:00:00. > :00:10.Voting is underway in the referendum on whether Scotland should become
:00:11. > :00:16.A record turnout is expected as senior figures from the Yes and
:00:17. > :00:21.No campaigns head to the polling stations to cast their ballots.
:00:22. > :00:26.Police reveal that a Latvian man wanted in connection with the
:00:27. > :00:31.disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross is a convicted murderer.
:00:32. > :00:33.Police in Thailand admit they're struggling
:00:34. > :00:37.to find suspects in the hunt for the killers of two British tourists.
:00:38. > :00:41.A woman dies in the back of an ambulance while waiting in a queue
:00:42. > :00:45.of around 15 emergency vehicles outside a hospital in Wales.
:00:46. > :00:48.And on course for change, one of the world's oldest golf clubs
:00:49. > :00:54.considers allowing women members for the first time in 260 years.
:00:55. > :01:00.Plans to axe almost 60% of staff at some tube stations.
:01:01. > :01:25.Their Champions League campaign begins with a draw to Schalke.
:01:26. > :01:28.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:29. > :01:29.The campaigning is over and the people
:01:30. > :01:34.Across the nation, more than 4 million people are
:01:35. > :01:36.voting in this historic referendum with just a single question
:01:37. > :01:42.on the ballot paper - should Scotland be an independent country?
:01:43. > :01:44.Polling stations opened at seven o'clock this morning and
:01:45. > :01:48.will close at ten o'clock tonight, after a day which is expected to see
:01:49. > :01:53.We should know the result early tomorrow morning.
:01:54. > :02:00.Here's our political correspondent, Iain Watson.
:02:01. > :02:09.Good morning. In Newtown. It is Scotland's biggest ever election,
:02:10. > :02:12.with record numbers of people registering to vote. The doors have
:02:13. > :02:16.been open since seven o'clock this morning. Prominent politicians were
:02:17. > :02:22.quick to cast their vote this morning. Gordon Brown cast his
:02:23. > :02:26.ballot in Fife. Alex Salmond was stricken in north-east Scotland. But
:02:27. > :02:30.this referendum is not about the famous faces. There are no
:02:31. > :02:34.constituencies to be won or lost, it is a straight yes or no to the
:02:35. > :02:37.question of if Scotland should be an independent country. The referendum
:02:38. > :02:41.has already made history. For the first time anywhere in the UK,
:02:42. > :02:47.16-year-olds get to have their say. More than 4.25 million people are
:02:48. > :02:53.registered to vote, 97% of those eligible to do so. 100,000 of them
:02:54. > :02:57.are 16 and 17. With so many first-time voters, Scotland's most
:02:58. > :03:02.senior election official is giving strong advice to make sure every
:03:03. > :03:06.vote counts. The best way to ensure their vote counts is to put one
:03:07. > :03:10.cross in the box next to the answer that they choose. If the voter signs
:03:11. > :03:19.the ballot paper and can be identified, their vote cannot count.
:03:20. > :03:25.If they put a cross in one box and a tick in the other it would be
:03:26. > :03:28.rejected. Here, turnout tends to be low in elections. But in the
:03:29. > :03:37.referendum there has been a steady stream of voters. More than 750,000
:03:38. > :03:40.people have already voted by post. Signatures are verified by officials
:03:41. > :03:44.and these will be the first votes to be counted tonight. Each of the 32
:03:45. > :03:49.local authority areas will be counting results. There are 2600
:03:50. > :03:54.different voting places across the country. Ballot boxes will travel by
:03:55. > :03:58.boat and helicopter from remote areas. The final declaration will be
:03:59. > :04:00.made tomorrow in Edinburgh. Not just the future of Scotland, but the
:04:01. > :04:04.future of the UK will be decided. Voting is taking place
:04:05. > :04:07.at more than 5500 polling stations The results will then be counted
:04:08. > :04:10.in each of Scotland's 32 local authority areas,
:04:11. > :04:12.from the smaller island councils to the bigger urban authorities,
:04:13. > :04:16.whose larger populations will probably decide the result -
:04:17. > :04:21.as Jeremy Vine now explains. Well, the voting takes place
:04:22. > :04:24.across 32 areas of Scotland, Later, when we show the results,
:04:25. > :04:32.it's green for yes and red for no. Here they all are,
:04:33. > :04:35.from Aberdeen City down to the West But what if I order them in terms
