:00:00. > :00:00.in advance of the general election. That is
:00:00. > :00:07.Welfare experts say the minimum wage in Scotland should
:00:08. > :00:13.be increased by ?1 if there's a yes vote in September.
:00:14. > :00:16.The transformation of Hampden from football stadium into Commonwealth
:00:17. > :00:24.Meet the man who's a strong contender to be
:00:25. > :00:26.the next Celtic manager - Norwegian coach Ronny Deila.
:00:27. > :00:31.And here's the man behind Scotland's most infamous World Cup campaign.
:00:32. > :00:38.But was Ally McLeod unfairly blamed for not winning in Argentina?
:00:39. > :00:53.That was the player 's' fault. He did not let Scotland, players did.
:00:54. > :00:58.Raising the minimum wage by more than ?1.30 an hour has been
:00:59. > :01:00.recommended by an expert group on welfare, commissioned
:01:01. > :01:05.The Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has told the BBC
:01:06. > :01:08.she's sympathetic to that idea in the event of independence.
:01:09. > :01:12.Labour says being part of the larger UK economy offers
:01:13. > :01:20.Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.
:01:21. > :01:28.In Glasgow, Scott is struggling to get by working in catering without
:01:29. > :01:34.guaranteed hours for the minimum wage. I do not have a cushion. There
:01:35. > :01:38.is no financial cushion at the moment. All of my money that comes
:01:39. > :01:44.in is going outwards and 24 hours. I feel as though I am treading water
:01:45. > :01:48.but I am paying bills and eating. The Deputy first Minister's
:01:49. > :01:54.independent group has proposed raising the minimum wage and ?6.31
:01:55. > :01:58.to ?7.35 an hour, which the government says it will consider.
:01:59. > :02:04.For many people, even when they do work, the amount of wages they earn
:02:05. > :02:09.is not enough to lift them out of poverty. The supportive of the map
:02:10. > :02:16.to design a system in Scotland that is fit for purpose. -- this report
:02:17. > :02:20.gives us a map. Is an independent Scotland did raise the minimum wage,
:02:21. > :02:26.the expert group says that would raise more in income tax and reduce
:02:27. > :02:31.benefit payments to the tune of around ?280 million per year. Some
:02:32. > :02:36.of that money could be used to offset the impact of higher wages
:02:37. > :02:40.and business. I think companies that are relying on low paid workers will
:02:41. > :02:45.certainly be concerned about the idea of such a large rise in minimum
:02:46. > :02:50.wage. A lot would depend on how quickly it is phased in and the
:02:51. > :02:55.degree to which the increased cost is offset by payment of employers'
:02:56. > :03:02.national insurance. The recommendations accepted by the
:03:03. > :03:07.government include abolishing the current benefit sanctions regime.
:03:08. > :03:15.Increasing benefit both the rate of inflation and increasing carers'
:03:16. > :03:18.allowance. We have a series of and costed ROMs is, that welfare will be
:03:19. > :03:25.more generous in an independent Scotland but the sums just not add
:03:26. > :03:31.up. -- costed promises. You cannot cut taxes and have higher benefits.
:03:32. > :03:34.For those on the other side, how best to shelter people -- for those
:03:35. > :03:37.on either side, how best to shelter people from the economic problems is
:03:38. > :03:39.a key issue. The Queen has told the Westminster
:03:40. > :03:42.parliament that the UK government will continue to make the case
:03:43. > :03:46.for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom and will also seek to
:03:47. > :03:49.maximise North Sea resources. The Scottish Government has
:03:50. > :03:51.re-iterated its argument that only independence will deliver
:03:52. > :03:53.the change Scotland needs. In the last Queen's Speech
:03:54. > :03:55.before September's independence referendum, the coalition government
:03:56. > :04:06.set out its legislative programme. My government will continue to
:04:07. > :04:13.implement a new financial powers for the Scottish Parliament and make the
:04:14. > :04:21.case for Scotland to remain a part of the United Kingdom. What else was
:04:22. > :04:25.in this speech pertaining to Scotland? It is worth remembering
:04:26. > :04:30.that the words are spoken by the monarch but it is written by
:04:31. > :04:32.ministers and by the government of the day and the sentiments in that
:04:33. > :04:41.reflect the priorities of the government. 11 goals in the Queens'
:04:42. > :04:45.speech, nine of which apply to Scotland. Some are the changes to
:04:46. > :04:52.pension systems and changes to increasing subsidies for childcare.
