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A decisive vote by Scotland - it's no to independence. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Jubilation and relief among those who campaigned to | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We're staying part of the United Kingdom which is what | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Despair and disbelief among those who'd fought | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
I wanted our own government, to look after our own race, | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
rather than having Mr Cameron, who doesnae care about scotland, | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Alex Salmond calls on Scotland to accept the result but says he'll | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
resign as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
For me, as leader, my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
continues and the dream will never die. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The referendum result means changes are on the way for how the rest | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
So now it is time for our United Kingdom to come together | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
A vital part of that will be a balanced settlement, | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
fair to the people of Scotland, and importantly to England, | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
We'll bring you the full analysis of the historic result, what it means | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
for Scotland and what constitutional changes are now likely for the rest | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
As Scotland votes no, the calls for London to get greater | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
And police find a bike belonging to a convicted | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
murderer wanted in connection with the disappearance of Alice Gross. | :01:50. | :02:16. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six from Edinburgh, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
where this afternoon Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
has announced his resignation, just hours after the people of | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
It followed two years of campaigning and a final two weeks | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
of frenetic political activity, with all the Westminster party leaders | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
travelling here to make a last impassioned plea to keep the union. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
In the end, the result was more decisive than | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
Just over 1.6 million voted yes, while the no side won with more | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
That's 45% voting yes with 55% voting no. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
The turnout was very high at nearly 85%. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has welcomed the result | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
and announced not only that substantial powers will pass | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
from London to Edinburgh, but that changes must be made, too, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
in the government of the whole of the rest of the United Kingdom. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Tonight we'll have the reaction from voters and campaigners, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
analysis of the result, and the very latest on moves towards potentially | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
far reaching constitutional changes for the entire UK. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Nick Robinson has our first report tonight, on the day | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Put away the flag is, stop the campaigning, the great national | :03:25. | :03:41. | |
debate is over. More people cared, more people believed, more voted for | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
independence than ever before, but for now that dream is dead. Scotland | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
has voted no in this referendum on independence. The result in Fife has | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
taken the no campaign over the line and the official result of this | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
referendum is a no. The final result, 45% yes, 55% no, was clearer | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
than most had predicted. This morning, Alex Salmond put a brave | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
face on defeat, accepting what he called the democratic verdict. But | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
this afternoon he called the media to the First Minister's office in | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Edinburgh and announced that he would test -- soon quit the job. For | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
me, my time as leader is nearly over. But for Scotland the campaign | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
continues, and the dream shall never die. The real guardians of progress | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
are no longer politicians at Westminster, or even at Holyrood. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
But the energised activism of tens of thousands of people who I predict | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
will refuse to meekly go back into the political shadows. We have now | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
the opportunity to hold a Westminster's feet to the fire on | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the bow that they have made to devolve further meaningful power to | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Scotland. This places Scotland in a bridge strong position. The story of | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
the night was clear almost from the very first result at 1:30 a.m.. No, | :05:10. | :05:27. | |
19,000. 19,036. The no campaign, subdued for so long, celebrated as | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
result after result in 28 out of 32 areas had them winning. In Glasgow, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond's deputy, and surely his successor | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
now, knew it was all over. Yes, 194,000. No, 169,347. The news from | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
Scotland's biggest city, a consolation prize. Not so long ago, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
few would have believed they would do this well or come this close, but | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
for Alex Salmond, as he left home in the early hours, it simply was not | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
close enough. For them, those who had fought for Scotland to remain in | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the UK, the relief was palpable. The people of Scotland have spoken. We | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
have chosen unity over division and positive change rather than needless | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
separation. APPLAUSE Today is a momentous result | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
for Scotland and also for the United Kingdom as a whole. By confirming | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
our place within the union, we have reaffirmed all that we have in | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
common. Those watching outside Scotland had simply had to hold | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
their breath. The Prime Minister watched for much of the night, aware | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
