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A blueprint for independence. Scotland's First Minister calls it a | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
mission statement for the country's future. If Scots vote yes, | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Independence Day would be 24th March 2016. Alex Salmond says a separate | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Scotland would mean better childcare and education, and a reformed, | :00:22. | :00:37. | |
fairer tax system. We could tap powers and responsibilities we need | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
to face our major challenges. There is nothing new. Nothing they have | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
told us today they could not have told us yesterday. They have ducked | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
the fundamental questions. I am live at Holyrood with all the latest | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
reaction as people die just the contents of the latest White Paper. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Also this lunchtime... A police constable has been charged with | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
misconduct in public office in relation to the Plebgate row, which | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
involved the former Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell. The killer winter. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Last year's cold weather was responsible for the deaths of more | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
than 30,000 people in England and Wales. The new report which reveals | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
shocking sexual violence being carried out by children against | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
other children, some as young as 11. Pulling the plug. Plans for a huge | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
wind farm off the north Devon coast have been shelved. A third Westfield | :01:30. | :01:45. | |
shopping centre. New technology in Ealing to keep cyclists safe. | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Scottish First | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Minister Alex Salmond has launched the SNP's blueprint for an | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
independent Scotland. The Scottish Government white paper is promising | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
to build a more democratic, more prosperous, fairer society and forms | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
the framework for debate ahead of next year's referendum. We can go | :02:14. | :02:29. | |
live to Jane Hill at Holyrood. Thank you very much. Good afternoon from | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Holyrood. This is the White Paper. Not so much a paper, more a weighty | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
tome to put by your bedside table. Your guide to an independent | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Scotland. This is what has been produced. The key question, is there | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
enough detail in this document to persuade the people of Scotland to | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
vote yes next September? Is there enough explanation as to how an | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
independent Scotland would be able to operate? | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
This was their moment, on their stage with their version of what an | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
independent Scotland could look like. The first minister came to | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Glasgow to launch the White Paper. What it is about is explaining how | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
independents and constitutional change and completing the powers of | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
our Parliament can change Scotland for the better. The no campaign | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
dream up their extraordinary suggestions as to why people should | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
refuse to co-operate after Scotland becomes independent. We will say | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
what we can do with independence. There would be no tax rises, they | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
would keep the pound. As expected, the nuclear deterrent, Trident, | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
would be removed from the Clyde by 2020. Any defence force would be | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
created with 20,000 personnel in total. -- a new defence. There would | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
be universal childcare and pensioners in an independent | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Scotland would get more, ?160 a week. As the first 20,000 copies run | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
off the press, critics were quick to scrutinise the detail. There is | :04:20. | :04:31. | |
nothing new. What is plan B if we cannot get into a currency union and | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
the pound? Who will pay the pensions? The promises on childcare, | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
why can't they do it now? These are the voters that need to be | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
convinced. Fewer women back independence. When it comes to | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
shaking up the country, they falter. With my life change? Would it impact | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
on us as a family? I would love written evidence from Alex Salmond | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
that Scotland can afford to be independent. That is the bottom | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
line. It sounds good but I am frightened. What frightens you? | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
Whether or not we can cope on our own. Will this cast a spell over | :05:21. | :05:33. | |
voters? The SNP need to tell people what independence is about. If they | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
do not succeed in doing that, it is very difficult to see how in three, | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
4-macro, five and six months time, they can turn the tables around? The | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
focus is on theirs. The Scottish Government hopes that people across | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Scotland will read it. With the yes campaign trailing in the polls, | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
today is the day they hope they can turn the course of this campaign | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
their way. In a minute, we'll be talking to our chief political | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith, in Downing Street. First, our Scotland | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
political editor, Brian Taylor, who joins us from Glasgow. What strikes | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
you? Is that the detail in this document that people have been | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
hoping for? There is detailed - whether it is enough to convince the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
people is a different matter. People are looking for answers, precision. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
You cannot have precision in political life or life more | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
generally. It is a challenge and a conundrum. They are trying to give | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
as much assurance as they possibly can. The launch was at the science | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
centre in glass go. Politics is sometimes a dark art. -- glass go. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
They pose a question to themselves. They asked the voter what does it | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
mean to me? The answer is, it means, enhanced childcare. It means | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
maintaining benefits and scrapping the bedroom tax and improving the | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
offer with regard to the benefit system more generally. It means | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
improving matters for the household in other words. What they are trying | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
to do is say you have the conundrums of questions on the European Union, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
NATO and, above all, on the currency. This issue will be judged | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
not by a tribunal of experts but by the people of Scotland. Alex Salmond | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
hopes he can appeal directly to them. Is that going to be an appeal? | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
