:00:00. > :00:00.other news on the BBC News Channel, and on our website, but that is all
:00:00. > :00:00.for now. It is What would be the future
:00:00. > :00:10.of the Trident nuclear fleet under A new study says moving
:00:11. > :00:15.the submarines out of Scotland would And as the independence debate
:00:16. > :00:21.continues to gather momentum, Alistair Darling, the leader
:00:22. > :00:23.of the Better Together campaign, There is to be an inquiry into
:00:24. > :00:30.the controversial decision to allow No Tiger at the Ryder Cup
:00:31. > :00:41.as he rules himself out with a back injury but preparations
:00:42. > :00:45.at Gleneagles are well underway. We hear about the role
:00:46. > :00:49.an unknown Caithness detective played in helping to solve the
:00:50. > :01:05.Victorian Jack The Ripper murders. It is possible for
:01:06. > :01:09.the UK to keep its nuclear weapons by moving them out of Scotland
:01:10. > :01:11.in the event of independence, A study for
:01:12. > :01:17.the respected think tank, the Royal United Services Institute, says
:01:18. > :01:21.relocating Trident submarines and missiles to England is financially
:01:22. > :01:24.and technically feasible. In a moment we'll have
:01:25. > :01:29.a extended live interview with the chairman of Better Together,
:01:30. > :01:31.Alistair Darling, about that and But first here's our political
:01:32. > :01:35.correspondent, Glenn Campbell, on the implications for Trident
:01:36. > :01:52.if Scotland votes for independence. The UK's for nuclear armed
:01:53. > :01:58.submarines are based at Faslane naval base. The missiles and
:01:59. > :02:02.warheads are stored nearby. Today's report suggests it would be possible
:02:03. > :02:18.overtime to relocate the weapon system to England if there is a vote
:02:19. > :02:26.in favour of independence. You would have two build a new facility. That
:02:27. > :02:32.is where the problem lies. Experts say it would take longer to relocate
:02:33. > :02:36.their weapons to England than the fourth year timescale set out by the
:02:37. > :02:39.Scottish Government. They also questioned suggestions from UK
:02:40. > :03:03.ministers that the costs of relocation would be expensive.
:03:04. > :03:07.costs are not as high as people anticipated. The notion that the SNP
:03:08. > :03:14.are putting about that if you get rid of Trident that also gets rid of
:03:15. > :03:21.it across the UK has been demolished. We want to get rid of
:03:22. > :03:26.Trident within the first term of an independent Scottish Parliament. It
:03:27. > :03:31.has got to be done safely. It has to be done safely, but speed is also of
:03:32. > :03:37.the essence. Big UK Government insists it has no plans to move
:03:38. > :03:44.Trident out of Scotland, but in the faint of independence it may be
:03:45. > :03:48.required to do so. It was the intervention of the Bank
:03:49. > :03:56.of England that dominated First Minister's Questions. Alex Salmond
:03:57. > :03:59.told MSP is it was the prounion parties at Westminster who had
:04:00. > :04:06.caused financial uncertainty by ruling out a single currency. The
:04:07. > :04:09.United Kingdom and Westminster parties have a vested interest in
:04:10. > :04:28.causing as much uncertainty as they can. The 10th two generates
:04:29. > :04:35.instability will feel. -- this attempt to create instability will
:04:36. > :04:41.not succeed. The First Minister has two understand he is prospectus of
:04:42. > :04:47.independence without knowing what the currency is is creating
:04:48. > :04:53.uncertainty. Only the First Minister would blame those who point that out
:04:54. > :05:03.to him as being the cause of the uncertainty. I enjoyed by Alistair
:05:04. > :05:11.Darling. Why are you treating your share of economic uncertainty? Why
:05:12. > :05:22.are you refusing to contemplate currency union? Currency union with
:05:23. > :05:26.be bad for Scotland. It would be bad for the rest of the UK. They would
:05:27. > :05:32.have to underwrite the banking system of Scotland. But if you are
:05:33. > :05:35.talking about uncertainty surely you except they would be less
:05:36. > :05:39.uncertainty if you add the other parties said they did not like the
:05:40. > :05:44.idea of independence, but afterwards if they had to find the best
:05:45. > :05:48.solution, that's making it. This is not the best solution. The best
:05:49. > :05:53.solution for currency is what we have at the moment. A UK pounds,
:05:54. > :05:56.backed by the Bank of England, behind which stands the UK
:05:57. > :06:02.Government. That is what nationalists want to get rid of. The
:06:03. > :06:06.uncertainty that has been caused us because we do not know what Alex
:06:07. > :06:13.Salmond's other plan is. He has still not come up with an answer.