:04:53. > :04:56.UK Government say that could benefit something like 160,000 families in
:04:57. > :04:58.Scotland alone. We have also got an infrastructure bill and that is
:04:59. > :05:02.where they say that they will bring in changes recommended in the review
:05:03. > :05:06.for the North Sea oilfields to try to get as much oil and gas out of
:05:07. > :05:10.the North Sea as possible. As you mentioned, this is the final Queen's
:05:11. > :05:17.speech before the independence referendum and ministers very much
:05:18. > :05:20.wanted to put on record that they want Scotland to remain part of the
:05:21. > :05:25.United Kingdom. What has been the opposition reaction? The SNP and
:05:26. > :05:28.Labour do not agree on much but both agree that as far as they are
:05:29. > :05:33.concerned they regard this as most opportunities. Labour says that the
:05:34. > :05:37.voters are being short-changed by both the government at Holyrood and
:05:38. > :05:41.Westminster. The SNP, for their part, say that it is only the
:05:42. > :05:45.independence that Scotland will get the levers that it needs to move
:05:46. > :05:51.forward. As this Queen's speech is considered inevitably with just over
:05:52. > :05:55.100 days to go until the independence referendum, it is going
:05:56. > :05:56.to be put through that prism of the whole independence debate.
:05:57. > :05:57.Thank you very much, David. whole independence debate.
:05:58. > :05:59.Thank you very much, David. And Sarah Smith is here with news
:06:00. > :06:03.of what's on Scotland 2014 later. Tonight on Scotland 2014 we'll be
:06:04. > :06:06.asking if any one group of voters hold the key to deciding the outcome
:06:07. > :06:09.of the September's referendum. From the so-called woman's vote to
:06:10. > :06:12.the disabled voters, how are the campaigns trying to
:06:13. > :06:15.slice and dice the electorate? Just under six months ago
:06:16. > :06:22.Hampden Park was Scotland's But since then, as you can see from
:06:23. > :06:27.this time lapse film, it's undergone The pitch has gone, the floor of
:06:28. > :06:33.the stadium has been raised and a The arena is now ready to host
:06:34. > :06:38.the Commonwealth Games athletics competition and today it was
:06:39. > :06:41.officially unveiled. But there's concern about the legacy
:06:42. > :06:45.left behind once the games are over. Here's our Commonwealth Games
:06:46. > :06:56.reporter, Chris McLaughlin. From football to athletics, ?40
:06:57. > :07:04.million and six months in the making, the surface has been raised
:07:05. > :07:09.almost two metres and it rests on 6000 steel sill. We are absolutely
:07:10. > :07:13.delighted. This is now a world-class athletics field of play. The
:07:14. > :07:18.transformation over the past nine months has gone according to plan.
:07:19. > :07:37.Next month, some of the world's top athletes will take to the strike.
:07:38. > :07:38.What happens when the middle are one and the Commonwealth bandwagon rolls
:07:39. > :07:39.out of time? This will all be ripped up again and it will be back to
:07:40. > :07:40.football. If you start on that line. For some, that leaves questions
:07:41. > :07:42.about legacy. Elite athletes and coaches have raised concerns about a
:07:43. > :07:47.lack of training facilities in the city. In fact, the BBC has learned
:07:48. > :07:52.of an ongoing battle over facilities in a city ready to host Scotland's
:07:53. > :07:56.biggest ever sporting party. There are many athletes who have moved
:07:57. > :08:01.away from Glasgow and are training in England and training in America
:08:02. > :08:06.and training in Europe. They cannot get what they need here. There has
:08:07. > :08:13.been occasions when this track has been closed and the Kelvin Hall was
:08:14. > :08:17.close. They had to train in a park. Back at Hampden, the daughter of one
:08:18. > :08:21.of Scotland's most famous athletes says the games will help. I think
:08:22. > :08:31.definitely it is raising awareness of sport and athletics. I think that
:08:32. > :08:44.is what we need and hopefully it will make a bit of an impact. So,
:08:45. > :08:47.the shiny new Hampden is ready but Glasgow's athletes want a lasting
:08:48. > :08:50.legacy to go with that. Hampden Park sob again later in the
:08:51. > :08:50.BBC. Still to come on tonight's programme:
:08:51. > :08:51.It was Scotland's most infamous World Cup campaign.
