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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Tonight, on an extended Reporting Scotland election special. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
ScottishPower is fined 18 million pounds for failing to | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Lengthy call wait times, but you don't get anywhere. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
In the election campaign we have the second of our leader interviews. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Tonight it's the turn of Willie Rennie the leader | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
And I will be reporting from Glasgow Pollok on the SNP battle. I will | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
talk to the people and I will talk to the parties. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
How a lack of ventilation in your home might be exposing | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
And Jamie Murray returns to his roots - the Davis Cup winner | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
is in Dunblane to say thanks to the town for its support. | :01:00. | :01:20. | |
Scottish Power has been told to pay ?18 million in penalties for failing | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
It has been criticised by the industry regulator Ofgem | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
for "unacceptable" delays to call handling, billing and complaints. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Our business and economy editor, Douglas Fraser, reports. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
At ScottishPower, we think about what energy is and what it can do in | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
the real world. In the real world outside this advert, its customers | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
have been left waiting on the phone, or for their bill. One of the big | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
have been left waiting on the phone, six energy supplies, ScottishPower | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
joins rivals in being heavily penalised for the treatment of its | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
customer. In Lanarkshire, this lady was one. She set up a direct debit | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
to pay her bills. Founder money was not taken out of account and she was | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
ignored and is now left with a backdated claim. They think I still | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
owe them money. It is well over ?1000. They have no record of any | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
gas that was supplied, but they have been chasing me for it. It has been | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
well documented and it is stressful in my late stages of pregnancy. The | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
regulator found the Spanish owned company let down customers while | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
changing its IT system four years ago. Call waiting times were found | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
to be too high, which some reported reach 30 minutes. 300,000 bills were | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
late, leading to a million complaints and those complaints were | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
handled too slowly. The problems were still being resolved earlier | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
this year. Ofgem is giving ScottishPower a fine of only ?1, but | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
requiring it to pay ?80 million on penalties after 15 million for | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
failing to support vulnerable customers and 3 million to charity. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
It is the second-biggest finally have imposed in relation to not | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
treating domestic customers fairly. This should send out a message, ?80 | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
million is a large fine and it says we expect companies to treat their | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
customers fairly at all times. ScottishPower had no one available | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
to interview but in a statement it said... | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
Later this year, ScottishPower will occupy this city centre | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
headquarters, a grand building that underlines the important role of the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
company in the Scottish economy. But the penalty issued today is a | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
reminder it cannot afford to get to grand for its customers and | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
demonstrates the danger when company's computer systems need to | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
be renewed and rebooted. In more disturbing evidence | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
to the Liam Fee murder trial a young child said he felt "unsafe" | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
with the two accused. The boy says Nyomi and Rachel Fee | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
told him his dad was dead and that Nyomi and Rachel Fee deny murdering | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Liam and harming two other boys. Some viewers, particularly young | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
children, may find some of the details in Lisa | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Summers report upsetting. Two-year-old Liam Fee was found dead | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
at his home in March 20 14. For a second day, the jury has been | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
watching video evidence from a child Rachel and Nyomi Fee are accused of | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
mistreating. Liam said he believed his dad was dead because Rachel told | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
him full. She said she had killed them because she doesn't like liars. | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
The question -- social workers said she assured him that his father was | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
alive. He said he broke down and didn't want to go back to the house. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
The child says on one occasion Naomi tried his hands behind his back with | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
a dressing gown cord and forced him to sleep naked in a dark room all | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
night. He was asked who was there. He said, just me and the rats. The | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
rats were in and this makes, but they were in boxes. And the boa | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
constructor is. Nyomi Fee told him they were in boxes. And the boa | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
it eats little boys. They deny killing Liam and deny harming him | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
and two other boys. The trial in Livingston, continues. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
In the Holyrood election campaign, the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
says she has not ruled out cutting the number of local | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
But rivals are not convinced structural reform is necessary. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Getting rid of your rubbish is not the only thing your council does. It | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
is also in charge of local roads, school education and social care in | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
partnership with the NHS. This city of Edinburgh Council is one of 32 | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
local authorities in Scotland and the SNP wants to review the role and | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
review the responsibility of these councils and how they work together | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
with the network of health boards that run NHS services. The party | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
leaders made it here that would mean having fewer councils in future. I | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
am not ruling anything out or in. We will review the situation in | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
partnership with local government. The provision of public services and | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
the governance is changing. In health and social care, we now have | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
new partnership that bring health and local government together. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Health and social care became an integrated service earlier this | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
month, with cross-party backing. The Conservatives favour more joint | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
