:00:00. > :00:14.MSPs have voted overwhelmingly to urge the UK Government
:00:15. > :00:17.to lift the two child benefit cap and scrap the so-called rape clause.
:00:18. > :00:20.In a debate at Holyrood the First Minister described
:00:21. > :00:21.it as "abhorrent" but the Conservatives
:00:22. > :00:24.said Nicola Sturgeon had the power to change it in Scotland.
:00:25. > :00:37.Our political correspondent Andrew Kerr has the story.
:00:38. > :00:42.Enough is enough, the First Minister, pressing on with her
:00:43. > :00:48.opposition to this policy at this women's aid centre in Edinburgh. The
:00:49. > :00:52.cab into children receiving tax credits means there is an exemption
:00:53. > :00:54.for a child conceived through rate. At Hollywood all the parties rounded
:00:55. > :00:59.on the Conservatives as they opposed At Hollywood all the parties rounded
:01:00. > :01:05.UK Government reports. The impressions of this policy are truly
:01:06. > :01:12.abhorrent. The very need to provide an exemption for women who have been
:01:13. > :01:16.raped shows the callousness of these cuts in the first place. The
:01:17. > :01:21.Conservative leader tried to strike a consensual note. I suspect we
:01:22. > :01:26.almost survive as of rape, and I know there are even those among us
:01:27. > :01:29.here who have them subject to sexual violence ourselves and find the
:01:30. > :01:34.issue and even the word difficult to articulate. If the government he
:01:35. > :01:43.doesn't like it, they can change it, they said. If you'd did strong words
:01:44. > :01:47.like shameful and has the power to act and choose strong words but not
:01:48. > :01:52.to act, that would indeed be shameful. But the First Minister
:01:53. > :01:56.wasn't for mitigating the effects. Let's forget the sticking plaster
:01:57. > :02:00.approach. It is the fourth control of tax credits and Universal Credit
:02:01. > :02:08.and the devolved budgets that go with them and then let us make our
:02:09. > :02:14.own tissues in this Parliament. The Labour leader read out a letter from
:02:15. > :02:17.a past rape victim. It is an absolutely sickening state of
:02:18. > :02:22.affairs but it's not the author of that letter or any other rape victim
:02:23. > :02:32.who should feel shame, it is those on the Tory benches here and in
:02:33. > :02:35.Westminster who refused to act. If a policy states a precondition where a
:02:36. > :02:41.woman needs to prove that they have been raped, and such policy has no
:02:42. > :02:47.place in a civilised society. At Green said Chris Davison's mask had
:02:48. > :02:51.slipped. She has spent years tried to convince voters that the Tories
:02:52. > :02:55.of the nasty party no longer but when you cut through the provider
:02:56. > :02:58.can you can see that Mr Davidson is just another cruel number of the
:02:59. > :03:03.cruel number of accrual party. It was a difficult afternoon for the
:03:04. > :03:06.Conservatives at this election time, although the First Minister has
:03:07. > :03:09.denied playing politics with the issue.
:03:10. > :03:11.The board of directors at Rangers discussed the possible
:03:12. > :03:13.collapse of the club months before it was
:03:14. > :03:17.That's according to the former finance director
:03:18. > :03:20.who was giving evidence at the trial of Mr Whyte.
:03:21. > :03:29.Our correspondent David Henderson reports.
:03:30. > :03:37.Craig Moore, scoring from Rangers 17 years ago. Today the jury heard
:03:38. > :03:40.about the way the Ibrox club had paid him and some team-mates, and
:03:41. > :03:48.the dispute that sparked the tax authorities. Giving evidence for a
:03:49. > :03:51.second day, Rangers former finance director Donald McIntyre. He was
:03:52. > :03:57.questioned about the health of the club's finances in the months before
:03:58. > :04:02.it was sold to Craig Whyte. The court heard that Rangers were facing
:04:03. > :04:09.a tax bill for more than ?2 million and another tax claim for much more.
