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Tonight at six: We're in Edinburgh, where the Scottish Government has | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
published its blueprint for independence. With ten months to go | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
to the referendum, the First Minister and his deputy call it a | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
mission statement, but opponents say it's a work of fiction. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
With independence, we can have the powers and responsibilities we need | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
to seize opportunities to build a wealthy and fairer nation, but also | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
to face our major challenges. They were supposed to come up with | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
all the answers anyone could want to know about everything to do with | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
independence, but there is absolutely nothing new. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
But what do Scotland's voters make of it? We'll be in Dundee asking | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
people for their reaction to the prospect of independence. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Also tonight: A police officer is charged over the plebgate affair - | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
it's alleged he falsely claimed to have witnessed the incident. But the | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Crown Prosecution says there is no evidence that Andrew Mitchell was | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
the victim of a police conspiracy. A court hears that Nigella Lawson's | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
former husband accused her of being off her head on drugs. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Children as young as 11 are involved in sexual violence - a shocking | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
report into gang culture. There were more than 30,000 extra | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
deaths during last year's freezing winter - doctors say fuel poverty | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
was factor. In the sport, Chelsea can qualify | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
for the knockout stages of the Champions League with a draw against | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Basel tonight, Arsenal and Celtic are also in action. | :01:40. | :02:00. | |
Good evening from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, where | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
ministers have set out their vision of an independent country with ten | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
months to go before next year's referendum. Alex Salmond, the First | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Minister, is promoting independence as a way of changing Scotland for | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
the better. He's set out a long list of policy pledges. It is a pretty | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
hefty document, 650 pages packed full of big statements and detailed | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
policies. Alistair Darling, Labour's former Chancellor, has dismissed the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
document as a work of fiction, full of meaningless assertions. First our | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
special correspondent Allan Little reports on the shape of the | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
independence plan unveiled today. For nationalists, the campaign has | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
moved into an ambitious new phase. The most significant milestone to | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
date on the long march to independence, and the first detailed | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
account of the character, shape and spirit of the new nation they hope | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
will soon be born. One independent Scotland could have the eighth | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
highest economic output and the 10th highest national income per head of | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
population in the whole of the developed world. What would an | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
independent Scotland look like? It would be a kingdom with the Queen as | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
head of state, it would join NATO but demand the removal of submarine | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
born Trident nuclear missiles within four years, and it would keep the | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
pound is part of a sterlingzone with the rest of the United Kingdom. This | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
is not a final blueprint for independence, it is the Scottish | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Government's starting point for an 18 month period of negotiations | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
after a yes vote. It assumes that the EU will accept Scotland as a | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
continuing rather than as a new member, that NATO will accept a | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
nuclear free Scotland without Trident and that the UK Government | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
will agree to share the pound with an independent Scotland in a | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
currency union. And what of the UK Government | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
refused to share the pound? An independent Scotland, Alex Salmond | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
told me, I'd refuse to share Britain's national debt. These | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
follow as night follows day. We have indicated the willingness that we | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
will accept the financing of some of the mass of obligations and | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
liabilities alter by Alistair Darling and now George Osborne, but | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
that is predicated on a share of assets, you have to share both | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
sides. Sterling on the Bank of England are these assets. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
This country has two national identities interwoven. Many are | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
genuinely torn. But opponents of independents say the blueprint is | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
wishful thinking. The idea that 27 European countries | :04:50. | :05:13. | |
will roll over and give him what he wants is nonsense. For | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
pro-independence campaigners see this as a battle between the sunlit | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
promise of a new start and the fearful caution of the status quo. | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
Might that yet swing it? Central to the debate on | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
independence is the impact on Scotland's economy and how it might | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
perform if the country broke away from the union. Alex Salmond insists | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
that Scotland can become a more prosperous nation, but his opponents | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
say he has no answer to the practical challenges of leaving the | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
UK. Our chief economics correspondent | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Hugh Pym looks at the economic questions posed by independence. | :05:49. | :06:00. | |
Scotland's history is well documented. The White Paper today | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
looks to a possible new chapter, and a central part of that is the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
economic narrative. There is an attempt to lift the veil on crucial | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
areas of the financial debate. On the currency, interest rates, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
