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In the last few minutes, MPs in the House of Commons have | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
voted overwhelmingly in favour of renewing Brtain's Trident | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
All but one of Scotland's MPs opposed it. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Our political correspondent Nick Eardley, is at Westminster | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
As you say, an overwhelming victory for the UK Government tonight. 472 | :00:22. | :00:40. | |
MPs voting for the renewal of those submarines, just 117 voting against. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
I expect the UK Government will now move forward with the project fairly | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
quickly. But despite that majority tonight, the vast majority of | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Scotland's MPs voted against. The only MP from a Scottish constituency | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
who back the proposals was the Scottish Secretary, David Mundell. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Today's debate was heated at points. The Labour Party was split on this | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
issue. There were significant questions over what the cost of this | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
programme would be. I have been taking a look at the arguments. | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
Faslane nuclear base, outside bars go. This is where the UK Government | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
plans to store submarines for the next three decades. Outside | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Parliament tonight, those who oppose their existence. The campaign for | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
nuclear disarmament once the money is spent elsewhere. But the Prime | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Minister's view is that eight nuclear deterrent is essential. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Britain's nuclear deterrent is something we cannot do without. We | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
cannot compromise our national-security and we cannot | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
outsource our response ability for keeping our people say. And we | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
cannot give in to idealism. The nuclear button. Mrs Maywood have to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
give the decision on whether it is pressed. Let's cut to the chase. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Issue willing to give the order that would cause the death 100,000 men, | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
women and children. Yes. And I say to the honourable gentleman, that | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
the whole point of a deterrent is to show our enemies that we would be | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
prepared to use it. There is the question of the cost. The Ministry | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
of Defence says it will be ?31 million -- 30 ?1 billion up front. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
There is a contingency as well. Antinuclear campaigners think the | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
cost would be higher. CND estimated could be ?205 billion over the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
lifetime of the submarines. One MP says it is the lack of clarity which | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
is the problem. I find it utterly remarkable that a number of hours | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
into this debate, we still have no idea whatsoever of what the through | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
life cost of Trident replacement are? Polls suggest there is a split | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
in public opinion in Scotland on the submarines. But all bar one of | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Scotland's MPs was prepared to oppose the renewal? . What message | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
would Scotland be sending by saying we don't want Trident on our soil? | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
That means that 58 all of the 59 Scottish MPs would be voting against | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
jobs in Scotland. The UK Government will look to begin work on building | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
new submarines as quickly as possible. But despite tonight's | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
wrote, it is unlikely that we have heard the last of this debate. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
And already it seems that this debate will continue, the SNP's | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
Angus Robertson has said, Scotland's MPs have made their opinions | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
perfectly clear and calling for the weapons to now the removed from | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
Scotland, from the Faslane naval base. I expect it is unlikely that | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
the UK Government will accept that call. Ministers have told me that | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
they have no contingency plans, they have nowhere else that they could | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
send the weapons. It also seems likely that that long-running debate | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
over Trident, something that has dominated so much of our politics | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
recently, will continue. Thank you very much. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
For the people of who live and work at Faslane, | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
the renewal of Trident is not just about the issue of | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Craig Anderson spent the day there - and at nearby Helensburgh - | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
to find out what the local community thinks. | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
The genteel shores of Helensburgh, a tranquil air to the place. | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Strange in a way to remember that we are only a few miles away | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Some here abhor the idea of what they regard as weapons | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Others see the Trident system as a weapon of mass protection for us | :05:02. | :05:14. | |
all. Most of the people who work | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
there are civilians. They are coming in from Glasgow | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
and the surrounding areas. There are possibly not very many | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
people from Helensburgh. I don't like it at all and would | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
prefer it to be out of here, If you take Trident away, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
it will go downhill so fast Thousands work behind the wire here, | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
both military and civilian. Those who support Trident | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
and the maintenance of Faslane's role say the economic | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
significance to this area Almost 11,000 jobs depend | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
on Faslane, and there are 2000 more to come | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
through the Maritime That is about 12,500 jobs direct | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and indirect or shops Some argue that binning Trident | :06:04. | :06:26. | |
would not necessarily spell In fact, transforming it | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
into a conventional port could bring even greater benefits for this | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
part of the Clyde coast. If we got rid of this and turned it | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
into a surface base, got that on the Clyde, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
using different areas, black areas like Dumbarton and areas | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
with high unemployment, The Faslane naval base has been such | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
a prominent and permanent part of the landscape here for decades, | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
