18/01/2017 Reporting Scotland

Tonight the verdict on the Prime Minister's exit Strang. Join me now

on BBC Two. Here on BBC One it's time

for the news where you are. The SNP has accused

the Prime Minister of pursuing a "little Britain Brexit" -

which would hit jobs During Prime Minister's questions

she was quizzed on what her plans to take the UK out of the single

market would mean. However Mrs May said Scottish

government proposals would be taken seriously,

but that the biggest threat to the economy

here was the the nationalist threat Our westminster correspondent

Nick Eardley reports. Probably not the Brexit Britain

Theresa May envisages but not everyone is impressed

with her vision for This German newspaper thinks

the Prime Minister is leading Britain into isolation,

and image borrowed by the SNP Concerns over what leaving the EU

single market could mean for Scottish businesses

and the money in your pocket. When the forecast for people's

income is likely to drop by ?2000, and that 80,000 people may

lose their jobs in Scotland as a result of the hard Tory Brexit

plan of the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister believe

that this is a price worth paying We will be working to ensure we get

the best deal in terms of access to the single market and continuing

to cooperate in partnership with the remaining 27

member states of the EU. His party is dedicated to taking

Scotland out of the single market by taking it out

of the United Kingdom. Scottish Government proposals

will be considered at a meeting There are elements of

the Scottish Government's plan which ministers

in London agree with. Access to the single market will be

on the table, but membership, the Scottish Government's key

demand, is not something the UK It is clear Scotland cannot be

a member of the single market if it is not a member of the EU,

and the UK will not be Theresa May arrived in Davos

to sell her vision of a global She hopes they and you the voters

buy into her vision Her opponents are worried though

that storm clouds are gathering. Hundreds of jobs are going

in the banking sector with Clydesdale announcing tonight

that it's shutting It comes on a day of mixed economic

news for Scotland with high street sales up but unemployment

rising last autumn. Our Business and Economy Editor,

Douglas Fraser has the details. The coastal bank has identified 40

brands as it intends to close in Scotland and roughly the same size

of cuts with Yorkshire bank in England. A great savings bank. Today

it is closing its stores at his remaining three branches with 70

jobs being lost. Deposits for 40,000 savers as safe and loans are being

transferred to TSB. It is waning of the business after 182 years and is

Britain's last independent savings bank. And makes my blood boil that

these are fat cats in London who brought the financial crash upon us

are still walking away with big bonuses and the people who wrote the

entry savings bank on a voluntary basis and no having to face this

closure because of the regulations resulting from the greed of the fat

cats and London. What's of numbers today. Retailers have had a Merry

cats and London. What's of numbers Christmas than for several years,

possibly because shoppers and businesses expect inflation so get

practices and error. Pay rose by an average of 2.8% but what about jobs?

That is an unemployed and rate of 5.1% below the UK rate is at its

lowest for more than one decade. The number of people and work in

Scotland has fallen by 40,000 bail is groovy little across the rest of

the UK. For those getting jobs are creating their own companies, it

pays to be adaptable as John McManus has been finding out.

It might still be an uncertain time for Scotland's economy,

but despite challenges facing the job markets, necessity

This storage company in Paisley is typical

Most of its customers are small businesses,

some of them newly launched, who need to store materials

It is doing so well, above these storage units it has

launched a suite of offices for hire on a monthly bases aimed

at companies unsure what the future holds long-term.

We try to take away uncertainty and hope the business comes

in and takes the space for a month, grow the business, bring it

back down in size again, to try to make it work for them.

This small company is typical of those who moved in.

The best option for them as they map out their future.

It makes it better for me in the long run that I do not pay

out a lot of money on a big fancy building, and rent a big space that

The number of storage companies has jumped in Scotland,

providing a secure route through the economic uncertainty.

Yet more numbers to date from the Scottish Government showing sluggish

growth in output across the economy. It grew only 0.2 of 8% between July

and September and December before that. It has been growing at three

times the pace in the UK economy. The slump of the oil and gas sector

explains it as well as constitutional uncertainty about

Brexit and Scotland's future. A government scheme to compensate

rail passengers with free tickets following criticism of rail services

may not go ahead unless Holyrood's rural economy committee

heard today that Abellio ScotRail and Transport Scotland

are still discussing how to implement the free week

for season ticket holders, which was announced in the Scottish

Government's draft budget. The Scottish Government's been

defeated over its plans to abolish the board of Highlands and Islands

Enterprise. MSPs backed calls to reverse

the decision to create a Scotland wide board for enterprise and skills

by 64 votes to 63. Ministers are now expected

to rethink their plans. Police have confirmed that a bullet

has been recovered from a tree beside the Glasgow school

where a man was shot on Monday. 35 year old Ross Monaghan

was attacked after dropping his child off at St George's Primary in

Penilee. Four years ago he was cleared

of a gangland murder. The Health Secretary has defended

the decision to delay the implementation of a ?30 million

pound trauma network for Scotland. The centres should have been

in operation by 2016 Shona Robison was asked

to apologise for the delay, with Labour saying up to 18,000

people would be failed. Let's get the weather forecast

now with Christopher. Largely dry and cloudy across the

country but the sunnier skies across the north-east meaning clear skies

tonight and Chile but mailed foremost. Across the UK village I am

cloudy but if you spot of light rain and the Fire Service, called the

coming off the continent will mean it is a rather frosty with the

conditions in the north-east leading to frost. Temperatures are very

similar to how we stuck to the data model. Six to 8 degrees. Perhaps the

odd patch of frost around in the north-west and patchy outbreaks of

in the stretching towards Orkney and Shetland welly bit of a breeze here

but elsewhere the winds are generally late. Through tomorrow

little in the way of change, mostly dry and cloudy but once again in the

north-east seen the best of any sunshine and those in the sky it's

harder to come by tomorrow. Villa cloudy across to most of the

Midlands and Wales and Northern Ireland with southern England with

some sunshine but cooler. Nick today mostly mild but also mostly cloudy.

The best of any sunshine across the north-east with temperatures around

a domain Celsius. Still rain across the far north and the Northern Isles

and, Friday the greater skies in the north-east shift westwards as a

drier air arrives and something bright of edging and towards

Strathclyde at times too. To the weekend, high pressure still with us

so largely dry with some brightness but not wall-to-wall sunshine and

average temperatures and sums spots of rain and the north-west.

But from everyone on the late team, goodnight.