that a yes vote would destroy not just his country but his reputation. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
The people of Scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
kept our country of four nations together. And like millions of other | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
people, I am delighted. The debate was settled for a generation, he | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
said. There could be no disputes, no reruns. Scotland would get more | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
power but change would go much further than that. Just as the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
people of Scotland will have more power over their affairs, so it | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
follows that the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland must have | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
a bigger say over theirs. The rights of these voters need to be | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
respected, preserved and enhanced. The Tory leader revived an old, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
undelivered manifesto promise, to ensure that English laws are made | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
only by English votes. I have long believed that a crucial part missing | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
from this national discussion is England. We have heard the voice of | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Scotland, and now the millions of voices of England must also be | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
heard. Somewhere ask, why on earth are politicians talking about | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
constitutional change on the very day when the Scottish people have | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
rejected independence? The answer is clear and it is here in Glasgow. The | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
people of this great city voted by a majority to leave the UK. The anger | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
they feel that the way Westminster currently runs things is felt up and | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
down what remains our United Kingdom. Thank you very much indeed. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
But this great national debate will now happen without him leading | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
Scotland. More than 3.5 million | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Scots voted yesterday. The turnout was the highest | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
for any UK election since 1951. The vote | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
against independence was larger in the more rural parts of Scotland and | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
among older voters, with resounding noes from Edinburgh, Dumfries and | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Galloway, and the Orkney Islands. For cities that voted yes, such as | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Glasgow and Dundee, the dream that Allan Little has been analysing what | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
tipped the balance for the voters against independence, | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
in favour of a United Kingdom. The burden of proof from the | :09:06. | :09:19. | |
beginning lay mostly with the yes campaign. To too many voters, their | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
blueprint for independence seemed incomplete, unready. Particularly on | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
what currency and independent Scotland would use. Edinburgh, home | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
to Scotland's financial services industry, voted 61-39 to stay in the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
UK. This is quite a well-off country and a lot of people felt we had a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
lot to lose. I do not think it is surprise where parts where people | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
did not have so much to lose would vote yes. Even here, more than one | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
in three voted yes. I am devastated. I have been up all might. But also | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
inspired because we know that half the people get it. That is nice. It | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
is weird knowing that half the people are ready for change and half | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
are scared to do it. Overall, it has been very beneficial to Scotland, | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
despite the fact that we did not win. Although I was a no vote, when | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
I heard the results I started crying, because relieved, but also | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
kind of worried about what happens now. In less prosperous places, more | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
voters favoured yes. Scotland's biggest city, Glasgow, voted for | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
independence, as did Dundee. Here, Labour voters who crossed in large | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
numbers were decisive. Will they return to the Labour fold after this | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
experience? I am devastated. The sole reason was that I wanted more | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
than anything a yes vote. A change. Labour's policies close to Tory | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
policies for me. After what happened with Tony Blair, I don't think the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
working-class trust Labour any more. They have gone over to the SNP. In | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
this, the intervention in the last stages of the campaign by a | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
seemingly rejuvenated Gordon Brown may have helped to stem the flow of | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Labour voters to the yes camp. The margin of victory for the union was | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
clear and decisive and beyond dispute. Does that mean the job is | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
done, the union saved? 45% of the population of the country on a high | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
turnout voted to end United Kingdom statehood in Scotland. That would | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
have been unthinkable even 15 years ago when the Scottish Parliament was | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
first set up. Remember that 1.6 million people of our fellow | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
citizens voted to leave the United Kingdom. A majority in Glasgow, a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
large majority in Dundee. The really important thing to do at the moment | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
is to try and understand and then respond adequately and effectively | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
to the reasons why people voted yes. The Anglo Scottish union has | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
survived the greatest challenge to its existence in 300 years. Scotland | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
has settled the question peacefully and democratically, but the popular | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
challenge to the UK's legitimacy in Scotland has not gone away. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Brian Taylor is at Ute house, the official residence of the First | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