:04:36. > :04:40.of size? We see immediately Glasgow,
:04:41. > :04:43.with 500,000 people, Then Edinburgh, then Fife,
:04:44. > :04:47.then North and South Lanarkshire Going all the way over here, we get
:04:48. > :04:52.to the island councils, Orkney, It will be these really huge
:04:53. > :05:00.councils, Glasgow, Edinburgh and so on, that are watched
:05:01. > :05:11.particularly keenly on the night. Well, the bulk of the results
:05:12. > :05:14.are expected to come through in the early hours of tomorrow
:05:15. > :05:17.morning, between 2am and 5am. The final result will be announced
:05:18. > :05:19.by the Chief Counting Officer for Scotland at the national count
:05:20. > :05:22.centre at Ingliston here in Edinburgh, and our correspondent,
:05:23. > :05:35.James Robbins, is there. Welcome to the Highland All, just
:05:36. > :05:39.outside Edinburgh, which serves two purpose tonight. It is both the
:05:40. > :05:43.counting centre for the Edinburgh local authority, people will be
:05:44. > :05:47.counting the votes just behind me, on these tables, as they will be on
:05:48. > :05:53.31 other centres across Scotland. Crucially, this is also the National
:05:54. > :05:58.Council And The, where the Chief Counting Officer will supervise the
:05:59. > :06:03.process and declare the final result of the referendum. She has made
:06:04. > :06:07.clear that she thinks, hopes, that she might be able to declare the
:06:08. > :06:11.final result around breakfast time tomorrow. She is unclear about the
:06:12. > :06:17.timing because of the complexity of this election. She recognises that
:06:18. > :06:22.it could be difficult to bring in ballot boxes from outlying islands,
:06:23. > :06:26.dependent on helicopters and the weather to get them quickly to local
:06:27. > :06:30.authority counting centres. But she says she has done everything
:06:31. > :06:36.possible, taking all precautions to make sure that this poll can be
:06:37. > :06:40.conducted fairly and scrupulously. 120% of other papers that might be
:06:41. > :06:45.required have been printed to make sure there is no shortage. We Chief
:06:46. > :06:48.Counting Officer has said people in the queue by 10pm tonight will
:06:49. > :06:51.certainly be able to vote. It will be tomorrow morning when she
:06:52. > :06:53.announces the definitive, final result of this referendum.
:06:54. > :06:55.Coverage of the results begins at 10:25 tonight
:06:56. > :07:00.For the rest of the UK, Huw Edwards will host a night of live commentary
:07:01. > :07:03.and analysis from 10:40 this evening
:07:04. > :07:08.And of course the BBC News Channel will keep you up to date throughout
:07:09. > :07:14.the night until tomorrow morning, when the final result is expected.
:07:15. > :07:16.Police say they're now treating a Latvian man, Arnis Zalkalns,
:07:17. > :07:20.as a suspect in the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross, who
:07:21. > :07:24.Police have revealed that the 41-year-old,
:07:25. > :07:27.who vanished a week after Alice disappeared, has a murder conviction
:07:28. > :07:30.in Latvia and in 2009 was arrested for indecent assault against
:07:31. > :07:42.This is the home of 41-year-old Arnis Zalkalns.
:07:43. > :07:43.Since Monday, police have been carrying out
:07:44. > :07:50.In the garden, their tents cover items taken from the building.
:07:51. > :07:52.Now this man, a Latvian builder, is their chief suspect in
:07:53. > :07:59.She left home three weeks ago for a walk, saying she would be back
:08:00. > :08:07.She was captured on CCTV striding purposefully,
:08:08. > :08:09.At 3:45 that afternoon,
:08:10. > :08:16.Police now say the same camera picked up Arnis
:08:17. > :08:19.Zalkalns, riding a red mountain bike across the same bridge, in the same
:08:20. > :08:30.It is highly likely that the came past her or into contact with her.
:08:31. > :08:33.What happened at that point is a focus of our investigation.
:08:34. > :08:37.In the direction they were heading, the canal meets this secluded path
:08:38. > :08:40.where Alice's rucksack was eventually found.
:08:41. > :08:45.Her white iPhone was not inside and has not been recovered.
:08:46. > :08:49.Arnis Zalkalns has a conviction for murder in his native Latvia,
:08:50. > :08:52.though police have been unable to give more details today.
:08:53. > :08:55.In 2009 he was accused of indecently assaulting
:08:56. > :09:01.a 14-year-old girl in West London, though charges were never pressed.
