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Millions head to the polls to cast their vote on the country's future. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
From villages in the Highlands and Islands to big cities | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
like Edinburgh, the turnout is expected to be very high. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Very important. Not just for... You know, for future generations as | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
well. I think it is an extremely important day for Scotland, probably | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
the most important of my life. With a tense night ahead, the faces | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
of the two campaigns, Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond, cast their votes | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
in the independence referendum. A British hostage is shown in a new | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
video from Islamic State extremists. He says he's being held | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
as a prisoner. On the front line with the | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Syrian Army fighting Islamic State - The Syrians say any attempt to fight | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
jihadi groups without their soldiers is not going to work, because they | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
are experienced, battle-hardened Police searching | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
for London teenager Alice Gross, last seen three weeks ago, | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
say a Latvian man is now a suspect. But will his company strike | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
the right chord with investors? The growing campaign by Muslims in | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
the capital condemning the actions And the stations hit the hardest | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
as a result of ticket office Good evening and welcome to the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
BBC News at Six from Edinburgh After two years of campaigning | :01:33. | :01:59. | |
and passionate debate, the people of Scotland are finally | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
able to cast their votes to decide whether Scotland should be | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
an independent country. The turnout is expected to be | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
extremely high with more than 4.3 Queues were forming outside polling | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
stations Our Special Correspondent Allan | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Little reports. This long campaign has reached into | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
every remote corner of Scotland. This ballot box was | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
on its way to the island of Gigha, Across the country, 4.3 million | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
people are registered to vote, an In Edinburgh, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the grey autumn weather did not keep the voters away, for this is | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
a moment of historic significance. I should think so! | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Very important. You know, | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
for future generations as well. I think it is an extremely important | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
day for Scotland, probably It's the future of the country, | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
and all of Britain. It's going to be exciting | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
and interesting to see The two men who led the yes | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
and no campaigns voted early. Alex Salmond, | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
near his constituency home in Aberdeenshire, and Alistair Darling | :03:21. | :03:21. | |
in the Edinburgh constituency he So did two others who played key | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
roles, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at home | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
in Fife, and Deputy First Minister When polling closes at 10pm, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
the votes from more than 5500 polling stations will be counted | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
in 32 local authorities, from And the numbers collated nationally | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
here, at Ingliston, The official whose job it is to make | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the formal announcement But I'm really focused | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
on making sure the process goes well, that at the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
end of the day, even if people don't like the result, they will at least | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
trust it as an accurate result. My job is to ensure the integrity | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
of the process, the robustness of the procedures | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
that we use will ensure that people The historic weight of this poll is | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
reflected in this, reporters and television crews from around | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
the world have come to Edinburgh, for what is happening here is | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
unprecedented in a modern European Voting is taking place | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
at more than 5,000 polling stations The polls close at 10pm | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
and strict rules mean that until then the BBC and other | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
broadcasters are not allowed to The results will be counted | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
in each of Scotland's 32 local authority areas, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
from the smaller island councils to the bigger urban authorities, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
and the winning campaign simply And it's how people | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
in big cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh cast their votes that will | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
be watched particularly closely, Well, the voting takes place | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
across 32 areas of Scotland, Later, when we show the results, | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
it's green for yes and red for no. Here they all are, | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
from Aberdeen City down to West But what if I order them in terms | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
of size? We see immediately Glasgow, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
with 500,000 people, Then Edinburgh, then Fife, | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
then North and South Lanarkshire Going all the way over here, we get | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
to the island councils, Orkney, It will be these really huge | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
councils, Glasgow, Edinburgh and so on, that are watched | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
particularly keenly on the night. Now, have a look at the map | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
of Scotland here, that you will be If I just change it slightly, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
I will be able to use it to illustrate the position | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
of those six biggest councils. I will bring a line out | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
of the council that relates to the size of the population, the longest | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
line you can see is Glasgow. In the north-east, | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
you see Aberdeenshire. To the west, around Glasgow, | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
North and South Lanarkshire. Of course, voting is | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
happening all over Scotland. The counting will take place pretty | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
soon, and it won't be long Well the bulk | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
of the results are expected to come through in the early hours, between | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
2am and 5am tomorrow morning. The final result will be announced | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
at the National Count Centre here in Edinburgh, and our correspondent, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
James Robbins, is there. This hall, close to Edinburgh | :06:43. | :06:56. | |
airport, has a dual role tonight. It is at the cables behind me were the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
votes from the Edinburgh local authority area will be counted. This | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
