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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The UK Government promises more powers for Holyrood as part | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
of Brexit but Nicola Sturgeon accuses them of | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
As a funding boost is announced for mental health services, | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
we speak to one woman who felt let down by the NHS. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
I genuinely think if I did not get that help at the age of 16, I would | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
be drowning now. Also on the programme - | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Criticism of the way the NHS and police treat victims | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
of sexual assault. And Morton boss Jim Duffy admits | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
he was embarrassed by his actions after last night's touchline bust up | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
with Hibs manager Neil Lennon. The First Minister says | :00:45. | :01:02. | |
the Westminster Government is planning a "power grab" - | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
with its plans to move thousands of pieces of European Union law | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
onto the UK statute book, UK ministers say the changes | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
will include significant new powers But first our political | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
correspondent Nick Eardley reports from Westminster on what the bill | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
might mean for Scotland... A quieter Westminster today, | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
parliament moving on from yesterday's moment of history. Focus | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
switching to how Brexit woodwork. Deconstructing the media village is | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
swift, but dismantling the rule of EU law is far more complicated. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Today, part of the plan was published. The bill converting | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
European law into domestic legislation. Now is the time to come | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
together in ensuring the UK as a whole is prepared for challenges and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
opportunities presented by our exit from the EU. So, what is he | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
planning? Under the bill, thousands of laws would be created, Scottish | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
ministers get power to amend the bold legislation, the UK Government | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
says a number of powers will come to Holyrood from Brussels, but some may | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
go to Westminster. Ministers say that it is necessary to protect | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
stability. My preference is more devolution rather than less. That's | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
my viewpoint. The constraint on that, however, is weighed has a | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
direct affect on the whole United Kingdom's interest. It has not | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
convinced the SNP. It strikes me that the government has pushed the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
big red button marked Brexit, with their fingers crossed and very | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
little idea of what comes next. Will the bill require legislative consent | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
motion is? Yes or no? At this stage, we don't know, we do not know the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
finality is. It was accompanied by a warning that the government may not | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
be ready. It is a huge problem, people walked into this with their | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
eyes closed. I do not think ministers really know what the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
outcome is going to be. Nobody knows. Parliament breaks for Easter | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
recess tonight but when it returns, questions continue. It is clear that | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
this bit of legislation is one of the most complex Westminster will | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
ever consider. Those questions, concerns and complaints will not be | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
in short supply. The Brexit journey is underway but our route to the | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
UK's final destination outside of the EU, there will be many twists | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
and turns. Our Westminster Correspondent David | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
Porter joins me now. David - just how complex | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
is this process? The short answer is that it will be | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
very complex. For more than 40 years, many of the laws that govern | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
our everyday lives, from working conditions, social provision, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
consumer rights, to things like agriculture and fishing, they've not | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
emanated from this place behind me but from Brussels. With Brexit, that | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
all change. Laws have to come back to the UK. In principle, that sounds | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
quite simple. The practicality of it is that it is going to be enormously | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
complex. Literally thousands and thousands of pieces of legislation, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
which have been passed by Brussels over the years, will have to be | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
codified into UK law. There must be some potential here for what some | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
might be calling it a political mischiefmaking? Without a shadow of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
a doubt. This bill will not be Colossus, it will be extremely | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
detailed and extremely lengthy. There is potential for a quagmire in | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
it. To put it bluntly, if there are some MPs who want to cut it rough, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the bill going through Parliament will give them an opportunity. They | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
can delay it and can threaten to delay it. If they have gripes about | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Brexit or anything else, they will be able to use the legislation to | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
try and settle some scores. Theresa May only has a small Commons | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
majority. A vast amount of her time is going to be taken up with the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Brexit negotiations. If she or her ministers take the eye off the ball, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
they may find that here at Westminster that the repeal Bill is | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
actually a bit of a problem for them. David, thank you. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
To Holyrood now - where the First Minister accused | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
the Conservatives of planning a "power grab". | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
Nicola Sturgeon says EU control over major issues - | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
such as agriculture and fisheries - should be fully returned | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
