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Cameron, Miliband, and Clegg put everything on hold to | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The Saltire is raised above Downing Street - an appeal, | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
say ministers, for Scots to embrace the best of both worlds. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
In Edinburgh, Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems insist that a no vote | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
can still bring significant change. A message echoed in London. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
One message I'm sure we'll all have in common is it's a matter for the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Scottish people, but we want you to stay. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
But the yes campaign is in a confident mood, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
dismissing the latest moves as panic at Westminster. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
I think this is a very significant day in the referendum campaign. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
I mean this is the day that the no campaign finally fell apart | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
And we'll be talking to some of the many undecided voters whose | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
decisions will probably dictate the outcome. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
The former chief constable of South Yorkshire police tells MPs he | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
had no idea of the scale and scope of child abuse in Rotherham. | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
I have had a 32 year police career and yet on this issue I have | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
singularly failed the victims of these criminals. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Brought down over eastern Ukraine - the first report into the Malaysia | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Airlines crash strongly suggests a missile attack was the cause. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
And badger culling begins for a second year in parts | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
of Gloucestershire and Somerset in a bid to tackle bovine TB. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
The helicopter crash which killed two people - | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
investigators say safety warnings four years ago were ignored. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
And the vicar accused of carrying out nearly 500 sham marriages. | :01:47. | :02:14. | |
Good evening from Edinburgh, with nine days to go | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
before the people of Scotland vote in the referendum on independence. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
The day has been dominated by news that David Cameron, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
Ed Milband and Nick Clegg will all be travelling here tomorrow to | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
It's a clear sign, according to Alex Salmond, | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the First Minister, that the Better Together campaign is in absolute | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
panic and falling apart, following recent polls suggesting that the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Mr Salmond has also dismissed the fast-track timetable put forward | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
by Gordon Brown for new legislation allocating new | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Our special correspondent Allan Little has the latest | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
on the campaign, with just over a week to go. | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
It is intended as a gesture of affection between close neighbours, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
but is the hoisting of the Saltire over Downing Street also a sign of | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
growing desperation, even panic? For Westminster has woken up late in the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
data the possibility Scotland might just vote for independence. It has | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
brought the three party leaders together to set their differences | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
aside and show a united front. There is a lot that the political leaders | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
disagree about, but one thing all agree about passionately is that the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
UK is better off if we stay together. Tomorrow the right place | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
to be is not at Westminster, it is being in Scotland, listening and | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
talking to people. The greatest pressure is on Ed Miliband. In | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Liverpool today he also flew the cross of St Andrew. He has to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
demonstrate to increasingly sceptical Labour voters in Scotland | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
that his party still represents traditional Labour values, and that | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
he offers a real and credible alternative to David Cameron. A vote | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
for no is not a vote for no change, it is a vote for change in terms of | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
more devolution of power and a vote for change as far as I am concerned | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
in the way our economy and country works because we have heard the call | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
for change from the voters of Scotland. In Edinburgh the three | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Scottish party leaders appeared together to reinforce the impression | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
of party unity. They agreed on the timetable to deliver more powers to | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
the Scottish Parliament, their difficulty is that they still don't | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
agree on what the powers should be. They agree on a combination of new | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
powers over welfare, borrowing and tax. Labour want to give Holyrood | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the power to vary income tax by up to 15p in the pound. The | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Conservatives want to grant the Scottish Parliament full control | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
over all personal income tax accrued in Scotland. The Lib Dems are the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
most radical, offering to devolve most tax raising powers to | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Edinburgh. This intervention is a risk for all three party leaders. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
David Cameron and Nick Clegg know that they are unpopular in Scotland | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
and that interventions can often make things worse here by alienating | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
more people than they persuade, but it is a particular risk for Ed | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Miliband. The polls show it is Labour voters who have been crossing | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
to the yes side in such large numbers that the polls have drawn | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
level. He needs to win some of them back. Is standing shoulder to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
shoulder with an unpopular Tory prime minister the best way to do | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
that? Or will it play into the hands of the Nationalists who have been | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
arguing there is no real difference between any of the free Westminster | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