is also the national counting centre, where results from across | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the country will be collated and then announced by Mary Pitcaithly, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
the Chief Counting Officer, and her staff. She is being very cautious | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
about the timing of the final result, pointing out that weather | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
could be a factor. Helicopters are needed to bring ballot boxes from | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
some islands, so that could be a factor. So could be any recounts at | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
local centres. But there will be no national recount. So, once she is | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
satisfied she has all of the figures in, they are complete and accurate, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
and she says accuracy and not speed is essential, she will go to the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
microphone for one final time to announce Scotland's verdict in the | :07:44. | :07:44. | |
referendum. There will of course be full | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
coverage of this historic If you're watching in Scotland | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
it begins on BBC1 at 10:25 For the rest of the UK, | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
you can join Huw Edwards and Jeremy Vine who'll be analysing all | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
the results as they come in Now though it's over to Reeta | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
in the studio for the rest A new video has appeared showing | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
a British hostage, John Cantlie, who is believed to being held | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
by extremists from Islamic State. Unlike previous videos, the film | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
doesn't show an execution, and John Cantlie speaks from | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
behind a desk, and says Islamic State has been "misrepresented | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
by the Western media." IS has previously released film | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
of the killing of three Western hostages, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
and has threatened the life Our Security Correspondent Gordon | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Corera reports. The latest release from the group | :08:34. | :08:47. | |
calling itself Islamic State is another propaganda video. Although | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
different from the last. Hello, my name is John Cantley. The British | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
journalist says he is a prisoner and his life hangs in the balance as he | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
reads from a script. After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
in Afghanistan and Iraq, why is it that our governments appear so keen | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict. The message is | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
highly political, with criticism of US and UK intervention in Iraq and | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
current policy. The video was different from the others we have | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
seen recently. It is shot inside and not in the desert. Nobody is killed | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
in it. Nobody from Islamic State is even seen. But the aim is similar, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
using a hostage to try to spread its message direct to public opinion and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
to challenge public policy. This was a freelance journalist John Cantlie | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
in Syria before he was first detained in 2012. We have basically | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
walked into a bad area. He tried to escape and was shot, but was | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
eventually freed after a raid by the Free Syrian Army on the camp where | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
he was held. Then he went back to Syria in November 2012 and was | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
captured again. This time, with James Foley, the American journalist | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
seen killed in a video a month ago. Until today, news organisations have | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
agreed not to report his disappearance at the request of the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Foreign Office. His family have now been informed about today's video, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
which the Government has condemned. Obviously, any new video released, | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
the Foreign Office need to look at origins and check the veracity. But | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
I don't think we need any reminder what an odious, barbaric movement | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
ISIL is. At the end of the video, John Cantlie says he will appear in | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
further broadcasts. While it carries out | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
its propaganda war against the West, Islamic State is being fought | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
inside Syria by government forces. It's one aspect of the bitter civil | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
war there between the government and several rebel factions, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
including the Free Syrian Army. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
and his team have been in Ain Beida with the government troops | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and they were given rare access to This is what will war has done to | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Jobar, a district on the edge It has been fought over since rebels | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
seized it around two years ago. A new government offensive, | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
more air strikes, is happening now. The way Syrians used to live is | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
a memory. The Syrian army allowed us | :11:34. | :11:47. | |
into a small corner of the front line, about | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
a 20 minute drive south of Damascus, It was recaptured recently | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
from rebels after hard fighting. This is a small outpost - around 300 | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
metres separate the front lines. But what happens here says a lot | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
about the war and the way the fight These Syrian soldiers said they were | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
volunteers and that the West was finally | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
catching up with their belief that on the opposite side of the lines | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
were religious extremists. The Syrian general commanding this | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
sector, who seemed popular with his men, | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
didn't want to identify himself. TRANSLATION: Islamic State is a | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
threat on the whole world. If they control Syria, they will | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
take us back to the Stone Age. But, as a military power | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
they are not a threat. Syria can crush them without | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
the help of the Americans. The afternoon's firefight started | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
when bullets came in The Syrian army has been much more | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
effective than its enemies expected. The Syrians say any attempt to fight | :13:03. | :13:15. | |
jihad groups without their soldiers isn't going to work, because they | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
are experienced, battle hardened But the US and the UK believe this | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
army is the tool of a brutal | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
dictator. The Syrian soldiers were shooting | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
at a mix of Al-Qaeda sympathisers and supposed moderates, the FSA, | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
which the Americans want to use Syrian soldiers say the West should | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
help them fight jihadists. I come here because I want | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
to fight these people. They are coming here to destroy | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
our country. I want to save my brothers, | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