Would that be your best guess? Over the next ten months, does it appeal | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
to people 's hearts as much as heads? I think that Alex Salmond | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
calculates that people in Scotland feel a sense of Scottish identity. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
That is the default position which is as well expressed in the union as | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
it would be by independence. The debate is on the question of, with | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
the individual Scottish voter be better off? They have the offer on | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
childcare. They have the offer on benefits and on maintaining | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
pensions. They have the offer on cutting fuel bills. Alex Salmond | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
says that trumps the concerns and anxieties - genuine concerns and | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
anxieties that exist about the European Union and NATO. Alex | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Salmond talks about the currency and says it would be in the best | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
interests of the remainder of the UK and perverse to turn it down. His | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
opponents say the opposite in that the UK would see no benefit. And we | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
can talk to Norman Smith, who is in Downing Street. There have been some | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
robust comments very much already this morning. It seems today was the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
day the gloves came off at Westminster. To date, Alex Salmond | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
has been able to get away with presenting an independent Scotland | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
as a land of milk and honey where there are only happy outcomes. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Ministers want to spell out what they regard as some of the harsh | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
consequences and choices involved in independence. Number one, an | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
independent Scotland could not expect to keep the pound. Why? They | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
say it is not credible to expect UK tax payers, through the Bank of | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
England, to be the lender of last resort, to what would be a foreign | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
country. They say they are not bluffing about this. They say that | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Scottish taxpayers could end up paying a lot more in tax. What do | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
these warnings tell us? Here, the view is it is the economy where the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Scots feel they are better or worse of that will determine how they vote | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
and that it will still be a very close contest and they have two | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
punch hard. Here is the one peculiarity. Do not expect David | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Cameron and senior Tories to be doing much of that punching. Why? | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
The one game changer for Alex Salmond is, if he can turn this into | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
a row between Edinburgh and London, between a Scottish nationalist | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
government and an English tourist -- Tory government. There is lots more | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
on the BBC News website, including a live page detailing the latest | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
developments minute by minute. And there's a special Scotland's Future | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
website where there's plenty more background and analysis. That's at | :10:50. | :10:50. | |
bbc.co.uk/scotlandsfuture. That is all in the run-up to the | :10:51. | :11:06. | |
referendum on 18th of September next year. Within the past hour, it has | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
been announced that one police officer has been charged in | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
connection with an incident in Downing Street, involving the former | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
Conservative Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell. The officer will also face | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
gross misconduct proceedings along with four others. The MP, who lost | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
his job in government over the affair, admitted swearing but denied | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
having used the word pleb. A September evening last year and | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Andrew Mitchell, then the government Chief Whip, begins a bike ride which | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
would end his Cabinet career. His departure through the gates of | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Downing Street was marred by an ill tempered exchange in which he swore | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
at police. He has denied he used the word collapse to describe officers | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
on the gates. It was that word which caused the Minister 's downfall. The | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Police Federation lined up against the government. Under massive | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
pressure, Andrew Mitchell quit. As more details of the episode is | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
managed, Scotland Yard began an investigation into some of its own. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
This led to a series of arrests. One officer, Keith Wallace, a | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
comfortable in the diplomatic protection group, has been charged. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
He is accused of misconduct in public office by falsely claiming to | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
have witnessed the incident and claiming -- asking his nephew to | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
witness his false claims. In a statement, it added... The CPS has | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
also found there is insufficient evidence to show that Mr Mitchell | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
was the victim of a conspiracy of misinformation. The fallout when | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
beyond London. A few weeks ago, members of the Police Federation is | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
in Warwickshire and the West Midlands were brought before a | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
parliamentary committee to answer questions. They have been accused of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
deliberately discrediting Mr Mitchell. 14 months on from the bike | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
ride which brought him down, focus moves from the behaviour of Mr | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Mitchell to the courts. And June is with me now. What we have been told | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is that they are | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
investigating five officers, including Keith Wallace, the officer | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
facing criminal charges. They are all facing disciplinary charges | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
accused of gross misconduct. The Police Federation says it welcomes | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service that there was | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
insufficient evidence that the officer at the gate of Downing | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
Street should be charged or that Andrew Mitchell was the victim of a | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
computer is the. They point out -- a conspiracy. They have looked at all | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
the evidence, including CCTV footage from Downing Street. The police had | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
said this footage has been edited and does not show the full picture. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
The officer involved will face his first court appearance on 16th of | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
December. -- his first court appearance. There was a big rise in | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the number of winter deaths last year. It is estimated there were | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