parties? We have the most unpopular Conservative prime minister in | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Scottish political history joined at the hip with the most mistrusted | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Labour leader of the opposition ever in Scottish politics, coming to | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Scotland together, with the entire Westminster establishment in a total | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
panic. If I thought they were coming by bus, I would send them their bus | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
fare. Gordon Brown, who announced the timetable for transferring more | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
powers to Scotland last night, has seemed highly reluctant to appear in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
public throughout the campaign with Conservative members of Better | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Together. His allies say he knows the damage that such displays of | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
unity can do to Labour 's reputation and its message in traditional | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Labour strongholds. Strongholds like his own constituency in Kirkcaldy. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Today I found few here whose minds had been changed by the promise of | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
greater powers after a no vote. Do you not believe them about | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
transferring specific powers to Holyrood? No, because they do a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
U-turn every time. No one believes it. If that were the case, there | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
would have been devolution max on the ballot paper from the start. I | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
am not SNP but Alex Salmond encouraged that and they no. I know | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
that people say it is too little, too late, but at the same time, | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
people are quite anxious because there are a lot of anxious people | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
about. That might be a reassurance to them. The three leaders won't | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
appear together tomorrow but they are mounting an unprecedented show | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
of unity, aimed at keeping Scotland inside the British fold. We will | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
have more on the campaign in just a moment but before that let's go to | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Westminster and speak to our deputy political editor, James Landale. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
What do you make of the announcement today and what can we expect | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
tomorrow? The party leaders at Westminster have been focusing on | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
facts and figures and today we are seeing an attempt to appeal more to | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the hard to the head. That is why they are rushing to Scotland | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
tomorrow, that is why high above me the Saltire is flying above Downing | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Street and other government departments. They are trying to | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
inject passion and emotion into their argument, their claim that | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
they want Scotland to remain part of the UK. Not surprisingly there are | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
risks involved in this, they know they are very unpopular in Scotland. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Tonight Alex Salmond said he was delighted they are coming up because | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
he believes this is gesture politics and a last-minute panic measure, but | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the three party leaders believe that somehow by putting aside party | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
differences they can convince Scottish voters that they are | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
serious about this. One of the big campaign themes so far has been | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
currency and what kind of currency Scotland would use as an independent | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
country, and with that in mind the governor of the Bank of England has | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
been saying something today. Yes, Mark Carney was at the Trade Union | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Congress today, and he was asked about the currency. He said that you | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
can only really have currency union if you have the free movement of | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
capital goods, some kind of banking union, some kind of shared tax | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
arrangements, and today he said with all that in mind, that currency | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
would be incompatible with Scottish sovereignty. Downing Street and | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
others are saying this is a toughening of his position. In the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
past when he was asked about this, he simply said currency union would | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
require some seeding of national sovereignty, now he is saying it is | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
incompatible. You have the no campaign summed up, on the one hand | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the party leaders trying to put out a positive message, but equally | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
there was continued warnings of what they see as the negative | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
implications of independence. Thank you. Both sides in this campaign | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
managed to agree on one thing, that there are hundreds of thousands of | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
voters who are undecided, and of course they will be voting next | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
week, and the factors involved are variable. | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon has been talking to | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
They may not have a vote but it is their future being debated, fought | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
over, and will soon be decided. The mothers at this toddler group are | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
focused on their children but also listening closely to the arguments | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and promises being made, and both sides know that the female vote may | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
be key. I am voting yes at this referendum because I see it as an | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
opportunity to protect our vulnerable people - the elderly, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
disabled and children. I am still undecided. I was going to vote no | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
but now I am undecided. I find it all quite sad and I think we should | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
stay together. Recent polling suggests support for independence is | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
increasing amongst women voters. Both sides have been targeting their | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
messages towards key groups of the electorate in Scotland, those voters | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
still think they have a chance to sway in the final few days of the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
campaign. Central now to this campaign are the views of that one | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
third or so of people in Scotland, most of whom have an inclination of | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
