
asked only one question - whether to stay in, or leave the union. The | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore, believes the SNP should now hold | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
the vote as soon as possible. But the First Minister, Alex Salmond, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
claims the whole exercise is discredited after it emerged a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
quarter of replies were copied from a Labour party website. Our | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
political correspondent, Raymond Buchanan joins me now. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
The UK government made their position clear even before the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
consultation exercise began. They support one question asked sooner | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
rather than later. And, sticking to the current rules for voters, so | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
that means over 18s only. After eight weeks of asking, these are | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
the answers they say that they have been given. 75% said stick to a | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
solitary question. 70% agreed it should be asked sooner rather than | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
later, and of those who gave a view, 47% agreed the current voting age | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
of 18 should be used. And surprisingly, the Scottish | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
secretary is delighted most replies to his consultation seem to agree | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
with his Government's position. A Trout Association, an ice-cream | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
maker, and energy company, a meat supplier, all replied when asked | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
about how the referendum should work. The various political signs - | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
- sites are getting themselves back already. The Scottish Secretary was | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
at RAF Lossiemouth today to meet personnel and celebrate so many | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
consultation replies lining up on his side. Now we have got a result | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
of our consultation, I meet -- want to meet with ministers to be | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
cancelled at the process and get on with the big debate. That is what | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
this should now be about. Quarter of the replies are used the exact | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
same form of words found here on the Scottish Labour website. The | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
party deny they were trying to unduly influenced the result. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
think the result are significant. The fact that three-quarters are | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
saying one clear decision should be made in the referendum, that we | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
have to get a move on, I think that does speak volumes. Sir, will Alex | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Salmond be tempted to abandon his referendum timetable, his | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
consideration of a second question, and his plan to allow 16 and 17- | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
year-olds to vote? A consultation exercise can get flooded by | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
identical responses from the same website and that discredits it | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
completely. But the SNP's own website has a similar form already | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
filled in for their supporters to send to the Scottish government's | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
consultation. Sir, What is the point of these exercises? These are | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
people with an interest in the subject. They may have a degree of | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
expertise and they give us an idea of the arguments people may use for | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
against a particular course of action. Both sides say this is the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
biggest decision Scottish people will face in 300 years, but the UK | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
government got 3,000 replies and the Scottish governments ever have | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
had 12,000 so far with a month still to go. By comparison, the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
biggest ever consultation response saw 50,000 take part in the debate | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
over same-sex marriage. Reporting Scotland understands that | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
for bits to take over Rangers has been received by the club's | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
administrators this evening. The SPL champions have been in | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
administration since mid-February. The view amongst fans seems to be | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
that the priority for any new owners should be to avoid | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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liquidation. We know the administrators were | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
expecting four or five bids before the closing time. Paul Murray and | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
his Blue Knights consortium are the group we know most about. They are | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
essentially are funded by a company who provided cash to the current | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
owner, Craig Whyte, in return for future season tickets. That was | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
followed by a crude from Singapore. -- Ait Group. We know very little | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
about this consortium as they have managed to stay out of this so far. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Another group that has managed to stay out of the Spotlight so far is | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
a group from America. They are investors and we will have to see | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
exactly what they bring to the table. Then this surprise one from | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
the Continent - a consortium from Germany. They have been sniffing | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
around Rangers for some time, I understand, but they have now | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
decided to firm that up with actual offer. What happens now is the | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
administrators will choose a preferred bidder early next week, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
and then grant a period of exclusivity so that consortium can | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
then move forward and prove that they have what it takes to take | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Rangers forward. Most fans seem desperate to avoid liquidation. Is | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
that still a possibility? Yes, it is still a possibility. But, there | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
seems to be an air of confidence. Perhaps the administrators believe | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
that a voluntary agreement is now possible, given the bits that are | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
on the table. Of course, still massive debts at Rangers. We have | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
this big tax bill hanging over the club's head so it will be an uphill | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
struggle. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on the programme: A murder trial hears how | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
a witness feared a massacre when a gangster was shot at this | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
supermarket. Network Rail is fined �4 million for failures that led to | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
a train crash which claimed the life of this Glasgow woman. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
In sport, the ESFA give money that was going to Rangers to Dundee | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
United instead. And, we speak to the Scot who is dreaming of glory | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
at the London Olympics. One of the last men taken off | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Total's Elgin platform has been describing what happened after the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
discovery of a major gas leak. William Cardno was one of 19 people | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
left to deal with the emergency ten days ago. Over 200 workers were | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
lifted off the platform to safety. Colin Wight reports. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