:09:02. > :09:05.He left home without his bank cards, his mobile phone or his passport.
:09:06. > :09:10.In an attempt to trace him, police are offering a reward of ?20,000.
:09:11. > :09:14.Latvia is in the European Union and Zalkalns's seven-year prison
:09:15. > :09:17.sentence, completed a decade ago, is not an immediate bar to entry to
:09:18. > :09:24.Police have no evidence Alice is dead.
:09:25. > :09:28.This remains a missing persons inquiry, but it is one of The Met's
:09:29. > :09:36.It goes on day and night, as Alice's family and friends wait and hope.
:09:37. > :09:39.Police in Thailand say they still haven't identified any suspects
:09:40. > :09:43.in the hunt for the killer - or killers - of British tourists,
:09:44. > :09:49.Their bodies were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao on Monday.
:09:50. > :09:52.Relatives of 23 year old Hannah have travelled to Thailand and appeared
:09:53. > :09:55.at a police press conference this morning in Bangkok, from where
:09:56. > :10:10.This is an island in shock. Two brutal murders, right on the very
:10:11. > :10:14.beaches which have drawn so many visitors here. Today, they
:10:15. > :10:21.commemorated Hannah Witheridge and David Millar in their own way.
:10:22. > :10:25.People have told us they are living in fear, fear that the perpetrator
:10:26. > :10:28.is still out there and that their tourist industry has suffered
:10:29. > :10:31.irreparable damage. Like the families of the victims, local
:10:32. > :10:36.people here desperately want this crime to be sold and a cloud to be
:10:37. > :10:41.lifted from their island. After four days of false leads and, frankly,
:10:42. > :10:48.lacks investigation, police admit they are nowhere near naming a
:10:49. > :10:53.suspect, never mind finding the culprit. They have appointed this
:10:54. > :10:57.general to lead the investigation. He flew into Koh Tao to see what has
:10:58. > :11:01.went wrong, but he had little to say. And no wonder. They now admit
:11:02. > :11:04.there is nothing to link anybody they have interviewed so far with
:11:05. > :11:08.the crime. The family of Hannah Witheridge arrived in Bangkok
:11:09. > :11:12.today, prompting an appeal from the British Embassy to spare them
:11:13. > :11:17.further anguish. The family are deeply distressed at this time, and
:11:18. > :11:22.my role is to support them at this very, very difficult time. And
:11:23. > :11:27.obtaining information directly and very helpfully from the police has
:11:28. > :11:32.been good for them and they are very distressed by what they are seeing
:11:33. > :11:35.in the media. A comment from Thailand's Prime Minister that good
:11:36. > :11:42.looking women in bikinis are not safe on the country's beaches has
:11:43. > :11:47.provoked outrage. General Prayuth Chan-ocha has now apologised,
:11:48. > :11:58.saying: this horrific crime has presented a
:11:59. > :12:09.law enforcement agencies with a difficult challenge. They have yet
:12:10. > :12:12.to show that they can meet it. More than 100 British Muslim leaders have
:12:13. > :12:16.signed a letter pleading for the release of British hostage Alan
:12:17. > :12:19.Henning. The letter in the Independent newspaper calls on
:12:20. > :12:25.Islamic State militants to release him immediately and tells those
:12:26. > :12:29.responsible but what they are doing constitutes the worst sin. The
:12:30. > :12:31.47-year-old was eight warranty on an aid convoy when he was seized just
:12:32. > :12:33.after crossing into Syria. An investigation has been launched
:12:34. > :12:36.after a woman died in an ambulance which was queuing outside a hospital
:12:37. > :12:39.yesterday. It's thought Sonia Powell, who was in her 70s, may have
:12:40. > :12:42.been outside the Morriston Hospital in Swansea for up to 40 minutes.