what they are going to do but have not definitely made up their mind. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
These folk are disproportionately women and younger people. There is | :11:34. | :11:48. | |
another part of society in which it is strong, the elderly. Better | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
Together are appealing to the shared history and the security of the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
larger UK, so are the views of older voters firm and fixed? I like the | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
idea of the United Kingdom, and having come through the war when | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
there was so much camaraderie, that is just the way I am. If you had to | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
vote today, which way would it be? I am inclined to vote yes. I think the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
traditional parties have had their chance and not made a very good job | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
of it in the past. This referendum is neck and neck. | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
With me is our Scotland political editor, Brian Taylor. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
After today's events, is it right to say that for so many people after | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
such a long campaign, not much will change their mind now? It is coming | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
to a close. We talk about the undecided as a distinct group, but | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
many people may go from yes to know or no to yes. The no camp have | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
recalibrated their campaign. We have had three offers previously, one was | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
the idea of more powers, one was the idea of emotion, a patriotic link, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
and the third was on the issue of risks saying there was a challenge | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
involved in independence. They are taking that third one and parking it | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
for a moment, stressing the upside, the offer of more powers and an | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
enhanced position for the Scottish Government. Alex Salmond is saying | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
it isn't sufficient, it isn't what Scots need. People have only just | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
over a week to make up their mind. We'll be back a little later | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
in Edinburgh and we'll be exploring views on Scottish independence | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
in the north of England. The police chief who ran | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
South Yorkshire during the time of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
says he had no idea of the scale or scope of child abuse in the town | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
during the period he was in charge. The former chief constable | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Meredith John Hughes has told the Home Affairs Select Committee he | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
had no idea it was going on and is embarrassed | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
at the failure to stop it. But the committee's chair said he | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
found his evidence unconvincing. Our Social Affairs Correspondent | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Alison Holt reports. The scandal of what happened here in | :14:24. | :14:38. | |
Rotherham of 1400 children sexually exploited over 16 years has left | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
deep scars but also many questions. Today MPs challenged those in | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
authority in the town of why so many were failed for so long. First | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
before the Home Affairs Select Committee was the former Chief | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Constable of South Yorkshire. Facing hostile questions under oath, he | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
maintained he had no idea of the scale or scope of exploitation in | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Rotherham. I have had a 32 year police career and yet on this issue | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
I have failed the victims of these criminals, and it hurts. It is | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
something that I loathe, but to say that I am either misleading or lying | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
to this committee, I can only answer by saying I welcome the fact there | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
will be an independent inquiry. And for this father who doesn't want to | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
be identified, that inquiry will also have to explain why police | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
officers arrested him when he tried to get his missing daughter back. He | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
says they threatened to charge him with harassment. They have left | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
children and families at risk and devastated, and this is still | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
affecting all of us now. All we are asking for now is for somebody in | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
authority to admit what they have done. The anger of families is also | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
directed at the head of Rotherham's child protection services. This file | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
was passed to you containing a huge amount of information. The committee | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
was told Joyce Thacker had regular briefings on child sexual | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
exploitation dating back to 2006. Why have you not resigned? I worked | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
hard with colleagues to make sure we had a good offer today. I take my | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
responsibilities seriously and I don't intend to resign. The scrutiny | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
is far from over for those in power in Rotherham. Tomorrow another group | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
of MPs will close the council's chief executive, who yesterday | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
announced he was standing down, and the director of children's services | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
will face yet more difficult questions. But the victims of | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
exploitation in this town have waited a long time to find out why | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
for so many years they didn't get the protection they needed. | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
The Saltire is raised above Downing Street as Cameron, Miliband, | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
and Clegg put everything on hold to try to keep Scotland in the Union. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
What do people elsewhere in the UK make of the possibility of Scottish | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
As another London council offers free school meals | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
for all primary pupils we ask, is it money well spent? | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
We speak to the 22-year-old from Uxbridge who's just made British | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
tennis history by winning all four major tournaments in a year. | :17:29. | :17:40. | |
It's nearly two months since a Malaysia Airlines plane came | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
down over eastern Ukraine, killing all those on board. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
Today, the first official report into the crash was published | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