:08:52. > :08:53.But was Ally McLeod unfairly blamed for not winning in Argentina?
:08:54. > :08:58.He's little known in Scotland but has the profile of a pop star
:08:59. > :09:01.in Norway and Celtic admit he might be their next manager.
:09:02. > :09:02.And a more familiar name, Andy Murray,
:09:03. > :09:15.British Telecom has announced plans to buy enough energy to meet the
:09:16. > :09:19.needs of all its Scottish operations from a wind farm in the Borders.
:09:20. > :09:23.The deal's worth ?300 million over 20 years.
:09:24. > :09:32.Our business correspondent David Henderson reports.
:09:33. > :09:46.High on a hill, this could be the answer to a company's energy
:09:47. > :09:54.problems. These wind turbines, hiding in the gloom today, will soon
:09:55. > :10:01.power the biggest telecoms firm in Scotland. And if could slash the
:10:02. > :10:11.amount of greenhouse gas they produce. A lot of our success is
:10:12. > :10:22.driven by commercial business cases that are aimed at doing things more
:10:23. > :10:30.cost effectively but also doing the right thing for the environment. And
:10:31. > :10:33.if we could achieve both of them, which I think we have in this case,
:10:34. > :10:34.that is good all round. BT provides much of Scotland's phone and
:10:35. > :10:41.Internet service. The technology is installed on a grand scale and needs
:10:42. > :10:43.a constant supply of energy to keep it working. It means the company is
:10:44. > :10:45.one of the biggest electricity customers in the country, using 170
:10:46. > :10:49.gigawatt hours each years. That is enough to power 35,000 homes. By
:10:50. > :10:53.signing a deal with a large wind farm, BT have massively reduced
:10:54. > :10:58.their carbon footprint. It does another thing too. It gives them a
:10:59. > :11:01.long-term certainty about the energy prices. As energy prices rise for
:11:02. > :11:05.many others, that is an advantage. Companies are really taking the
:11:06. > :11:10.climate agenda seriously. It has now reached the boardroom table, is
:11:11. > :11:14.affecting the bottom line and I think we will only see more and more
:11:15. > :11:18.of this. It is only a first step. This boost for a wind farm should
:11:19. > :11:19.mean less work for coal-fired power stations. It is not yet clear if
:11:20. > :11:24.other companies will follow suit. Two men who murdered
:11:25. > :11:26.a man they blamed for supplying the drugs that killed their teenage
:11:27. > :11:29.friend have been jailed for life. They'll serve at least 20 years each
:11:30. > :11:33.for the murder of Kevin Mackay in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire,
:11:34. > :11:39.last August. A tragic chain of events was
:11:40. > :11:45.triggered by the drugs death of the local teenager. The village was
:11:46. > :11:49.still reeling from that when 39-year-old Kevin Mackay was
:11:50. > :11:54.murdered. It was quickly apparent that the two Berlin. It happened on
:11:55. > :11:58.the day of Jeannie's funeral. At the week, for two of the mourners grief
:11:59. > :12:05.turned to drink fuelled anger but bloody consequences. They blame
:12:06. > :12:10.Kevin Mackay for supplying the drugs which had killed their friend. They
:12:11. > :12:15.came here to give him a kicking. Both men were armed with knives and
:12:16. > :12:20.it ended with Kevin Mackay being stabbed to death. Today, they were
:12:21. > :12:25.told by the trial judge that the attack had been brutal, intensely
:12:26. > :12:29.violent and premeditated. He said they would spend a minimum of 20
:12:30. > :12:33.years in jail before being considered for parole. I believe
:12:34. > :12:40.that nothing will ever be long enough. It has destroyed my life and
:12:41. > :12:46.a lot of families. Not just Kevin's family and friends. The deaths
:12:47. > :12:52.devastated to families and caused divisions. They say that -- the
:12:53. > :12:53.police say tensions remain but they are working hard to stop it bubbling
:12:54. > :12:56.over. A look at other stories
:12:57. > :12:59.from the across the country. Snow continues to pose a risk
:13:00. > :13:01.for walkers and climbers The Mountaineering Council