:12:43. > :12:57.Let's speak to our correspondent, We know that Sonia Powell was being
:12:58. > :13:02.treated at another hospital some 20 minutes away. I was told she was
:13:03. > :13:05.there from the start of the week. Yesterday, things became complicated
:13:06. > :13:11.with her health. In the afternoon, an ambulance was sent on a 20 minute
:13:12. > :13:13.journey to bring her here, to Morriston Hospital. Her family
:13:14. > :13:17.expected her to be taken to the cardiac unit. She suffered a
:13:18. > :13:28.suspected heart attack with water on the lungs. But there was a huge
:13:29. > :13:33.delay, the ambulance was one of at least 11 at the time. Having spoken
:13:34. > :13:37.to a paramedic, they felt hugely frustrated they were unable to
:13:38. > :13:40.transfer their patients over to the hospital's care because there was
:13:41. > :13:44.not enough room to admit them. A doctor was put into the back of the
:13:45. > :13:49.ambulance to treat the patient, but sadly they were unable to help her
:13:50. > :13:54.and she died, having waited, we are told, at least 35 minutes. Has there
:13:55. > :13:59.been any reaction from her family? I have just now been speaking to her
:14:00. > :14:04.nephew. He says the family are clearly very upset and very
:14:05. > :14:07.concerned. They will want answers, first wall as to why she was
:14:08. > :14:12.transferred from hospital to another when it would have been clear,
:14:13. > :14:16.perhaps, to hospital managers, that this hospital was very, very busy
:14:17. > :14:19.and there would have been difficulties in terms of admitting
:14:20. > :14:23.her. They want to know what was done in terms of warning doctors. They
:14:24. > :14:27.have had praise for the ambulance staff concerned, but clearly, at
:14:28. > :14:30.this very difficult time, they will want answers both from the Welsh
:14:31. > :14:33.ambulance trust and health board, who have launched an investigation.
:14:34. > :14:38.Voting is underway in the referendum on Scottish independence.
:14:39. > :14:40.Polling closes at ten o'clock tonight.
:14:41. > :14:51.The result should be known early tomorrow morning.
:14:52. > :14:54.Still to come, will the Royal and ancient golf club finally allow
:14:55. > :14:57.women to become members? On BBC London: From The Office to
:14:58. > :15:01.the West End Stage - Martin Freeman tells us about playing the villain
:15:02. > :15:03.in Richard III. And and the East Londoners
:15:04. > :15:05.revisiting the hop-picking tradition Police
:15:06. > :15:18.in Australia say they've foiled a plan to kidnap and behead members
:15:19. > :15:21.of the public - by supporters Hundreds of police in Sydney
:15:22. > :15:25.and Brisbane raided properties and arrested 15 suspects
:15:26. > :15:29.in the country's largest-ever raid Australia's prime minister,
:15:30. > :15:33.Tony Abbott, said the groups were being encouraged to carry out
:15:34. > :15:36.the attacks by an Australian who's Our correspondent in Sydney,
:15:37. > :15:46.Jon Donnison, reports. Australian police are calling this
:15:47. > :15:48.the biggest anti-terrorism operation In the early hours of the morning,
:15:49. > :15:53.nearly 800 officers raided dozens The police believe this group that
:15:54. > :16:00.we have executed this operation on today have the intention
:16:01. > :16:04.and had started to carry out planning to commit violent acts here
:16:05. > :16:08.in Australia. One man, Omarjan Azari has appeared
:16:09. > :16:12.in court charged with conspiracy to It is believed it involved
:16:13. > :16:20.a plot to behead a member of the public, drape them in an Islamic
:16:21. > :16:23.State flag and video the attack. The prosecutor said it was clearly
:16:24. > :16:27.designed to shock, It comes less than a week
:16:28. > :16:33.after Australia raised its terrorism threat level from medium
:16:34. > :16:39.to high, meaning intelligence officials believed an attack was not
:16:40. > :16:43.just possible, but likely. Quite direct exhortations were
:16:44. > :16:49.coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to
:16:50. > :16:53.networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration
:16:54. > :17:01.killings here in this country. The government is worried about
:17:02. > :17:07.the number of Australians fighting with extremist groups such as
:17:08. > :17:10.Islamic State in the Middle East. It estimates there are
:17:11. > :17:12.around 60 there already with around 100 more offering support
:17:13. > :17:20.from within Australia. The BBC has lodged
:17:21. > :17:23.a formal complaint with the Russian authorities after
:17:24. > :17:25.a news team was attacked in southern Russia while working on a story
:17:26. > :17:28.linked to the fighting in Ukraine. The BBC team is now safe and back
:17:29. > :17:31.in Moscow, from where our correspondent,