working rather than trimming down the number of councils. The Scottish | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Conservatives don't leave in the wholesale review of services. We | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
don't think there should be wholesale organisation because we | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
should be doing the best job of service delivery. That means | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
councils working closer together but not a wholesale, structural review. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Scotland's eight Fire Services were merged into just one during the last | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Parliament and a single police force was created. The Liberal Democrats | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
call its centralisation and don't want it extended to councils. We | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
don't want me meddling around with the boundaries of councils, that is | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
a distraction. We should be pushing into communities. The SNP took | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
control of the police, they threatening to take control over the | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
schools. It is not acceptable. Local government reform could cut the cash | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
available for poorest areas. It is government reform could cut the cash | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
20 years since local government was last overhauled, when regional | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
councils like Strathclyde were abolished. Labour says its manifesto | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
tomorrow will not propose another big shake-up. We have to be careful | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
about any further SNP centralisation, that has been | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
unpopular. I think we can get the government to work in a more joined | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
up fashion, breaking down the silos and barriers between counsel | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
apartments. The SNP says it wants more local decision-making, not | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
less. Either way, it has managed to put who provides what service on the | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
election agenda. And staying with the election | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
campaign, every night this week, we'll be hearing from party leaders | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
here in the studio. Tonight, it's the turn | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
of Willie Rennie, who'll be setting out why you might | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
want to cast your vote Before we hear from him, | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
here's a bit of background. Willie Rennie says he wanted to have | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
fun during this campaign. He certainly seems to be doing just | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
that. By the power of the Lib Dems. I am healed. Doing better than the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
2011 election is the priority. He I am healed. Doing better than the | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
became leader after his party was routed and was left with just five | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
MSPs. The Liberal Democrats are back to our best and we can grow in the | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
selection. The Lib Dems key manifesto commitments include half | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
?1 billion more every year for education, funded by a 1p rise in | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
income tax. An increase in the share of the budget spent on mental | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
income tax. An increase in the share services. And the pledge, to not | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
only protect civil liberties, but allow for greater public scrutiny | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
for example, of police Scotland. The polls suggest the Lib Dems won't win | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the election, but Willie Rennie has got himself noticed. We like to | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms of | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
exactly what we are asking for. It does it very well, I don't know how, | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
but it does it and somebody will work it out at some point. | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
And Willie Rennie joins me now. The first and second Scottish | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
Parliaments, you were in coalition. The last Parliament, five seats, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
1999 must seem like a long time ago? It does, but this election, we are | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
having great fun and getting across a positive message about the future. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
The situation is urgent. We used to have the best education system in | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
the world, it is just average now. People wait for a long time now for | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
treatment on mental health services. We need to exceed our climate change | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
targets. But we need to make sure we guarantee our Civil Liberties. Those | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
are big, positive issues that Liberal Democrats are pioneering in | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
this election campaign. We are finding more people are coming back | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
because we are positive, uplifting, outward looking and we are going to | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
grow in this election. What do you put the slump down to, this downward | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
trajectory? Is it still a question of trust, tuition fees and coalition | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
with the Tories. I do think we are growing this time, we have turned | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
the corner. We are getting back to our best. The last few years | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
the corner. We are getting back to been difficult, the coalition and so | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
on. What we have had that debate, learned our lesson and we know it | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
was difficult. I think we are stronger as a result. That is why we | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
have got a positive agenda in this campaign. I have been all over the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
country in this campaign of areas of traditional strength, but also more | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
challenging areas. Everywhere I go, people tell me they like what they | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
have got to see and they like the way we are saying it and we are | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
optimistic about the country's future. I take great heart from | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
that. Do you think you have done enough, because in the last Scottish | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
parliament, in 2011, you were pretty hammered and that was supposed to be | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the protest vote. At the general election last year, one seat! People | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
have got long memories? I did think it is the end of the cycle. I also | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
recognise in the last five years, and I do think people recognise | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
this, the small team of Liberal Democrats in the Scottish Parliament | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
have punched well above their weight. Who would have challenged | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
the Scottish Government from the beginning about the centralisation | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
of Lee Scotland? Who would have stood up on things like industrial | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
stop and search. Guns on the police with police officers. Who would have | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
challenged all those issues. And also nursing education. Those issues | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
would not have been dealt with and it is only the Liberal Democrats who | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
has guaranteed them. You look at the record, the positive offer for the | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
future and that is why I am optimistic. And now, when it really | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
matters, with that background, you will win and lashed in -- election | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