We trained for it regularly. We have Gills every week. I never, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
ever thought this would happen. William Cardno is the offshore | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
installation manager on the Elgin platform. It has been leaking gas | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
now for over a week. No one is left on board. The weather today forced | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
the company to abandon plans to fly a team of specialists on to the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
platform to assess what could be done. The interview with William | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Cardno was posted on the company's website. We requested our own | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
interview, but Mr Cardno was unavailable. We deliberately kept | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
19 people on the platform to evaluate the a situation, to see if | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
there was a thing we could do, and really to maintain the system. So | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
long as the platform is still alive, we could monitor the firing gas | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
status on the platform. We knew that once we turned the key to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
switch everything off, all that was lost. That information was | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
invaluable in trying to determine the cause of the incident. William | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Cardno says the hardest decision was deciding to keep the 19 on | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
board, but they knew they could get off quickly by lifeboat if the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
situation escalated. He said the incident showed the procedures | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
worked and safety was a priority. Total will assess tomorrow if and | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
when they can fly out to the installation. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
One of Europe's biggest community- run wind farms is to be built in | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Shetland. More than 100 turbines will provide enough energy for | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
175,000 homes - far more than the islanders could ever use. But they | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
will be able to use the proceeds from selling on the power. The | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Viking Wind Farm, the third biggest in Scotland, will be built in the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
centre of Shetland. The decision has angered campaigners who are | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
concerned at the environmental impact of the development. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
reaction is that I am sad and disappointed. This project is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
unsustainable, both economically and environmentally and they should | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
be looking at other alternatives. believe that we are outweighed by | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
the enormous economic advantage to the islands - the jobs, the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
opportunities for local businesses, the fact that developers will seek | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
to use local businesses to create local jobs on a very large scale, | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
and over a very long period. A woman doing her shopping has told | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
a murder trial she thought she was caught up in "another Dunblane | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
massacre". Emma Busby was in an Asda store in Glasgow when she saw | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll's car being shot at in the supermarket car park | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
in January 2010. She was giving evidence in the trial of Ross | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Monaghan, who denies murdering Mr Carroll. Catriona Renton reports | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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from the High Court in Glasgow. Kevin Carroll was in ASDA in | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Glasgow on 13th January 1920 10. He was sitting here in this black Audi. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
He was shot dead. At the same time, around lunchtime, Emma Busby had | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
been doing a big shop with her mother. Today, she told the court | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
what she saw. She said when she came out of the store with her | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
trolley she became aware that something was wrong. She said a car | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
drove past her at speed, and screeched to a halt. She said a man | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
got out of the passenger side and ran towards a black Audi. She said | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
he was holding up a Clint Eastwood style cowboy gun in his left hand, | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
and then she heard gunshots. Asked how she felt, she said "I just | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
thought it was someone shooting at everyone. I thought it was like | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
another Dunblane massacre". She said there were a lot of people | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
around and she kept hearing a baby crying. She said she thought there | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
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were two guns firing. She was The court also heard from Alan | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
Johnson, who described himself as a good friend of Kevin Carroll. The | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
advocate depute asked him if quite a few people in gangland Glasgow | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
would be interested in having Kevin Carroll killed. Ross Monaghan | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
denies murdering Kevin Carroll and has launched a special defence | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
incriminating Mr Johnson and seven others. The trial continues. East | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Lothian Council is considering setting up a bus company following | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
the announcement that First Scotland East is withdrawing most | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
of its services in the area. Senior officials and councillors also | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
agreed to contact other bus companies with a view to continuing | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
the routes at risk. The authority is also hoping to meet Midlothian | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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Council and the Transport Minister Network Rail the company | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
responsible for the upkeep of railways has been fined �4 million | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
over safety failures which caused the death of an 84-year-old Glasgow | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
women. Margaret Masson was a passenger when it crashed in | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
Grayrigg. 88 people were injured when their | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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train derailed. It had gone over a set of points. One passenger died. | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
Her daughter was injured. mother died and that she it -- | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
train crash. Understandably, she finds it offensive that it she is | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
contributing as up taxpayer up for their offences committed. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
company was fined �4 million after admitting health and safety | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
breaches. This Engineer had earlier told an inquest he had forgotten to | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
expect the area where the crash happened. I am glad it has come to | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
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an end. The judge says no one can put a value on the life lost. | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
Network Rail said they strive to prevent such an accident happening | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
again. Some were convinced rail safety is not been taken seriously | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
enough. How do you square that circle with the report into | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Grayrigg which sent unrealistic were lords were part of the reason | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