:17:32. > :17:36.Steve Rosenberg, now reports. Oksana tells me about the brother
:17:37. > :17:40.she calls a Russian hero. Konstantin fought in Chechnya
:17:41. > :17:44.and Georgia and this summer He called to say he was going away
:17:45. > :17:57.and he sounded kind of scared. He called to say he was going away
:17:58. > :17:59.He called to say he was going away, He said, I will be
:18:00. > :18:02.heading south-west. I thought perhaps he meant
:18:03. > :18:06.the Ukrainian border. Three weeks later her
:18:07. > :18:10.brother was dead. Killed by an artillery shell
:18:11. > :18:13.from Ukraine, one official said. Another claimed he had died
:18:14. > :18:18.during military exercises. TRANSLATION:
:18:19. > :18:22.I asked the official, "Do you believe the words you are
:18:23. > :18:24.telling me?" I just want to understand how my
:18:25. > :18:33.brother was killed. Perhaps not everyone here is
:18:34. > :18:36.so keen on the truth. Later that day we were attacked
:18:37. > :18:39.by at least three men They hit our cameraman, smashed
:18:40. > :18:47.the camera and drove off with it. We didn't expect
:18:48. > :18:50.our day to end here in the hospital but we are here because our
:18:51. > :18:54.cameraman is having x-rays and is Someone clearly didn't want
:18:55. > :19:00.our material broadcast. After four hours of questioning
:19:01. > :19:04.at the police station, back in the car we realised our
:19:05. > :19:08.equipment had been tampered with. Somebody cleaned the hard drive
:19:09. > :19:14.on my computer. Luckily,
:19:15. > :19:18.we had made copies of the material. State-controlled media admits that
:19:19. > :19:22.Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine, but Russian TV portrays
:19:23. > :19:26.them as volunteers who have taken Independent Russian journalists
:19:27. > :19:37.brave enough to conduct their own investigations face
:19:38. > :19:45.threats and intimidation. TRANSLATION:
:19:46. > :19:49.They say there is no war. They say
:19:50. > :19:51.our soldiers are not involved. The Chinese e-commerce website
:19:52. > :20:11.Alibaba is about to sell part of its business on the New York
:20:12. > :20:14.Stock Exchange in a flotation that Last year the company sold more
:20:15. > :20:20.goods than Amazon and eBay combined, and tomorrow's sale could make it
:20:21. > :20:23.the third most valuable technology firm in the world behind Google
:20:24. > :20:26.and Facebook. Let's get more from
:20:27. > :20:38.our business editor, Kamal Ahmed. Just how big a deal is this? This is
:20:39. > :20:45.one of those classic Internet stories. Alibaba was launched by the
:20:46. > :20:49.Chinese entrepreneur in 1999, in his apartment in a city just north of
:20:50. > :20:53.Beijing. Very similar to Google, launched in the garage Facebook,
:20:54. > :20:58.launched in university dormitory. It has grown from there to be one of
:20:59. > :21:04.the world's biggest businesses. Basically doing the same job as an
:21:05. > :21:08.Amazon or an eBay. People buy and sell on the side. It gives access
:21:09. > :21:11.for tens of thousands of businesses around the world to Chinese
:21:12. > :21:17.manufacturers. Through that business, he has built this Alibaba
:21:18. > :21:27.organisation, which is now worth $165 billion. He himself is worth
:21:28. > :21:32.small change, $13.5 billion. He is a charismatic man. He sings, he puts
:21:33. > :21:37.on wigs at company meetings, and he loves the Lion King. He wears dark
:21:38. > :21:42.glasses. Charismatic entrepreneur, huge Chinese business, big day
:21:43. > :21:46.tomorrow, when it sells a big chunk of itself onto the New York Stock
:21:47. > :21:51.Exchange. Now, that is significant, is it, selling in New York? Does it
:21:52. > :21:55.reflect a bigger trend of China looking west to sell things? China
:21:56. > :22:00.used to be famous for copying what was happening in the West. Now it is
:22:01. > :22:05.actually moving back into the West and fighting in the Western market.
:22:06. > :22:09.A big Chinese PC maker, for example, also Chinese banks, are very big in
:22:10. > :22:15.the West. Alibaba is beating Amazon and eBay at its own game and is
:22:16. > :22:20.launching in New York just to prove that point.
:22:21. > :22:23.Six women who masterminded and promoted a pyramid scheme and
:22:24. > :22:26.duped thousands of investors into parting with their money have been
:22:27. > :22:31.The Give and Take scheme operated in south-west England and
:22:32. > :22:47.If you thought pyramid schemes disappeared in the 1970s, think
:22:48. > :22:52.again. This one attracted 10,000 people, who together invested ?20
:22:53. > :22:57.million, but virtually all of them left with nothing. The idea of the
:22:58. > :23:02.pyramid is very simple. You pay in at the beginning, by your time, and
:23:03. > :23:05.wait for a pay-out. 90% got nothing back.
