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Tonight on Reporting Scotland: From Pembrokeshire to Perth, from Belfast | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
from us to the people of Scotland, let the message be this, we want you | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
to stay. I think it's incredible that the Prime Minister wants a | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
sermon from Mount Owe - instead of having an open democratic debate. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Also on the programme: The family of a teenager found dead at the side of | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
a road four years ago make a plea for fresh information. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
I am in Sochi where the opening ceremony for the winter Olympics is | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
under way. After dropping their Captain, can | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Scotland pull off their first victory over England in six years? | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
And, star signings, why the language of space is the final frontier for | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
deaf people learning about astronomy. | :00:59. | :01:11. | |
Good evening. Seven months to save the most extraordinary country in | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
history - a plea from the Prime Minister in his highest profile | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
intervention yet in the independence debate. David Cameron made his | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
speech in the Olympic Velodrome, evoking the successes of Team GB in | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
London 2012. But the Yes campaign dismissed his intervention as a | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
threadbare defence of the Union. Here's our political correspondent | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Tim Reid. Scotland's most successful Olympian, | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Chris Hoy, adding another goal to his medal tally at the 2012 Games. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
The sporting crowds are gone but today the Prime Minister back at | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Olympic Park sought to use those patriotic memories to make a | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
passionate case for the Union. Those voting, they're our friends, our | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
neighbours. They're our family. You do have an influence. So get on the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
phone, get together, e-mail, tweet, speak, let the message ring out from | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Manchester to Motherwell, from Pembrokeshire to Perth, from Belfast | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
to Bute, from us to the people of Scotland, let the message be this - | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
we want you to stay! His remarks were aimed not just at those in | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Scotland who have a vote, MrCameron wants those elsewhere in Britain who | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
don't to try having a bit of influence in the outcome. This was | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
an attempt by the Prime Minister to use an emotional argument, to tug at | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the heart strings. He knows many people will make their mind up not | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
on currency or EU membership but how they feel in here. While the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Olympics was a success for Team GB, those fighting for independence say | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Mr Cameron's wrong to politicise the Games and say he is scared of coming | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
north. I think it's incredible that the Prime Minister wants to have a | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
sermon from Mount Olympus, instead of having an open democratic debate. | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
In a couple of weeks' time the UK Cabinet and Scottish Cabinet are | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
meeting, why don't we have that debate? Somebody can answer the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Prime Minister back. On the Eve of another sporting battle between | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Scotland and England, these rugby fans in Edinburgh had mixed views | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
about Mr Cameron's plea for the UK to get involved. It's your country | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
and you decide your fate, nothing to do with us. I think we all should | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
get involved. It's got big implications, both north and south | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
of the border. It's Great Britain. It's a decision for all of us. We | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
should all be part of it. I feel it's a Scottish decision. It should | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
be left to the Scottish people to decide. How important is it for | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
politicians in this battle to appeal to people's hearts, not their heads? | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Emotions are working for the Yes campaign, the whole putting a kilt | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
around it seems to be working in the polls, British patriotism is a bit | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
of an inknown. I don't think it MrWork. -- unknown. A lot of people | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
are fearing they might be worse off. Scotland and Britain's athletes know | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
how emotional an Olympian victory can feel as the referendum looms, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
both sides in this political debate will be looking to replicate that | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
joy. Earlier I asked our political editor | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Brian Taylor whether the speech from David Cameron marked a shift in tone | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
for the independence debate? I think it's a change of emphasis. It's been | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
coming for sometime, those advocating the Union have been | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
pressing on the economic case, pressing on the case of working | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
together around the globe. This is attempting to address the identity | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
question that perhaps under underpins the issue here. The Prime | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Minister is effectively saying identity in Scotland is Scottish, we | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
get the concept, he even says he shares the concement given he is | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
called Cameron. There is a British element to that identity that | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
reaches across the border, it might be friends, it might be family, it | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
might be intermarriage or the example he uses of the Olympics. He | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
tries to turn that into undermining, if you like, the case for | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
independence, reverting to a better together argument. Now why does the | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
- why is he resisting the idea of a debate with Alex Salmond? Because he | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
fears that will be seen as Scotland in the person of the First Minister, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
