:00:09. > :00:12.The former first minister Alex Salmond says it's time to look
:00:13. > :00:15.again at currency options for an independent Scotland.
:00:16. > :00:17.While Mr Salmond still favours using the pound, he believes
:00:18. > :00:21.independence arguments need to be "refurbished" so they can't be
:00:22. > :00:24."gazumped" by opponents in any future referendum.
:00:25. > :00:29.Our political correspondent Glenn Campbell has the story.
:00:30. > :00:32.In the referendum debates, questions over what currency
:00:33. > :00:40.an independent Scotland would use were crucial.
:00:41. > :00:47.You can't tell it what currency will have. I want what is best for
:00:48. > :00:49.Scotland. What is best for Scotland is keeping the pound sterling.
:00:50. > :00:51.Alex Salmond's government said Scotland could keep the pound
:00:52. > :00:54.in a formal currency union with the rest of the UK.
:00:55. > :01:04.It is clear to me, I could not as Chancellor recommend that we could
:01:05. > :01:05.share the pound with an independent Scotland.
:01:06. > :01:08.18 months on, the figurehead of the Yes campaign
:01:09. > :01:09.wants his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, to revise
:01:10. > :01:23.I think Nicola is quite right to want to look at the essential case
:01:24. > :01:27.for interdependence and do some refurbishment and re-presentation to
:01:28. > :01:34.make it appropriate for the new age. Should that includes looking again
:01:35. > :01:36.at currency options for an independent Scotland? Yes, the
:01:37. > :01:40.ultimate virtue of got to put forward is one that can withstand
:01:41. > :01:47.any argument put forward by your opponent. This summer, the SNP will
:01:48. > :01:48.embark on a new initiative to build support for independence.
:01:49. > :01:50.The intervention comes after Nicola Sturgeon promised
:01:51. > :01:58.Those who led the No campaign are not impressed.
:01:59. > :02:07.I think Alex Salmond has a bit of a cheat 18 months after the fact
:02:08. > :02:10.acknowledging that his currency case was always flawed. People in
:02:11. > :02:13.Scotland have been well served by the pound, they have been well
:02:14. > :02:16.served as part of the United Kingdom, particularly with all the
:02:17. > :02:18.shocks and instability we have seen over the last years in the world
:02:19. > :02:19.economy. The competing claims over currency
:02:20. > :02:21.were never put to the test, because Scotland voted
:02:22. > :02:23."no" to leaving the UK. But this debate over the pound
:02:24. > :02:27.still matters because the argument over independence has not gone away
:02:28. > :02:31.and many in the Yes movement would put money on there
:02:32. > :02:36.being a referendum re-run sooner Police investigating the murder
:02:37. > :02:44.of 15-year-old Paige Doherty near Glasgow say they're
:02:45. > :02:45.looking for people who were in the area on Monday,
:02:46. > :02:49.the day her body was found. Paige was last seen on Saturday
:02:50. > :02:51.on her way to work. Paige Doherty was last seen
:02:52. > :02:59.here at 8.20am on Saturday morning buying a roll on her way to work
:03:00. > :03:02.The owner of the shop next door knows her family well,
:03:03. > :03:06.he is thought to be one of the last people to speak to Paige
:03:07. > :03:18.before she disappeared. At about quarter past eight on
:03:19. > :03:23.Saturday morning, outside the shop and I said, hello, you worried? She
:03:24. > :03:28.put her hand up and she went into the deli shop and after that I never
:03:29. > :03:32.saw her. When I heard the news that she had been found murdered I was
:03:33. > :03:34.devastated. I can't say much more. I hope they find her killer.
:03:35. > :03:37.Paige would then have walked along here to get her bus to work.
:03:38. > :03:39.Police want to know if anyone was seen acting suspiciously in this
:03:40. > :03:43.She was on her way to her part-time job as a junior
:03:44. > :03:49.Her mother reported her missing after she failed to arrive at work.
:03:50. > :03:53.Paige's body was found here on Monday at about 12.45pm.
:03:54. > :04:01.This is the A82 Great Western Road, the main road into Glasgow .
:04:02. > :04:03.Today, police appealed for what they describe
:04:04. > :04:09.This is a very busy road and the area is also popular
:04:10. > :04:12.Police are asking people to cast their mind to Monday.
:04:13. > :04:15.They are asking people to come forward who saw anyone acting
:04:16. > :04:22.Today, Paige's parents made this appeal for justice.