by putting a penny on income tax? I have already mentioned it is an | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
urgent situation. Scottish education used to be the best, and now it is | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
just average, according to the OECD. If the situation is urgent it | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
requires an urgent and an exceptional measure. Putting a penny | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
on income tax to secure ?505 million worth of investment, for education, | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
in a pupil premium to help kids struggling at school to get on but | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
also in colleges to repair the damage is to cuts to colleges in | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
recent years. That package, people will know what they are getting for | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
their money, it is a modest increase and it make sure it is progressive. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
He would have to earn over ?21,500 to pay any more under these combine | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
measures with the tax thresholds at Westminster. It is fair, it is | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
positive and it is going directly towards investing in education so we | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
can have the best education system in the world again. The problems in | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
education, they haven't happened overnight and you were in Coalition | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Government for eight years since 1999. Presumably you were investing | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
then? Did it all go wrong when you stop? The OECD, the international | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
body, highlight that ten years ago just won the SNP came to power, that | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
we were at the top in terms of mathematics, but now we are just | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
average. It has happened in a relatively short period of time. I | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
might suggest the destruction of the referendum might have taken the | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
focus off, needing to improve education in Scotland, but | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
certainly, investment in education is part of the solution. As Liberal | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
certainly, investment in education Democrats we believe in giving | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
everybody the opportunity to succeed, nobody should he held back | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
by circumstances of their birth or their background. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Let me go back to those eight years when you were in power. Presumably, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
you did shovel money into the education system, and that money | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
should have been transformational. ?500 million sounds a lot, but for a | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
country's education system, it's not a vast amount, though you hope it | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
will be transformational. We did invest, in the teaching community to | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
make sure we had good, qualified teachers who were properly paid in | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
the classroom. We invested in new buildings, invested in the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
infrastructure of our education system to make sure we had a | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
reformed system for the future. We started at work, and it is a shame | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
that it has taken a slide in recent years. Part of it is because the SNP | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
haven't been focused, but there is a need to make sure we keep up with | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
the best countries in the world, who are very competitive now. The answer | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
to that is education investment. During that time, would you not | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
dealing with PFI schooling? Has that not come home to roost? Of course, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
dealing with PFI schooling? Has that there have been issues around PFI, | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
and we need to have a thorough investigation into what went wrong | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
with this specific contract. I think the issue of finance is not related. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
I think it is very much related. We will wait and see. What is important | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
as, at that time, the Liberal Democrats with our coalition | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
colleagues invested in education to get it improve. In recent years, it | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
has slipped down. It is a great disappointment, and we are | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
determined to change it. Your manifesto has many proposals on | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
education, health care, civil Liberties, climate change - these | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
things have to be paid for. Where are your big, headline ideas to make | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
money? The state can't do it all itself, we have to provide money. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
We're facing problems at the moment. Unemployment rose by 20,000 in the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
last quarter, there is a manufacturing slump - what are your | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
headline ideas? Queries the dynamism? Jackie, the real answer is | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
to invest in our people. They are a dynamism? Jackie, the real answer is | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
biggest asset -- where is the dynamism? They can contribute | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
towards business in this country to make businesses grow and pay tax. It | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
is that virtuous circle. That's what we need to do. That is why we are so | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
passionate and determined to invest in education in the future. No one | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
would disagree, but we're talking about our five-year plan for | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
education. The problems we're facing now, we need something in the here | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
and now. What are the Liberal Democrats going to do? Part of that | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
is immediate. We need immediate answers in terms of training young | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
people in college as, for instance. For what jobs? People come here | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
because of the skills of our workforce, it is why we have some of | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the best universities and renewable industries in the world. That is why | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
we have some of the great businesses across the country that I have been | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
visiting in the last few weeks. They come here because of our people. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
They are our biggest asset and that is why I want to invest in them. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
During the campaign, Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives has said she's | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
not going to win but she is going to be the opposition. She is going to | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
hold the SNP, if the polls are to be believed, to account. What will your | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
role be? The Lib Dems will play a constructive role in the parliament. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
We will oppose where we disagree, like on police centralisation. And | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
we will look agreement where we can. We want to deliver a big boost for | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
mental health services. Far too many people are waiting too long for | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
urgent treatment on mental health on the environment, we want to make | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
sure we will work with others to exceed our climate change targets by | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
investor meeting in warm homes, we want to put into fracking and | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
