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building society. That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight, the stubborn division in Scotland's schools. A report finds | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils persists. We explore | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
what can be done to raise educational ambition. It is about | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
being given aspirations and that you can do this and your children can do | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
this and making parents believe it. Also on Reporting Scotland: The fire | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
that lit up a tiny Aberdeenshire village last night - today an | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
elderly woman who lives in this cottage has still not | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
elderly woman who lives in this With the European elections in a | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
fortnight - a special report on how the EU affects the lives of Scottish | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
fishermen. The Glasgow School of Art is dominating this year's Turner | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
Prize short list. And why the ukulele seems to | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Prize short list. And why the than at any other time in its | :00:58. | :01:12. | |
history. Good evening. It's a pre-school | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
poverty gap, and it gets wider as children get older. New research | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
suggests five-year-olds from poorer families in Scotland are a year | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
behind other children in basic skills. It describes this attainment | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
gap between richer and poorer children as "persistent and | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
significant". Our Education correspondent, Jamie McIvor, is here | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
with the details. Well, for a century or more, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
campaigners have tried to end the link between poverty and poor | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
educational achievement. And the latest research from the Rowntree | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Foundation is a reminder of the scale of that challenge. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Five-year-olds from poorer families can be a year behind better-off | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
children when it comes to problem-solving and vocabulary, | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
While by the early years of secondary school, only 28% of | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
children from poorer families were performing well in numeracy - half | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
the figure for youngsters from advantaged backgrounds. The problem | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
itself is well documented, but what could help the solution? Let's try | :02:11. | :02:23. | |
nine cubed. The school serves what is colder one of Scotland's most | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
deprived areas with life expectancy in this area of Glasgow being grim. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
We have to look at every child as an individual and everybody is | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
somebody's child and they want the best for them. I do not like to | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
think that this is an area where we have a certain set of challenges | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
because every school has its own challenges. They are all different | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
but they all have to get the best for the child. The school has a good | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
reputation so what is the headteacher think might help people | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
from less well off backgrounds across Scotland achieve their | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
potential? It is about being given aspirations and saying that you can | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
do this and your children can do this. The latest research services | :03:25. | :03:38. | |
ask -- serves as a reminder of the problem. One solution could be | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
better data to help teachers make informed decisions. We need much | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
stronger guidance for schools about how they can use the mechanisms they | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
have because teachers in Scotland have quite a lot of freedom but need | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
guidance to help children living in property. They need evidence about | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
what types of interventions work for what types of community and need the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
data to put those things together. But nobody's pretending solving the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
problem is just about how schools are run. It touches on other areas | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
of social and economic policy too. So what do the politicians say? The | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Scottish Government says it's making progress, but argues independence is | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
needed to do more. Labour, of course, say independence isn't | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
needed. And today they published a paper highlighting how issues like | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
childcare and vocational education could also help. This is a complex | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
problem. Nobody pretends there are easy solutions. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
A privately run care home in Glasgow has been strongly criticised over | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
the quality of the care it provides. The Care Inspectorate says it | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
inspected the Sherbrooke Lodge Care Home last August and found more than | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
20 areas of serious concern which needed to be changed. But after an | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
unannounced inspection in February, it says only two had been met, and | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
the residents' health and wellbeing was being compromised. Lambhill | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Court Ltd, which runs the home, says a new manager has been appointed and | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
the company is cooperating fully. Fears are growing for an elderly | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
woman after fire destroyed her cottage in an Aberdeenshire village. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Such was the devastation caused by the blaze that it's still too | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
dangerous for crews to enter the building. Fiona Stalker reports. The | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
fire ravaged this seafront cottage and the elderly woman who lived here | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
was one of the few locals left in this tiny village. The other | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
properties to holiday homes. This is the scene that met before fire crews | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