:04:10. > :04:13.As much as ?50 million, because of the use of EBTs, all employee
:04:14. > :04:19.benefit trusts, used by the club debate layers. The defence advocate
:04:20. > :04:28.called this a nuclear missile heading towards Rangers. Craig Whyte
:04:29. > :04:32.port ranges in May 2011, and he faces a fraud charge. The Crown says
:04:33. > :04:38.he falsely claimed he had the money needed to fund the deal. Today the
:04:39. > :04:42.court heard Rangers board of directors had discussed the
:04:43. > :04:48.possibility of the club folding and going into administration in the
:04:49. > :04:54.months before that deal took place. Mr Findlay said the Donald McIntyre,
:04:55. > :04:59.like it or not, by the time Mr Whyte is trying to buy the club, the club
:05:00. > :05:04.was already heading for potential financial disaster. Mr McIntyre
:05:05. > :05:11.replied, "We weren't contemplating the club being put to its knees
:05:12. > :05:14.without the outcome of the EBT case". Later, he told the prosecutor
:05:15. > :05:18.he believed the Rangers owner, Sir case". Later, he told the prosecutor
:05:19. > :05:22.David Murray, would have wanted to sell his controlling stake to
:05:23. > :05:23.someone who could take the club forward. This was the sale of a
:05:24. > :05:32.major Scottish institution. Craig Whyte denies all charges and
:05:33. > :05:37.the trial continues. The BBC has learned that a former
:05:38. > :05:40.coach and manager of Celtic boys club has been detained and charged
:05:41. > :05:43.in connection with alleged It's understood 81-year-old Frank
:05:44. > :05:49.Cairney will One of Scotland's biggest hospitals
:05:50. > :05:55.was forced to raise a major alert after 36 patients waited
:05:56. > :05:59.for up to 17 hours A memo sent to staff
:06:00. > :06:06.at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary last Thursday raised safety
:06:07. > :06:07.concerns for patients urging NHS Lothian said they had
:06:08. > :06:15.experienced a very busy day with 20 patients more
:06:16. > :06:18.than predicted, but the situation One of the main providers
:06:19. > :06:23.of foodbanks in Scotland says Figures from the Trussell Trust
:06:24. > :06:27.suggest that low income has become the single biggest
:06:28. > :06:31.reason for a referral to one of their network
:06:32. > :06:33.of foodbanks. Here's our political
:06:34. > :06:41.correspondent, Glenn Campbell. The amount of food distributed by
:06:42. > :06:47.food bags in Scotland last year was enough to feed the entire population
:06:48. > :06:54.of Dundee for three days. For many using a food bank is a last resort.
:06:55. > :07:02.I didn't want to have the use a food bank, but I didn't know where else
:07:03. > :07:07.to turn, to be honest. And I had already asked friends and family for
:07:08. > :07:11.enough money to help get me through. There are 52 food banks in Scotland
:07:12. > :07:19.operated by the Trussel Trust which is it issued:
:07:20. > :07:43.my kid to the start school tomorrow. The movie I, Daniel Blake, heart
:07:44. > :07:47.problems the benefits system. And its star rector, in Aviemore today,
:07:48. > :07:52.is convinced the welfare reform is its star rector, in Aviemore today,
:07:53. > :07:57.leaving people hungry. It's no surprise that food banks are handing
:07:58. > :08:03.out even more food, a record high. The policies of his government of
:08:04. > :08:09.producing poverty. The horrific sections regime through people's
:08:10. > :08:13.lives into chaos when their Social Security is stopped. The increase in
:08:14. > :08:18.food bank use has been particularly sharp here in Glasgow. Food banks
:08:19. > :08:22.like this one, but the Department for Work and Pensions says the
:08:23. > :08:25.reason for food bank use is complex and it would be misleading to blame
:08:26. > :08:31.changes to the benefits system for growing demand. There are a variety
:08:32. > :08:35.of different causes as to what people are suffering from low income
:08:36. > :08:39.but it's also important to understand, 80% of people in
:08:40. > :08:44.Scotland to use food banks use them only once, when talking about people
:08:45. > :08:49.relying on them over a long period of time. The bike use has gone down
:08:50. > :08:54.in some parts of the country. But in Scotland as a whole, the number of
:08:55. > :08:57.the people using food banks continues to grow.