opencast coal. All of this is -- all of those issues will come to the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
fore. But you want form any coalitions -- you won't form any | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
coalitions? We have seen in the Parliament, where we had coalition, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
minority and majority Government, there are a variety of ways. I want | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
to exert our influence using the power of more MSPs behind me to get | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
all those things delivered in the Scottish Parliament. I think people | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
deserve a better mental health service in this country. I think | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
people deserve that this country should exceed its climate change | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
targets, guarantee Civil Liberties. We shouldn't have this ID database | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
that the SNP want. I will hunt for anyone who is prepared to work with | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
me on those things. The polls suggest that you are battling with | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the Greens for fourth place. If you fail and you end up fifth, will you | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
consider your own position as leader? Jackie, I am having the time | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
of my life. It looks like it! Apart from having great fun going round | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
and enjoying things, I am having the time of my life because we are able | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
to campaign on the things we feel strongly about. I'm optimistic that | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
we have done in the last five years. Would you concede that there is | :20:59. | :21:12. | |
voter apathy? No. Across the country, people are coming up to me | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
and saying, it is so refreshing, so upbeat, and it's great that they | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
have a liberal force in Scottish politics that wants to grow and be | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
better for Scotland. I think we're back to our best, and with that, I | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
think Scotland can be back its best. And our leader interviews | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
continue throughout the week The Conservative leader, | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Ruth Davidson will be Right now though our political | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
editor has been on his travels. Yesterday, he was in Orkney, | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
today he's a bit closer to home, having some retail therapy | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
in the constituency Brian Taylor, you heard | :21:46. | :21:46. | |
Willie Rennie there, the Lib Dems have a | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
fight on their hands? Yes, they do, and a fight to | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
establish their role. Several of the parties in the contest had been | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
trying to define their position does not the Conservatives say they are | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
seeking to be the principal opposition. Willie Rennie said twice | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
that he would hunt for agreement. He is not pitching himself as the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
likely next First Minister or saying he will form the largest section of | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
opposition, but he is trying to make an offer that he feels will resonate | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
with the voters. If you ask people, what they say is, why don't | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
politicians just sit down together and sort it out? Principally, it is | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
because they don't agree, but people are looking for consensus, and | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Willie Rennie was undoubtedly offering that as his principal role. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Hunt for agreement on issues like mental health and education, the | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
governments of the police. Thank you very much, Brian. -- the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
governance. Today is the 30th anniversary of | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the world's worst nuclear disaster. The explosion and fire at Chernobyl | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
power station in Ukraine in 1986 had far-reaching consequences and, | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
as Willie Johnston reports, Scotland The physical destruction was clear | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
to see. Less visible, the toxic emissions that took several days to | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
appear. The radiation cloud might have passed with minimal impact but | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
for that bank holiday weekend's miserable weather. Across the Lake | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
District and also Galloway, the amount of rain accumulated to 20 | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
millimetres will stop Jeff Monk documented the impact for the Met | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
office, where he worked. That rain is essentially captured the caesium | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
radioactivity and washed it out, so there were 1000 times more -- there | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
was 1000 times more radioactivity reached the grand than would have | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
occurred if it hadn't rained. Across Galloway and much of western central | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Scotland, this polluted rain fell on grass being grazed by sheep and | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
lambs. They absorbed the radiation into their bodies, rendering the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
meat unfit for the human food chain. Our initial reaction was, where is | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Chernobyl? Sir Ian Grant was Scotland's farming leader. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Restrictions were introduced, and by the time it got to autumn, it was | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
felt that things were safe and that the worst of the experience was | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
passed. However, by the time we got to new lambs in 1987, there were | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
high levels appearing in those that had been grazing on that pasture. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
The restrictions then had to come in, and they stuck with us for | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
another 23 years. The last few farms under restriction in Scotland | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
weren't cleared until 2010. Since the early 90s, children affected by | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Chernobyl radiation have been coming to Scotland for health holidays. A | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
month here breathing unpolluted air and eating fresh food is known to | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
lower considerable is the amount of caesium in their bodies. This was a | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
day trip to the sea. We may be a generation on, but Chernobyl's | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
pollution will be a run for 300 years, meaning that children's need | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
is as great as ever. It attaches itself behind the muscle. Wherever | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
that starts to build up, that is the part that will affect my child. The | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
levels of thyroid cancer have increased greatly. There are a lot | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
of different illnesses that affect the children due to radiation. | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Estimates of the total number of early deaths from Chernobyl - | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
related cancers range from 4000 to around 1 million. Figures are | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
ridiculed by various groups. The true number is likely never to be | :25:58. | :25:58. | |
known. Scotland's first female | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Lord Justice Clerk has been installed at a ceremony in | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
Edinburgh. Appointed by the Queen | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
