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:00:08. > :00:10.The Scottish National Party's leaders have delivered a defiant

:00:11. > :00:12.warning to the Prime Minister, telling the party's

:00:13. > :00:15.conference they will not allow her to thwart plans

:00:16. > :00:20.The First Minister is also urging Theresa May to take

:00:21. > :00:25.We will bring you the Prime Minister's response in a moment.

:00:26. > :00:26.But first, our political editor, Brian Taylor, reports

:00:27. > :00:43.A sense of history, the SNP Bosman Deborah Lee leader brandishes a

:00:44. > :00:48.slogan devised by the party's Pathfinder, Winnie Ewing. They also

:00:49. > :00:54.reckon historic change is under way now. It has been a pretty momentous

:00:55. > :01:04.week in Scottish politics. Derek Mackay being tamed, the momentum.

:01:05. > :01:08.The First Minister Scotland, Nicola. The SNP want a referendum before

:01:09. > :01:12.shortly after Brexit is concluded. The Prime Minister will not

:01:13. > :01:16.countenance that. Scotland will have its referendum and the people of

:01:17. > :01:26.this country will have their choice. They will not be denied their say.

:01:27. > :01:30.So, what to do? Who knows, another election might be around the corner.

:01:31. > :01:34.A throwaway line but is it possible? In earlier Hollywood election to

:01:35. > :01:39.force the Prime Minister to negotiating table? Senior SNP

:01:40. > :01:44.strategists discount the idea of an early Hollywood reason -- Hollywood

:01:45. > :01:48.election because unnecessary elections, it might not going to

:01:49. > :01:52.live well for the SNP under a proportional voting system you can

:01:53. > :01:56.never be entirely sure of and three, the most important, the SNP insist

:01:57. > :02:00.they already have a mandate for a further referendum, arguably to call

:02:01. > :02:06.another election would be to weaken that case. The SNP has sampled

:02:07. > :02:10.opinion and focus groups and elsewhere, there is a degree of

:02:11. > :02:13.resistance to an early referendum. But the party insists people are

:02:14. > :02:18.open to the idea of Scotland having a choice in time to impact upon

:02:19. > :02:23.Brexit. When that option is explained. So what about a

:02:24. > :02:26.non-statutory advisory referendum? Nicola Sturgeon will snuffing out

:02:27. > :02:31.but she is far from keen on that idea. Viewing it as a gesture

:02:32. > :02:35.politics. -- will snuffing out. She wants the Prime Minister to talk now

:02:36. > :02:41.about possible dates for a future referendum. -- rules nothing out.

:02:42. > :02:46.Let's have a discussion, who knows, if I'd be only a matter of weeks or

:02:47. > :02:49.months apart. I am up for continued discussion. Outside the hall,

:02:50. > :02:53.prounion campaigners make discussion. Outside the hall,

:02:54. > :02:56.point rather bluntly. But inside the conference, delegates are intent on

:02:57. > :02:59.independence. And their leader appears undeterred by the obstacles

:03:00. > :03:02.in her path. The Prime Minister today

:03:03. > :03:04.renewed her opposition to another vote on Scotland's future

:03:05. > :03:07.while the UK is in the process The Scottish Government's Brexit

:03:08. > :03:12.Minister, Mike Russell, responded with a claim that this

:03:13. > :03:14.course would lead to Here's our political

:03:15. > :03:27.correspondent, Glenn Campbell. There is no meeting of minds between

:03:28. > :03:33.these two leaders on Scotland's future. In Cardiff, the Prime

:03:34. > :03:39.Minister accused the SNP of exploiting Brexit to pursue

:03:40. > :03:43.independence. It is now clear that using Brexit as the pretext to

:03:44. > :03:47.engineer a second independence referendum has been the SNP's sole

:03:48. > :03:53.objective ever since last June. But it would be bad for Scotland, bad

:03:54. > :03:57.for the United Kingdom and bad for us all. As the SNP conference,

:03:58. > :04:01.Scottish ministers save their attempts to broker a Brexit

:04:02. > :04:05.compromise work rebuffed and that another independence referendum must

:04:06. > :04:08.be allowed when the terms of Brexit become clear. If the Scottish

:04:09. > :04:13.Parliament was to have a referendum, it would be an extremely

:04:14. > :04:19.undemocratic act to try and stop that. What if she still says no? The

:04:20. > :04:20.reality is we are then in a constitutional crisis because the

:04:21. > :04:24.Scottish Parliament has expressed constitutional crisis because the

:04:25. > :04:28.its opinion, is we have the awake or sitting down and discussing it. Can

:04:29. > :04:34.you have a referendum anyway? I do not think we are near that stage but

:04:35. > :04:37.view is there must be a referendum at the Scottish Parliament bowsprit.

:04:38. > :04:41.So what do SNP supporters think of it should do? I am sure she will

:04:42. > :04:46.have her away. I have full faith in Nicola Sturgeon. If the UK

:04:47. > :04:51.Government is unwilling to compromise, I think we should go for

:04:52. > :04:56.it. I don't think anyone here would want it to be that, I think we would

:04:57. > :04:59.want to have that agreement. This expert thinks this could be a

:05:00. > :05:05.lengthy dispute. This could go on for a very long time. It could go on

:05:06. > :05:11.for several years with neither side giving way and meanwhile has be

:05:12. > :05:14.negotiated. There is no obvious end to this stand-off between the

:05:15. > :05:19.Scottish and UK governments in sight. Unless, of course, there is a

:05:20. > :05:22.big shift in public opinion, either for or against another independence

:05:23. > :05:24.referendum. Glenn Campbell, Reporting Scotland, Aberdeen.