:04:23. > :04:35.Tonight, police say they are working round the clock
:04:36. > :04:39.Any piece of information, no matter how small,
:04:40. > :04:42.They say they are encouraged with the response so far
:04:43. > :04:45.since they launched the murder inquiry.
:04:46. > :04:47.A deal which could save Lanarkshire's Clydebridge
:04:48. > :04:49.and Dalzell steel plants is said to be close.
:04:50. > :04:51.Negotiations with the likely buyer Liberty House are continuing
:04:52. > :05:04.It looks like the end of an five months ago the owners of
:05:05. > :05:09.Scotland's last big steelworker announced plans to close them. It
:05:10. > :05:14.dealt a hammer blow to the workforce and marked the end of a chapter in
:05:15. > :05:21.Scotland's industrial history. But now, there could be a fresh start.
:05:22. > :05:26.All the signs look set to change, Tata Steel want to sell up to an
:05:27. > :05:32.international metals firm, Liberty house. But how can basic seed where
:05:33. > :05:37.Tata failed? Across Europe and America, the still industry in
:05:38. > :05:42.crisis, the market is swamped with cheaper Chinese steel. Liberty
:05:43. > :05:46.House's tactic is to undercut this opposition by recycling some of the
:05:47. > :05:54.millions of scrap steel exported from the UK every year. We have a
:05:55. > :06:01.different business model, we are looking at basically, reset our
:06:02. > :06:04.costs, we are looking at using slabs which are more competitive.
:06:05. > :06:11.Eventually we are looking at making those clubs ourselves. It has been a
:06:12. > :06:15.hard winter for the workforce as all destroyed up, most have been laid
:06:16. > :06:22.off. But the 270 workers in place last day, just 50 are left. Among
:06:23. > :06:24.them, a union wrap Ross Clark. We have to sit down, we have to get the
:06:25. > :06:31.place operation, we are to secure have to sit down, we have to get the
:06:32. > :06:33.customer base and make this place profitable and sustainable still
:06:34. > :06:36.customer base and make this place interested. Still making was one
:06:37. > :06:39.Scotland's biggest industrial employer and it is dominated
:06:40. > :06:45.Motherwell for decades. People here want these plans saved. It was a big
:06:46. > :06:55.loss to the area, the whole of Lancashire suffered when that
:06:56. > :07:01.colleagues. -- Lanarkshire. A lot of jobs have been lost through it. It
:07:02. > :07:04.needs to be kept. As far as I'm concerned, the town is dead and
:07:05. > :07:12.buried without the steel industry. But now, a tap the limit deal is
:07:13. > :07:16.close. A deal has not yet been done. The key sticking point is the cost
:07:17. > :07:21.of electricity, it takes huge amount of energy to heat up all that steel
:07:22. > :07:30.until it is red-hot. Liberty House want to keep those down now and into
:07:31. > :07:31.the future. Their sumps -- there are some tough talking ahead.
:07:32. > :07:34.At Holyrood, MSPs gathered for the final time before heading
:07:35. > :07:37.Scotland goes to the polls on May 5th.
:07:38. > :07:40.Today was a day for emotion, for farewells and for a bitter
:07:41. > :07:43.political dispute over tax and spending.
:07:44. > :07:51.This from our political editor Brian Taylor.
:07:52. > :07:58.A public book of condolence have now been made available. Holyrood
:07:59. > :08:02.history, Tricia Marwick providing for the last time this term. Nicola
:08:03. > :08:09.Sturgeon facing her final question session before the election. And on
:08:10. > :08:14.the throne, King Robert the Bruce, proudly recoding Scotland passed for
:08:15. > :08:19.passing MSPs. In the chamber though, they are focused on the future. The
:08:20. > :08:26.SNP have said they won't alter tax rates in Scotland for now. This
:08:27. > :08:30.first most who has campaigned for years on the match that more powers
:08:31. > :08:38.means your cuts now refuses to use the powers to stop the cuts. The SNP
:08:39. > :08:41.will revive a planned tax cut for higher earners but Nicola Sturgeon
:08:42. > :08:46.said increasing the very top rate could backfire. If both moved and
:08:47. > :08:53.avoid the tax cuts Scotland's revenue. It says right now it could
:08:54. > :08:57.actually reduce the amount of money we have to invest in our National
:08:58. > :09:01.Health Service is an public services would not be radical, it would be
:09:02. > :09:07.reckless. It would not be daring, it would be daft. The Liberal Democrats
:09:08. > :09:11.said Scottish education would suffer as a consequence. The opportunity to
:09:12. > :09:14.said Scottish education would suffer transform education is missed. It
:09:15. > :09:21.means nursery education targets will be missed. The attainment gap in
:09:22. > :09:24.schools will keep being missed. The First Minister said the fiscal
:09:25. > :09:28.framework would mean Scotland would be recompense for the UK tax plans.
