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The former Labour MP for Linlithgow Tam Dalyell has died

A family statement says the parliamentary veteran,

who spent 43 years as an MP, died after a short illness.

In these days of complaints about identikit politicians, Tam Dalyell

Not many Labour MPs could boast that they had their own

pride of peacocks living in their back garden.

A 17th-century castle overlooking the Forth, but Tam

He went to Eton, then onto Kings College, Cambridge,

He served his National Service with the Royal Scots Guards.

One of his ancestors set up the regiment.

But the conditions experienced by the Scottish miners near his home

were one of the reasons that brought him into politics.

I founded the socialists both at home and in

Cambridge all congenial people, because I suspect I am a bit of

In 1962, he won a by-election in West Lothian and embarked on a

unique political career marked by a willingness to ask

If you are really doing your job well, and you believe in things.

I know how much effort has gone into 500...

An assiduous constituency MP, he never held

Do you regret not having been offered ministerial office?

Over a 43-year parliamentary career, he was famous for his numerous

A fully paid-up member of the Commons Awkward Squad,

he famously campaigned against Margaret Thatcher and her Government

over the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser the Belgrano in the

Ministers and the Prime Minister have told

History has many examples of perfidy and deceit.

He also campaigned against the first Gulf

War and his challenges even won the admiration of opponents.

Tam Dalyell asked the most devastating question

had answered the question had Tam Dalyell stood

It is devastating, and I have never seen anyone else do that.

He also fell out with his own party over military action.

I think going to war in Afghanistan and the bombing of

On Lockerbie, he went against conventional thought

and refused to blame the then Libyan leader

Colonel Qaddafi for sanctioning the atrocity.

But perhaps he is best known for his opposition to devolution.

We will go down a motorway to a separate state,

a journey which many others won't want to embark.

He coined the West Lothian question, concerning the

rights of Scottish MPs to vote at Westminster after devolution.

He was a lifelong opponent of the Scottish Parliament.

The difficulty is that if you have an institution that

calls itself a Parliament, they want more and more and more.

He was the most fearless and the most

independent minded member of Parliament in my lifetime and the

He also had this combination of persistence and courtesy.

He was the most relentlessly courteous politician

Like his peacocks, in life, Tam Dalyell was always

willing to ruffle feathers if he saw fit.