that attended last night. It took fire crews around two and a half | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
hours to bring the fierce blaze under control. Fire crews also used | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
all the water supplies which were available to them. The house was | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
very well liked and in danger of collapse and a fire crews worked | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
extremely hard and challenging conditions to bring the fire under | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
control. The crews worked very well using water from hydrants nearby and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
from the sea. The elderly woman and her dog has not been seen since the | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
fire. She had lived here for decades. A joint police and Fire | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
Service investigation is underway. Fishing is probably the one industry | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
in Scotland where the European Union has the biggest day-to-day impact. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
EU regulations determine much of the work of our fishing boats, even down | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
to the size of nets they use. Well, the European Elections are two weeks | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
tomorrow when six Scottish MEPs are voted in to the European Parliament. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Steven Duff has been to Peterhead to speak to skippers and fish | :06:57. | :07:09. | |
merchants. Peterhead fish market, Europe's busiest. For 40 years, the | :07:10. | :07:26. | |
Scottish fishing industry has worked under European rules and regulations | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
known as the Common Fisheries Policy. It caused hardship, brought | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
us to our knees, and if it carries on we won't have anything left. | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
There is probably no other industry in Scotland where there is a bigger | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
impact. They are even told what size of nets to use. They could not have | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
done a better job if you had asked them to destroy the Scottish fishing | :07:49. | :08:17. | |
industry. Since the 1970s two-thirds of the fishing fleet has | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
disappeared, and since the 1990s, the number fishermen has been cut in | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
half. Peter Bruce has fished all his working days. I know Europe is | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
important for other industries, but nationally I would like to see us | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
out of Europe altogether. What do people like Peter want from the six | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
MEPs that Scotland will send to Parliament? Start negotiating far | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
harder for the industry. I see the industry getting smaller and smaller | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
all the time, and they must start speaking up for the industry. The | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
fishermen here are the most conservation minded here, and that | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
is not being recognised. But there are those who feel that | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
is not being recognised. But there protected endangered fish stocks. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
The state of stocks we see now has improved considerably over the last | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
ten years. These fish know no boundaries, they do not have | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
passports, so you have to work with fishing partners all around Europe, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
and they trade with them, and much of it goes to the European partners. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
If they trade with them, they have to accept some of the other rules as | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
well. The European Parliament now has extra powers in deciding | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
legislation. Something has extra powers in deciding | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
fishermen want the MEPs to use to the | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
fishermen want the MEPs to use to before seven. We | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
fishermen want the MEPs to use to system of paying for public | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
buildings but is it any better than the old method? In sport: As | :09:33. | :09:48. | |
buildings but is it any better than career. One of the biggest risks to | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
buildings but is it any better than cycles on the roads are trucks and | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
heavy goods vehicles. Lorry drivers in Edinburgh are swapping their | :10:04. | :10:04. | |
trucks for bikes as part training to show them what the roads | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
are like for cyclists. It's been prompted by figures which show | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
are like for cyclists. It's been a significant proportion of injuries | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
to cyclists happen during incidents involving heavy goods vehicles. The | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
City Council hopes the cycling lessons will encourage | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
City Council hopes the cycling make the roads safer. | :10:20. | :10:20. | |
City Council hopes the cycling Macaulay reports. This is the view | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
from a typical tipper Macaulay reports. This is the view | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
higher up the lorry, the further out the blindspot doors. You've | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
higher up the lorry, the further out watch. You could end up taking them | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
out. One or two fingers above your eyebrows is fine. To give lorry | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
drivers an idea of the dangers faced by cyclists, employees from Edinboro | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
City Counsel transport department have swapped several wheels for just | :10:43. | :10:54. | |
two. It gives an insult insight into what it is like to cycles. -- | :10:55. | :11:11. | |
Edinburgh City Council. This man was killed two years ago while on his | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
bike and his family have ideas what would be a better approach. We have | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
two work together to make it better for all of us. Lothian Buses have | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
been trying this out and see the notice a real improvement. The | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
training today has let drivers see what things are like from the point | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
of view of the cyclist and it is hoped that lessons like these will | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
be mandatory for lorry drivers from the City Council. A look at other | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
stories from the across the country... | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
Two women have been taken to hospital after they were hit by a | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