:08:58. > :09:00.Scotland is well known across the world as the home
:09:01. > :09:03.of golf, and a few courses could lay claim to being the country's finest.
:09:04. > :09:05.But what is the nation's favourite hole?
:09:06. > :09:07.The tourism organisation Visit Scotland held a poll of 3,000
:09:08. > :09:25.Golf attracts thousands of visitors to Scotland every year. Including
:09:26. > :09:34.the occasional Hollywood big hitter, like this far. Is this a lifelong
:09:35. > :09:41.ambition? It's definitely on the bucket list, it's fun to walk the
:09:42. > :09:43.course that had been walked over for 300 years. We have just released
:09:44. > :09:51.course that had been walked over for figures that shows that golf tourism
:09:52. > :09:54.is up to ?286 million a year in Scotland, and increase in the last
:09:55. > :09:58.eight or nine years. Every visitor will have their own favourite golf
:09:59. > :10:03.hole but the Scotland commissioned a poll to find that the best in a
:10:04. > :10:13.number of categories. For example this spectacular fourth hole has
:10:14. > :10:17.been voted the best par five. This one on the Kintyre peninsula, the
:10:18. > :10:33.best opening hole, and the postage Stamp in Troon, a hole in few years
:10:34. > :10:36.ago, the finest par-3. Which is the nation's favourite hole? According
:10:37. > :10:44.to the poll, it's this one, one of the most iconic in world golf. The
:10:45. > :10:49.18th on the old course at St Andrews. Where many an Open
:10:50. > :11:01.Championship has been one and many other great player, like Seve
:11:02. > :11:05.Ballesteros. It's such an iconic golf hole, history and tradition of
:11:06. > :11:09.the game, the Campillo in the footsteps of the big champions that
:11:10. > :11:12.have walked over here. Of course you don't have to be a great champion to
:11:13. > :11:19.play Scotland's finest hole. Let's see what the weather has in
:11:20. > :11:30.store. It's been a fairly wintry start to
:11:31. > :11:39.the week so far, we need to look to the jet to understand why. It has
:11:40. > :11:45.been steering cold arctic air our way. As we head through towards the
:11:46. > :11:49.end of the week, we start to be influenced by this part of the jet
:11:50. > :11:53.stream, bringing in milder conditions. Although it's chilly at
:11:54. > :11:58.the moment, temperatures will be on the rise by Thursday or Friday.
:11:59. > :12:06.Night pretty chilly across the board and that how we start things
:12:07. > :12:12.tomorrow. A crisp, bright start for most of us. Despite the sun, still
:12:13. > :12:15.quite chilly. Come further north, close to freezing, especially if
:12:16. > :12:21.there is snow on the ground. Still a few showers through the Northern
:12:22. > :12:25.Isles and Hebrides but mostly showers of rain rather than anything
:12:26. > :12:28.wintry. Through the course of the morning, would continue to see the
:12:29. > :12:34.showers coming in on the North-West breeze but the winds, lighter than
:12:35. > :12:37.it has been so the sunshine for central and southern Scotland slowly
:12:38. > :12:44.cladding over but shouldn't spoil things too much. Similar for the
:12:45. > :12:49.North-West of England and Wales and the Southwest for the Midlands, east
:12:50. > :12:52.and south-east, a number of showers coming in on that northerly, one or
:12:53. > :13:00.two could come with a rumble of thunder. Into the evening, showery
:13:01. > :13:08.outbreaks of rain across the far north and Northern Isles.
:13:09. > :13:14.Temperatures just on the up a little bit because milder air is coming in,
:13:15. > :13:18.milder tomorrow night. Thursday, cloudy, some showery outbreaks of
:13:19. > :13:22.rain in the North-West but hopefully some bright if not sunny spells,
:13:23. > :13:23.temperatures creeping into the low teens.