versus the Tories and the Tories have something of a marketing | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
problem in Scotland, let's put it no higher than that. He is trying to | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
post a sense of Britishness and place that in distinction with Alex | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Salmond, so it's Britain versus Alex Salmond, rather than Scotland versus | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
the Tories, that's the offer he is trying to make. You are watching | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Reporting Scotland. Still to come: As the Olympics get under way, we | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
focus on the Scots' medal hopes in Team GB. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
In sport: Neil Lennon says he's had enough of the abuse,so what now for | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the Celtic manager? And why Scotland rugby players are massive underdogs | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
going into tomorrows Six Nations rugby match against England. | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Four years ago today the body of Dean Geary was found on a country | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
road near Drymen. The police investiation concluded he'd been hit | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
by a car. But the 19-year-old's wallet and mobile phone were | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
missing. Catriona Renton reports. Dean's family need answers. It's all | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
still fresh in our minds, everything he did. We miss him and want | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
answers. He was amazing, my best friend. Miss him a lot. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
This CCTV which police released today shows Dean Dean on the left | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
and his friend Mark arriving at Glasgow's Queen Street station for a | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
night out. He is believed to have left a nightclub alone at about 2.00 | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
am. 40 minutes later he is seen in George Square. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Other sightings put him at this taxi rank at about 3. 20 am and he spoke | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
to a friend and said he was in a taxi. An hour-and-a-half later he | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
was seen by three motorists walking on the A 811. | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
Dean's body was found on the road half an hour later by a passer-by. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Four years on, floral tributes are still being laid here to remember | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
him. A police investigation concluded that Dean died because of | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
severe head injuries after being accidentally struck by a vehicle but | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
on this, the anniversary of his death, there are still unanswered | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
questions as to how and why Dean came to be here that night. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
I would ask people were you celebrating a particular event on | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
either 6th or 7th? Perhaps it took to you the city centre of Glasgow. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Do you recall seeing a lad of Dean's description? At the time John Ross, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
a taxi driver, said he had driven Dean to that area. He was later | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
charged with wasting police time but was never prosecuted. Dean's wallet | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
and phone have never been found. His dad believes someone can help. | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
Someone must know something. A fatal accident inquiry is to be | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
held into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
six-week-old baby girl in Aberdeen over six years ago. Mark Simpson was | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
jailed for a minimum of 20 years for killing his then girlfriend's | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
daughter Alexis Matheson. Trial judge Lord Uist said he had concerns | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
about how baby Alexis was dealt with by the NHS and whether her death | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
could have been prevented. The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi is | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
almost officially open - and 40,000 fans are inside the Olympic Stadium | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
on Russia's Black Sea Coast. Scottish athletes make up nearly a | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
third of the Great Britain team, who have been paraded inside the Olympic | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Park. Our reporter David McDaid is there for us. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
It's been billed as oneth most complex and technical shows ever | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
attempted at an Olympics. Behind me in the stadium the opening ceremony | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
for the Sochi Winter Olympics is under way. It has been a spectacle | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
of colour, music, light, we have been taken through a journey of | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Russia's history and culture. As always, at these opening ceremonies, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the athletes take centre-stage. They entered in a different way from | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
usual, coming from beneath the floor of the arena. Team GB were there | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
sporting Russian bearskin hats as part of the uniform. Not all | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
athletes making up the team were there, some are in competition mode | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and others have yet to arrive. Before the Games started there were | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
issues surrounding the politics and human rights issues ahead of the | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Games. Now that the opening ceremony has started and the sport gets under | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
way, the focus will shift towards the athletes. Great Britain has sent | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
its biggest delegation to a winter Olympics for 20 years and I asked | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the head of the delegation how he thought those athletes would fare. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
We know there is a heck of a lot of pressure on our athletes going into | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
these Games to try and deliver and we are giving them all the support | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
we can. I am very pleased to be in the position leading a team where we | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
have quality athletes who are absolutely going to challenge for | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
medals, I hope we are able to produce their personal best out | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
here. Mike Hay cagey there on chances of medals here. But they've | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
set a target of between 3-7 medals. If they were to achieve that, it | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
would be their most successful Winter Olympics since 1936. The We | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
