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The tv audience may be bigger, but the live audience will be smaller than hoped, when Salmond and Darling take part in the BBC Scotland-hosted referendum debate.

It was originally planned for September, when the BBC Scotland bosses had booked the SSE Hydro Arena, and invited 12,000 sixteen and seventeen year-olds from around the country. Now, the Better Together campaign has said that's too late - it says there'll be no debates beyond 26th August, when postal voting opens.

So now the BBC has belatedly booked Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Centre Hall capacity 400) for August 25, the Bank Holiday Monday. Schedulers are working out the politics of disrupting their plans for either BBC1 or BBC2.  It will be entertaining to see who emerges as the host.

• August 25th is the 84th birthday of Sean Connery, who might make a better fist of things against Darling; and the 684th anniversary of the death of Border marauder and Bruce-sidekick, the Black Douglas.