Minister of Scotland. Alex Salmond has announced he is going to be | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
standing down. We heard strong emotions among his supporters. Where | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
does his decision leaves them and their desire for change? The | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
argument that Alex Salmond will advance is that the campaign for | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
independence, the cause he has espoused for his political life, is | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
bigger than one individual. I think there are two motivations behind his | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
decision. First, the personal one. He has been leader for 20 years. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Rather a decent shift at the coal face, as he said himself. Secondly, | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
however satisfactory 45% is, it is not a victory, and Mr Salmond is | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
associated by definition with defeat on this particular referendum for | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the independence cause. He believes there is still an opportunity for | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the SNP and the independence movement, but he believes it would | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
be best done by someone else. I would characterise him as having | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
transformed the SNP, from a party which, after the 1979 devolution | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
referendum, almost fell apart, to a situation where now they are | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
sufficiently strong and mature and above all sufficiently a party of | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
government, that I believe they will survive this and perhaps be able to | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
use, as Alex Salmond has put it, the opportunity of driving forward to | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
independence. Of course, there will be introspection, but I believe they | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
will advance with a new leader and I believe that will be Nicola | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Sturgeon, his deputy. Thank you. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Within the last few minutes, a statement from the Queen has been | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
published. Nicholas Witchell has the details at Balmoral for us. What | :14:03. | :14:18. | |
does it say? I am sorry, we seem to have a few difficulties getting hold | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
of Nicholas Witchell in Balmoral. Apologies. So, the vote here in | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Scotland could have a profound impact on government across the UK, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
with new powers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
here in Scotland. With no cross-party agreement on | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
constitutional change, an ambitious timetable and a general election | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
coming, how realistic is a major shake-up? James Landale is at | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Westminster. James, many changes ahead and many potential obstacles. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
That's right, normally Reform Act Westminster takes years, David | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Cameron is trying to do it in months and there is precious little sign of | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
cross-party agreement. What we are talking about is not just changing | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
the constitution, it is about power and who holds it. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
It was a solemn vow by the leaders of the UK's largest parties, a vow | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
to devolve more power to Scotland and protect its public funding. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
But is it a vow that Westminster can keep? | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Today, the Prime Minister promised to honour the commitment in full, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
and he went further, promising radical constitutional | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
Just as Scotland will vote separately | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
in the Scottish Parliament on the issues of tax, spending and | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
welfare, so too England, as well as Wales and Northern Ireland, should | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
And all this must take place in tandem with, and at the same pace | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
So, what is the Government's timetable? | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
It is hoping to agree it's plan for UK wide evolution by November, | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
publish draft laws in January and introduce the changes after it has | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Labour say they will move quickly on devolution to Scotland. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
But they want a national debate on English devolution | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
before holding a constitutional convention in the autumn of next | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
One lesson we know is that we can't do this as a knee jerk, quick fix | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
way. We've got to do it in the right way. The most important thing is | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
that it can't just be stitched up in Westminster. I don't think people | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
would stand for that. We need to start with people and the change | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
they want to see. Labour see the plans as a trap. They fear that | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
curbing the powers of Scottish MPs, most of whom are Labour, would make | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
it harder for Ed Miliband, as Prime Minister, to get his legislation and | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
budget through the Commons. None of this constitutional change is going | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
to come easy. David Cameron does not have the full support of Labour and | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
he also has trouble in his own ranks, many of whom think that | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Scotland is being offered too much, too fast. Extensive promises have | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
been made to the Scottish people which will assume that Scottish | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
politicians can continue to adjudicate on taxes raised on | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
English taxpayers and also assume that English taxpayers will continue | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
to shore up the whole settlement, with extensive transfers of funds. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
UKIP leader wrote to all Scottish MPs asking them to stop voting on | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
English issues now. The English need to be able to vote and debate on | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
their issues in the House of Commons. If Scottish MPs agree to do | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