know if we perform the way we know we can, at the end of the week we | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
will be close. If we can go home with no regrets, know we have played | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
our hearts out, put in everything, we will be close. The curlers by no | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
means the only hopes among the Scottish athletes of hopes here. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Elysee Christie is a strong contender in the short track speed | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
skating and a young man has also emerged as Jackie O'Brien reports. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Andrew Musgrave arrives in the form of his life after causing an upset | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
by beating the Norwegians at their own sport in the country's main | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
championships last month. Looking back to his early skiing years, the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
23-year-old can hardly believe he is here. We were not the most amazing | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
skiers at all. I remember skiing around in the forests where we used | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
to go skiing and definitely wouldn't have been able to see that we were | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
going to the Olympics when you looked at us when we were 12, not | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
really doing anything. Great Britain's four cross-country skiers | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
all come from the same Aberdeenshire ski club. They grew up together and | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
raced in the forests after outgrowing their local ski centre. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
The team even includes Andrew's big centre. -- sister. I am the older | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
sister, sometimes it feels like I am following him, it's his second | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Olympics. It's nice to be here with him. Sometimes I think our whole | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
team's like a family anyway. The family affair conditions. Team-mate | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
Andrew Young's father, Roy, also doubles up as the group's head | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
coach. Many of them could have been very, very good athletes in other | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
sports. It's just that for cross-country skiing in Britain it | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
was this sport that took their fancy and they've gone with it. What | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
happens if Poesy gets gold then? He will be jealous! And surprised. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
There's nothing wrong with a touch of sibling riflery although Poesy | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
does have the edge when communicating at the Games because | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
she speaks Russian. -- rivalry. That's just hello, welcome to | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Russia, I am glad to be at the Olympics. They've come a long way | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
since skiing as school kids but the team is ready to take on the world. | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
Now some other stories from across Scotland: | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Councillors in Aberdeen have voted to leave the local Government | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
umbrella body Cosla, it comes amid growing anger over the financial | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
settlement the city receives from the Scottish Government. Dumfries | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
and Galloway council is also looking at the possibility of leaving. | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
A bid to transform a form former oil fabrication yard to an renewable | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
centre has won the backing of ministers. Chief Secretary to the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Treasury and Scottish Secretary visited the old yard to support the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
project. For the first time in almost 90 | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
years, there have been no registered sightings of the Loch Ness monster | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
during the calendar year. Experts say technology may to be blame for | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
the reluckance of monster-spot -- reluctance of monster-spotters to | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
come forward. Everybody has a video and they go home to look at it and | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
think, I just saw a boat and that's the end of that. The marathon route | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
for this summer's Commonwealth Games has been revealed. The race starts | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
and finishes at Glasgow Green. Runners will also see some of the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
city's famous landmarks, such as George Square and the new Hydro | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Building. The call to action is to get many people out on the streets, | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
this is one of those fantastic events that you don't need to have a | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
ticket to come to. It's accessible and inclusive. The first sports club | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
in the Lothians to offer wheelchair based activities for children and | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
young people has opened. The coach sessions aim to encourage youngsters | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
with physical disabilities to take up sport and increase participation | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
rates. The debate about whether there's | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
dumbing down in schools took an unexpected turn this week when a | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
pupil's concerns were raised in parliament. 15-year-old Flora | :15:43. | :15:43. | |
Scarabello thinks the exams replacing Standard Grades are too | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
easy and wants a return to more traditional education. Our education | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
correspondent Jamie McIvor's been to meet her. | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
Flora is an academic high-flyer. She is studying for her highers in maths | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
and English a year earlier than most. But she's also taking some of | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
the new national fives, the qualifications equivalent to a | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
standard grade. She got exceptional marks. 94% in physics, 95% in | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
chemistry, 100% in French. But for flora these marks raise a concern. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
She thinks there's dumbing down. We should go back to a more traditional | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
way of doing things. Exams should be harder, rigorous. A should mean | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
something. I think that teaching standards which are very high in | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Scotland, certainly, have some of the best teachers, but the methods | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
of teaching need to change. I am writing to express my anger and... | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