:06:14. > :06:18.This afternoon the Bank of England has an President of rebuke to John
:06:19. > :06:21.Swinney. He said yesterday that the Scottish Government are having
:06:22. > :06:24.discussions with the Bank of England. That is not true. We are
:06:25. > :06:29.being taught things that are not true. That is that is what is
:06:30. > :06:32.causing the uncertainty. The Bank of England does have contingency plans.
:06:33. > :06:41.The Bank of England said they had technical discussions. Now, they
:06:42. > :06:46.said they had had technical questions. John Swinney tried to
:06:47. > :06:49.spin that as technical discussions. It is unprecedented for the Bank of
:06:50. > :06:55.England to rebuke a partition in this way. The point I am trying to
:06:56. > :07:04.put to you about the Bank of England is that they have taken a middle
:07:05. > :07:09.line, a neutral line, between the two options. But what they have said
:07:10. > :07:12.is that there is a situation of financial instability drawing and
:07:13. > :07:19.they want to mitigate that by making clear that there are contingency
:07:20. > :07:24.plans. I am seeing that you and your colleagues could help that situation
:07:25. > :07:29.of financial uncertainty by making it clear that afterwards you would
:07:30. > :07:37.consider our financial can see union if it was end the best interests.
:07:38. > :07:41.The governor of the Bank of England said that what was causing
:07:42. > :07:45.uncertainty was the uncertainty of the referendum result. I know that
:07:46. > :07:53.the Bank of England has good contingency plans. But in relation
:07:54. > :07:57.to currency union, I could not summon who was Scottish, sign up to
:07:58. > :08:03.something that I think is bad for Scotland. It is clear to anybody who
:08:04. > :08:10.asks that here we are, two weeks before the first postal votes start
:08:11. > :08:14.going out, we simply don't know what currency we will have. That matters
:08:15. > :08:18.to people. When you get the Bank of England casting doubt on the
:08:19. > :08:25.veracity of what was said yesterday, when they said there were
:08:26. > :08:29.discussions, and they see there are no discussions taking place, that is
:08:30. > :08:35.when people do get jittery. Just to be clear they confirmed that
:08:36. > :08:42.technicalities were talked about. Now, just questions. As a former
:08:43. > :08:46.Chancellor, what would be the best currency option for an independent
:08:47. > :08:55.Scotland? Let us postulate a Yes vote. I think they are all rotten
:08:56. > :09:04.options. I would not join the euro. Democratically that is bad. Setting
:09:05. > :09:12.up your own currency in the present climate bash nobody would know what
:09:13. > :09:17.that's worth. It would be like Panama using the US dollar. It would
:09:18. > :09:24.be mad for the financial services sector. You have to run a financial
:09:25. > :09:27.surplus if you are doing that thing. One of the reasons that I
:09:28. > :09:31.passionately believe that Scotland will be better off and have more
:09:32. > :09:37.opportunities in the future is precisely because we would be part
:09:38. > :09:40.of the UK, we would be part of the UK currency, the Bank of England
:09:41. > :09:48.stands behind that, and the UK Government stands behind that. As a
:09:49. > :09:56.Scottish MP you have no view on what you would be urging a fair was a Yes
:09:57. > :10:03.vote? Let us just say that there was one in September. I passionately
:10:04. > :10:08.believe they are all second best options. The best option for
:10:09. > :10:18.Scotland as being part of the currency that we are part of at the
:10:19. > :10:22.moment. Why throw all that away? Here we are two weeks before the
:10:23. > :10:26.ballot papers go out and we simply do not know. There are other things
:10:27. > :10:30.that we simply do not know. We do not know what Scotland would look
:10:31. > :10:35.like in the event of a No vote either. All the prounion parties
:10:36. > :10:38.have offered more powers, but the offers are different. We do not know
:10:39. > :10:48.what we really getting into their either. I not agree. In terms of
:10:49. > :10:53.additional powers, there are already powers on the statute book that are
:10:54. > :11:03.coming over landfill tax and stamp jury. On top of that all three
:11:04. > :11:07.parties are arguing for a different degrees of further devolution in
:11:08. > :11:14.relation to tax and welfare. But we do not know what they are. It is
:11:15. > :11:21.dependent on who wins the next election. Yes, but they are pretty
:11:22. > :11:29.much on the same page. People said the same thing before 1997. Although
:11:30. > :11:36.the three parties were not in the same place at the start, they work
:11:37. > :11:39.together. Why do you find it so difficult to articulate and inspire
:11:40. > :11:50.people with a vision of the kind of Scotland you want to see if Scotland
:11:51. > :11:58.votes against independence? We can see why the Yes campaign wants a Yes
:11:59. > :12:02.vote. My vision of a better Scotland is where young people have the best
:12:03. > :12:08.opportunity to get on for themselves and their families. Where we have an
:12:09. > :12:13.elderly population with the security of the UK behind it in terms of
:12:14. > :12:19.paying pensions. We would not be so dependent as we would be in an
:12:20. > :12:26.independent Scotland on diminishing oil revenues. I believe that if we
:12:27. > :12:30.were to break away we would be less prosperous and we would have less
:12:31. > :12:34.opportunities. That is why I am passionately against independence.