Well, our political correspondent Andrew Kerr has an update on some

Leading distributes, a Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the

labour movement had lost a giant. She said Tam Dalyell was one of the

most influential MPs, writers and thinkers of his generation. She

added that his legacy will live on in the Commons for decades. The

former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was widely respected

and admired for his insight, integrity and eloquence. The First

Minister Nicola Sturgeon paid her tribute saying he was a real giant

of Scottish politics. Across the political spectrum he was admired

with the Conservative leader Ruth Davidson saying he was unique and

utterly tenacious. The Liberal Democrat leader said Tam Dalyell was

a huge political character who will leave an even bigger impression well

beyond his life. Child health in Scotland ranks among

the worst in Europe, The Royal College of Paediatrics

and Child Health says poverty remains the biggest cause and calls

on the government to take "bold" The Scottish Government says

it's making progress, Our Health Correspondent,

Lisa Summers reports. At this community centre,

this group is a valued weekly event. North Edinburgh faces problems

with poverty and deprivation but these parents are determined

to give their Is not easy and, you know,

you are working but it didn't work out and

now you are pregnant. The report looks at child health

across the UK and it doesn't paint a good picture

but, in Scotland, some of the statistics

are 210,000 children are living

in poverty and around 28% of In areas of deprivation,

around 30% of women continued to smoke

during pregnancy, but that figure falls

to If a mother smokes, she's been

addicted from an early age she wants to quit but she lives

on the eighth floor of a sky rise, how can

she possibly go outside

to smoke was to mock life can be compensated

for issues such as alcohol abuse, drug

abuse, drug abuse domestic abuse. Added together, these

make life very difficult for a large proportion

of The report makes a series

of recommendations including extending the smoking ban to schools

and sports field, setting targets In Parliament today,

the First Minister was challenged on why the

government wasn't doing more after ten years

in The report's view that, and I quote,

there is much that the Scottish Government

is doing to reduce there is much of Scotland that can

be celebrated and learned from. That said, I agree

with the report that there is much more required to be

done and we cannot be complacent. The government points to successes

such as tackling smoking and childcare provision so that parents

can get back to work. It says it will be

introducing a child poverty Bill, but the authors

of this report say that children have to be

at the heart of policy and decisions must

be made if we are to secure a At Holyrood, there's a new row over

whether the Scottish Parliament Our political editor

Brian Taylor has the details. At Westminster, the bill to trigger

Brexit is published. What ultranationalist MPs

will challenge that bill because there is no detail yet

in Scotland's Parliament The Scottish Secretary told Scottish

ministers there would be no Holyrood vote on that trip the bill,

but he said MSPs would asked to consent to the eventual great

repeal bill, which will undertake detailed EU

powers and return them to the UK. The purpose of the great repeal Bill

includes incorporating into Scots law the laws which

currently exist in the EU EU, there isn't a black hole

in terms of the legal vacuum. I am sure that the

parliament will want to ensure that that happens here

in Scotland, and that is one of the main reasons that it's very

important that we do get agreement The EU currently

controls issues ranging The great repeal Bill would ensure

that those laws were made in force initially by bringing them

back into UK statute, Should those powers go

back to Westminster, or should Hollywood be in charge

of issues which are Take farming, a Hollywood

power, but UK ministers are pondering whether there should

be a Common Agriculture Policy for the UK once power is

returned from Brussels. UK ministers suspect the industry

might not entirely favour Then there is the one and only

a question, the Belgian region which held up a European

trade deal with Canada. The Prime Minister has made clear

privately she doesn't want the same issue

to a rise in Brexit UK. David Mundell says that the Scottish

cup and will get new powers but Scottish

ministers are suspicious. I think Theresa May's vision

of the UK is a narrow, hard Brexit, Tory vision with everything

centralised in London. That isn't the vision

of the Scottish Government and it isn't

what the majority of Scottish people voted for, so it isn't something

we will There are policy questions

but it's also a question of The UK Government is inviting

the Scottish Parliament to talk about the details

of life of Brexit. Scottish ministers say, hang on,

that presumes we are accepting the shape, nature and

outline of Brexit itself. It's over to Judith now

with the weather forecast We had one of those beautiful days

that made you smile and indeed that were sent in by one of our weather

watchers. Look at these blue skies. Not everywhere saw those blue skies,

across a good part of the south and we had very bleak weather. Minus the

Celsius along the coast compared to what we saw in the Highlands. If you

degrees higher than what we expected, this is the earlier

satellite picture. It will be a cold night with Frost. It will be dry

across the board tomorrow with mist and fog patches through the central

lowlands, you may have to scrape your cars. Do wrap up warm.

Temperatures below freezing a land, there will be more of a breeze and

beverages will be above freezing. Wind across the Northern Isles,

lasting too much of the day. A good sunny spells on first light, and we

will see the best of the sunshine across eastern Scotland is cloud

starts to increase across western areas with a fuse box of rain into

the Western Isles. It when a fright is approaching from the Atlantic

bringing rain into Northern Ireland and the far south-west of Wales and

England. Cloudy skies hanging on generally in England but

temperatures do start to rise as we draw our weather from the Atlantic.

We could see double figures in temperatures tomorrow afternoon.

They will struggle in inland parts with two or three Celsius at best.

Though BBDO conditions further north. That weather front is the

journey across the country turning to snow over higher ground. It was

they can fight in the south and west with the north staying largely dry.

It weather front is just printing across eastern Scotland on Saturday,

but it does clear away. We will see showers with another weather front

approaching. The rain were clear on Saturday, brightening up for the

next band of showers feeds into the west and it won't be as cold as

we've seen this week. Our next update is during Breakfast

at 6:25 tomorrow morning. From everyone on the late team

here in Glasgow, goodnight.