:00:07. > :00:13.Tonight on Reporting Scotland, the final weekend of campaigning is
:00:14. > :00:16.under way. Thousands of supporters on both sides of the referendum
:00:17. > :00:20.debate have taken their messages to the streets. Voices from the
:00:21. > :00:26.business world continue to intervene on both sides. We join canvassers
:00:27. > :00:28.and campaigners in Lanarkshire as they battle for the hearts and minds
:00:29. > :00:49.of traditional Labour voters. Good evening. The two sides in the
:00:50. > :00:53.referendum debate are halfway through the final hectic weekend of
:00:54. > :01:00.campaigning. Voters go to the polls on Thursday. A row over banks and
:01:01. > :01:05.businesses is continuing. Fresh polling says it is still neck and
:01:06. > :01:10.neck. We will look at the polls and new people entering the campaign in
:01:11. > :01:16.a moment. First series David Porter. It is getting closer and closer, in
:01:17. > :01:19.more ways than one. The final Saturday, the busiest day of
:01:20. > :01:24.political campaigning Scotland has ever seen. Both sides trying to win
:01:25. > :01:33.over undecided voters. ES campaign says they have had 35,000 activists
:01:34. > :01:39.leafleting. The no side says it has been present at over 1000 locations.
:01:40. > :01:42.The First Minister continued his tour by helicopter, making his
:01:43. > :01:48.arguments for a yes vote. The failure of the negative campaign to
:01:49. > :01:52.get over the scaremongering is very pleased he will, how can you compete
:01:53. > :01:58.with a positive message that Scotland can be a prosperous country
:01:59. > :02:04.and fairer society? If all you are going to do is try and crowd them in
:02:05. > :02:09.Downing Street and Westminster to try and scare the Scottish people.
:02:10. > :02:13.Marching down this street, Better Together say they are out the length
:02:14. > :02:18.and breadth of Scotland demanding answers from their opponents. Every
:02:19. > :02:23.government is temporary, but independence is for ever, there is
:02:24. > :02:26.no going back, if it does not work out how Alex Salmond tells us, we
:02:27. > :02:33.cannot go back, there are no guarantees or sense of buyer's
:02:34. > :02:38.remorse. Thursday is not about making history, but the biggest
:02:39. > :02:45.decision of our lives. After one week of claim and counterclaim over
:02:46. > :02:49.how independence would impact business, new claims in the wider
:02:50. > :02:54.economic battle. The telecoms companies have waded in, warning of
:02:55. > :03:00.higher costs of independence. One of the world's biggest banks as compare
:03:01. > :03:06.the possibility of a yes vote to mistakes that led to the great
:03:07. > :03:11.depression of the 1930s. The yes vote would be quite catastrophic
:03:12. > :03:15.economically for Scotland, bordering on the possibility of depression
:03:16. > :03:18.lasting years. It is not independence that threatens the
:03:19. > :03:23.financial services industry, we want to give a competitive advantage, it
:03:24. > :03:30.is the union which has threatened the growth of the industry in
:03:31. > :03:35.Scotland. In Edinburgh, thousands of people joined a rally by the Orange
:03:36. > :03:42.order in support of the union. Yes Scotland said that why they were
:03:43. > :03:44.entitled to campaign for a no boat, that campaign was mobilising
:03:45. > :03:50.thousands of supporters. Better Together said they had nothing to do
:03:51. > :04:01.with their campaign for a no boat. A further twist, the boss of News
:04:02. > :04:03.Corporation, Rupert Murdoch was spotted in Aberdeen, prompting
:04:04. > :04:10.further speculation what his newspapers would do. Both sides will
:04:11. > :04:14.be watching closely. I am joined now by our political
:04:15. > :04:22.correspondent, Tim Reid. Things getting very tense. So close, both
:04:23. > :04:27.sides trying to grab an immense? It has been an absolutely feverish
:04:28. > :04:30.state. It has been the busiest, most hectic day of campaigning that
:04:31. > :04:39.Scotland has ever seen. A flurry of new polls suggesting with just over
:04:40. > :04:44.100 hours to go, the narrowing of the gap, the race has never been
:04:45. > :04:50.closer. Just two points between yes and no. Perhaps a health warning,
:04:51. > :04:57.questions over individual sample sizes. Sunday Telegraph putting yes
:04:58. > :05:06.ahead by eight points, the biggest lead for the pro-independence
:05:07. > :05:10.campaign. Better Together, a campaign to them, but spend a point
:05:11. > :05:21.ahead -- puts them eight points ahead. The Observer at it as 47-53.