on the recommendation of the First Minister, | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
Lady Dorrian becomes the country's second most senior judge | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
behind the Lord President. Her elevation means she'll | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
play a prominent role Many people are exposing themselves | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
to harmful levels of pollutants in their homes because they're not | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
ventillating them properly. Specialists at Glasgow School | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
of Art's Environmental Research Unit say modern homes are airtight, | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
which allows pollution Our health correspondent | :26:32. | :26:32. | |
Eleanor Bradford reports. Margaret and John are chuffed to | :26:33. | :26:45. | |
bits with their new house. Its draught free and much cheaper to | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
heat than their old one. They were given a manual telling them how to | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
ventilate the home, but it was full of jargon. It was quite technical, | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
in fact, too technical. I put it in the drawer, and that is where it has | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
stayed. It was far too... It was for someone with mechanical expertise, | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
not me. Experts say that was probably a bad idea. We have things | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
like carpets, soft furnishings... Everyday objects give of chemicals | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
that need to escape. Pollution inside can be five times higher than | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
outside. It depends on the nature of the house, the type of ventilation, | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
carpets, candles, air freshener is, ironically, can give off pollutants. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
Sofas and error fresheners contain volatile organic compounds which are | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
dangerous at high levels. MDF and plywood contain formaldehyde, which | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
can irritate the eyes and skin. Plastic give off chemicals that | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
disrupt the reproductive system if there is not adequate ventilation. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Ken Shepherd works for the housing association which built the home. It | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
gives its householders simple tips. There is was a big build-up of CO2 | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
in the bedroom, and the best way to deal with that is to open the | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
window, get some ventilation in, and that gives you better air quality. | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
The advice is to use trickle vents, which let fresh air trickle in. Use | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
bathroom fans or open a window while showering to let moisture out. | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
Modern homes are built to the appetite, so it's important to know | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
how the ventilation system works or you could be living in a polluted | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
box. Let's turn our attention to sport, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
and there's a sporting It's been a remarkable | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
year for Jamie Murray, winning the Australian Open, | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
the Davis Cup, and becoming world Tonight he's back in his home town | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
of Dunblane, part of a tour Also there is our reporter | :28:54. | :29:06. | |
Alasdair Lamont. It's not everyday we are joined by a | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
world number one, but we do have the best doubles player on the planet in | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
midst. Jamie Murray is back where it all began, Dunblane tennis club. You | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
also have the Open title to your name - what more can you achieve? A | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
clean sweep of the grand slams? That would be nice. I don't know if it | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
will necessarily happen or not. A lot of good things happened. In the | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
last 60 months, I got some big turn last 60 months, I got some big turn | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
-- I've got some big turn on -- I've got some big tournaments coming up. | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
The Rio Olympics are also on the horizon - how big a goal is that for | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
you? Would a Murray brothers and gold Trump everything you have | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
achieved thus far? We are at the peaks of our careers. | :29:59. | :30:07. | |
London was a big disappointment on the doubles front. And they did | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
amazingly to win in the singles. It is four years to sit on that result | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
for me personally, so we will be trying our best to do as well as we | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
can and make up for the loss in London. Clearly, defending that huge | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
trophy over there is a priority. It is unclear as to whether Andy will | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
play against Serbia. That would be a big blow if he decided to set that | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
one out, wouldn't it? Yes, of course. He's our best player by a | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
country mile. He is number two in the world and has carried the team | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
to the title last year. We will see what happens. For him, I think as | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
long as he feels good with his body and his fitness, there is a good | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
chance he will play. We wish you well for that. Before that, as Jamie | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
mention, the Madrid Masters next week for him as he builds up | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
potentially to another grand slam title at the French open. | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
BBC Scotland has learned that the Dundee United chairman | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
Stephen Thompson is willing to listen to credible offers | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
United are on the verge of relegation and Thompson | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
was the subject of fan protests outside Tannadice after Sundays | :31:33. | :31:40. | |
Scottish football's Manager of the Year short list is out, | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
with only one Premiership boss nominated. | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
That's Jim McIntyre of Ross County, this year's winners | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
Rangers' manager Mark Warburton is in contention after leading his | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
side to the Championship title and the Scottish Cup final. | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
Falkirk's Peter Houston is also included, as is Jim McInally | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
And there are two games in the Championship tonight. | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
Hibs are chasing second spot, so valuable points on offer for them | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
Full commentary on Sportsound Radio Scotland 810 medium wave. | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
Plus updates from Livingston against Rangers. | :32:14. | :32:15. | |
Coverage too on the Sport Scotland website. | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
A former asylun seeker who now calls Glasgow his home says qualifying | :32:20. | :32:21. | |
for the GB Olympic Marathon team is "massive" for him. | :32:22. | :32:30. | |
Tsegai Tewelde is joined in the men's team by fellow Scots, | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
the Brothers Callum and Derek Hawkins. | :32:34. | :32:34. | |
Did you think you had a chance of qualifying? I was asking myself, one | :32:35. | :33:32. | |
day I will join them. Joining him in the British team are his two | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
brothers. Callum qualified automatically but big mother had to | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
wait for a phone call. They phoned pretty early this morning, | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
congratulations you have been selected. Just to make sure I was | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