to Holyrood - because they are already devolved issues. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
And the Scottish Government has hinted it might seek | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
to thwart the Repeal Bill, unless it gets guarantees | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
This from our political editor Brian Taylor... | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
Starring at. Leaders put rivalry aside for a charity appeal. But | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
there are recipes for Scotland's future remain very different. Nicola | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Sturgeon says that EU powers over devolved issues like agriculture | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
should come straight to Holyrood, not Westminster. Talk about UK | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Common framework leaves her suspicious. Those powers should | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
automatically come to this chamber. But nobody in the UK Government, and | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
I discussed it with the Prime Minister on Monday, nobody on the | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Conservative benches will give that guarantee. That leads me to suspect | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
that what the Tories are actually planning is a power grab on this | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Parliament. Holyrood may be asked to consent to the Great Repeal Bill. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Ministers say that they need a guarantee first. The Tories say the | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
SNP will hand power back to Brussels, and dismissed talk of | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
thwarting the bill. I think it is nuts, there's a widespread view | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
across Scotland now that Brexit is a real process and one we now to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
achieve from it, the possible future for Scotland as part of the UK | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
outside of the EU and I think that the public see people playing games | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
in which would ultimately be be settle in jobs, livelihoods and | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
dependent futures. The next step? Nicola Sturgeon | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
formally demands powers to hold an independence referendum within two | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
years. The UK response? No. And Brian joins us | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
now from Holyrood. Could Holyrood really try to thwart | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
the repeal Bill? We are not yet at that stage but we could get down the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
road. You heard David Davis said that he does not know if it would | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
require a legislative motion here, ministers are demanding clarity on | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
that point but Scottish ministers are suspicious, they pointed to the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
White Paper issues today and in particular to section 4.2, if you | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
want to look it up. It speaks of an overarching situation across the UK | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
as a whole with regard to agriculture and fisheries. Ministers | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
say to relax, it is a common-sense way of making sure things work | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
across the UK as a whole. Scottish ministers are remaining suspicious | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
but there are other points with regards to the business of whether | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Holyrood could thwart it. If there is to be a consent motion here, as | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
things stand, ministers are indicating they are not satisfied | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
things stand, ministers are with the approach set out. In the | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
White Paper they are waiting for the details. They want talks. We know | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
from the Supreme Court judgment, in an earlier phase of this, it's a | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
remarkable story a convention that Holyrood has to be consulted and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
that has to be acknowledged. But it is only a convention, it isn't | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
legally binding. There is much more to come in this yet. Brian, thank | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
you. A new vision for mental health | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
provision in Scotland has been laid The long delayed strategy sets out | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
plans to see specialist staff in emergency rooms, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
GP surgeries and prisons. There will also be a review | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
of provision in schools. But some organisations say it lacks | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
ambition - and funds. Here's our health | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
correspondent, Lisa Summers. Overall, what did you make of the | :09:08. | :09:19. | |
strategy? I thought there were a couple of things missing. First, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
there was no mention of black and minority ethnic people in terms of | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
vulnerable groups. This woman began to experience mental health issues | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
at the age of 13. Half of all mental health problems begin in childhood. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
It was a long wait for NHS counselling, so found help through a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
charity. I had a lot of anxiety, which I think I've always had. I | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
cannot remember not having it, I still have it. I had very low moods. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
What I now know is depression, but at the time didn't know that. The | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
government says it wants parity between mental and physical health. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
But the mental health Minister acknowledges that only one in three | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
people who would benefit from treatment is actually getting it at | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
the moment. There has also been a great deal of criticism about missed | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
waiting time targets. For children and young people getting access to | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
specialist counsellors. We want to creative Scotland where stigma | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
related to mental health is eradicated. The strategy was | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
presented to Parliament this afternoon. The mental health | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Minister said that she would implement 40 actions, including | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
employing 800 specially trained staff, a review of counselling | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
services in schools, and a clinical framework for mental health. This is | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
the sort of thing the government is investing in. Earlier today, the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Minister visited a weekly drop-in centre, a hub for a lot of mental | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
health services. Prevention and early intervention are the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