banking, jobs and growth, there are many questions as to how an | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
independent Scotland could relate to the rest of the UK. The white paper | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
said said how the economy might work. The currency is a key factor. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
The white paper says Scotland will keep the pound, the Bank of England | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
will set interest rates but there will be Scottish and put up the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
bank. It is not clear how much says Scotland would have in this | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
important area of economic policy. It is very possible that the UK | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
would allow Scotland to use the pound, they never said they would | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
not. Whether they would allow Scotland a seat on the board of the | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Bank of England is another question, and if Scotland had a seat on the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
board, the question is, what influence would it have? | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
A plan for Scotland's economy is set out. It says it would be the eighth | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
largest leading economy in terms of output per person, government debt | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
would be split with the rest of the UK. It says Scottish debt would be | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
proportionately lower than currently forecast for the UK. But a lot | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
depends on how much tax Scotland receives from North Sea oil and gas | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
production. There is a big difference of opinion, and who knows | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
who is right? But the paper takes quite an optimistic view about North | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Sea oil revenues as they might be at the time of independence. With the | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
more pessimistic view, it is more difficult for Scotland to balance | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
the sums. What about Scottish banks and how they are policed? The Bank | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
of England will regulate financial stability, according to the paper. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Taxpayer bailouts will be shared between governments. For individual | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
banks, the white paper says there could be a separate Scottish | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
regulator, but some say that might create confusion. For example, you | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
might have the regulator looking after the entire system come out and | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
say, well, we think a certain bank needs help, and you might have the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
regulator in Scotland, for example, say, we don't think so. It creates | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
the potential for conflict. The outcome depends on the | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
negotiation between two governments, which will only happen if Scotland | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
votes yes to independence. My colleague Brian Taylor, the Scotland | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
political editor for the BBC, joins me. How does today change things and | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
what does it say about the months ahead? We have a structural debate. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Would Scotland be in the European Union, in NATO, in that preferred | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
sterlingzone that Alex Salmond favours and, if so, on what terms? | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
We will have a debate, and the White Paper entrenches the debate and | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
opens up a second front, which is the offer from the Scottish | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Government and the SMP on all sorts of welfare policies. The idea of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
enhanced childcare, protecting pensions, scrapping the so-called | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
bedroom tax, all of these combining to offer a retail and populist | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
offered to the electorate over the head of the, to some, slightly use | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
terror debate about the how and where four of independence. Then the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
second front leads to the second set of arguments. Could Scotland afford | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
it? If she could afford childcare, why not do it now? I think the | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
campaign will be down the two silos, and an extremely interesting | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
development with how the campaign progresses. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
We'll be back a little later with some thoughts from Dundee on what it | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
means to be Scottish, and there's plenty of extra information for you | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
on the BBC website, bbc.co.uk/news. You'll see the link to our section | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
on Scotland's future. But, for now, it's back to George in London. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
The former Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell has launched a | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
scathing attack on the police officers involved in the so-called | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
plebgate affair. It follows the announcement that one of the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
officers has been charged with misconduct in a public office. But | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
crown prosecutors say there's insufficient evidence of a police | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
conspiracy against Mr Mitchell. June Kelly's report contains flash | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
photography. A September evening last year, and | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Andrew Mitchell, then the government chief whip, begins a bike ride which | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
would end his Cabinet career. His departure through the gates of | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Downing Street was marked by what he has admitted was an ill tempered | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
exchange in which he swore in front of police. But he has always denied | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
claims that he used the word plebs to describe the officers on the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
gates. It was that word and all its class associations which caused his | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
downfall. The Plebgate 's gamble was born and battle lines were drawn, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
with the police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
lined up against the government. Under massive pressure, Andrew | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Mitchell quit. That as more details of the episode you merge, Scotland | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
Yard began and -- you merge, Scotland Yard began an investigation | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
of its own and one officer has been accused of misconduct in public | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
office by falsely claiming to have witnessed the incident. Together | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
with seven others, he faces internal disciplinary seedings. He is one of | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