:05:25. > :05:27.A conservation charity has taken North Sea and west coast haddock,

:05:28. > :05:29.staple of the traditional fish supper, off its list

:05:30. > :05:43.Not everyone agrees with the move, as Rebecca Curran reports.

:05:44. > :05:51.Haddock was on the menu today for twins Jack and Elsa, it is their

:05:52. > :05:53.favourite fish but according to the Marine conservation Society, stocks

:05:54. > :05:57.are lower than they should be. They have taken it off their

:05:58. > :06:01.sustainability list and suggests people try waiting or hate instead.

:06:02. > :06:11.But this fish merchant disagrees. I could not believe it. -- Bagadur.

:06:12. > :06:18.There was a wreck at landing. -- wrecker. I hope the consumer will

:06:19. > :06:25.see it will stop I hope Google keep eating habits because they love it.

:06:26. > :06:31.The Marine conservation Society its downgrading fish stocks fell last

:06:32. > :06:38.year. -- it downgraded. The assessment is that the fish in

:06:39. > :06:44.question at the biomass is above and below the levels recommended for

:06:45. > :06:49.maintaining the sustainable fishery in the long-term. But the Fishermans

:06:50. > :06:52.Federation has the mud of the society retracts the claims, which

:06:53. > :06:56.they say are false. They are not fishermen or scientists, they have

:06:57. > :06:59.scientists among them but they are not embedded as we are in the

:07:00. > :07:03.day-to-day stewardship of these stocks. We know when the sustainable

:07:04. > :07:08.or not and we get proper accreditation. And they come out

:07:09. > :07:12.with this lightweight stuff about potentially damaging busters were

:07:13. > :07:15.not happy as you may have gathered. Several hundred boxes of haddock

:07:16. > :07:20.have been landed here in Peterhead last week alone. Much of it headed

:07:21. > :07:23.for for fish and chip shops. But mixed messages over sustainability

:07:24. > :07:26.will undoubtedly confuse consumers who will be left wondering whether

:07:27. > :07:31.or not they can order their Friday fish supper with a clear conscience.

:07:32. > :07:35.Rebecca Taarabt, Reporting Scotland, Peterhead. -- Rebecca Curran.

:07:36. > :07:37.Police searching for Moira Anderson, the schoolgirl who disappeared

:07:38. > :07:40.60 years ago, say they've identified five areas of interest on

:07:41. > :07:44.Radar and sonar equipment has been used to pinpoint the areas

:07:45. > :07:48.The 11-year-old left her grandmother's house in Coatbridge

:07:49. > :07:55.Police believe that the bus's driver, Alexander Gartshore,

:07:56. > :07:59.murdered her, before disposing of her body.

:08:00. > :08:09.Let's get the weekend weather outlook now, from Kawser.

:08:10. > :08:16.Good evening. So far this evening it has been quite cloudy and wet with

:08:17. > :08:23.her bridge of rain falling as snow over the highest road routes in the

:08:24. > :08:27.North. Some snow on the ground here, and while it will be cloudy and wet

:08:28. > :08:31.for a while, it will become drier as we head through the night. The rain

:08:32. > :08:35.clearing away as we head through the night. Mainly cloudy skies across

:08:36. > :08:38.the central belt and the South, but the poor North and North East, the

:08:39. > :08:42.risk of icy stretches under clear skies, temperatures dipping close to

:08:43. > :08:46.freezing in places and the Met Office had issued a yellow warning

:08:47. > :08:51.for part of a Highland, Moray and Aberdeenshire. For towns and cities,

:08:52. > :08:56.temperatures in the South, seven or eight Celsius, close to freezing in

:08:57. > :09:00.the North. Tomorrow, here is the wider picture for the UK. The

:09:01. > :09:04.largest and driest conditions will be further towards the South East

:09:05. > :09:08.and across parts of Scotland. Across the West, outbreaks of rain pushing

:09:09. > :09:13.into Northern Ireland and parts of Wales and north-western Scotland.

:09:14. > :09:17.Coverage is here mild, 12 to 15. If you're heading to Edinburgh for the

:09:18. > :09:20.rugby, it will be dry and where to start with bar code will increase

:09:21. > :09:24.during the match, but staying largely dry. The afternoon, starting

:09:25. > :09:30.to see cloud and rain thickening across South West. There may be some

:09:31. > :09:34.damp weather Ford Humphreys and Galloway, and western parts of the

:09:35. > :09:38.border. The East Coast dry with sunshine. -- would present Galloway.

:09:39. > :09:42.Across Orkney some persistent showers throughout the course of the

:09:43. > :09:48.day. For the evening, the rain are piling in across the West, some of

:09:49. > :09:51.it heavy at times. That will last until Sunday morning. Sunday, some

:09:52. > :09:54.onto -- uncertainty, but it looks as though Bill approved by the

:09:55. > :09:56.afternoon with more on the way of sunnier spells.

:09:57. > :09:59.From everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around