:05:22. > :05:27.It could not be closer. A new support for the yes campaign? John
:05:28. > :05:31.McGlynn, former Conservative donor, who has bankrolled the party. Does
:05:32. > :05:35.not have a former donation position in the Conservative Party. The
:05:36. > :05:39.Tories would say he does not even vote Tory, he says he is a
:05:40. > :05:51.conservative through and through, upset there was not a third option,
:05:52. > :05:54.a so-called devo-max, he is unhappy that that has been offered by the
:05:55. > :05:59.Prime Minister, saying it is too little, too late. He says he will
:06:00. > :06:06.vote yes, not campaigning or donating, but he has said he will
:06:07. > :06:13.vote yes. His pronouncement has been ostracised by the Tories. I would
:06:14. > :06:20.love to see devo-max happening, it is not on offer. For those people
:06:21. > :06:25.like me who want what can be loosely described as devo-max powers, you
:06:26. > :06:31.have no choice. If you want economic powers for Scotland, you have two
:06:32. > :06:35.vote yes. No surprise there. He and Alex Salmond have been Powells for
:06:36. > :06:40.some time, he got Alex Salmond to open his new offices. That was about
:06:41. > :06:47.as much of a shock to me as putting on my own socks. You have had a busy
:06:48. > :06:53.day, before you go, what do you the sightings of Rupert Murdoch?
:06:54. > :06:58.Interesting he's here on the final weekend of campaigning, he was
:06:59. > :07:04.saying on Twitter he was trying to do his tour of Scotland incognito.
:07:05. > :07:08.That chance of that happening. There are rumours that his newspapers may
:07:09. > :07:11.come out in favour of independence. With the way the polls are, the
:07:12. > :07:19.likelihood of that happening may have receded. He is a man... A
:07:20. > :07:24.strategist, master tactician, he will not want to back the losing
:07:25. > :07:32.side. Perhaps he will not back any of them. Then again, they may do.
:07:33. > :07:36.For the moment, thank you. It has been a hectic weekend for
:07:37. > :07:39.campaigners across the country. Perhaps the campaigning is at its
:07:40. > :07:43.most intense in the West of Scotland, where both sides are
:07:44. > :07:49.battling for the hearts and minds of traditional Labour voters. Our
:07:50. > :07:53.correspondent has been meeting representatives from both campaigns
:07:54. > :07:56.in Lanarkshire. It is the kind of community
:07:57. > :08:03.campaigning some had thought were long gone. Public meetings, banging
:08:04. > :08:09.on doors, handing out leaflets. Both sides are busy. What is a key issue
:08:10. > :08:15.is what traditional Labour voters may do, how many may vote yes?
:08:16. > :08:19.Public meetings have been important, this meeting in Hamilton was aimed
:08:20. > :08:24.at undecided voters as well supporters. We have to stop
:08:25. > :08:31.whingeing and complaining. We are not blaming Westminster, it be our
:08:32. > :08:33.decisions. Some of the people here have been transformed into activists
:08:34. > :08:41.for the first time by the referendum. Jim Savage, he thinks
:08:42. > :08:45.the mood of Lanarkshire has changed at the old jobs of nationalised
:08:46. > :08:50.industries have disappeared? 30 years ago, the biggest question is,
:08:51. > :08:58.how safe is my job? Especially in Motherwell, British Steel was a huge
:08:59. > :09:04.employer. The questions would have been job security of a British
:09:05. > :09:08.corporation. Some other local activists are relatively new.
:09:09. > :09:13.Victoria Campbell has gained a reputation for energy on the
:09:14. > :09:22.doorstep. Up until the past few months, I was quite apathetic. I am
:09:23. > :09:26.from a Labour Akram. -- from a Labour background. Seeing the
:09:27. > :09:32.devastation in the local community, what happened in the 1980s.