five accused of gross misconduct. The Crown Prosecution Service says | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
there was insufficient evidence to show Andrew Mitchell was the victim | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
of a criminal conspiracy. It was this officer, Toby Rowland, who | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
wrote in his note that the MP had used the word plebs. He is not | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
facing any disciplinary measures. But this afternoon, Andrew Mitchell | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
announced that he would be pursuing PC Roland. PC Toby Roland, who was | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
responsible for writing those toxic phrases in his notebook, was not | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
telling the truth. I will seek to say this on oath in a court of law | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
and it is our intention to ensure that PC Toby Roland has two | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
similarly swear. The Police Federation was considering its | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
response to his attack on PC Roland. Meanwhile, the Independent Police | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Complaints Commission said some officers may be responsible for | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
turning a short altercation which could hardly be heard into a | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
national scandal. 14 months on from there are let these gates, the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
controversy continues. -- from the roll at these gates. The police | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
officer who has been charged makes his first court appearance next | :13:01. | :13:01. | |
month. The former husband of celebrity chef | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Nigella Lawson has claimed that she was so off her head on drugs that | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
she allowed her personal assistants to spend whatever they liked. The | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
allegation emerged during the trial of two women accused of committing | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
fraud while working for the couple. Sangita Myska reports from Isleworth | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
Crown Court. It contains flash photography. The flavours are so | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
complex that it is very rewarding to eat. Nigella Lawson, daughter of a | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
top alteration and one of the most celebrated television chefs in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Britain. A string of TV series and books has earned her ?20 million and | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
a place on the celebrity circuit. Today her two former PAs, Elisabetta | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
and Francesco Grillo, came to court to face charges that they defrauded | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
both Ms Lawson and her former husband to the tune of ?300,000. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Charles Saatchi, a multimillionaire art collector, and Ms Lawson, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
recently divorced amid acrimonious claims that Mr Saatchi grabbed his | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
ex-wife by the throat outside a London restaurant. Today, as part of | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
the fraud trial, the judge read an e-mail from Mr Saatchi to Ms Lawson | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
accusing her of being a drug user. It said, now the Grillos will get | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
off on the basis you were so off your head on drugs that you allowed | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
the sisters to spend what they liked. Yes, I believe every word | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
they have said. A court had previously heard from the Grillos' | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
defence team that Nigella Lawson was using cocaine and description drugs | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and the personal assistants had been allowed to use credit cards with the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
tacit understanding that they would not reveal Ms Lawson's drug use to | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
her ex-husband, Mr Saatchi. Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
denied the charges. The proceedings continue. Children as young as 11 | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
are involved in sexual violence against other youngsters, that is | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the shocking verdict of the Children's Commissioner. In a report | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
into child exploitation and gangs published today, researchers say | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
that rape is seen as normal and inevitable. This report contains | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
some disturbing details from the beginning. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Voices rarely heard, disturbing voices, young girls witnesses to | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
appalling sexual violence in Britain's street gangs, committed | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
against children, often by children. It could be eight guys and one girl, | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
treating the girl like a piece of meat. I don't know, it is not right, | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
but what can you do? Today I spoke to a girl, now getting a help from a | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
charity, who was repeatedly raped by a gang of young boys in London. Out | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
of everybody there, I was the youngest, I was 11, and like they | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
was all 13 and 14. They just undressed me themselves, and was not | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
caring about what I said to them, was not caring how they made me | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
feel, because they could see I was upset and I was crying. I told them | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
to stop, and they wasn't really bothered, they was laughing at the | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
time. Lapping? They did not see it was serious. The report spoke to 288 | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
young people in gang neighbourhoods, 41% were aware of | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
breaks, 39% said young girls exchanged sex or drugs or drink. One | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
of the most scary things about the research findings is that young | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
people feel it is an inevitability, part of what happens in their lives, | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
they have no option but to live through it, because that is what | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
happens. Panel members said they were aghast at the chilling evidence | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
presented to them and wrote of a deep malaise in society, children, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
they said, being badly let down by the agencies which should be there | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
to protect them. This reformed gang head says he has had sex with a very | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
large number of young women, sometimes deliberately to disrespect | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
a member of a rival gang. I could sleep with one girl one night, and | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
then another three or four people the same night. Used as sex objects? | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
That is what they are there four, that is their purpose. The report | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