and it points to a strong suspicion that the plane was brought down | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
by a surface-to-air missile, but it stopped short of assigning blame. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
298 passengers and crew died on flight MH17, | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
This morning, Dutch Air Accident Investigators said the Boeing 777 | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
broke up in mid-air after being hit by "objects" that "pierced | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Here's our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Nearly two months on, there could still be passengers | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
resting in these fields, more than 100 victims haven't yet | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
This report doesn't mention the word "missile" it rules out | :18:26. | :18:37. | |
There was no mechanical problem, no alarms going off and | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
So what evidence is there that a weapon brought the plane down? | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
Well, the most interesting finding centres on these holes found all | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
over the front of the aircraft near the cockpit. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
It says they are from a large number of high energy | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
objects that penetrated the skin from the outside. | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
That would point to this, a Buk missile launcher, apparently | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
Now the missile doesn't hit the aircraft, | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
it explodes near by peppering it with small bits of metal. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Investigators now believe they've retrieved some of that shrapnel. | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
We also found some fragments of, we think, the objects that | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
penetrated the aircraft and the bodies, especially the crew. | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Still the critical question remains unanswered, both sides used the Buk, | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
If they could gain safe access to the crash site, | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Because we know the position is in the sky, | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
we could then reverse engineer the flight of the missile down to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
the ground and work out pretty much within 100 to 200 square meters | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
There were 10 Britons on board MH17, three still haven't been | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
Liam Sweeney was heading across the world to watch Newcastle | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
His dad Barry said answers won't bring him back. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
I'm happy to know about the crash that they probably died instantly. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
It doesn't really matter who has done it. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
I know there are always people who blame everybody else. | :20:17. | :20:35. | |
This report includes one more so sobering fact. | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Three other large, commercial airliners were flying | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
over the same area at about the same time as flight MH17. | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
The Government has announced that Britain is sending weapons to | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
Kurdish forces fighting the jihadist group, Islamic State, | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
Heavy machine guns and ammunition, worth more than ?1.5 million, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
The Defence Secretary said the UK was committed to assisting the Iraqi | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
The Former Formula One Champion, Michael Schumacher, | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
has left hospital in Switzerland almost 10 months after he suffered | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
Schumacher will continue his rehabilitation at home. | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
His manager said that, considering the severe injuries he | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
suffered, progress has been made in the past weeks and months. | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
A new badger cull got underway this morning in Somerset | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
It will last six weeks and is designed to reduce the spread | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
But it's highly controversial, with critics saying culling isn't | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
The Government and farmers say doing nothing is "not an option." | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Our environment correspondent, Claire Marshall, | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
joins us now from the village of Forthampton in Gloucestershire. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Everything behind me is part of the cull zone. When night falls in just | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
over an hour or so, you will have marksmen coming out into this area | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
and you will have very committed groups of anti-badger cull | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
protesters trying to out wit each other. Last year it was called an | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
"epic failure" this year the Government has six weeks to prove a | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
result. Something to give farmers the result they definitely most hope | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
for, which is some kind of solution to the spread of TB in cattle. | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
Footage from night one of this badger cull given to the BBC. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Protesters come across this badger in the kill. The cull contractor | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
release it is back Into The Wild. For some, this is the right thing to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
dochl others think it's madness. The debate is as bitter as ever. Born | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
over night, these twin calves, their father, earny, tested mostive for TB | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
and was killed in April. Their mother faces the same fate. David | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
online video has been watched tens of thousands of times. I understand | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
better than most what culling is about. I understand people get upset | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
about culling badgers. It's an essential part of controlling TB in | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
cattle and wildlife. We must get our countryside free of TB. To do that, | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
you have to take the disease reservoir out being which is, in | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
this area, badgers. Last year 1,800 badgers were killed in the pilot | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
areas. It wasn't effective or humane, according to the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Government's own independent panel. Apparently, though lessons have been | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
learned. Many protesters believe there is another way. They point to | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Wales, the number of cattle slaughtered due to bovine TB has | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
dropped to almost half down to increased cattle. Sick cattle are | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
identified and not moved around. It's a hideous disease. A lot of us | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