my sister, my family and my people. The Syrian people, | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
the great Syrian people. The war in Syria isn't ending. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
It's renewing itself. And its politics are getting | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
more tangled and more bloody. Police investigating | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross say they | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
are now treating a Latvian man, Officers say the 41-year-old man, | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
who vanished a week after Alice disappeared, has a conviction | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
for killing his former wife. In 2009, he was also arrested | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
for indecent assault against This is the home of 41-year-old | :14:38. | :14:55. | |
Arnis Zalkalns. Since Monday, police have been | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
searching his flat, including every inch of the garden. The Latvian | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
builder has not been seen for two weeks. Alice Gross disappeared the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
week before, after leaving home for a walk. At 3.45 that afternoon, she | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
crossed this bridge in Brentford, West London. Police now say the same | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
camera it up Arnis Zalkalns, riding a red Mountain bike across the same | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
bridge, in the same direction, 15 minutes behind Alice. This is the | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
route Alice is known to have taken alongside the River Brent. We asked | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
a cyclist to follow at a moderate speed, 15 minutes behind. This is | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
where he has caught us up. It is not a scientific experiment, but this | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
section of the canal does have the odd houseboat, and there is some | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
noise from a building site and from the road, but it is pretty secluded. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
It is noticeable how difficult it would be to get to and from the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
canal, because of the high hedgerow. He certainly would have gone past | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
her or into contact with her. What happened at that point is the focus | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
of our investigation. Police say they have no evidence Alice has been | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
harmed. Arnis Zalkalns is a suspect. But they have said in 1998, | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
he was convicted of murder in his native Latvia. He killed his then | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
wife. In 2009 he was alleged to have indecently assaulted a 14-year-old | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
girl. He was not charged. Scotland Yard has offered a ?20,000 reward | :16:28. | :16:28. | |
for help in finding Alice Gross. More than 4 million people in | :16:29. | :16:43. | |
Scotland are voting to decide the future of their country. | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
And still to come - will women finally be on a par with men at one | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
On BBC London, the Chinese trade contingent hoping to boost London's | :16:50. | :17:04. | |
fortunes. And more than 60 years on, the pensioners travelling to the | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
fields of Kent. Last year, the Chinese website | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Alibaba sold more goods than Amazon Tomorrow, | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
the e-commerce giant will sell a part of its business on the New York | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Stock Exchange, making the company It could make Alibaba the third most | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
valuable technology firm in the Set up in 1999, its founder, Jack | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Ma, is already worth ?12 billion. Here's our business editor, | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
Kamal Ahmed. He is not | :17:36. | :17:48. | |
your everyday chief executive. Here he is singing to staff | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
at the company's 10th birthday. Jack Ma, worth about ?12 billion, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
runs one of the biggest technology Alibaba is an e-commerce trading | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
platform, similar to Amazon Now he is selling a chunk | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
of the business on the New York Stock Exchange to raise money | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
for even more global expansion. In my 20 years of trading on the New | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
York Stock Exchange, this is one of A former English teacher, Jack Ma | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
launched Alibaba in 1999 from 15 years on, | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the numbers are staggering. 279 million active users, | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
buying and selling everything The company also supports Western | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
firms trading with China. One is Gandys, a small maker | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
of flip-flops based in London. When they are not playing table | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
tennis in their hyper-cool offices, the two brothers | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
behind the firm are using Alibaba to Alibaba was essential | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
in getting Gandys going. It was one | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
of the first things that we did. I had the idea for flip-flops but | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
wanted to see how I could get it off the ground, so instantly I got on | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Google, and Alibaba kept coming up. Alibaba has built | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
its huge global success helping millions of businesses | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
like this one in south-west London. It is also part | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
of an important global trend - big Chinese businesses trying to | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
break into Western markets. More tech mega-float mania in 2012, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
as Mark Zuckerberg sold Facebook. Such is the investor appetite | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
for Jack Ma's Alibaba, many believe it could be as valuable as | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
the world largest social network. Police in Thailand say they still | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
haven't identified any suspects in the hunt for the killer, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
or killers, of the British tourists Their bodies were found on a beach | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
on the island of Koh Tao on Monday. Relatives of 23-year-old Hannah have | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
travelled to Thailand, and they appeared at a police press | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
conference this morning in Bangkok. Two brutal murders, | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
right on the very beaches which have Today they commemorated | :20:11. | :20:22. | |
Hannah Witheridge and David Miller People have told us they | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
are now living in fear. Fear that | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
the perpetrator is still out there, and that their tourist industry has | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
suffered irreparable damage. Like the families of the victims, | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
local people here desperately want this crime to be solved | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
and the cloud to be lifted. But, after four days | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
of false leads and frankly lax investigation, the police admit they | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
are nowhere near naming a suspect, They have appointed this police | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
general to lead He flew into Koh Tao to | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
see what has gone wrong. But he had little to say, | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
and no wonder. They now admit there is nothing to | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
link anyone they have interviewed The family of Hannah Witheridge | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
arrived in Bangkok today, prompting an appeal from the British Embassy | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