that, that will be a significant set forward. Across Scotland, there are | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
reminders that this parliament represents all four corners of the | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
UK, including Northern Ireland and Wales. Scotland has been offered | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
first-class devolution, there is a risk that Wales will get second or | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
third class, and we need to make sure our settlement is as good, if | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
not better, than what they get in Scotland. The stakes could not be | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
higher. Honouring this vow could transform the constitutional | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
settlement. Breaking it could lead to another breach interest in | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
politics. Already, agreement looks harder to find. -- in trust. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
So what do voters in other parts of the UK make of the promise | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Previous attempts at extending regional control have | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
We asked our UK Affairs Correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti to | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
The people of Lincoln had no say in Scotland's decision, but that did | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
not mean they did not care. Many were watching nervously. Today, we | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
felt immense relief. What does it mean to you, why are you relieved? | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
We are the United Kingdom. Yes, we are Better Together, that says it | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
all. I think we would be losing something if we split Scotland away | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
from the UK. I think it has been done the right way, and they chose | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
for themselves. The main response on this English High Street is one of | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
relief that Scotland has voted to stay. People's thoughts are now | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
turning to where the union goes here. Something definitely needs to | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
change. We have the same system for quite a few years and it perhaps | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
needed to evolve. This ancient cathedral city is home to one of the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
few copies of Magna Carta, the 800-year-old document that limited | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
the King's powers. With a transfer of power over tax, spending and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
welfare about to take place to Scotland, where does that leave the | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
rest of the UK? I think it is right that the Scots do have devolved | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
powers. I also think it is right that the English, the Welsh and the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Northern Irish do as well. I think there has been an unequal balance | :19:38. | :19:49. | |
between Scotland having more powers. It gets more money through subsidies | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
than English people and I think that is not fair, and we deserve the same | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
powers, maybe even an English Parliament. Many understand it is | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
not just Scotland likely to change. Let's try to talk again to Nicholas | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Witchel at Balmoral. The Queen has published a statement in the last | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
few minutes. What has she had to say? Yes, this is the statement just | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
issued, this is what the Queen says. For many in Scotland and | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
elsewhere today there will be strong feelings and contrasting emotions | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
amongst family, friends and neighbours. That is the nature of | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
the robust, democratic... Have no doubt's the emotions will be | :20:29. | :20:29. | |
tempered by... I'm so sorry for that, despite our | :20:30. | :20:41. | |
best efforts, we are not managing to talk to Nicholas Witchel in | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Balmoral. As we heard earlier, Scotland's | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
First Minister is to step down. It comes after 20 years as leader of | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
the SNP and seven years as first minister. He said he decided to go | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
this morning but will stay on until mid-November. James Cook reports on | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
the resignation of one of Scotland's most charismatic | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
political figures. Too many people, Alex Salmond is the | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Scottish National Party. He hails from Linlithgow, a traditional | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Labour stronghold in central Scotland. His rise and battle | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
Scottish National is are inextricably linked. Alex Salmond | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
went to Westminster in 1987, a Democratic insurgent, determined to | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
rest Scotland from London's grasp. He was already shaking up what had | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
been a rather eccentric party when, three years later, he was elected | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
for his first stint as leader. His gradual approach to the pursuit of | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
independence nearly paid off, first campaigning for a Scottish | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
parliament, celebrating alongside his political rivals when this | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
referendum, at least, went his way. I think they have better sit up and | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
take notice something is changing in Scotland. It was common he stood | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
down and back again. Alex Salmond MP, 75% of the vote. In the end, he | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
served two decade-long stints as SNP leader. The last ten years saw | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
stunning success. He took his party to Holyrood and then went one | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
better. I heard a rumour. I think we won the election! Ayes winning a | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
second term, with a majority most said was impossible. It gave him a | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
mandate to pursue his life's goal. Two years ago, he shook hands with a | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Conservative Prime Minister on an agreement to put his dream to the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
test. But after pouring his heart and soul into the campaign over the | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
last few weeks and months, he had to admit his dream was not shared by | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
all. I believed there was great possibilities in the campaign. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