wants authorities to do much more to deal with child sexual exploitation, | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
but above all it calls for one thing, that we see and we hear the | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
child victims. The time is 17 minutes past six, our | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
top story this evening: The Scottish Government unveils its plans for | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
independence, ministers say Scotland faces a choice between two futures. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
And still to come, more details on the suspected slavery case, we speak | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
to a former neighbour. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Manuel Pellegrini denies there is any chance that Joe Hart could leave | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
the club in January, he returns to the site in their Champions League | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
match tomorrow. -- the side. | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
It was one of the coldest spells on record, and now there is new | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
evidence of a sharp rise in the number of deaths last winter. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
According to official figures, there were more than 31,000 extra deaths | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
in England and Wales, an increase of 29% on the previous winter. The | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
majority of the deaths, more than 25,000, were among the over-75s. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
Doctors have called the figures disturbing and as a fuel poverty is | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
a major factor. Branwen Jeffreys reports. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
It felt as though last winter went on for ever, snow in March and | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
bitterly cold temperatures, cold that claimed the lives of thousands | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
of elderly people. Roy, from what I can see... Jane is a snow angel, a | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
project visiting pensioners, checking up on them to make sure | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
they know to keep warm. In his 90s, Roy has had heart problems, and last | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
winter was tough. It was the coldest winter are member for a long time, | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
and the snow lasted for a lot longer. -- I remember. It is 60 | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
years at least since I experienced anything approaching this. He keeps | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
his spirit up in winter, and his heating, but not all pensioners do. | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
It may be that they keep warm room warm, but the others will be very | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
cold, which can in itself be very dangerous, so people may end up | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
sleeping in bedrooms which are too cold to be safe. Energy prices have | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
been going up, leaving doctors worried about those in their 80s and | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
90s. Their bodies are not as good as they were to resist the cold, and | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
they become victims of the energy price crisis that we have got and | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
the poverty of the poor pensions they are on. More people die in | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
winter than at other times of year. If we look at this graph, the longer | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
term trend has been for winter deaths to fall, but in March the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
average temperature was just 2.6 Celsius, and a very low temperatures | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
are links to more deaths. Death rates vary, the highest in the | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
north-west, the lowest in London. Health officials say there is help | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
for the elderly in winter. We really understand the difficulty that it | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
causes if people feel that they have to make a choice between spending | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
money on heating and spending money on eating, both of those are | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
absolutely essential. With winter unfolding again, the latest figures | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
can only fuel the debate about energy prices. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Now to the case of the couple suspected of holding three women as | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
slaves for 30 years. As the police continue their investigation into | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda, the BBC has been speaking to | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
a former neighbour of the couple. Home affairs correspondent Tom | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Symonds takes up the story. Caught on camera in an ITV | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
documentary from 1997, Aravindan Balakrishnan attending an inquest | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
into the death of a woman at a house where he lived. She fell from the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
upstairs window. The inquest failed to explain why. Today Scotland Yard | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
confirmed it was re-examining the case. You are part of the fascist | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
state... It is believed that these are two of the three women who | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
called a charity last month, triggering the investigation. | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
Charlotte Watts lived two doors down for more than a decade. She caught | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
glimpses of the group, and the images still stick in her mind even | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
today. They appeared quite vulnerable, they did not have any | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
social skills whatsoever, and they used to walk in a line, they never | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
made eye contact, and I used to regularly say hello to them, and | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
they always either looked through you or away from you. She describes | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the occupants of the house, the Indian man who came to the door when | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
she once called, three women, one Malaysian, a face in an upstairs | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
window. She used to stand up in that window for hours, staring for a long | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
period of time, and I used to wave at her and never get anything back. | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
I do remember her sliding these notes in front of, but because they | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
were so high up, I could never read what they were saying. The group | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
later moved to this flat in Peckham, yesterday boarded-up, where | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Aravindan Balakrishnan and his partner Chanda were arrested. They | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
are on bail until January as police inquiries continue. | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
That visit from me, more now on the main story, the Scottish | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Government's unveiling of its independence plans. We can return to | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Huw in Edinburgh. George, thanks very much, that | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
document published today lists some of the advantages of independence as | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
