Prices, and what you should do if you still want to book something. And in sport, leicester are given a caning. The outgoing champions are hit for six by tottenham, as harry kane scores four, and is now favourite to finish the season as the premier leagues top scorer, and matt goes back to the Jurassic Period in birmingham for the weather. Yes. Good morning. My guest may be prehistoric but it is all about the weekend forecast. It contains a little bit more rain and sunshine as well. Details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Brexit dominated the televised Leaders Debate, which was held last night despite the absence of theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn. The itv event saw little disagreement between the lib dems, green party, plaid cymru and snp as they repeatedly clashed with Ukips Paul Nuttall. Our Political Correspondent tom symonds reports. Five Party Leaders took part. Four Support Britain Remaining in the eu. And in the absence of theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn, they t
Had scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. For the scottish conservatives, Ruth Davidson. For the Scottish Labour party, Kezia Dugdale. Representing the scottish liberal democrats, Willie Rennie. This Ukip David Coburn and for the scottish greens, Patrick Harvie. Applause we also want all of you to join in at home. You can argue along with the debate using social media. The hashtag is Leaders Debate. We will come back shortly and take opening state m e nts come back shortly and take Opening Statements from all of our panel, but first jackie bird statements from all of our panel, but Firstjackie Bird is statements from all of our panel, but first jackie bird is with the watching press. Thank you. From the majesty of the Debating Hall to be more modest surroundings of the press room or the so called spin room. Its here that the journalists and bloggers and Party Politicians will be scrutinising the performances of their Party Leaders and crafting tamaras headlines. I feel a their Par
You look at the five Qualification Levels which are broadly equivalent to the standard grades in scotland. We have seen more young people achieve it, but weve seen the gap between rich and poor almost half. Weve also seen the number of poor people who leave school with no qualifications halve as well, so there has been progress made, but i make no bones about the fact we need to seek more progress, which is why we have a Major Programme of reform under way in Scottish Education. We have a Major Programme of reform under way in Scottish Educationlj will under way in Scottish Education. will go on to education and the details in a minute, but overall, the former head of policy for alex salmond calls it a lost decade. He isa salmond calls it a lost decade. He is a former head of policy and i dont agree with that assessment. Its a damning criticism from inside your own party. I dont accept the fa cts your own party. I dont accept the facts and figures bear out the assessment. We said we wo
As we heard from some of the government speakers in terms of whether it is embraced or not we have seen a lot of companies talk about how they are applauding the release of the framework and that includes at t, the chairman spoke of the release at the white house, there is general support for the framework but as to whether that continues, will the framework be used as it was intended so it remained flexible non regulatory riskmanagement tool. If it continues down that path you will see fairly widespread use among the private sector. As for whether or not the framework is going to improve cybersecurity that is a harder question to answer. Clearly the framework is intended to raise the bar for cybersecurity to make it more difficult for attackers. That is something that would be helpful for mediumsized businesses, you may not have sophisticated capabilities today but we should probably clear any reasonable expectation cybersecurity is an ongoing issue that wont go away anytime soon so t
Declined because there is no clarity in that and that this cause problems at this particular juncture so these are two areas that the government is going to have to play a role. Chris what is your take on it and i guess particularly for the companies and the Smaller Companies in Midsize Companies the one that everyone agrees needs to kick up their game a notch and do they need some kind of incentive on the financial side or the really tangible site to make the improvements that we would like to see for overall cybersecurity . First i will speak from an at t perspective and then address the Smaller Companies but from my standpoint and you heard the chairman wednesday, its core to our business. The last thing an organization like ours wants to be is a victim of cyberattack so we are investing significantly in our cybersecurity capabilities and we believe we have a Robust Program in place today and we will be looking at the framework and evaluating how it can complement what we are doing.