Flora felt so strongly she wrote to three national newspapers and her | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
letters were spotted by an MSP. Can I ask the Minister to respond to | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
this criticism and to hopefully help to bring assurances to parents, | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
pupils and teachers? I don't think the SQA, many experts responsible | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
for setting exams with agree with that stance. The new courses | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
generally place less emphasis on MEP rising facts and figures and pay | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
more attention to what students actually understand how to use them. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
We don't want a narrow test of how much you can remember. The Crick is | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
all built around skills -- curriculum. Few teenagers would go | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
so far as to publicly complain if they found a test too easy but | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Flora's concerns may well strike a chord with traditionalists. | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
The latest sports news now. Good evening. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
Neil Lennon says he's so fed up with the abuse he faces in this country | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
he's considered his future in Scottish football. The Celtic | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
manager is speaking out as police investigate claims he was verbally | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
abused and had coins thrown at him during the League Cup semi-final | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
between Aberdeen and St Johnstone. In the past there was no question it | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
was sectarian, there were sectarian elements to what happened to me and | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
people want to bury their head about that. I don't. I want it said, I | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
want something done about it. This last week again there's no evidence | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
of sectarian element but certainly a hooligan element. I look at some of | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
the comments, he was a thug on the pitch, no I wasn't. I wasn't at all. | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Never lifted my hand to anyone. Never two-footed anyone. Never | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
elbowed anyone. Played the game aggressively which was my job, what | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
I was paid to do. I don't think condemnation is enough, I get the | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
feeling at the back of my mind, well, it's Lenny, he can take it, he | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
is a street fighting man. Fed up with it, now know. I don't go street | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
fighting. I look after myself, my friends, my family. I live my life. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
As quietly as I can away from football but I am in the public eye | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
and you get scrutinised a lot. A lot of the stuff has been, you know, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
almost life-threatening and the condemnation has been nowhere near | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
enough. Has that come to a head now, are you considering whether you can | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
stay within Scottish football? I don't know. I don't know. It's a lot | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
to give up. I don't really want to do that if I can avoid it. No, it | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
hasn't come to that point yet, certainly not. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Scotland are big underdogs going into tomorrow's Calcutta Cup match | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
with England. After a week of strong words from the coaches following a | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
heavy defeat to Ireland, the Scots would appear to have it all to do at | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Murrayfield. Here's our rugby reporter Phil Goodlad. | :19:36. | :19:36. | |
In rugby's oldest international fixture, one thing seems to stand | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
the test of time, Scotland always raise their game for England. Even | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
if the result is sometimes upsetting. | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
The players behind me have to raise their performance to face England | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
here at Murrayfield tomorrow. After last week's result in Dublin, | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
branded dismal by the coaches, the Scots have something to prove. It | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
has been quite a tough week mentally as well as physically, but we have | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
kind of put that game to bed now and everyone's looking forward to the | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
challenge ahead. In contrast, England come here full of confidence | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
after a good showing in Paris. Despite losing late on, visiting | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
fans are buoyant. 15 points-plus for England. If we played the way we did | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
against France and Scotland we will be a big points difference between | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
the both of us. The last Murrayfield match between the two ended in in a | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
narrow home defeat but Scotland's new Captain seems to know his | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
history. This is when Scotland are at their best, we come off the back | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
of a bad result. Scotland and England games will always be a lot | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
of blood and guts in there. So massive underdogs against red hot | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
favourites. How many times have we been here before? Let's hope the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
pitch doesn't grab all the headlines. | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
There's live coverage of the match across the BBC. | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
Dundee United have cleared their ?4 million bank debt thanks to a group | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
of beat beaty -- wealthy supporters. They're under no financial pressure | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
to sell their top players. The fans don't want to be known | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
publicly, they want to help the club. They've done that and put news | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
a fantastic position going forward. United in Scottish Cup action this | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
weekend, they play St Mirren on Sunday. The teams have already | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
played some high-scoring match this is season. We played them on Boxing | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Day and won 4-1. They beat us up there 4-0. With the romance of the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Cup it's exciting. The weekend's Cup action starts tonight and you can | :21:50. | :21:50. | |
watch it on BBC1 Scotland. Celtic will play their home European | :21:51. | :22:05. | |