:23:06. > :23:09.Back in 2008, some members of the Give and Take scheme were
:23:10. > :23:14.Members joined at meetings like this, in south Wales
:23:15. > :23:19.It is all local, it is invite-only, people introducing friends
:23:20. > :23:26.They were told that the scheme was safe and legal and could make them
:23:27. > :23:31.There was no way I was going to lose.
:23:32. > :23:33.Dave Gough was one of those who joined.
:23:34. > :23:37.He paid in ?3,000 but he lost every penny.
:23:38. > :23:41.A few people at the top made a lot of money.
:23:42. > :23:46.The majority of the people at the bottom of the pile lost everything.
:23:47. > :23:50.It makes you really angry that there are people who
:23:51. > :24:01.After years of legal restrictions we can finally report that six women
:24:02. > :24:04.have been convicted of operating and promoting the scheme.
:24:05. > :24:07.Hazel Cameron, on the phone here, pleaded guilty at
:24:08. > :24:14.Along with Susan Crane, and Mary Nash.
:24:15. > :24:17.You have pleaded guilty, what do you say to the people who invested
:24:18. > :24:29.Two years ago, Laura Fox, Jennifer Smith-Hayes and Carol Chalmers, all
:24:30. > :24:32.in their 60s and from the Bristol area, were also convicted of
:24:33. > :24:38.They were sentenced to nine months in jail.
:24:39. > :24:42.Three more women, Sally Phillips, Jane Smith
:24:43. > :24:45.and Rita Lomas pleaded guilty to promoting the scheme and were given
:24:46. > :24:51.A 10th woman, Rhalina Yuill, was found not guilty.
:24:52. > :24:58.It started with one person at the top who brought in two friends.
:24:59. > :25:01.They each recruited two friends and they
:25:02. > :25:08.At this point, the eight at the bottom each paid ?3,000 to
:25:09. > :25:13.the person at the top, who walked away with more than 20 grand.
:25:14. > :25:16.If the ones at the top now are going to get their money,
:25:17. > :25:20.more members need to be recruited, and more and more, and very soon
:25:21. > :25:26.you need millions of new members or the whole thing will collapse.
:25:27. > :25:32.If something looks too good to be true then it probably is.
:25:33. > :25:37.There is no way you are going to make a lot of money out
:25:38. > :25:41.of a pyramid scheme unless you are one of a very few people.
:25:42. > :25:43.These were the first pyramid scheme prosecutions
:25:44. > :25:50.Investigators say that at least 10,000 people joined
:25:51. > :26:01.the Give and Take scheme, and 90% of them lost their money.
:26:02. > :26:07.The women who run this scheme argued in court it was not a classic
:26:08. > :26:11.pyramid, because they said there was an element of skill involved. You
:26:12. > :26:14.had to answer a general knowledge question correctly, before you got
:26:15. > :26:18.your pay-out. But the prosecution argued that the questions being
:26:19. > :26:22.asked were so simple it was a nonsense. For example, who lives at
:26:23. > :26:26.number Ten Downing Street, and can you name a piece of cutlery? If you
:26:27. > :26:32.are struggling you could have helped from the people there as well. The
:26:33. > :26:36.judge said this had not just ruined individuals' lives, who had handed
:26:37. > :26:38.over cash, but they said it had torn apart families, friends, neighbours,
:26:39. > :26:42.colleagues, who had encouraged one another to join, thinking that it
:26:43. > :26:44.was all legitimate but who ended up like so many losing absolutely
:26:45. > :26:52.everything. The Duchess of Cambridge will no
:26:53. > :26:56.longer visit Malta this weekend on the advice of doctors. The Duchess,
:26:57. > :27:01.who was pregnant with her second child, is still suffering from acute
:27:02. > :27:05.morning sickness. It was due to be her first official trip overseas on
:27:06. > :27:09.her own, but now the Duke of Cambridge will go instead.
:27:10. > :27:13.In another landmark Scottish vote today, one of the oldest golf clubs
:27:14. > :27:16.in the world, the Royal Ancient in St Andrews, is expected to vote
:27:17. > :27:20.Women are already allowed to play on the course, but currently only
:27:21. > :27:24.men can join the club - and it's been that way for 260 years.