:13:02. > :13:11.of Scotland says that while it may be warm enough in Fort William
:13:12. > :13:14.itself to wear t-shirts, wintry conditions persist at the summit
:13:15. > :13:16.of Britain's highest mountain. Risks include large overhanging
:13:17. > :13:19.ledges of snow, which can be Health inspectors found further
:13:20. > :13:22.failings at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness
:13:23. > :13:25.during a surprise visit last month. NHS Highland is assuring patients
:13:26. > :13:29.hygiene problems are not an issue But
:13:30. > :13:33.the inspectors' visit resulted in staff having to carry out additional
:13:34. > :13:37.cleaning in parts of the hospital. A full report won't be
:13:38. > :13:41.published until next month. Campaigners are urging MSPs to pass
:13:42. > :13:46.the Assisted Suicide Bill introduced The My Life, My Death,
:13:47. > :13:51.My Choice campaign has handed in a 2,500 signature petition to
:13:52. > :13:55.the Scottish Parliament. The group claims support
:13:56. > :13:58.for a change in the law is The Green MSP Patrick Harvie will
:13:59. > :14:02.take the legislation forward after the public consultation
:14:03. > :14:07.finishes on Friday. Councillors in Orkney have given
:14:08. > :14:10.unanimous backing to plans NHS Orkney intends to build
:14:11. > :14:16.the ?60 million facility on the outskirts of Kirkwall, close
:14:17. > :14:22.to the existing Balfour Hospital. A major Aberdeen road was closed
:14:23. > :14:25.this morning to allow further investigations following the death
:14:26. > :14:29.of a woman who was hit by a lorry. 41-year-old Karen Gillanders died
:14:30. > :14:49.in the accident on King Street All this week, our economics
:14:50. > :14:57.correspondent Colletta Smith has been reporting about life along the
:14:58. > :15:05.border in Northern Ireland. Tonight, are finding out about cross-border
:15:06. > :15:11.workers and Colletta, tonight you are in the Republic of Ireland?
:15:12. > :15:19.Yes, tonight, I am just outside of Derry in the Republic of Ireland.
:15:20. > :15:22.Behind me, across the Lough is the UK. We have been hearing this week
:15:23. > :15:23.about how an open border affects people's shopping habits and company
:15:24. > :15:26.trade. Today, I have been hearing from frontier workers, people who
:15:27. > :15:32.live one side and work the other. There are thousands of people
:15:33. > :15:42.crossing the border every day to get to work, so this morning. I started
:15:43. > :15:58.the day with one family as they made the journey.
:15:59. > :16:06.The family love just over the border. While the boys spend in the
:16:07. > :16:13.early republic, she passes over into Northern Ireland. It has good points
:16:14. > :16:18.and bad points. On a negative point, I was applying about a
:16:19. > :16:26.mortgage, and I was told I would only be considered for a 75% of my
:16:27. > :16:31.income. For most of her neighbours are being paid in euros, she earns
:16:32. > :16:38.her salary in Stirling. She is not alone. About one quarter of the
:16:39. > :16:47.staff cross the border each day. As employers, they have two tempt the
:16:48. > :16:55.top talent from both countries. There are maybe certain benefits of
:16:56. > :17:03.working in the South, things can change with the currency rate. The
:17:04. > :17:08.taxman is never far away. There are strict rules about where
:17:09. > :17:18.cross-border workers pay tax. You pay tax in the jurisdiction you are
:17:19. > :17:22.working in. You then have to file an income tax return in the country in
:17:23. > :17:27.which you live. You cannot brush away the taxman either side of the
:17:28. > :17:31.border. For being a frontier worker, she feels it is still worth it, for
:17:32. > :17:52.the beautiful view. the journey.
:17:53. > :17:56.You may not have heard of Ronny Della, but he could be the next
:17:57. > :17:59.Celtic manager. The Scottish champions asked his Norwegian club
:18:00. > :18:03.Stromsgodset for permission to speak to him about a move to Celtic Park,
:18:04. > :18:07.but the Norwegian club want to keep the man who is taken them from
:18:08. > :18:21.also-rans to league champions. Celtic say no offer has been made.