qualifying ties at Murrayfield. Celtic Park is being used for the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Commonwealth Games in July. Craig Lee is joint leader at the | :22:10. | :22:24. | |
halfway stage of the joburg Open. Katie Archibald will make her debut | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
this month. More on all those stories and latest news 24 hours a | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
day on BBC Sport Scotland website. That's tonight's sport. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Thank you very much. Space is set to be the final | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
frontier to be overcome by deaf students. There are no specific | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
signs in British Sign Language for planets, stars or other astronomical | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
terms. But scientists in Edinburgh are changing all that, as Elizabeth | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Quigley found out. It's got lots of stripes on it, so | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
we indicate like this... Space as you have never seen it before. Here | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
astronomy explained in a brand new way, in sign language. We have made | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
sure we have left the hands open, as opposed to a closed fist for a Rocky | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
planet. This project is opening up the skies to everyone. Until we | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
created these people had to finger spell the planets which is fine, | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
people know what the planets are but don't really get an idea of what | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
they're like. It was definitely about making it accessible to the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
deaf community and sign language users and make sure the signs had | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
these visual aspects to them that really got across the different | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
concepts. More than 90 signs like this have been developed by the | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
centre along with a university and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Deaf people have been excluded from enjoying astronomy if they go along | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
to the Royal Observe are to yes Edinburgh. They're excluded from | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
information. Even if they go to the Science Centre they're going to miss | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
out on information there, as well. At the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
they want to have access for deaf people, that's why they're working | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
with us to create new signs. Fantastic. It's a great experience | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
today. Brilliant to see, especially signs in BSL. They've created signs | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
for etch and every planet, for example, Mercury and other planets, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
it's fantastic to see. Portrayed in a visual means, I think it's great | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
for hearing people at the same time to see signs, especially signs, | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
hearing children are also interested in learning signs, as well. It's a | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
first for astronomy and a first for sign language. Maybe space really is | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
the final frontier. Staying with the skies, here is the | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
weather. We had some blue sky today. Good | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
evening. Unfortunately, it's the calm before the storm. This was the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
satellite picture from earlier today, well broken cloud allowing | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
that sunshine to come through. But this ominous cloud is a sign of | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
things to come as low pressure swings in tonight. For the first | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
part of tonight most of us will be dry with clear spells allowing | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
temperatures to take an early dip. And a touch of frost inland. That | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
rain pushes into the south-west and winds strengthening. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
Snow on the higher ground, so the higher parts of Argyll, sterling | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
shire and Aberdeenshire will have a covering of snow by the morning. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
Temperatures recovering slightly by the end of the night. But winds | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
strong around the coasts, even touching gale force over the Western | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Isles. A miserable start to the weekend. Tomorrow a lot of cloud | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
around, some hill fog and showers or longer spells of rain. That band of | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
rain will clear the mainland pretty quickly coming to rest over | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
Shetland. Then we will see something brighter for the afternoon across | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
the north of the mainland but plenty of showers following in for southern | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
and central Scotland. They'll be heavy and fouling as snow over the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
hills. The best -- fouling as snow over the -- falling as snow over the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
hills. Orkney faring well. But the rain | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
hanging on over Shetland. Winds easing down for most of us. The wind | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
is feature across the hills tomorrow. The best of companies over | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
the north-west Highlands. Here there will be some sunshine, but with | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
winds gusting to 65mph and temperatures of minus two across the | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
summits, a significant wind chill and for most of the ranges we will | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
see show snours - -- snow showers too. All in all poor visibility. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Through the rest of the day tomorrow into the evening we keep a feed of | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
showers going, trundling northwards across the country. Again they'll be | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
heavy at sometimes, they'll befalling as snow over the hills. It | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
stays windy along that east coast. It's a theme that continues into the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
second half of the weekend. That low pulls away to the north of us, but | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
it exerts its influence still. Still a showery day across western | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Scotland, some of those showers heavy again. Snow for the hills. The | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
best of the dryer and brighter weather in the east. Temperatures | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
six or seven, but feeling cold in the breeze. | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
That's the forecast. Thank you very much. | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
That's all from us for now. Enjoy the rest of your evening, bye. | :27:50. | :27:56. |