car in the Aberdeenshire town of Huntly. One of the women was | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The accident happened | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
near the town's railway station, just before midday. | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
The implementation of safety restrictions for seating on offshore | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
helicopters is to be delayed by three months. The Civil Aviation | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Authority says the move follows consultation with helicopter | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
operators and the oil and gas industry. From September, passengers | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
will only be allowed to fly if they are seated next to a push-out | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
window, allowing them to escape in an emergency. Police and water | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
bailiffs are stepping up patrols in Loch Ness to clamp down on salmon | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
poaching. One fisherman was reported for an offence after a patrol at the | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
weekend. Nearly 2,000 pupils in Edinburgh | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
have taken part in a junior triathlon, in what's been described | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
as the largest ever schools sporting event to take place in the capital. | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
The sport includes swimming, cycling and running, and today's event was | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
staged to tie in with the Commonwealth Games, which opens with | :13:06. | :13:17. | |
the triathlon. A rare first edition of Jane | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Austen's novel Emma was sold for ?39,000 at auction in Edinburgh | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
today - nearly twice the estimated price. The book, in three volumes, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
was one of just 2,000 copies of the work printed in 1816. The | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
auctioneers Lyon Turnbull described it as a "remarkable copy" | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
of the novel. The first wave of public buildings which have been | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
funded by a new system of finance have been completed. Major projects | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
are no longer paid for by the widely-criticised Private Finance | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Initiatives, or PFI. But is the new system any better? Our health | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
correspondent Eleanor Bradford's been investigating. Here we have the | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
dental department and here we have physiotherapy. Rachel is very | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
pleased with her new clinic. Her room is beside lots of other clinics | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
in and airy building. It has improved things drastically and we | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
can speak to people face-to-face and if we receive a federal and we are | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
questioning something we can nip through and see them. This is the | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
new health facility to be built under the new way of financing | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
public buildings. The new sick children's hospital in Edinburgh and | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
many other buildings and schools are being built in this fashion. While | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
this method has resulted in many new hospitals the National Health | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
Service has been tied into a long and expensive contracts. Lanarkshire | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Health Board spends several million pounds per year. This time the | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
National Health Service is a shareholder. We will receive written | :15:02. | :15:13. | |
are our -- we will receive a return on our investment and in the town | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
will have an impact on the decisions that are made. That is this money | :15:19. | :15:30. | |
for investors that could've gone straight the private sector? Three | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
of the four nominees for this year's Turner Prize were educated at | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Glasgow School of Art. And 30% of nominees in the last nine years have | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
come from there. So what is the magic dust that is sprinkled on | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
these students? Students put together the end of | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
term exhibition. Three of the former returner nominees, Duncan Campbell, | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell, studied at Glasgow | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
School of Art. This teacher taught two of them. The programme is two | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
years long and that is unusual and allows students to become | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
experimental. It is also a multidisciplinary programme, which | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
means they work across a variety of mediums, film, sculpture, painting | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
and so on. The installation behind me is by Martin Boyce, he won in | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
2011. Four students here have won since 1996. A third of all people | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
nominated for the price has come here. So what is it that is so | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
special here? The Turner prize is a price for a British artist but it | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
has global interest and these are artists that show all over the | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
world. So for example, Duncan Campbell's film was commissioned in | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
Venice. Ciara Phillips' show was shown in London. Tris | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
Vonna-Michell's work has been shown in Berlin. It is great for the city | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
and school and as for in Berlin. It is great for the city | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
am going to come out of here and in a year's time people are going to | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
say, how come you haven't won the Turner prize yet? It is a | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
high-intensity course but it draws people from across the world | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
high-intensity course but it draws gives them a lot of support. That is | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
academically and on practical levels. The winner of the Turner | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
prize will be announced on the 1st of December, but if you cannot wait | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
until then, students here opened the exhibition on Friday. | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
Now with more success from a surprisingly small source, it is | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
David with the sport. I keep talking about me? | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