many in the community have grown up But its fundamental purpose - | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Britain's nuclear deterrent - still has the power sharply | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
to divide opinions, Two men have been taken to hospital | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
after a double-decker bus, which eyewitnesses say didn't | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
have a driver on board, caused a collision with two | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
other buses and a car The incident happened | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
in Renfield Street around a quarter One of the busiest streets | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
in Glasgow paralysed Three buses wrecked | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
at the start of the rush-hour. The vehicle which caused it had no | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
passengers, the others were busy. One bus turned up here, | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the other there, and this bus The bus came from behind, I did not | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
see it, but I saw that one. Police investigators have | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
to untangle them from each other before they could be taken | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
away for examination. This bus from Easterhouse appears | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
to have come down the street The police say that there | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
are reports that the driver had got out of the bus to remonstrate | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
with somebody on the street. Witnesses I have spoken to say it | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
came across the junction and hit a car, which then was knocked | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
into a pedestrian, who has The bus operator said it was too | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
early to speak your late on the cause of the accident, | :08:27. | :08:39. | |
but it has launched an immediate investigation and is working | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
with the emergency authorities. There's to be a 24-hour strike over | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
a pay dispute in the North Sea - the first such industrial action | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
in the offshore industry Earlier, I spoke to our reporter | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Steven Duff. More than 300 members of the RMT and | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
Unite union is in dispute over pay and allowances. They claim that they | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
are facing 30% cuts in their pay and allowances which the employer | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
emphatically denies. So this afternoon, the unions of visually | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
intimated to the country -- to the company, that next Wednesday, there | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
will be a 24-hour stoppage on the seven platforms. As for a potential | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
for resolution before then, we understand there are talks planned | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
for later this week. Our hope is always the same, that we get a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
resolution. We have always been clear about what the position is, we | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
have made that clear several times. They need to look again at what they | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
have proposed and as we say, we will discuss anything they have got to | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
put to us. Both companies say they are disappointed by the strike | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
decision. Is this a health and safety will be the priority was that | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
happens. Contingencies are in place. These workers cannot walk out, it is | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
likely they will just not turn up for work on the platforms those | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
days. There may be some resolution. An inspector who issued a safety | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
certificate for a roller-coaster 16 days before it crashed | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
in North Lanarkshire has been Nine people were injured when five | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
gondolas from the Tsunami ride derailed at M's | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
amusement park last month. The First Minister has announced | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
funding of ?42 million a year for the next ten years | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
for flood protection projects. Nicola Sturgeon was visiting | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Dumfries and Galloway, where some communities were badly | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
hit by flooding last year. Homeowners and businesses | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
in other parts of Scotland, including Royal Deeside, | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
also suffered in the A group opposed to Aberdeen Football | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Club's plans to move to the outskirts of the city has | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
vowed to continue its campaign The club wants to build | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
a new stadium and football academy Over to Judith Ralston now | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
with the weather outlook It's not often we have the hot sunny | :11:07. | :11:31. | |
globe out. It will be hot, the temperature is spilling up from | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Spain. A heatwave over France, driving across the UK. We saw | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
temperatures of 25 degrees across Scotland. A humid night. We could | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
see Mr Fogg towards the west coast in the morning. Temperatures monkey | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
first thing. The only fly in the ointment will be a patch of rain and | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
low cloud over Shetland. The morning looks lovely, beautiful sunshine. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Any missed clearing and those temperatures starting to rise as we | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
head through the morning. Taking a wider look at the UK, pretty much | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
the same picture across the border. There could be showered but | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
temperatures will be even higher than today. Potential 35 Celsius for | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
the Midlands. Back in Scotland, we could see 30 degrees in the Glasgow | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
area and to walk -- towards Dumfries area and to walk -- towards Dumfries | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Galloway. In the colour towards the Aberdeenshire coast but come on | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
land and you will feel that he is. There is a warning for some heavy, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
foundry downpours for tomorrow night and through Wednesday. The Met | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Office have issued that yellow warning. The evening starts dry and | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
warm but then we see bands of thunderstorms pushing in from the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
south-west, crossing the country tomorrow night. Heavy torrential | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
downpours. Not everywhere will catch them. Wednesday, the main focus of | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
another band of rain pushing up the eastern side of the country. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Something try developing across western areas but those temperatures | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
still feeling warm and humid. That to forecast. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
It's not often you see an orange version of the Scottish map! | :13:22. | :13:30. |