18/12/2016 Reporting Scotland


18/12/2016

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we are back with the late news at 11.00pm.

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Now on BBC One its time for the news where you are.

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The former First Minister Alex Salmond has said a second

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independence referendum can be won, even though polls currently

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indicate most voters want to stay in the Union.

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He was speaking as the Scottish Government gets ready to set

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out its plan for Scotland's future relationship with

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Nicola Sturgeon has been weighing up Scotland's option since the UK voted

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to leave the EU. On Tuesday she will set out her Brexit plan. At its

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heart, the aim of keeping Scotland and the European single market. The

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First Minister says her preferred option is for Scotland to stay in

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the EU as an independent country. The poll is currently indicate most

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Scots voters do not want that. Alex Salmond says that does not matter.

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When I embarked on this process support for independence was 28%.

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After two years, 2012, we ended up at 45%. I don't think she would have

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any compunction or killing -- compunction on calling an

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independence referendum, what matters is the arguments. Some say

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that salmon's opinions have cause more confusion. The SNP are all over

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the place on this. Two weeks ago they said the long-awaited stay in

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the single market was to be a member state of the EU and the UK voted to

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leave.EU. Nicola Sturgeon says her Brexit plan will set out the full

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range of options but has plans for a possible second independence

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referendum. The mother of murdered

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schoolgirl Paige Doherty has described her killer's

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forthcoming appeal as "cruel". Speaking in the Sunday Mail,

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Pamela Munro revealed she'd come face-to-face with John Leathem

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during the search to find the 15 year old and said

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he was emotionless. He killed Paige at his shop

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in Clydebank in March His appeal is due to

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be heard on Friday. Police have named a woman that was

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killed in a car crash in Fife. She was pronounced dead this morning.

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Scotland is a country that needs people to come

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and live here, according to the Scottish Government.

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At an event in Glasgow to celebrate the UN's international migrants day,

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the Minister for International Development has said the

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UK Government's net target isn't particularly helpful.

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Prime Minister Theresa May has said she's still committed to reducing

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net migration to "sustainable" levels.

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The net target on migration, we don't think it's helpful for

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Scotland. Scotland is a country that needs people from other countries to

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come and live here. Our population has been flat-lining or declining

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for most of the last 50 years, so we are in a position where if we are

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going to grow our workforce and can in 80s and population we cannot do

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that without people coming from elsewhere.

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It's ten years since the collapse of the Farepak savings scheme ruined

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But legal experts are warning that nothing has changed since then.

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The Law Commission's sent a report to the UK government,

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with an official response due in the next month.

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Our Westminster correspondent, David Porter, reports.

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Memories of Christmas past. I was a member for ten years with Farepak.

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For this woman, Christmas shopping in West Kilbride has its challenges,

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but nothing like a decade ago. Both were victims of the collapse of

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Farepak. Jean was an employee of Farepak herself and she had to tell

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family and friends they had lost their savings. I couldn't get hold

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of people and I was worried they would read in the papers before I

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got a chance to tell them. It was horrible having to say to people

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this money has gone. The idea was simple, people would save all year

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to spread the cost of Christmas. It is estimated that 30,000 Scots

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suffered when the company went bust. In 2006 a chance fired -- in 2006 it

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transpired that Farepak had been using customers' money to pay back

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loans to banks. After a public and political outcry, a bungee cord was

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brought in for the industry, but legal and accounting experts warned

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that the same thing could happen again. They want companies like

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Farepak to be regulated in the same way as banks. If you say that the

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bank you have a lot of protection and you have numbered a savings

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scheme like this. The UK Government is now considering the

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recommendations, but as minds turn to the festive season, everyone is

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agreed that there should not be another Farepak.

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Andy Murray's the hot favourite to win the BBC Sports Personality

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He'd be the first ever three-time winner, having scooped the prize

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This year he became world number one tennis player for the first time,

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won a second Wimbledon men's championship and retained his

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The Sports Personality of the Year programme starts on BBC1 at 6.40pm.

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Let's get the weather prospects for this evening

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Good evening. Dry and cloudy conditions tonight. I will be clear

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spells across eastern Scotland, so perhaps a tussle for each. --

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perhaps a touch of frost. There will be followed across central and

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southern England, so if you are flying tomorrow morning it could be

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delayed. A mild night and turning wet across the west of the country

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by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning the temperature will be 7-9

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degrees. A bit murky in some areas and patchy outbreaks of rain. It

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will be drier in the East but cloudy. Through the day the wet

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weather will edges way eastwards, fizzling and fading away. Dry and

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cloudy tomorrow with occasional rain. Some sunshine for Northern

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Ireland. For most of England and Wales it is cloudy but dry.

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Temperatures are mild for the time of year. If we look at

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mid-afternoon, temperature wise 9-10 degrees at bright in the West,

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staying cloudy and murky elsewhere. Cold overnight with frost, so a cold

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start to Tuesday but sunny. Rainbow then arrive from the West. That is

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the forecast. -- rain will then arrive.

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Until then, from everyone on the team here in Glasgow, enjoy

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