priorities. You see for the first time over ?1 billion being spent on | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
mental health services. There is already 150 million in place, and | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
the First Minister recently announced an extra ?35 million. What | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
we have committed to today is making sure that spending on mental health | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
will increase above what is spent on the health service generally. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Opposition parties and charities are concerned the strategy lacks detail | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and ambition. Psychiatrists say that they are | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
pleased with the vision to equate mental and physical health but are | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
concerned about funding. 23% of the work done in health services | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
surrounds mental health, yet just under 8% of the budget goes to | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
mental health services. With 300 million, that brings us up | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
to about 8%. So, we are still looking at a significant gap between | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
the size of the problem and the size of the resources going into it. This | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
woman has her own worries about how far the strategy will go, but as | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
early intervention is key. It was vital. It has been a lot easier for | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
me to know and understanding when I'm not OK and need to find help. I | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
genuinely think if I did not get that help at the age of 16, I would | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
be drowning now. Lisa Summers, reporting Scotland, Edinburgh. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
A doctor who mislead other medics about Pauline Cafferkey - | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
a nurse who developed the Ebola virus - has been suspended | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
Dr Hannah Ryan took Ms Cafferkey's temperature at Heathrow Airport | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
on returning from West Africa, where they had volunteered to help. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
But despite a high temperature - a warning sign of the virus - | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Dr Ryan agreed to a lower value being recorded. | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal said she was guilty | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
The Health Secretary has refused to ban mesh implant | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
Shona Robison says the Government's suspension of the routine use | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
of mesh implants will be lifted, but that health boards must inform | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
Ms Robison says it's not within the power | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
of the Scottish Government to ban the procedure. | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
Opposition politicians accused her of betraying patients. | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
Our political correspondent Lucy Adams joins us now. | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
Well, 2.5 years ago, the Scottish Government announced a review into | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the safety of mesh implants. Thousands of women across Scotland | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
have had mesh implant surgery, mainly to treat incontinence. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Hundreds of them have suffered debilitating side-effects. The | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
review group was set up, on Monday its final report was published. But | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
by then, three of their members had resigned, claiming it is a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
whitewash. Today, opposition MSPs accused the Scottish Government of | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
misleading and betraying the women who have suffered as a result of | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
mesh implant surgery. At First Minister's Questions, the Scottish | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
Labour leader Kezia Dugdale asked ministers why they would allow mesh | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
to continue to be used? There's been a cover-up which is a national | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
scandal. If a doctor told the First Minister, or someone that she loves, | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
that they should have this procedure, would she go ahead with | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
it? Nicola Sturgeon's answer is no. Or even if she is not sure, then | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
surely she must ban this devastating and dangerous practice once and for | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
all. Now, Shona Robison praised the tenacity of the women campaigners. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
She conceded she knows that they are unhappy with the final report but | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
said that nothing has been destroyed. No evidence has been | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
removed. And, it contains the most up-to-date clinical information. She | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
said it means in future, health boards would have to run past | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
patients all of the risk implied in potential mesh surgery, but that she | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
cannot stop it from being used altogether. They would | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
understandably have been disappointed with anything short of | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
a complete ban on mesh from this report. But I do have to say that | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
the Scottish Government and independent review never had the | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
power to introduce a ban on mesh. As I said in my statement, the power | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
only lies with the NHRA, the UK regulatory body, and they have | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
chosen not to do so -- MHRA. Her predecessor, the Health Secretary | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
who set up the group in the first place, said today there needs to be | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
an investigation into what happened. Shona Robinson said that they will | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
look at the process but they will not reopen the process. Or change | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
the conclusions. He said in that case, potentially it is not worth | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
the paper it is written on. So, for some clinicians, that might be | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
something which is fine as this goes forward but for the women | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
campaigners, it is not something that they will accept. Lucy, thank | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
you. You're watching BBC | :15:54. | :15:54. | |
Reporting Scotland. The UK Government promises more | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
powers for Holyrood as part of Brexit but Nicola Sturgeon | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
accuses them of Highlands and Islands | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
Enterprise is to remain The managers of Hibernian and Morton | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