in. I said, did you say I have been? So it was pretty surreal. It is | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
brilliant to have your training partner and brother in the same race | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
as the Olympic Games is unbelievable. It is quite a story | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
all round and these three REO bound. Its been a tightly-fought battle | :34:08. | :34:26. | |
at today's all-Scotland quarter final of the World Snooker | :34:27. | :34:28. | |
Championship. Alan McManus currently trails | :34:29. | :34:30. | |
John Higgnis by 5-3 frames The pair tussled for the lead early | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
on, but it was the four-time world Champion Higgins who kept his cool | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
to draw ahead. Let's turn our attention to the | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
tomorrow morning. Let's turn our attention to the | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
weather and Christopher has the latest forecast. | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
Wintry mix. Across Aberdeenshire, the snow has been settling. It looks | :34:51. | :34:58. | |
rather wintry. Staying cold night. The wind that has been strong | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
slowing down. Further north, they held on and we have a yellow be | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
aware of the risk of continued snow shires and ice as well. Temperatures | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
in towns and cities, close to freezing. A cold start to the day | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
tomorrow. Plenty of sunshine for central and southern parts. Further | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
north and north-west, frequent wintry showers once again. As we | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
head to the cause of the day, the cloud will build elsewhere and we | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
will see a few showers here. By mid afternoon a mixture of sunshine and | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
showers. Mosley will be of rain but given any altitude up the hills, | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
they will be wintry. Sleet in the mix at low levels as well. Further | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
north it will be cooler and the showers more frequent. Perhaps the | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
odd rumble of thunder in the mix. You could see some sleet or snow to | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
low levels but it is unlikely to settle. Temperatures six, seven | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
Celsius. Not as raw as today because the winds are lighter. On Wednesday | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
evening, the showers are still with us and they will slowly be easing | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
away. But a few slow ones to consider on Wednesday evening. | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
Looking ahead to Thursday and this developing feature to the Atlantic | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
which will bring some rain. To start the day on Thursday, some central, | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
southern and eastern parts. Showers in the West. Less wintry, more of | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
rain. Seven, eight Celsius and there is a low pressure system. Friday, it | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
is over the UK. Its exact position is open to some doubt, but it does | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
mean Friday is unsettled and there will be rain at | :36:39. | :36:39. | |
You are watching Reporting Scotland election special. Scottish Power is | :36:40. | :36:53. | |
fined ?80 million for treating its customers and fairly. A young boy | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
tells the Liam Fee murder trial the accused told him they had killed his | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
father. Still to come... Growing world-class | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
companies to boost Scotland's flagging economy. But what can the | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
next government do to help? Making this work takes time, effort, huge | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
amounts of skill and a lot of money. Let's return to the election | :37:15. | :37:30. | |
campaign, and to Brian Taylor who is travelling around Scotland | :37:31. | :37:32. | |
to find out what election Tonight he's in the constituency | :37:33. | :37:34. | |
of Glasgow Pollok. I am indeed. It looks like I have | :37:35. | :37:42. | |
popped out for a bit of shopping. This is the shopping centre in | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
Glasgow Pollock. I will be talking to the five candidates contesting | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
this seat. Look around the constituency and its people. | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
That is Govan shipyard on the other side of the cloud, but it is the | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
start of the Glasgow Pollok constituency, it stretches from | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
their down like a map of Italy almost, down to the boundaries of | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
the city. Let's take a look. Through the Clyde Tunnel, first | :38:18. | :38:37. | |
what issues concern folk here, no surprise, jobs. I cannot get a house | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
here. My daughter said to me, go to the other side of the city. We have | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
no future. Even the ones who are working, don't have an existence. | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
The temptation for them to go by the wayside is too much. How does it | :39:00. | :39:00. | |
make you feel? Angry. I see some If you come from a council estate, | :39:01. | :39:19. | |
they coal used stranded us. We're not like that. That might be called | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
you scroungers. South again, past the huge | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
Silverbone shopping centre, close to the city boundaries. -- | :39:34. | :39:43. | |
lets talk to join London, the former Labour leader. | :39:44. | :39:52. | |
They sounds to me like they learn looking for a champion -- they are | :39:53. | :40:01. | |
looking for a champion. Is that you? My whole life has been about | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
politics rooted in the real world. I want to, before anything else, stand | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
up for my constituents. In this election, it is about listening to | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
people, families worried about the quality of education, their elderly | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
mother left with an advocate -- left with inadequate care. Our politics | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
needs to be about resource thing things properly. When the SNP wants | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
to take money out of Glasgow, we want to fund it properly. | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
That is the accusation, you want to take money out of Glasgow. People I | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
have spoken to feel let down by Labour. They had been hammered by a | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
Tory Government, young people and the low paid being hammered. Labour | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
stood shoulder to shoulder with the Tories, outside the Govan shipyards. | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
Only this week to hear the shipyard saying that 800 jobs might be lost. | :40:57. | :41:05. | |
they have failed on the question of austerity. People are hurting, | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
people are worried, they are using food banks and soup kitchens. There | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
is a complete world out there that has nothing to do with Holyrood. | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
Could you be the champion? I have a proven record of being a champion in | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
Glasgow and in Pollock. I campaigned for the Glasgow campaign and we did | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
draught proofing, loft insulation. In other areas... The differences of | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
course, you stood shoulder to shoulder with the Conservatives. The | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
Liberal Democrats stood shoulder to shoulder with the Conservatives. The | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
shoulder in coalition and propped up the Conservative government. | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
Austerity is coming because these two parties... Thomas? The SNP have | :41:56. | :42:04. | |
introduced a higher cut, 133 million were taken out. Your party is in | :42:05. | :42:06. | |
favour of keeping down? In the real world, there are | :42:07. | :42:24. | |