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for the crash. Network Rail say they have learned from the accident. | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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The biggest pipe laying in the world will start at the weekend. | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
Almost �1 million of lottery funding will help develop this area. | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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The project has secured millions of funding to build Piers. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
The accounting officer for Aberdeen's gardens has told | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
councillors it was as fair as he could make it. There has been | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
criticism that supporters but not a campaign with an agreed find Jack | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
and -- financial limits. Calls made using a new technology | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
which keeps them cleaner have gone on display as part of the Edinburgh | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
International Science Festival. It works by using chemicals to break | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
down pollution and the atmosphere. Their cottage in titanium particles. | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
We are very small. Those react with oxygen. Experts from the University | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
of Aberdeen were looking for volunteers. They want to | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
investigate whether compliance founding cabbage can prevent cancer | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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and other diseases. Lacey IT is one of the most common | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
sight problems in children. Scottish researchers have come up | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
with the perfect solution for that were to it -- 21st century Kent. A | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
video game. Video-games, we worry they are | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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frazzle winger Ken's' brains. Cook the rewire their brains? Meet | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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Kahlon, he spent a week wearing these gaming goggles will stop --. | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
He has up lazy eye. After a week, his mum noticed he stopped falling | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
over. He could fall over nothing. I don't think he was conscious of his | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
sight improving. He was conscious he was finding things quicker. | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
traditional treatment is an eye patch. It is not always won. It is | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
annoying because you Ryland sometimes get caught in the eye | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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patch. Then you have to take-off the eye patch. These calls for are | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
much more fun. In tests, the correct in children's vision that | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
in 10 days or less. By forcing the child to use all size, the brain | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
becomes aware of the image from the lazy eye. It is as if these cells | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
which had been dormant are regenerated. And the brains of much | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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older people also be stimulated to correct vision problems. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
Edinburgh Zoo's and giant pandas have failed to meet after a second | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
day of trying. People seem appears Tian Tian and Yang Guang have shown | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
interest in each other but chances of them mating have now you it | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
decreased. Another window closed a couple of | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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hours a court. Plenty of news about MPs. The | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Scottish Football Association has given �35,000 which was due for | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
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Rangers to Dundee United. It was after Rangers paid Dundee United. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
The Celtic player Daniel Majstorovic would be happy to | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
extend his plane it at Celtic. He was sent off at his last match. He | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
then damaged a ligament which ended his season. Despite turning 35 | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
tomorrow, he is happy to stay with Celtic. By had two really good | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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years. A Celtic will be that future, as I said it or, the priority is to | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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focus. Next to a Scottish Olympic hopeful, he will qualify for London | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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2012. He has strained every sinew. Anna, are net gem, one young Scot | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
is raising the way it Orville and picked expectation. He showed | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
interest as a 10-year-old and now let's nine tons a day. I have lots | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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of support. Everyone is backing me. It is a great achievement. To be | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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considered to go to the Olympics. He won Commonwealth silver. It is a | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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dream. I never thought about when I started. Now, it has all hit me. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
His courtship was the first to celebrate at the Commonwealth Games. | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
He is now aiming one better for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. He will | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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try to be gold and glass go. To be an Olympian will give him a boost. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
The team isn't of Ahmed will in London. It is simply to make the | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
Olympic team. Sir Chris Hoy's corpse of a mental | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
have been dashed by disqualification. He was part of | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
the British team thrown out in Melbourne. They were competing for | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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bronze. Behind all there was deemed to be illegal. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
A quick reminder that there is Muirhead will be back here next | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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The weather roller coaster is heading up flat torque. -- level | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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are now it. Here is the map from 7 o'clock. Further north, cloud | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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pushing him. Further south, temperatures down to around minus | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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one. Tomorrow starts bright. Cloud End further north, and north- | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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westerly breeze. Into the evening and over night, we can see what is | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
going on. Cloudier skies and light outbreaks of rain and drizzle. For | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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Friday, cloudy. On Saturday, and the weekend in general, cloudy and | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
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drive it pull it. -- dry. Most people who took part in the UK | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Government's consultation on resurrect -- independence think | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
they should only be asked one question. Alex Salmond says it is | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
discredited because a quarter of the replies were copied from a | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
Labour Web site. 11 major realigns FA warning there | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
can be gridlock over the years Easter break. Theseus shortage of | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
staff could lead to unacceptable delays. | :26:47. | :26:51. |