more than 31,000 excess deaths because of the cold weather. That's | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
up 29% on the previous winter. The Office for National Statistics shows | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
most of the deaths across England and Wales involved people over the | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
age of 75. Checking up on a pensioner in Cheshire. A visitor | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
from the snow angels project pops in to offer help. Keeping warm during | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
winter is a matter of life or death for the elderly. For many last year | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
the weather was leaf fall. The thing you remember about last winter is it | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
was very cold. -- lethal. In February, March and April it was | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
cold. What was the coldest March we have had since 1962. It was bitterly | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
cold last year with late snow in many areas. When temperatures drop, | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
it is the very elderly who are most at risk -- more likely to get | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
serious chest infections or have heart problems. Doctors are | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
concerned they may also worry about heating bills. We have a growing | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
proportion of people who are old and very old. Over 75 and over 85. Their | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
bodies are not as good as they were to resist the cold and they become | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
victims of the energy price crisis that we have got under the poverty | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
of the poor pensioners they are on. Energy prices have been going up. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
The advice for older people is that heating your home matters and that | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
taking precautions for the colder months is important. You get the flu | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
jab. Keep your bedroom and living room warm during the day while you | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
are in bed. Also for all of ours, to make sure that we look out for | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
neighbours, relatives and friends and keep an eye on them during the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
coming winter period. Labour said some deaths were due to cold homes | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
and the government should stand up to energy companies. Health | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
officials said the NHS was prepared with extra help in the community for | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
elder people. There is another row between the | :16:38. | :16:49. | |
British and Spanish after Spanish officials opened a diplomatic bag as | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
it was being carried out of Gibraltar on Friday. It is the | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
latest in an increasingly bitter dispute. James Robbins, how big a | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
deal is this? Well, the Foreign Office call this a serious | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
infringement of the Vienna Convention, which is what governs | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
all diplomacy between states, and it makes clear that diplomatic traffic | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
carried in diplomatic bags is inviolable, in other words no state | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
has the right to open bags passing between British missions, or any | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
mission and the parent government. So opening these bags at the border | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
seems to be a clear infringement of that principle. The Foreign Office | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
is clearly irritated, because it sees this as another escalation of | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
this sort of diplomatic warfare that has been going on between Britain | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
and Spain over Gibraltar, particularly over the last few | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
months. You may remember we have had disputes over territorial waters, | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
incursions by Spanish vessels alleged by the British, two small | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
patrol vessels of the Royal Navy trying to sea loch Spanish | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
incursions. We have had extra board checks on the land frontier, much | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
argued over between London and Madrid, whether they were legitimate | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
not. And now this, a sign that Madrid is spoiling for a fight over | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Gibraltar, which has been British territory for 300 years, something | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Spain has never really accepted. If you like, the constellation of stars | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
is perfectly aligned, there is a right of centre government in | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Madrid, a hardline chief minister, a Gibraltarians in Gibraltar, and a | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
government here that is an willing to give any ground. I think we can | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
expect more of this row. Our top story this lunchtime: The | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Scottish government has published its plans for independence, arguing | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
that leaving the UK would create a fairer and more prosperous Scotland. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Later in the programme, coming to a television year you, the first of | :18:50. | :27:01. | |
first of 19 new local stations went live this morning, broadcasting a | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
mixture of sport and entertainment to quarter of a million homes. David | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
Sillito reports. 365 days a year, number of staff | :27:09. | :27:26. | |
eight. Good evening and welcome... Emma is the news presenter. She is | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
also the news editor, the chief correspondent. And camera operator. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
We met on Scunthorpe's estate which took a battering when it was | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
featured on a Channel 4 series, Skin. Emma feels local TV would | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
present a more rounded picture of where we live. There are places like | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
this in Scunthorpe and places in Grimsby and help that have had a | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
knock, especially by national media. The national media tends to | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
come in, they trample over everybody that live here, and then they can | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
walk out again. This is where the evening news is going to be coming | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
from Fort Northern Lincolnshire and Goole months to come. The question | :28:12. | :28:21. | |
is, who is going to be watching? There is not enough happens around | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
here for 24 hour telly. They might have a couple of hours a day, | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Scunthorpe is only a little town. What is your thought about the idea | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
of more local television? Not interested, to be honest! You would | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
watch local television? Yeah, definitely! Definitely about my own | :28:39. | :28:51. | |
place. I have got to go. Local television has been tried | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
before. This was set up in Greenwich 40 years ago. History is littered | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
with television channels that have come and gone, remember Live TV's | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
news bunny? But the Government was behind this idea, there is support | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
from the BBC. Grimsby, Manchester, Scarborough, mould. You can get in | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
touch with us... A nationwide network... | :29:22. | :29:23. |