05/04/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.BBC News channel. We are back with the

:00:07. > :00:10.Good evening. Tributes have been paid from across

:00:11. > :00:14.the political spectrum following the death of veteran politician Margo

:00:15. > :00:18.MacDonald yesterday. Flags have been lowered at the Scottish Parliament

:00:19. > :00:20.as a mark of respect, and her support for the anti-Trident

:00:21. > :00:28.movement was remembered at an event in Glasgow.

:00:29. > :00:35.Throughout the day, the tributes continued. In minutes's silence

:00:36. > :00:37.marked by demonstrators in George Square to remember Margo MacDonald

:00:38. > :00:43.and others who supported the campaign to have UK weapons proved

:00:44. > :00:51.in Scotland. Politicians, when they die, there is usually nice thing

:00:52. > :00:55.said about them, but Margo's lasting has caused a sense of grief and not

:00:56. > :01:00.just in the political unity, but right across the country. Margo

:01:01. > :01:08.MacDonald's life and career has been celebrated across today's front

:01:09. > :01:12.pages. We didn't come from the same place, politically, we would

:01:13. > :01:15.disagree on many issues, but that did not mean you couldn't retire to

:01:16. > :01:20.the bar afterwards for a glass of wine and a discussion about what it

:01:21. > :01:24.is you disagreed ponder. I have huge affection for Margo and share huge

:01:25. > :01:29.affection for everybody who wanted to make Scotland better, even if it

:01:30. > :01:34.was in a way that is different to way she wanted. Flags have been

:01:35. > :01:35.flying at half-mast. A memorial service has been planned for later

:01:36. > :01:39.this month. A Scottish oil worker has been shot

:01:40. > :01:42.dead in what is reported to be an attempted car-jacking in Rio de

:01:43. > :01:45.Janeiro. It happened as the Brazilian government deployed

:01:46. > :01:48.federal troops to tackle crime in the city. According to the Aberdeen

:01:49. > :01:52.Press and Journal, Peter Campsie was killed by two gunmen on Wednesday.

:01:53. > :01:59.He was 48, originally from Montrose, and with a wife and three children.

:02:00. > :02:02.A Scot, Billy Irving from Connel in Argyll, who had been held in an

:02:03. > :02:10.Indian jail for six months on suspicion of illegally possessing

:02:11. > :02:15.guns has been freed on bail. A man and a woman are in hospital

:02:16. > :02:18.after a fire in a flat in Ayrshire, which police are treating as

:02:19. > :02:21.attempted murder. The pair had to escape through the upstairs window

:02:22. > :02:24.of the flat on Lynn Avenue in Dalry. Five women have been treated in

:02:25. > :02:28.hospital after being sprayed with vapour from a CS gas type canister

:02:29. > :02:31.outside a restaurant in Glasgow. Police said a total of eight people

:02:32. > :02:35.were sprayed in the attack early this morning.

:02:36. > :02:38.David Cameron says there's a fight on the horizon to keep the UK

:02:39. > :02:41.together. Speaking at the Conservative's Spring Forum in

:02:42. > :02:45.London, the Prime Minister said he was proud of the United Kingdom's

:02:46. > :02:48.achievements and history. He urged people in Scotland to vote against

:02:49. > :02:58.independence in September's referendum. He says it will all be

:02:59. > :03:02.change, then he says he wants to keep the lottery, the pound, the

:03:03. > :03:05.Bank of England. It is like someone asking for a divorce and then

:03:06. > :03:08.saying, do you mind if I keep the joint bank account and credit card?

:03:09. > :03:11.The Scottish Government accused the Prime Minister of delivering another

:03:12. > :03:19.lecture from London, and challenged him to debate his arguments with the

:03:20. > :03:22.First Minister. The First Minister has launched

:03:23. > :03:25.Scotland Week in the United States by sounding the starting horn for

:03:26. > :03:29.the New York Tartan 10k race. The run is the first in a series of

:03:30. > :03:32.events which the Scottish Government hopes will promote culture and

:03:33. > :03:35.tourism. Thousands have taken part in the race in Central Park, which

:03:36. > :03:39.acts as a qualifying event for the prestigious New York marathon.

:03:40. > :03:43.Football and Hearts have been relegated from the Premiership. That

:03:44. > :03:48.was despite winning 4-2 at Partick Thistle. St Mirren scored two late

:03:49. > :03:51.goals to win their match, and that sent Hearts to Scottish football's

:03:52. > :03:55.second tier for the first time since 1982.

:03:56. > :03:57.And here are the Premiership results in full. Partick are now next to

:03:58. > :04:15.bottom of the table. Thank you. It was a fairly and this

:04:16. > :04:21.evening it will stay rather cloudy. Here is the picture. Some mist, low

:04:22. > :04:25.cloud and maybe some fog patches returning, as well, and as we had

:04:26. > :04:28.through the night of the rain is a bit more persistent, but at least

:04:29. > :04:33.mild. Temperatures in towns in the Central belt and South perhaps

:04:34. > :04:36.holding on to double digits. Tomorrow is a cloudy start, dry at

:04:37. > :04:42.times, certainly run the Moray Firth. Some hazy sunshine and

:04:43. > :04:46.temperature should lift. Elsewhere, cloudy and wet. Temperatures, much

:04:47. > :04:50.milder than of late and the hazy sunshine will help around the Moray

:04:51. > :04:54.Firth, but even here rain spreads in. Clearing up later on for Glasgow

:04:55. > :04:58.and later had a brand as we head into tomorrow night is quite cloudy,

:04:59. > :05:00.but at least drive. -- and Edinburgh.

:05:01. > :05:11.Thanks, Chris. And that's Reporting Scotland.

:05:12. > :05:18.Good evening. We may have got to 18 Celsius today in parts of East

:05:19. > :05:20.Anglia but it was the bright spot in an otherwise cloudy day and it is

:05:21. > :05:24.the cloud that will dominate tonight, bringing splashes of rain

:05:25. > :05:27.and dryer moments as well particularly in the north-east of

:05:28. > :05:28.Scotland but heavy bursts can't be ruled out in