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