:18:22. > :18:26.The did approach the club last night and a man who knows him well says
:18:27. > :18:32.they will get a top-class coach if he goes there. He has got a
:18:33. > :18:41.top-class football philosophy. He knows what he wants. He brings an
:18:42. > :18:48.element of Barcelona, with players knowing what they have to do. They
:18:49. > :18:52.are really very good team. Over the past fortnight, higher profile
:18:53. > :18:59.candidates have spoken to the club, but no one has been talking about
:19:00. > :19:05.Ronny Deila. He has been the manager with his Norwegian club for seven
:19:06. > :19:11.years. It is only the second ever Norwegian championship. What with
:19:12. > :19:23.the Celtic fans make of him? I have never heard of. I have never heard
:19:24. > :19:28.of. He manages the Norwegian champions. Could he be good to you?
:19:29. > :19:39.No, I think we need one of our own people and doing the job. Having
:19:40. > :19:42.guided the Norwegian club into the champions league, he could actually
:19:43. > :19:49.face Celtic in the summer qualifying rounds. The question is, which
:19:50. > :19:56.corner will he be in? also-rans to league champions.
:19:57. > :19:57.Andy Murray is in quarterfinal action against the home favourite
:19:58. > :20:11.Gael Monfils at the French Open. Andy Murray won the first set and is
:20:12. > :20:14.currently 5-1 ahead in the second set.
:20:15. > :20:20.Gael Monfils at the French Open. They are best of friends, but will
:20:21. > :20:23.be best of enemies at Glasgow 2014. Scots swimmer Michael Jamieson and
:20:24. > :20:26.England's Andrew Willis train together at Bath University, but
:20:27. > :20:33.will be rivals in the 200m breaststroke.
:20:34. > :20:43.British team-mates and training partners. But the summer, Meikle and
:20:44. > :20:48.Andrew will fly for different flanks. Being able to train with
:20:49. > :20:56.someone of his calibre obviously helps. It helps you produce faster
:20:57. > :21:01.times. We have just get used to training with each other. But we
:21:02. > :21:07.will be the best of enemies when we get up to Glasgow. We have been
:21:08. > :21:16.swimming together for four years and have swum together in a very major
:21:17. > :21:20.championship. You obviously want to win as an individual, but I would be
:21:21. > :21:28.delighted, as Andrew finished second. I would like to think that
:21:29. > :21:34.if he was to win, he would be happy that I finished second. We used a
:21:35. > :21:43.share a room, but there were too many issues. It was competitive in
:21:44. > :21:47.the sense that we are both trying. It will definitely be an interesting
:21:48. > :21:55.summer. Both of us should be on the podium. We are both capable of
:21:56. > :22:00.swimming fast times and it will be an interesting race.
:22:01. > :22:03.breaststroke. Now, a look at what else is
:22:04. > :22:06.happening across Scottish sport. Striker James Collins has left Hibs
:22:07. > :22:10.after just one season at Easter Road. Collins, who scored just six
:22:11. > :22:12.times for the club, has rejoined Shrewsbury Town.
:22:13. > :22:16.Kris Boyd says he will decide during his summer holiday where he will be
:22:17. > :22:18.playing his football next season The Kilmarnock striker is attracting
:22:19. > :22:20.interest from a number of clubs, including Dundee United.
:22:21. > :22:23.Aaron Taylor-Sinclair is leaving Scottish football. His contract at
:22:24. > :22:25.Partick Thistle is over and he has joined English championship club,
:22:26. > :22:28.Wigan Athletic. Motherwell Midfielder Jack Leitch
:22:29. > :22:31.has signed a new two-year contract. The club's academy graduate made ten
:22:32. > :22:34.first-team appearances last season. Paul Lawrie says he is miles away
:22:35. > :22:37.from making the European Ryder Cup team for Gleneagles, but the Scot,
:22:38. > :22:40.who was at Royal Aberdeen today promoting next month's Scottish
:22:41. > :22:44.Open, says he will never give up. And read all about the man who could
:22:45. > :22:46.be Celtic's new manager, and lots more, on the BBC Sport Scotland
:22:47. > :22:58.website. If I can give it a read on and give
:22:59. > :23:02.the captain some sort of headache for selection packs, that would be
:23:03. > :23:13.good, but I am e-mail off at the moment. And you can keep up-to-date
:23:14. > :23:18.on the BBC sport website. No, what is it I say, you may find some of
:23:19. > :23:20.the scenes in this next film distressing!