:12:35. > :12:39.They have published a White Paper. Most of it depends on somebody else
:12:40. > :12:43.agreeing with absolutely everything else they want. Two weeks before
:12:44. > :12:48.ballot papers go out and we do not know answers to fundamental
:12:49. > :12:52.questions. Regarding Trident it has been said that if Scotland went
:12:53. > :12:56.independent it with either forced the UK to give up nuclear weapons,
:12:57. > :13:01.or it would be murderously expensive. Now we hear that moving
:13:02. > :13:05.Trident would be financially and technically feasible. It is just
:13:06. > :13:09.another skier story, isn't it? I have never argued you could not
:13:10. > :13:14.shift it. I have never argued that. The question is do you want to be
:13:15. > :13:26.spending people's tax money on moving at? I have never argued you
:13:27. > :13:43.could not shift it. They would be 8000 jobs at risk because all the
:13:44. > :13:51.submarine work with go with that. They see it may not be completed
:13:52. > :13:55.until 2028. That is a lifetime away. In the debate many people considered
:13:56. > :14:00.you were the winner. But there is criticism of both of you for not
:14:01. > :14:04.being forthright with your answers. Can we expect a more enlightening
:14:05. > :14:10.and more candid debate next time? I hope so. We are in the hands of the
:14:11. > :14:16.BBC and somebody will be vigorously refereeing the match. We are in the
:14:17. > :14:24.hands of yourself and Alex Salmond. I will always endeavour to do that.
:14:25. > :14:33.Time is running out. The ballot papers go out in two weeks time.
:14:34. > :14:44.That referendum debate will be shown live on BBC One Scotland at 8:30pm
:14:45. > :14:48.on the 25th of August. Last night's Reporting Scotland
:14:49. > :14:56.interview with the First Minister is online.
:14:57. > :14:58.You're watching Reporting Scotland from the BBC.
:14:59. > :14:59.Still to come on tonight's programme:
:15:00. > :15:02.Recognition at last for the Thurso detective who led the Jack
:15:03. > :15:06.the Ripper investigation in Victorian London.
:15:07. > :15:14.And one of the biggest names in golf pulls out of the Ryder Cup. And a
:15:15. > :15:17.Celtic player admits he is embarrassed about the European
:15:18. > :15:27.Champions League decision. The two bodies which oversee the
:15:28. > :15:30.police in Scotland are to conduct a joint inquiry into the controversial
:15:31. > :15:32.decision to allow officers with guns In the past armed officers were only
:15:33. > :15:36.deployed when necessary and the review has been prompted
:15:37. > :15:51.by a row over the change in policy. Top brass decided they should be
:15:52. > :15:57.allowed to carry weapons on regular patrols to ensure faster and more
:15:58. > :16:07.widely available response. But there has been a of criticism. We have to
:16:08. > :16:10.learn for the future about how issues affect individual
:16:11. > :16:15.communities. We need to build on the knowledge we gain from that to make
:16:16. > :16:19.sure communities better understand the police in the future, and that
:16:20. > :16:25.the police understand the impact of their decisions. Criticism of the
:16:26. > :16:28.new firearms policy began to surface in the Highlands which has one of
:16:29. > :16:34.the lowest crime rates in the country. And at a time when firearms
:16:35. > :16:38.offences are at a ten year low. The criticism was further fuelled by
:16:39. > :16:48.this picture showing three armed officers going to sort out a minor
:16:49. > :16:51.scuffle outside and Inverness shop. There is an opportunity for all the
:16:52. > :16:57.items that have been in the media and the council chambers to be eared
:16:58. > :17:02.and seriously considered. I hope at the end of the day it will lead to a
:17:03. > :17:07.resolution to this problem. This is the first test since the creation of
:17:08. > :17:09.Police Scotland as to where the dividing lines are between
:17:10. > :17:15.operational decisions and overall policy-making. The police themselves
:17:16. > :17:22.or their overseers bash who has the final say?