the Scottish Government sees them, but the appeal is not simply about | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
policy. Alex Salmond and his team are urging Scots to think of | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
independence as a natural step, but what do Scott understand by building | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
some kind of modern Scottish identity? James Cook has been | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
talking to people in Dundee, and this is what he found out. | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
The skies are clear now, but once Dundee roared with industry and | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
echoed with radical ideas. Socialism thrived here. Today, though, this | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
old Labour city is a stronghold for the Scottish National Party, and the | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
air is alive with change. Dundee is undergoing an extraordinary | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
transformation, the whole waterfront here is being redeveloped, and it is | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
an exciting time. Campaigners for independents want to tap into this | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
sense of optimism to persuade people to vote yes, not out of fear, but | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
out of hope. There is no shortage of hope at the university, where these | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
physics students are brimming with energy and ideas, but will they vote | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
with their heads or their hearts? At the start, when there were whispers | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
of a referendum, a lot of people thought, I am Scottish, I will be | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
patriotically stuff, but I think people are becoming a lot more | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
thinking about it practically. I would not say that the future of | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Scotland depends on how I feel about being Scottish, it depends on what | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
is best for Scotland. A lot of people think they would be better | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
off if independent, but it is not really trading away a 300 year | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
partnership for the price of an iPad. But does Dundee benefit from | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
its British identity? It certainly build hundreds of ships for the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Empire. These visitors think a shared history should count for | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
something. This is our island and not mine and not yours, it is ours. | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
I think we both need each other. You might as well stay in the UK with | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
us, you will be better off, tourism and financially. Stay with us. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Whether Scotland does or not is up to 4 million individuals, but this | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
is Dorinda not think it will drive their decision. -- this is Dorian. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
It is coming down to his use of how you want the nation to be governed. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Even as Scotland's identity is settled, it must decide on the road | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
and the miles it wants to travel. Nick Robinson, our political editor, | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
is with me, your impressions of the day? I thought I might be witnessing | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
the birth of a nation, at least the side of the first scan, a glimpse of | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
what a new Scotland might be like, and yet the First Minister and his | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
deputy were not like excited parents, they were low-key, | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
downbeat, like business executives at a corporate rebranding exercise, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
because I think their message today to Scotland and everybody in the UK | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
is that everything will change in an independent Scotland, but not that | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
much will change. The pound will stay, the Queen will stay, it will | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
still be in the EU and in NATO, pensions will be paid. And yet the | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
things that Scots do not like, the bedroom tax and Trident, that will | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
change. The messages, keep the good from the UK and get some more | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
goodies, too. What the critics will then say is, isn't that a bit too | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
good to be true? There may be 650 pages in that document, but are | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
there really answers in its? Nick, thank you very much indeed. Time to | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
have a quick look at what the weather is doing, we can join Tomasz | :27:37. | :27:37. | |
Schafernaker. The weather is fairly quiet, and | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
over the next couple of days we will see cloud and drizzle, and tonight | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
it is going to be mostly frost free. Last night some of us had a frost, | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
there will be many temperatures were it will dip away quite a lot. Plenty | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
of bad across northern part of the country, and that is going to be | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
toppling over the UK, a warm front, and that does not necessarily mean | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
warm weather, but slightly milder than recently. On top of that, lots | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
of drizzle, hill fog, murk on the way. No blue boxes on the charts, | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
five degrees across northern part of England, two at the very lowest. A | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
drizzly start to the day across the South, many areas hanging on to a | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
lot of cloud, but a bit of sunshine, not an awful lot, mainly to the east | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
of the Pennines. Here are probably feeling least cold, around nine | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
degrees in Leeds, ten in London, but feeling cooler. On Thursday, a | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
similar picture, a lot of cloud, the best brightness across eastern | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
areas. The further west you are, the thicker the cloud will be, one or | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
two spots of rain. A change in the weather through Thursday into | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
Friday, this area of low pressure between Iceland and Scandinavia is | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
going to shunt colder weather our direction. That is coming from the | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
central North Atlantic, rather than the Arctic, so it will be a cold, | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
but not necessarily because the temperatures are lower but because | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
the winds will be strong, especially across Scotland. This is the | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
summary, milder for a time, rather cloudy, cold and windy on Friday | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
with wintrinesss across Scotland. That is all from BBC News At Six, I | :29:22. | :29:31. | |
will be back with more from Edinburgh at ten. Now | :29:32. | :29:32. |