:23:21. > :23:25.Just in time for the start of the World Cup comes a new football
:23:26. > :23:28.biography. focusing on the man behind Scotland's most infamous
:23:29. > :23:31.world cup tournament, Ally Macleod. The author argues he was unfairly
:23:32. > :23:34.punished for a promise he never really made - that Scotland would
:23:35. > :23:37.win the tournament. Aileen Clarke has been looking back to that
:23:38. > :23:38.tournament in Argentina that included Scotland, but not for
:23:39. > :24:04.long. Argentina, here we come! Scotland
:24:05. > :24:11.fans were on the march. Provided that we played to a reasonable
:24:12. > :24:18.performance, I think a medal of some sort could come and I am praying
:24:19. > :24:26.that it could be the gold one. That was not a firm promise to bring back
:24:27. > :24:33.the trophy, says the biographer. The media were very responsible for the
:24:34. > :24:39.public reaction. His son Andrew has collaborated on the book. I think
:24:40. > :24:45.everything was taken out of all proportion. When you think back to
:24:46. > :24:51.the sender of, he was never so embarrassed as in his own life. His
:24:52. > :24:59.hands in his pocket and his head is bowed to one side. He expressed
:25:00. > :25:04.reservations that he would come back as either making or he would be
:25:05. > :25:14.beheaded. It all started to go wrong in the opening game. His head in his
:25:15. > :25:21.hands, became the picture that summed up a lot of broken hearts. BJ
:25:22. > :25:28.was the wrong word, but he was hot by the performance of the players.
:25:29. > :25:35.All that build-up and all that hope, but it should not have been a
:25:36. > :25:41.manager who got the blame. They blamed the manager for the Iran game
:25:42. > :25:47.and the Pru game, but these were not the fault of the manager, that was
:25:48. > :25:53.the fault of the players. 1978 was the only World Cup we speak about.
:25:54. > :26:00.He definitely give us hope. He felt the nation at that time needed it.
:26:01. > :26:10.A generation is scar! Letters get a look at the weather.
:26:11. > :26:17.There's some rain in the forecast across the central belt, of course,
:26:18. > :26:21.but there is actually some nice sunshine across the Hebrides. But
:26:22. > :26:29.you can see this band of rain covering much of the country. This
:26:30. > :26:40.will continue overnight. It will be a male night for many. A fairly
:26:41. > :26:44.cloudy and wet star to the data model. The rain continues to push on
:26:45. > :26:54.during the morning, but it will tend to get slightly lighter in the
:26:55. > :26:56.afternoon. The best of the weather during daylight hours probably
:26:57. > :27:00.across Orkney and Shetland. They will also enjoy the highest
:27:01. > :27:06.temperatures, believe it or not, getting up to 16 degrees Celsius.
:27:07. > :27:14.Some heavy bursts of rain throughout much of the rest of the country.
:27:15. > :27:18.Drier conditions begin to push across southern Scotland by the end
:27:19. > :27:23.of the afternoon. Into the evening, some Labour should push through in
:27:24. > :27:32.Dumfries Galloway and across the borders. As we head into Friday, it
:27:33. > :27:37.is actually looking pretty good. It is a cloudy start, but it will break
:27:38. > :27:43.up and we will see the odd shower, with high temperatures of 20 degrees
:27:44. > :27:49.Celsius. But then we see another change coming. For Saturday, we have
:27:50. > :27:58.this area of low pressure. That is going to bring some heavy, thundery
:27:59. > :28:02.showers. There is a yellow warning for southern Scotland and the
:28:03. > :28:10.central belt for those showers. But try and warm across northern parts.
:28:11. > :28:17.A remainder of the main news. Raising the minimum wage has been
:28:18. > :28:29.recommended by UNIX better grip on welfare. Labour says being part of
:28:30. > :28:32.the larger UK economy offers greater financial security. I will be back
:28:33. > :28:37.with the headline set it up clock and the late Bill to just after the
:28:38. > :28:38.ten o'clock national news. Goodbye for