are likely to be in trouble with the football authorities, | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
after a fracas involving them and some of their players, | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
during their match at Tempers frayed after an incident | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
on the pitch late in the game. Both managers - Neil Lennon of Hibs | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
and Morton's Jim Duffy - became involved, and as you'll see | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
they had to be kept apart. Our sport reporter David Currie | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
is here to talk about it all. That's certainly one | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
and a common one but not long after their sport managers would | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
eventually be sent to the stand and were reported to the Scottish | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
football Association. Neil Lennon claimed he was standing up for his | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
player and that Jim Duffy challenged him to ask where ago. To translate | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
that is a fight. Jim Duffy denies this but admits to being embarrassed | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
by his behaviour are describing it as immature and apologising. Neil | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Lennon has not withdrawn the accusation and has not apologised. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
So what happens next? Both managers can expect to be contacted by the | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
SFA compliance officer and it is likely they will both be banned from | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the touchline for a number of matches. Jim Duffy in what seems to | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
be an advanced plea in mitigation it says in his long career, almost 30 | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
years as a manager, this is his first offence. Neil Lennon is no | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
stranger, you can recall perhaps when he was Celtic manager getting | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
involved in things with Ally McCoist which ended up resulting in a | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
political summit to tackle behaviour at old firm matches. The fallout | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
from this is unlikely to be as far reaching. Thank you, to be | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
continued. The crew of an Indian ship stranded | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
in Aberdeen is taking legal The Malaviya seven was detained | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
last year, amid claims A writ was served yesterday, | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
which prevents the vessel If the crew's claims aren't settled, | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
it could be sold off. 36 men are claiming thousands | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
of pounds in unpaid wages. The way victims of sexual assault | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
are treated by the NHS and police after making a complaint has | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
been strongly criticised The Inspector of Constabulary says | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
services offered to some victims are "unacceptable", and lag | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
behind the rest of the UK. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
Reevel Alderson reports. This clinic in Glasgow is regarded | :18:45. | :18:56. | |
as a model for the treatment of victims of sexual crimes. They | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
receive professional clear here while forensic medical examiners | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
gather evidence to put before a court. But it's the only one of its | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
kind in Scotland and is not always available at night or weekend 's. | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
The Inspector of Constabulary says this gives a two tier system whilst | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
elsewhere in Scotland the service offered is described as | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
unacceptable. There should be one examination able to address any | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
immediate clinical needs and retrieve any forensic evidence but | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
more importantly that care pathway and actually intervene to meet the | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
wider counselling and follow-up care that an individual might need. The | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
report says the priority in medical forensic examinations should be to | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
address the immediate medical needs of patients and also their ultimate | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
recovery. The gathering of evidence for future criminal proceedings | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
should be a second consideration. But the report also says most | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
forensic medical examinations in Scotland take place in police | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
stations which it says rarely have discreet access and are much more | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
difficult to keep forensically sterile. It goes on to say that | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Scotland is lagging behind the rest of the UK in dealing with sexual | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
assault victims. In England there are 43 sexual assault referral | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
centres. In Wales four where victims are treated what evidence is | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
retrieved. But in Scotland only one, the report says the government | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
should provide more. This former senior Detective wrote a report four | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
years ago making similar recommendations. Victims need to | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
have faith in the process from end to end and if that includes a | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
medical examination it should be done sensitively and a appropriately | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
and with specialist, highly trained and skilled professionals. The | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
Scottish Government says it is committed to improving services to | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
meet the needs of victims, it has announced an expert group to do that | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
with new standards being published by the end of the year. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Transport Scotland has published a list of the busiest | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
The data compiled over a six-month period shows the busiest services, | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
and worst-affected points along each route. | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
Top of the list is the 17:21 train from Edinburgh | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
to Glasgow Central via Shotts, which was found to run at almost | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Transport Scotland said the information would help ScotRail | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
to "improve passenger experiences" and make the best use | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
A new warning system is being installed in Newton Stewart, | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
in an attempt to alleviate the effects of flooding there. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