live in rural communities. A lot of people from the cull zone. We see | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
every day what happens to farmers whose cattle come down with BTB. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Killing badgers isn't the way to deal with it. So what it? People | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
still can't agree. More now on the referendum campaign, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
with Huw, in Edinburgh. Just nine days to go until the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
referendum on independence, there's a real sense of momentum in this | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
campaign, both sides fighting to win But the campaign is also raising | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
questions for tens of millions of people in England, Wales | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
and Northern Ireland, who won't have a say next week, on whether | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
the United Kingdom survives. My colleague, Reeta Chakrabarti, | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
has been talking to people It's not just people who have the | :24:33. | :24:45. | |
vote who have strong views on Scottish independence. Here in | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Chesterfield, people have been both emotional and engaged about what the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
vote might mean for them, despite being many miles outside Scotland. | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
Chesterfield market bustling beneath's the Crooked Spire. No-one | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
living here can vote in the Scottish referendum, but they have strong | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
political leanings when the issue is discussed. Three generations out | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
shopping. The adults don't want Scotland to leave the UK and wish | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
they had the vote. They are part of us. Part of the United Kingdom. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
Therefore, we should have a say in what happens. It years to come it | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
will affect him and his future children and on and on as not having | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
the United Kingdom as a whole. Market trader Nick says it's up to | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
the Scots to decide their own future. He is strongly against | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
offering them more powers if they vote No. I don't think they have a | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
bad deal, as things go. Why should they get more because they are | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
threatening to break away from us. Why should they be given cherries on | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
the cake, so to speak? This is the deal, either they want in or want | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
out. The tourist village in the Peak District attracts people from all | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
over the country, among them Ian Whitehead from Nottingham who | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
sympathies with Scots who want independence. I see the centre of | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
gravity, the political establishment, the political elite | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
favouring the south. Where can we go to create a fairer and more just | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
society? If the Scots decide to take that into their own hands, I will | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
take my hat off to them, to be honest. Others bemoan the exclusion | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
of the rest of the UK from the debate. English people have been | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
largely ignored, their opinions. I personally think that Scottish | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
people don't really care what English people feel. Or what Welsh | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
people or people from Northern Ireland what they feel about going | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
their own way. This is untrodden territory for both Scotland and the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
other nations of the UK. Those powerless to influence events can | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
only watch and wait. Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News, Chesterfield. | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
There's more coverage of the referendum campaign on the BBC News | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
Don't forget there's plenty of analysis and latest developments | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
on the BBC News website, bbc.co.uk/scotlanddecides. | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Now it's time for the weather with Jay Wynne. | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
A lovely day across most parts of the United Kingdom. This large area | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
of high pressure has become firmly established. It will stick around | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
well on into the weekend. It will keep things fine and settled. A lot | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
of dry weather in the forecast. Variable amounts of cloud. Most of | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
us will see sunshine in the coming few days. Over night dry virtually | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
every where. Rain to the north of Scotland. Elsewhere, dry with clear | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
spells. We will see mist and fog forming, mainly in the north and | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
west. 11-12 degrees, in the countryside two or three degrees. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
The north of Scotland will have rain in the morning to the far north. The | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
mainland, patches of fog, it could be misty and murky for the morning | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
commute. Patches of fog in northern England, Northern Ireland, through | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
Wales and the south-west. They are patches of fog. Not everywhere will | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
see them. The Midlands, East Anglia and south-east will be clear of fog. | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
A dry, bright start to the day with light winds and sunshine. There will | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
be subtle differences compared with today, the eastern side of England | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
will see more cloud around. It will be fine and dry. Here there will be | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
spells of sunshine. The north-will see less cloud. With light winds and | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
sunshine the temperatures will be up 20 degrees in Glasgow, 21 for | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
Cardiff and London. Thursday looks like a decent day for most areas. | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
Cloud for eastern parts of England, staying dry. North and west lots of | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
sunshine, light winds and 20 degrees for Belfast and Glasgow. Friday and | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
Saturday a bit more in the way of cloud, it should stay fine and dry. | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
Even if it is a bit cloudy we should see sunshine coming through. All in | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
all looking pretty good. Sophie. Thank you very much indeed. That is | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
it from Edinburgh we will be back good. | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
That it from Edinburgh, | :29:16. | :29:17. |