Thursday, 14 February 2013 00:00

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  By a Newsnet reporter
 
The BBC has claimed that it doesn’t have to present viewers and listeners with a balanced view of the independence debate.
 
Newsnet Scotland can reveal that in an extraordinary email, a licence payer who had complained about imbalance in a recent radio debate was told “…we are not in an official referendum campaign and therefore do not have to balance it out between yes and no.”

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:59

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  By Martin Kelly
 
Scottish Secretary of State Michael Moore has been forced to issue clarification statements following the publication of the UK government’s document into what it claims will be the consequences of Scottish independence.
 
The Lib Dem MP found himself on the backfoot after the report claimed that an independent Scotland would be treated as a brand new state, denied any of the UK’s current obligations and benefits.

Wednesday, 06 February 2013 07:53

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  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
The head of Better Together, Alistair Darling, has said that the No campaign has no intention of spelling out what awaits Scots should they vote against independence in 2014.
 
Responding to a question on BBC Radio Scotland, the Labour MP insisted that the alliance of Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems was formed only to persuade Scots to stay in the UK and that the campaign group was not set up to define what awaited a No vote.

Tuesday, 05 February 2013 21:58

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  Scotland’s process of transition to an independent country following a ‘Yes’ vote in next year’s historic referendum has been outlined in a new paper published by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
 
The publication, which sets out the steps required to establish the solid constitutional platform that would give the Scottish Government elected in May 2016 the powers to build a newly independent Scotland, comes just days after the Electoral Commission called on both sides of the campaign to set out the process following the referendum.

Sunday, 03 February 2013 23:55

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  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
A Scottish Labour MP has dismissed comments from Ireland’s European Minister after she insisted that an independent Scotland would not be forced out of the European Union.
 
Michael Connarty, who is the MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk, claimed that an independent Scotland would require a new application to re-join the EU and that the country might find itself waiting in line behind other countries who had already applied.

Friday, 01 February 2013 23:05

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The head of the Better Together anti independence campaign Blair McDougall answers questions sent in by viewers.  The interviewer is BBC Scotland reporter Raymond Buchanan.