05/04/2014 Reporting Scotland

BBC News channel. We are back with the

Good evening. Tributes have been paid from across

the political spectrum following the death of veteran politician Margo

MacDonald yesterday. Flags have been lowered at the Scottish Parliament

as a mark of respect, and her support for the anti-Trident

movement was remembered at an event in Glasgow.

Throughout the day, the tributes continued. In minutes's silence

marked by demonstrators in George Square to remember Margo MacDonald

and others who supported the campaign to have UK weapons proved

in Scotland. Politicians, when they die, there is usually nice thing

said about them, but Margo's lasting has caused a sense of grief and not

just in the political unity, but right across the country. Margo

MacDonald's life and career has been celebrated across today's front

pages. We didn't come from the same place, politically, we would

disagree on many issues, but that did not mean you couldn't retire to

the bar afterwards for a glass of wine and a discussion about what it

is you disagreed ponder. I have huge affection for Margo and share huge

affection for everybody who wanted to make Scotland better, even if it

was in a way that is different to way she wanted. Flags have been

flying at half-mast. A memorial service has been planned for later

this month. A Scottish oil worker has been shot

dead in what is reported to be an attempted car-jacking in Rio de

Janeiro. It happened as the Brazilian government deployed

federal troops to tackle crime in the city. According to the Aberdeen

Press and Journal, Peter Campsie was killed by two gunmen on Wednesday.

He was 48, originally from Montrose, and with a wife and three children.

A Scot, Billy Irving from Connel in Argyll, who had been held in an

Indian jail for six months on suspicion of illegally possessing

guns has been freed on bail. A man and a woman are in hospital

after a fire in a flat in Ayrshire, which police are treating as

attempted murder. The pair had to escape through the upstairs window

of the flat on Lynn Avenue in Dalry. Five women have been treated in

hospital after being sprayed with vapour from a CS gas type canister

outside a restaurant in Glasgow. Police said a total of eight people

were sprayed in the attack early this morning.

David Cameron says there's a fight on the horizon to keep the UK

together. Speaking at the Conservative's Spring Forum in

London, the Prime Minister said he was proud of the United Kingdom's

achievements and history. He urged people in Scotland to vote against

independence in September's referendum. He says it will all be

change, then he says he wants to keep the lottery, the pound, the

Bank of England. It is like someone asking for a divorce and then

saying, do you mind if I keep the joint bank account and credit card?

The Scottish Government accused the Prime Minister of delivering another

lecture from London, and challenged him to debate his arguments with the

First Minister. The First Minister has launched

Scotland Week in the United States by sounding the starting horn for

the New York Tartan 10k race. The run is the first in a series of

events which the Scottish Government hopes will promote culture and

tourism. Thousands have taken part in the race in Central Park, which

acts as a qualifying event for the prestigious New York marathon.

Football and Hearts have been relegated from the Premiership. That

was despite winning 4-2 at Partick Thistle. St Mirren scored two late

goals to win their match, and that sent Hearts to Scottish football's

second tier for the first time since 1982.

And here are the Premiership results in full. Partick are now next to

bottom of the table. Thank you. It was a fairly and this

evening it will stay rather cloudy. Here is the picture. Some mist, low

cloud and maybe some fog patches returning, as well, and as we had

through the night of the rain is a bit more persistent, but at least

mild. Temperatures in towns in the Central belt and South perhaps

holding on to double digits. Tomorrow is a cloudy start, dry at

times, certainly run the Moray Firth. Some hazy sunshine and

temperature should lift. Elsewhere, cloudy and wet. Temperatures, much

milder than of late and the hazy sunshine will help around the Moray

Firth, but even here rain spreads in. Clearing up later on for Glasgow

and later had a brand as we head into tomorrow night is quite cloudy,

but at least drive. -- and Edinburgh.

Thanks, Chris. And that's Reporting Scotland.

Good evening. We may have got to 18 Celsius today in parts of East

Anglia but it was the bright spot in an otherwise cloudy day and it is

the cloud that will dominate tonight, bringing splashes of rain

and dryer moments as well particularly in the north-east of

Scotland but heavy bursts can't be ruled out in