The scheme uses real-time forecasting models to predict | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
problems, before alerting hundreds of homes and businesses | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
Residents will have to sign up to receive the warnings. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
The town in Dumfries and Galloway suffered its worst flooding in half | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
The Scottish Government is altering its plans to amalgamate | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
the boards of Scotland's two enterprise and skills agencies. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
It means Highlands and Islands Enterprise will remain in charge | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
of its own affairs - but there will be what's described | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
as a "new strategic board" co-ordinating their activities | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
alongside other similar organisations. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Our reporter Craig Anderson joins us now from the headquarters | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
of the Highland Enterprise body in Inverness. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
I would say it's a partial U-turn because there are going to be two | :22:26. | :22:40. | |
sets of boards, if you look back to 1965 the reason for this controversy | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
was that back then it was set up to specifically target the particular | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
problems of the Highlands and Islands, depopulation, lack of | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
infrastructure and investment. People would say it has done a | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
pretty good job at doing that, but the fear was that control was going | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
to be taken away and given to this overarching board which had | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
responsibility for all the enterprise and skills agencies in | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Scotland. So now with this new structure what some of the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
government 's opponents are saying is that this is a U-turn but also | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
because of the new structure they are asking who is in charge. If they | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
have to conform to a Scotland wide delivery plan purpose and vision how | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
does this allow for local accountability and decision making? | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
Can I therefore ask you is the boss? I have said the board will remain as | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
it is and have the powers it currently has, it will not be | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
second-guessed, it will continue to take the decision making it has had | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
up until now. Why anyone would object to our main enterprise and | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
skills agencies collaborating and aligning for the greater purpose of | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
improving performance I don't know. Critics of the original plan say it | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
is part of decentralisation agenda by the SNP and pointed to the fact | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the control rooms of the police and fire for example had been taken away | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
from the Highlands and located in the central belt. The enterprise | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
Secretary may have thought perhaps he has headed off his critics at the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
pass with this compromise as he would seat, a fudge perhaps to | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
others. This is the way it will be, two different boards, one | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
overarching and each agency will have its own independent board. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
That's the way it's going to be. We'll all the shouting be over? | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Perhaps not, there may be more to come. Thank you. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Shereen can tell us what is coming up on tonight's Timeline... | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
You will hear from two cyber wars of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
take a look at the new law on revenge pawn which could see people | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
locked up for five years. Plus we visit the Aberdeenshire chav day | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
visiting traumatised soldiers which is won a major award. And we will | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
talk to the actor David Hayman. Bit of everything Sally! Best of the | :25:17. | :25:34. | |
weather in the north-east, 18 degrees, blue skies but denied rain | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
is on the way, you can see the chart, the rain edging its way | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
north, reaching Inverness around midnight, eventually for all of us | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
are cloudy and wet night. Staying dry probably for the Northern Isles | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
but misty and murky at times and mild for all, temperatures no lower | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
than eight or nine Celsius. It does mean tomorrow gets off to a rather | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
cloudy and wet start with a further spell of rain edging its way from | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
the south, heavy across western parts, the further east the wet | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
weather not quite as heavy but eventually meet grossed out the back | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
that that that. Things drying from the South as the rain continues to | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
ship north, temperatures 12, 13 at best, the rain, hopefully the | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Western Isles staying dry but close best, the rain, hopefully the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
for comfort, still quite wet to the far north and Orkney and eventually | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
the heavy rain reaching Shetland. The rest of the afternoon into the | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
evening the rain clears away from the mainland, bright spells around | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
and then showers, Saturday is the 1st of April, hefty showers at | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
times, they could appear almost anywhere and with them sons sunshine | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
and starting to feel a bit fresher. This weekend Sunday is the better | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
day, dry and bright and spells sunshine and the wind from the site | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
waist size of ten to 12. Let's take a quick look at next week, outbreaks | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
of rain, high pressure in the Atlantic and that will muscle its | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
way inside, settling down, dry, bright, sunshine and rather | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
pleasant. That's the forecast burn-out! | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
That's Reporting Scotland burn-out, until the later bulletins, have a | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
good evening, by. Frank Meehan is 93 and enjoying his | :27:42. | :27:53. | |
retirement in Helensburgh, That's nine Presidents you've worked | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
for? Yeah, that's right. Gosh. | :28:01. | :28:02. |