to spare them further anguish. The family are deeply distressed | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
at this time, and my role is to support them | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
at this very, very difficult time. Obtaining information directly | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
and very helpfully from the police has been good for them, | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
and they are very distressed by But a comment from | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Thailand's Prime Minister that good-looking women in bikinis are | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
not safe on the country's beaches This horrific crime involving young | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
tourists has presented Thailand's law enforcement agencies with | :21:50. | :22:05. | |
a difficult challenge. They have yet to show | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
that they can meet it. Six women have been convicted of | :22:10. | :22:21. | |
operating a so-called pyramid scheme in which unsuspecting investors lost | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
a total of ?20 million. Each member handed over thousands | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
of pounds and was encouraged to But when the new recruits dried up, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
the vast majority Pay in ?3,000, | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
get back more than 20 grand. For a few of its members, | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
the Give and Take scheme worked. But the vast majority of the 10,000 | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
people who joined at meetings in South Wales and south-west | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
England got nothing back. People at the top, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
which is a very few amount of The majority of the people, | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
at the bottom of the pile, have lost everything. It makes you | :23:03. | :23:14. | |
really angry. Now, three women have pleaded | :23:15. | :23:15. | |
guilty to operating the scheme. Hazel Cameron, on the phone here, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
will be sentenced next month, along with 68-year-old Susan Crane | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
and Mary Nash, 65. What do you say to | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
the people who invested Two years ago, Laura Fox, | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Jennifer Smith-Hayes and Carol Chalmers were also convicted of | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
operating and promoting the scheme. They were sentenced to | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
nine months in jail. Another three women - | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
Sally Phillips, Jane Smith and Rita Lomas ? pleaded guilty to | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
promoting the scheme and were given The women | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
behind the scheme argued in court that it was not a classic pyramid, | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
because members had to answer a general knowledge question correctly | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
before they received a payout. The prosecution, though, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
said that was a nonsense, For example, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
can you name a piece of cutlery? These were the first | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
pyramid scheme prosecutions The judge said, if something looks | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
too good to be true, it probably is. There's another landmark vote taking | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
place in Scotland today - this one about whether to allow | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
women to join the Royal Women are already allowed to play | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
on the course, but currently only men can become members - and it's | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
been that way for 260 years. Centuries of tradition, | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
one question, But this vote in Scotland looks to | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
be heading for a clear majority. The members of one of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
the most exclusive golf clubs in the world are almost certain to decide | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
men and women are better together. I certainly am hoping | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
for a positive outcome today, and I believe that our members, who | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
have a very long record of acting in golf's best interests, will take | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
this opportunity to welcome women. The world's number one golfer | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
says it is about time. I do not even think | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
there should be a vote. It doesn't matter | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
if you are a man or a woman, or you It is equality, everybody is | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
the same, everyone is equal and Women have played golf for years, | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
and only around 1% of all clubs in Britain are single-sex, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
but the issue has become With falling participation levels, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
golf had to get Women have been able to play this | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
course for hundreds of years, but to become a member of the Royal | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, This vote is expected to change | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
all that, but what will it really A lot of people have the impression | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
that golf is very elitist and it is not perhaps family friendly, | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
and separating men and women, so I think in general this will help | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
golf and hopefully boost numbers. This will not mean an immediate end | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
to single-sex clubs, but if the home of golf lets women in, doors may not | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
remain closed in the future. Time for a look at the weather, | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
with Nick Miller. Some slightly cooler air is coming | :26:25. | :26:44. | |
our way at the weekend. Yet again, all of this cloud in east | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Scotland, down to north-east England, has kept the temperature | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
down. The cloud will increase overnight. We have seen some | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
thunderstorms in southern England. A few more of those will develop, | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
heading north, as we go through the night. Not for everybody, but there | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
will be some torrential downpours out there. Another humid night and | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
start to the day tomorrow. Hill fog, poor visibility. And from the word | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
go, this scattering of thunderstorms. There could be a lot | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
of surface water if you are driving through those areas. From southern | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
England up through south Wales, the warmth will be triggering the threat | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
of thunderstorms again in the afternoon. Parts of north Wales, the | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
Midlands and East Anglia could be affected. For northern England, | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, it will be mainly cloudy. It will be | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
cooler than today. Still some showers around in northern Scotland, | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
as a weather front comes in, which will begin to move south on Friday | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
night, into Saturday. There is also this area of high pressure coming | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
in. We will take it day by day. Brightening up through Scotland and | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
Northern Ireland on Saturday, turning fresher. That fresher air | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
spreads across the UK on Sunday, most places try. Not as warm, but it | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
is not cold. But the air is fresher. Better air quality as well. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it is goodbye from me, | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:27. | :28:28. |