:17:23. > :17:25.The number of deaths in Scotland involving so-called legal highs more
:17:26. > :17:27.than doubled last year, according to new figures.
:17:28. > :17:29.There were 113 deaths in 2013 where new psychoactive
:17:30. > :17:32.substances were present, compared to 47 the year before.
:17:33. > :17:37.The overall number of drug-related deaths dropped by 9%.
:17:38. > :17:39.Councils should have more control over taxes and determine how
:17:40. > :17:43.That's according to an independent commission set up to look
:17:44. > :17:48.It says local authorities could have complete power to set the council
:17:49. > :17:57.The Commission was set up by the council umbrella body COSLA.
:17:58. > :18:00.A look at other stories from the across the country:
:18:01. > :18:03.A man who stabbed his wife to death at their home in
:18:04. > :18:07.Longforgan, near Dundee, three years ago is suing the health service.
:18:08. > :18:11.Neil Cumming is claiming that they failed to treat his mental illness
:18:12. > :18:14.properly before he killed his wife Jane and then deliberately
:18:15. > :18:22.He was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
:18:23. > :18:24.A national centre to improve responses to weather emergencies
:18:25. > :18:29.The facility at the Crichton University and Business campus
:18:30. > :18:33.Their roles will be part-co-ordination
:18:34. > :18:48.Having a national centre will ensure that the best possible techniques
:18:49. > :18:53.are used across Scotland. Police are urging local drivers to
:18:54. > :18:56.be patient with fellow motorists, especially tourists,
:18:57. > :18:57.after the latest accident figures There have been 175 incidents In
:18:58. > :19:05.the Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh areas since the beginning of June,
:19:06. > :19:23.almost half in Lochaber alone. Be patient. Visitors are coming here
:19:24. > :19:25.to enjoy our hospitality and Sina D. -- and Susie.
:19:26. > :19:28.The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay have been attending the
:19:29. > :19:30.Ballater Highland games, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary.
:19:31. > :19:32.The royal couple, whose holiday home at Birkhall
:19:33. > :19:35.on the Balmoral estate is nearby, spent some time in the Chieftain's
:19:36. > :19:39.One of the biggest names in world of sport has pulled out
:19:40. > :19:45.Tiger Woods was expected by many to be in the United States team to face
:19:46. > :19:48.Europe next month but he's withdrawn because of a back injury.