families worried about childcare. Do you blame the SNP for that? I said | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
to them that I understand the challenges of budgets, but taking | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
money out of Glasgow, out of colleges, and then blaming | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
Glasgow... There have been ?130 million of cuts that the SNP handed | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
to Glasgow. We are looking for someone to stand up and fight. I | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
would like to make the point that a Government with the Lib Dems in it | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
makes for better Government. Are you proud of the college of the | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
Conservatives? I am proud of the things got through. Make that point, | :42:58. | :43:11. | |
JoAnn. If they are proud of taking ?130 million out of Glasgow. | :43:12. | :43:19. | |
Rubbish. You dead. Answer that. -- you did. There was a reduction in | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
Glasgow. Your own colleagues in Glasgow don't agree with you. They | :43:29. | :43:41. | |
had paid 32 officials over ?100,000. Care for the disabled, you have not | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
stood up all it -- you have not stood up for it. I am telling you I | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
have done. If you take money out of Glasgow, don't time round and say we | :43:54. | :44:01. | |
have to make... I am a trade unionist with Glasgow City Council. | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
42 Labour councillors voted to cut ?130 million rather than defend | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
services. What about that, JoAnn? He should accept that his own counsel's | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
funding deal for Glasgow wasn't good enough. It is not a game. What he | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
did with the Scottish Government is to make sure that people who are | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
carers, who are worried about their children's education, looking for | :44:29. | :44:28. | |
support Education services from the SNP have | :44:29. | :45:04. | |
been hammered. They have eradicated education. This is in the context of | :45:05. | :45:16. | |
austerity across the UK. The reason why over 170,000 college places have | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
been cut is because Alex Salmond mentioned it today, they have taken | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
for part-time places and made it into one full-time place. The three | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
people who used to get that are not getting it. We are almost out of | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
time. The Lib Dems have no credibility on this. Neither Labour | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
nor the SNP are shining light on this. Final word. If you want | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
someone who will stand up against Tory - driven austerity, someone who | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
will stand up to Glasgow City Council that is out of touch and | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
arrogant, vote SNP. Top-quality brass neck. URA Scottish Government | :46:00. | :46:07. | |
minister who has cut money out of Glasgow and then condemns those who | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
have made the cuts. People in this constituency don't need crocodile | :46:13. | :46:14. | |
tears, they need resource again funding. Cheap sound bites about | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
crocodile tears. I don't do sound bites as well as you. The man who | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
talks about shoulder to shoulder. Thank you, all five. I hope you all | :46:29. | :46:30. | |
win. Poverty and unemployment are big | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
issues in Glasgow Pollok Politicians see economic growth | :46:36. | :46:37. | |
as the key to creating more jobs, but economy is barely growing | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
and unemployment is up. So what can be done to drive growth | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
in output and where Our business correspondent | :46:45. | :46:46. | |
David Henderson has this report. This is where you grow world-class | :46:47. | :47:03. | |
companies. It's a clean room at Edinburgh University. To film it, we | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
had to put on layers of protective clothing. Easier said than done! To | :47:10. | :47:19. | |
stop us bringing dust and dirt into the lab. Inside, under special | :47:20. | :47:27. | |
lighting, engineers are hard at work on systems designed to boost the | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
strength of mobile phone signals. What is being made in this | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
state-of-the-art clean room are silicon wafers like this one. This | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
will be chopped up and turned into tiny silicone chips like these, | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
which will be embedded in mobile phones. Making this work takes time, | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
effort, huge amounts of skill, and a lot of money. But, get it right and | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
there is potential for huge sales. One of the company's founders told | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
me there are billions of smartphones around the world, and that means | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
billions of would-be customers. Our dream is to provide the best | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
wireless connection for everyone. No more frustration, no more putting | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
the phone up and down trying to capture a signal. When you go to a | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
conference or a meeting, everyone gathering to get a signal, we want | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
this to be in the past. New firms really matter, because Scotland's | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
traditional employers face a challenge like never before. Falling | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
oil prices have forced the offshore industry to shed thousands of jobs. | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
But other types of business are hungry for growth. Scotland is a | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
land of food and drink, exporting seafood to more than 100 countries, | :48:50. | :48:57. | |
so how do we boost those exports? We have to think about how we can help | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
companies collaborate together to develop a global offer to the world. | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
Our biggest competitors are outside of Scotland, not inside, so I would | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
like to see a much better level of collaboration across the food and | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
drink industry that helps us provide that offer to the world. Scotland's | :49:17. | :49:23. | |
businesses are watching next week's Holyrood elections more closely than | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
ever, because the Scottish parliament is taking on more tax | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
powers. That brings responsibility and control of a new kind. Economic | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
way, we are on a knife edge with regard to the potential of Scotland | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
re-entering a potential recession. That is a wake-up call that every | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
re-entering a potential recession. policy that comes out of our new | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
Government, every opportunity that you devolve -- new devolved powers | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
will create must be used you devolve -- new devolved powers | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
and be One in 50 people in Scotland has | :49:58. | :49:57. | |
a learning disability, so what's the voting process | :49:58. | :50:23. | |
like for them? Well, efforts are being made | :50:24. | :50:25. | |
to make it more accessible, Peter is a keen gardener. Not only | :50:26. | :50:37. | |
does he do it as a job, but as soon as he gets home, he can't wait to | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
get started on his patch. He is also an enthusiastic campaigner for the | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
rights of people like himself, with a learning disability. He will vote | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
in the forthcoming Scottish elections but feels that the | :50:52. | :50:54. | |
political parties don't do enough to make it easy for him to understand | :50:55. | :51:02. | |
their policies. They need to make it clearer, put symbols or pictures to | :51:03. | :51:05. | |