Obviously I would not have made the decision had there been a Yes Vote. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
I think in the circumstances of the vote we have, galvanising, | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
wonderful, empowering and massive though it is, I think it is my | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
judgement that someone else would be best placed to take that forward. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Alex Salmond has always divided opinion. But everybody seems to have | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
an opinion, and he did come closer than anybody else to winning | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
independence for Scotland. Let's talk to Nick Robinson in | :23:22. | :23:33. | |
Glasgow. The end of a momentous 24 hours. You followed it all the way | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
through. How do you assess the significance for the whole of the | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
United Kingdom? I have never experienced a day quite like this | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
one. A vote in Scotland to reject massive constitutional change has | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
actually triggered a debate throughout the United Kingdom about | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
just that. The man without whom it would never have happened, Alex | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Salmond, has stood down so that debate will happen without him. The | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
people that lined the streets of this city in Dundee, Perth, they | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
wave their flags, chanted and protested, they lost, and yet there | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
is just the slightest sense they might get a little bit of what they | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
wanted to bring about. What is the reason for this? I think it is this. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
This referendum started out as simply a choice about independence, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
about self-government and national identity. But it quickly became | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
clear to everybody that travelled here, everybody that lived here | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
that, in reality, it was a vote on the way power is used and who has | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
power in this country. It was the shock of their lives for the | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
political establishment in Westminster to realise that they | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
might well lose. As a result, now, all of the leaders are promising | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
more power, yes, year in Scotland, more in Wales, more in Northern | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
Ireland, more for the English people as well. It doesn't mean it will | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
happen, but it means a previously dull subject for many, | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
constitutional change, the thing that political bores go on about, | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
suddenly comes to the centre of a series of election campaigns. They | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
will argue in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland about | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
which party will really deliver for you. Perhaps it is fitting that Her | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Majesty gets the final word, one that Nicholas Witchel could not | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
quite get out. She talked about the insuring love of Scotland, strongly | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
held opinions, and yet people could now come together, said Her Majesty, | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
in mutual respect. It's pretty misty in Edinburgh. | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
Let's see how the rest of the weather is doing. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
We will clear away a week's with of mist and drizzle. We will also get | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
rid of the storms that have been affecting parts of England and | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Wales. This is how it has been today, some work up to flooding, | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
others had sleep disturbed by thunder. The heat triggered | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
thunderstorms to the north and east of London into Suffolk and Norfolk. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
There will be thunderstorms rumbling around parts of England in | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
particular. Not for everyone, but where they develop they could cause | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
some disruption, with surface water flooding, and Hale. Clearer skies | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
into north-west Scotland, turning a bit cooler here than it has been on | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
recent nights going into Saturday morning. For England and Wales | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
tomorrow, plenty of cloud again. There will be some showers, even | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
from the word go in England. A few developing in southern England. It | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
could be thundery, not as warm or muggy, but the odd shower moving | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
through Scotland and Northern Ireland. The big change will be to | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
the north-east of the UK. Eastern Scotland, north-east England, after | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
a mere quay week, the weather front will clear the air and we will see | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
brighter, fresh air, better visibility, some welcome blue sky. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
It is this sort of air that will spread across the UK as the week | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
goes on. It means a chilly start across the northern half of the UK. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
We could see a touch of ground frost in places. 4-part two of the | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
weekend, sunny spells. Most places dry, temperatures not as high as | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
they have been, but humidity is much lower. The storms have gone. That is | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
one part of the story. The other part is clearer air to where we have | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
had so much cloud and reduced humidity. | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
news: The people of Scotland have decisively rejected independence. In | :27:37. | :27:52. | |
a moment we will join the BBC News teams were you are. We will leave | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
you with the key images and voices of this historic vote. | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
The BBC forecasts now is that Scotland has voted no to | :28:09. | :28:30. | |
independence. Now it is time for our United | :28:31. | :28:43. | |
Kingdom to come together and move forward. | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
As leader, my time is nearly over. But for Scotland, the campaign | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
continues. The dream shall never die. | :29:00. | :29:01. |