:19:49. > :20:18.Former world number one four years ago, but this time around injury
:20:19. > :20:23.means there will be no place in team USA for Tiger Woods. This is the
:20:24. > :20:29.18th Green where much of the drama in the Ryder Cup is expected to
:20:30. > :20:39.unfold. But will be absence of Tiger Woods the track from this global
:20:40. > :20:45.golfing event? These two Ryder Cup vice captains
:20:46. > :20:55.said it would not affect the event. If he is not fair he is not fair. I
:20:56. > :21:00.have heard other players taking ten months from that injury. He probably
:21:01. > :21:07.came out to correlate. We are going to focus on our team. Preparations
:21:08. > :21:10.are well and truly underway for the big event in six weeks time. But
:21:11. > :21:15.will not be graced by Tiger Woods. UEFA have thrown out Legia Warsaw's
:21:16. > :21:18.appeal to be allowed back into the Champions league qualifiers
:21:19. > :21:20.at Celtic's expense. Celtic who lost to the Poles
:21:21. > :21:22.in a qualifying tie were re-instated because their opponents
:21:23. > :21:24.fielded a suspended player. Now Legia want the Court
:21:25. > :21:26.of Arbitration As it stands though Celtic will play
:21:27. > :21:31.Maribor in the final qualifying round, although one player admits
:21:32. > :21:44.a degree of embarrassment. What can you do? You have got to get
:21:45. > :21:46.on that. You cannot feel sorry for yourselves and be embarrassed about
:21:47. > :21:48.getting through. It is not the really wanted to get through, but we
:21:49. > :21:58.need is to get on that. Glasgow 2014 silver medal winners
:21:59. > :22:01.Eilidh Child and Lynsey Sharp are through to the finals
:22:02. > :22:03.of their events at the Europan Eilidh Child winning her semi
:22:04. > :22:08.final in the 400 metres hurdles. Lynsey Sharp also coming home first
:22:09. > :22:20.in the semis of the 800 metres. I am a different athletes than I was
:22:21. > :22:27.two years ago. I am hoping to build on that. I just try to enjoy every
:22:28. > :22:33.race. I am laughing coming out and racing.
:22:34. > :22:35.A largely unknown detective from Thurso, who ended up
:22:36. > :22:38.in charge of The Jack the Ripper investigation, has finally been
:22:39. > :22:40.recognised, after the full story emerged of his involvement
:22:41. > :22:43.Five women were mutilated by the so-called Ripper in
:22:44. > :22:46.London's East End in the late 19th century and Donald Swanson went
:22:47. > :23:01.Jackie O'Brien reports from Caithness.
:23:02. > :23:06.The grand starter of Donald Swanson returns to the streets he was
:23:07. > :23:16.brought up in. -- the grand daughter. When you are 20 world is
:23:17. > :23:24.your oyster. I suppose he thought they got on that Stagecoach he would
:23:25. > :23:29.get to London eventually. He joined the Metropolitan Police and was
:23:30. > :23:33.placed in overall charge of the Jack the Ripper investigation, dramatised
:23:34. > :23:40.here for the BBC. Through documents, including his address book, new
:23:41. > :23:47.light has been shed on how the detective also identified the main
:23:48. > :23:53.suspect. The main suspect went insane. He was placed in an asylum
:23:54. > :24:00.and that was probably the end of the murders. But the family of Donald
:24:01. > :24:21.Swanson knew little about his involvement until he died.
:24:22. > :24:27.This week Donald Swanson is finally being recognised. A memorial has
:24:28. > :24:38.been placed outside the police station.
:24:39. > :24:43.So now there is or has unlinked with one of the most notorious serial
:24:44. > :24:52.killers in the world. It was a story that almost remained untold.
:24:53. > :24:55.And here is what is on Scotland's 2014.
:24:56. > :25:02.We will be debating the future of socialism and Scotland with Tommy
:25:03. > :25:14.Sheridan and Owen Jones. They agree on so much except independence.
:25:15. > :25:19.And here is the weather. There has been a number of showers around in
:25:20. > :25:28.some parts of the country and more still to come. There is a yellow Met
:25:29. > :25:38.Office warning in place. Largely dry, fairly cloudy. Temperatures in
:25:39. > :25:46.towns and cities in double digits. Friday gets off to a reasonably dry
:25:47. > :26:00.start. Decent bright and sunny spells developing in the afternoon.
:26:01. > :26:09.By mid afternoon. Further North little bit cooler. One or two
:26:10. > :26:17.showers perhaps affecting the far North. The rest of the afternoon
:26:18. > :26:36.into the evening and overnight we will hold onto some brightness. Over
:26:37. > :26:41.the weekend the weekend there will. Saturday, the further South and East
:26:42. > :27:03.you are, generally try and bright start. Sunday and the low pressure
:27:04. > :27:10.is still with us. It will be windy wherever you are. It will feel
:27:11. > :27:18.colder because of the wind. Now,
:27:19. > :27:20.a reminder of tonight's main news. A group of defence experts says it
:27:21. > :27:24.would be possible for the UK to keep its nuclear deterrent if there was
:27:25. > :27:26.a Yes vote in the referendum. The Royal United Services Institute
:27:27. > :27:29.says removing Trident submarines from Scotland is financially
:27:30. > :27:34.and technically feasible.