:09:33. > :09:39.The local Better Together campaign has had new recruits. Knocking on
:09:40. > :09:45.doors, a tactic they considered to be more effective than meetings.
:09:46. > :09:48.William McSween has never taken to campaigning before. Are you turning
:09:49. > :09:55.out to cast a vote? I will be voting no. That saves me asking you? July
:09:56. > :10:00.information? That is good. The magnitude of the vote, it stimulated
:10:01. > :10:09.me to do something about it. I cannot imagine a Scotland without GB
:10:10. > :10:12.behind it. The very thought of it fills me with horror, this is for
:10:13. > :10:17.ever. The future of the whole country. As the polls have
:10:18. > :10:21.tightened, others say they have become more energised. I have been
:10:22. > :10:26.voting for a number of years, following it, I felt it necessary to
:10:27. > :10:31.get involved in the campaign, put some time in, give the guys some
:10:32. > :10:34.help. I feel it is making a contribution, something I am
:10:35. > :10:42.passionate about, getting the message across. It is a battle for
:10:43. > :10:48.hearts and minds, it has been echoed right across Scotland.
:10:49. > :10:55.The more on the referendum, head to our website. Every addition of this
:10:56. > :11:00.programme from the past week is available me I player. Extended
:11:01. > :11:03.interviews with Alistair Darling Alex Salmond are there, as well as
:11:04. > :11:10.Allah guides to the big campaign issues.
:11:11. > :11:14.-- as well as our campaign guides. Celtic picked up all three points at
:11:15. > :11:18.Parkhead against Aberdeen, to get their first win in three games.
:11:19. > :11:30.Scott Brown making his first appearance of the season. A goal by
:11:31. > :11:35.Jason Dunair. Chris Commons doubling the lead. Aberdeen scored, but could
:11:36. > :11:41.not get the equaliser. Elsewhere in the Premiership, these
:11:42. > :11:52.were the results. In the Championship, Hart Drury
:11:53. > :12:05.Dumbarton, to go top, one point ahead of Rangers. -- Hearts. In the
:12:06. > :12:21.Sinn T, Ken Ness won the title. It was a game at two halves in the
:12:22. > :12:25.weather, beautiful in some parts of the country, not so good in others.
:12:26. > :12:28.What is it like for the rest of the weekend?
:12:29. > :12:34.Pretty misty and foggy, very good evening to you. It has been a day
:12:35. > :12:39.with some good spells of sunshine, if we take a look at the earlier
:12:40. > :12:49.satellite picture, we can see the best in the break in the cloud.
:12:50. > :12:52.Temperatures reaching 21. Tonight, remaining dry overnight, but missed
:12:53. > :13:00.and fog patches affecting many of us. Looking ahead to tomorrow, dry
:13:01. > :13:03.start for many of us. Good spells of brightness and sunshine to start the
:13:04. > :13:07.day. If you are heading out at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, this is
:13:08. > :13:13.what we can expect, good spells of brightness, through Dunn Friesen
:13:14. > :13:19.Galloway. More in the way of cloud through the borders, Perthshire,
:13:20. > :13:24.Aberdeenshire. Some mist and fog lingering through the course of the
:13:25. > :13:28.morning into the Western Isles. Mist and fog burning away during the
:13:29. > :13:37.course of the morning to leave a largely dry day. Good spells of
:13:38. > :13:41.brightness. Always a bit cloudier in the East, some light and patchy rain
:13:42. > :13:49.likely. Temperatures reaching highs of around 19 Celsius. Always a bit
:13:50. > :13:54.cooler along eastern coastal areas. This is what we can expect heading
:13:55. > :13:59.into Monday, largely dry, cloudier in the East, some moderate
:14:00. > :14:03.southeasterly breeze. That is it for now.
:14:04. > :14:09.That is it for now, the next update during Sunday Politics Scotland. We
:14:10. > :14:12.will leave you with a brief look back at the Proms in the park, where
:14:13. > :14:13.thousands of people came out to enjoy the music at Glasgow Green.
:14:14. > :15:11.Good night. Good evening. Well, Saturday
:15:12. > :15:15.promised to be quite a fine day across the country and we did see
:15:16. > :15:17.some good spells of sunshine, a top temperature of 23 Celsius in
:15:18. > :15:18.Southampton. Through