:27:25. > :27:28.Golf is a sport steeped in tradition, but today,
:27:29. > :27:31.centuries of male-only domination looks likely to come to an end.
:27:32. > :27:35.The Royal Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews is the spiritual home
:27:36. > :27:40.Thousands of members of the exclusive club have been urged to
:27:41. > :27:46.Professionals like former British Open winner Catriona Matthew
:27:47. > :27:55.The fact they take ladies in will encourage some of
:27:56. > :27:59.the other men-only clubs in Britain to perhaps look at their policies.
:28:00. > :28:02.I think just generally make golf more inclusive
:28:03. > :28:07.Of course, this is not the only vote in Scotland today, but
:28:08. > :28:12.If women are allowed to become members it could encourage more
:28:13. > :28:14.females to the game and at least stop those awkward
:28:15. > :28:25.The would-be thief who went into an art gallery without
:28:26. > :28:31.The footage was taken at the Castle Fine Art Gallery.
:28:32. > :28:33.It clearly shows the man removing the painting, worth several
:28:34. > :28:38.hundred pounds, from the wall and trying to hide it in his jacket..
:28:39. > :28:44.The man in the frame was stopped by staff outside the gallery.
:28:45. > :28:47.But they didn't detain him and police are asking for help
:28:48. > :29:09.Not a very picky picture behind me. It is a bit of a mess. Cloud in some
:29:10. > :29:14.places, others have woken up to sunshine. For a few of us, we have
:29:15. > :29:18.seen lumpy cloud coming up to southern areas. Those clouds have
:29:19. > :29:22.produced one of two quite potent thunderstorms this morning. Some
:29:23. > :29:25.bangs and crashes, heavy downpours across parts of Hampshire and
:29:26. > :29:30.Sussex. They have been moving north-west woods. They are ready
:29:31. > :29:35.isolated and most of us have stayed dry. The risk is there in the
:29:36. > :29:39.afternoon, a few pushing up into the South Midlands and parts of males.
:29:40. > :29:45.Very hit and miss. Warm, muddy and humid. Alonso North Sea coast is the
:29:46. > :29:48.cloud come back and keep things cool, 14 - 15 Celsius. Brightness
:29:49. > :29:53.further west across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A mixed bag up and
:29:54. > :29:59.down the UK through the rest of today. As we go into tonight, most
:30:00. > :30:03.of the stay dry. A few more showers across the South, which will ease
:30:04. > :30:06.off, but only briefly. Another clutch of storms coming out of
:30:07. > :30:10.France as we head towards tomorrow morning and they could be nasty. I
:30:11. > :30:16.humid, muggy night in southern areas. 16 - 17 Celsius. Mist and fog
:30:17. > :30:20.further north. Let's concentrate on the southern areas tomorrow morning.
:30:21. > :30:26.Potentially we could see as much as an inch of rain in a short space of
:30:27. > :30:29.time, so warnings have been issued. Be aware of potential disruption
:30:30. > :30:34.locally. They move northwards and start to ease off would touch on the
:30:35. > :30:37.afternoon. Patchy rain putting down through Northern Ireland and
:30:38. > :30:41.Scotland. A lot of dry weather in between. The Crouch-macro could be
:30:42. > :30:48.persistent, keeping it cool. Warm in the sunshine further now -- warm in
:30:49. > :30:52.the south. The cloud will start to lift at the weekend, it will
:30:53. > :30:58.brighten up for a time and we will lose the humidity. It will start to
:30:59. > :31:01.feel fresher. A cold front will push through Northern Ireland and
:31:02. > :31:05.Scotland and by Saturday it will cross England and Wales. Some sharp
:31:06. > :31:09.showers on the front for a time. To the south, still some humidity on
:31:10. > :31:14.Saturday. Behind that, in the brighter conditions, it will turn
:31:15. > :31:18.fresher. Mid to high teens. As we go through Saturday night and into
:31:19. > :31:22.Sunday, the French clears south eastwards. High pressure builds in.
:31:23. > :31:26.I reckon Sunday is going to be a lovely day. Low humidity, plenty of
:31:27. > :31:30.sunshine and temperatures back to normal, the mid to high teens.
:31:31. > :31:33.the southern areas tomorrow morning. Potentially
:31:34. > :31:39.Voting is under way in the referendum on Scottish independence.
:31:40. > :31:41.It closes at 10pm tonight. The results should be known early
:31:42. > :31:42.tomorrow morning.