I was elected as first minister for a five year term and that is the term i intend to serve. Can i ask you to clarify post about them is to date the date you are sending the letter to the prime list . Yes. It will be going any time i should say, i dont know how much time you have had to read the document but it clearly says that today we are requesting the transfer of Power Production document is effectively the request and it will be sent by letter to the Prime Minister later on today. You said the prime list ignores the result of election after election. In 2014 scotland voted no to independence. Opinion polls, almost all of them can indicate there is a majority for staying in there is a majority for staying in the union. As well as you did at the election last week, 45 of the vote was behind you is it you that is ignoring result after result . Its not. Let me take the election result last week. People cannot have this both ways, we either accept the mandate and what constitutes a ma
Weather, possibly 15 or 16 even. To the north, chilly, the shower is a tad wintry on the tops of the scottish mountains but that milder air will move northwards again as we head towards the end of the week. We are looking at the prospect of some 16 and welcome to scotlands largest town, a stones throw from glasgow. Historically, it was a Labour Stronghold until the partys rout in scotland in 2015, when the snp had a spectacular win here. So with a general election looming, what are the preoccupations and passions of the people of paisley be It Domestic Issues or defence, education and the environment, young and old, rich and poor . Tonight, politicians and people from every major sector are gathered to debate how they, and scotland, are faring 25 years on from the opening of scotlands parliament. Good evening. Applause paisley became an economic powerhouse in the Industrial Revolution, at the forefront of the textile industry, home of the famous paisley pattern, and equally famous radi
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allegations are and what questions have yet to be answered. did you switch off your lights in the last hour? up to a million people are paid to use less electricity to avoid blackouts. and manager frank lampard is sacked by everton after just a year as the team faces relegation. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. no stopping novak djokovic chasing a record extending tenth title in melbourne he cruises into the quarter finals of the australian open. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. rishi sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the tax affairs of the conservative party chairman and former chancellor nadhim zahawi. the prime minister has resisted calls to sack mr zahawi but says, clearly, there are questions that need answering. mr zahawi paid a penalty believed to be around £5 million to the tax authority hmrc for unpaid tax while he was chancellor. mr zahawi says he made a careless error and is confident he has acted prop