:09:29. > :09:37.That would generate tax for services. Land reform was champion.
:09:38. > :09:42.We have large culture that is of land ownership in Poland and that
:09:43. > :09:48.needs to change. And see Stuart McMillan plays Burns' great anthem.
:09:49. > :09:54.Watching from the gallery, Sheena Wellington that sang that Berry song
:09:55. > :09:59.on Parliament's opening day in 1999. A change of tune and party leaders
:10:00. > :10:07.like the paper out of the chamber, down the corridor towards the garden
:10:08. > :10:12.lobby. There, they gather, those who are departing and those who hope to
:10:13. > :10:24.return, handshakes, hugs, even the occasional stealthy. -- selfie. And
:10:25. > :10:28.from this happy scene, straight onto the street. Ruth Davidson takes the
:10:29. > :10:33.Conservative election message out and about. They don't believe we
:10:34. > :10:37.should put a sign of the border saying higher taxes here. It puts
:10:38. > :10:42.job investment, we don't think people and Scott should have to pay
:10:43. > :10:48.more tax. Labour prepares its election pitch, and front tax and
:10:49. > :10:49.spending. The SNP must said election candidates. He will win? That is
:10:50. > :11:02.your choice. Some use coming into us this
:11:03. > :11:09.evening. The bodies of a man and a woman had been recovered in the Ben
:11:10. > :11:10.Nevis area this evening. Formal I did -- identification is taking
:11:11. > :11:16.place. Well, it's over to Kawser now
:11:17. > :11:31.with the weather outlook for tonight It has been quite a cloudy day so
:11:32. > :11:36.far. As we had through the rest my, we will see some clear spells
:11:37. > :11:41.gelding. Under these clear skies, cabbages falling to allow a touch of
:11:42. > :11:43.frost. The next weather system approaching the west and bringing
:11:44. > :11:49.with it some outbreaks of rain. Some strengthening winds as well, Gill
:11:50. > :11:53.full swing for the Western Isles. Pepita stopping for around 45
:11:54. > :12:02.Celsius. A cloudy, wet start for the day. Tomorrow morning, around eight
:12:03. > :12:06.o'clock, quite a wet morning commute for Dumfries and Gallery, Glasgow as
:12:07. > :12:11.well, further east it will be drier. The rain like an patchy and the wind
:12:12. > :12:15.is still quite strong across the Western Isles, the Northern of the
:12:16. > :12:20.work, tempers around six or seven Celsius. That same weather band will
:12:21. > :12:24.bring heavy rain across Northern Ireland, England and the south-west
:12:25. > :12:29.of the country for England as well. The south-west, 13 degrees were
:12:30. > :12:33.still some drier weather. The same weather band will continue to spread
:12:34. > :12:37.further eastwards as we had through the day, allowing some brighter
:12:38. > :12:40.cells to develop for more northern parts of the countries. There will
:12:41. > :12:46.be some scattered showers, possibly witchery over the hills. As we had
:12:47. > :12:50.through tomorrow night, it will become drier and clearer so for Good
:12:51. > :12:53.Friday, a good dill of some turnaround, especially for southern
:12:54. > :12:58.and eastern parts of Scotland. Further towards the north-west,
:12:59. > :13:02.another band of rain approaching. Good Friday does look to be the
:13:03. > :13:05.better day of the long weekend in terms of dry weather, and afraid
:13:06. > :13:09.this is the picture of the Saturday. A good dill of wet and windy weather
:13:10. > :13:16.in store. Feeling cool under that Hal, temperatures eight or nine
:13:17. > :13:20.Celsius. Bright spells and scattered heavy showers on Easter Day and
:13:21. > :13:21.remaining unsettled for Easter Monday.
:13:22. > :13:25.Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25am tomorrow morning.
:13:26. > :13:30.But from everyone on the late team, goodnight.