help people who can't read or write. In terms of policies, what would you | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
like them to introduce? Health care is important, and benefits is a big | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
struggle in point for people with a learning disability. In order to -- | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
according to Enable Scotland, people with learning disabilities face | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
exclusion. And consequently their voices are not heard by the people | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
who represent them in Parliament. They are in receipt of health and | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
social services, education, access will transport. All of these issues | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
are in the control of the politicians who will be elected on | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
the 5th of May. People with learning disabilities must get out there and | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
exercise their vote. The electoral disabilities must get out there and | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
commission and Enable Scotland have disabilities must get out there and | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
put out a leaflet with advice on how to vote. I am joined with a | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
representative from the electoral commission. What advice would you | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
give people with learning disabilities who go to a polling | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
station to vote? Our staff are trained to help all types of voters, | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
those with learning disabilities and those without. We have produced a | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
guide to give assistance on how to register on how to vote. You can ask | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
for as much or as little assistance as you want in the polling station | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
on the day. I suspect that what works for Peter could work for the | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
public at large when it comes to accessible communication from our | :52:31. | :52:31. | |
politicians. We heard earlier the economy was a | :52:32. | :52:44. | |
big battle ground in this election. This is another one, energy. Not | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
just how we heat our homes and how we pay bit, but how to make it | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
sustainable. We have examined had to examine the huge changes underway | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
and the challenges they bring. This power line's pylons March from | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
the Highlands to the lowlands, carrying power generated by the wind | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
in the North to consumers in the South. The line is controversial, | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
but is also a symbol of Scotland's energy revolution. It is a | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
revolution which has brought the days of Scotland's coal-fired power | :53:22. | :53:23. | |
stations to an end. Things move on, days of Scotland's coal-fired power | :53:24. | :53:38. | |
we have to move on. That is it. The ultimate goal, cutting carbon | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
emissions and meeting Scotland's climate change targets. The Paris | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
agreement is adopted. This woman is a global leader in the fight against | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
global warming. Despite the Scottish Government's repeated failures to | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
hit its own targets, she argues Scotland is a leader, largely | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
because of the switch to renewables. Once we have a target and we focus | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
and ring together private sector ingenuity, financing and policy, we | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
can actually meet and exceed targets. Forgive me, the interim | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
targets are being missed, how much of a concern is that? What you have | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
to look at is what is the direction of travel? The direction of travel | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
is fundamentally very sound. There is a huge political commitment to | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
continue this. I am not concerned about the little ebbs and flows. It | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
is what is the direction. But analysts warn cuts in subsidies made | :54:43. | :54:53. | |
at Westminster have cast a shadow over the sector. There has been a | :54:54. | :54:55. | |
chilling effect on a number of projects we are working on. Some of | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
them have been cancelled or won't go ahead in the current form. We are | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
now more dependent on wind energy more than ever before. Coal burning | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
now more dependent on wind energy has gone, gas is on the back burner | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
and the Scottish Government is opposed to new nuclear. We cannot be | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
certain if these turbines for turn when we need them most. In | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
certain if these turbines for turn and March, there were days when | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
there was no renewable input of any size to our electricity generation. | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
We were relying on importing electricity, probably nuclear, from | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
France. There are other challenges, Scotland's cold climates means much | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
of the energy we consume is used to heat our homes. We have to turn our | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
focus to the heating sector which is more than 50% of our energy needs. | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
We have to look at how we heat our homes and the leadership from the | :55:54. | :55:55. | |
Nick Scottish Government. Introducing a warm homes act, that | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
will attract investment to Scotland, tackle emissions and tackle fuel | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
poverty in Scotland. For the power in Scotland, it matters to all | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
others. Expect this debate to continue crackling with energy at | :56:11. | :56:18. | |
Holyrood and beyond. Just before we go, time to remind you of another | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
election debate on Scotland 2016. Tonight, in Glasgow, an audience of | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
voters will get the chance to question a panel of politicians | :56:30. | :56:32. | |
about their plans on an issue that matters to us all. Housing. Join us | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
later on BBC Two Scotland at 10:30 p.m.. Back to Brian for a final word | :56:39. | :56:45. | |
from Glasgow Pollok. D-Day approaches, but there is still a | :56:46. | :56:51. | |
manifesto to come? Yes, one little gap in the manifesto lists, that is | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
the Labour manifesto. It is due to be published and launched tomorrow. | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
Labour seems to want to have the last word. We don't expect any | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
surprises. One said to me, don't expect subtlety, it will be pushing | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
up the message of investing in the future. The argument from Labour | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
being, you require taxation increases, 1% across-the-board, | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
increased at the very top rate to 50%. You require that to produce | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
investment in public servers. It has been the core debate through the | :57:25. | :57:27. | |
whole of the selection. It will be the core debate tomorrow, with the | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
Labour manifesto and for the final week. Thank you very much. A | :57:34. | :57:36. | |
reminder of the end headline: week. Thank you very much. A | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
people were unlawfully killed in the Hillsborough disaster, an inquest | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
jury has ruled. The worst sporting tragedy in UK history took place in | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
1989 in Sheffield. Our election coverage continues | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
tomorrow. From all of us here, good evening. | :57:56. | :58:01. |