The Highland town of Dingwall, population 6,000, will have a team | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
in Scottish football's top division for another year. Ross County's win | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
over Hibernian means they have enough points to finish this season | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
above the relegation play-off spot, but Hibs are still in trouble. | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
12 yards between penalty taker and goalkeeper. The distance between | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
Premiership safety and jeopardy. A matter of inches, | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Premiership safety and jeopardy. A Britton's penalty kick leads Ben | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Williams. Little doubt that County deserve the penalty. Look at | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Robison's challenge. Little doubt that Ross County supporters deserve | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
their celebration. If you think about it and look at the population, | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
6000 people, and the achievements we have had in the last six years, | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Scottish Cup final, two seasons in the Premiership, two league titles, | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
it is fantastic. Hibs fans look forward to, if that is | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
phrase, their final match of the phrase, their final match of the | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
season against Kilmarnock. It is a huge match and we are looking | :19:17. | :19:17. | |
forward to it. We huge match and we are looking | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
to do, when the game. Remember Derek Adams mentioned Roy of the Rovers? | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Give us a comic book hero who made a habit of scoring dramatic winners in | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
important matches. This is what happened as Aberdeen beat Dundee | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
important matches. This is what United three - one. It guarantees | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Aberdeen a top three finish in the European qualifiers. Motherwell will | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
also be celebrating. Dundee United's defeat means the Steel, men | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
are also sure of a top three finish. A busy night tonight, too - | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
Motherwell will be a point behind Aberdeen in the fight for second | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
place if they beat Inverness. Partick Thistle, meanwhile, can free | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
themselves from relegation worries if they win at Hearts. After their | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
recent defeat by Hearts, even a win for Kilmarnock at home to St Mirren | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
isn't enough to keep them out of danger. Their fate will only be | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
clear after their final game against Hibs. I am really looking forward to | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
it. It is two massive games coming up and after the results at the | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
weekend, we need a positive reaction and to bounce back quickly. | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
Follow the action from all tonight's matches, including the Championship | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
and lower-league play-offs, in Sportsound on BBC Radio Scotland 810 | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
medium wave, and online. The boxer Ricky Burns' promoter says | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
the fighter must win in Glasgow next month if he's to stand any chance of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
becoming a world champion again. Burns lost his WBO lightweight title | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
in March, but the Coatbridge fighter says that after changing coaches, | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
he's hungrier than ever for success. Jonathan Sutherland reports. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Despite no longer being a world champion, Ricky Burns remains hugely | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
popular with Scottish boxing fans. After defeat by Crawford he split | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
with trainer Billy Nelson and is now with Tony Simms. I had to make a | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
change and freshen things up a bit. I'm so much happier with myself and | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
for this fight, I feel I have a point to prove to myself as well. I | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
look forward to getting out there and putting on a show. From | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
Montenegro, his opponent has a WBC ranking of ninth and Burns will have | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
to beat this undefeated southpaw for any chance of winning the WBC | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
lightweight belt. Ricky Burns must win this. The WC is the body we want | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
to go after, and it is the belt we want to win now. But ultimately, | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Ricky has a point to prove. He needs to get his and the fans' confidence | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
back. It is a huge night of boxing on the 27th of June. Ricky broke his | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
jaw in the Contra vet shall point victory over Raymundo Beltran last | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
year. He prepares for another assault on the world title. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
year. He prepares for another broke his jaw in the controversial | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
point victory over Raymundo Beltran last year. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Other sport: Andy Murray's about to take to the court for his second | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
round match against Nicolas Almagro at the Madrid Masters. | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
He could meet Rafa Nadal in the semis. He says Murray's slide down | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
the rankings is nothing to worry about. He is not an issue -- it is | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
not an issue for a player like Andy, who already won the Olympics, | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
Wimbledon, grandson stock Mac -- grand slams... | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Andy's brother Jamie is out of the men's doubles, he and John Peers | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
losing to Poland's Fyrstenberg and Matkowski. After the match, he paid | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
tribute to Elena Baltacha, who this week lost her battle with cancer. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
She was a great person first of all, regardless of what she did on the | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
tennis court. Everyone that knew her will remember her being a firm lady | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
-- will remember her fondly and I'm sure her memory will live on. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
St Johnstone striker Stevie May has won the Scottish Football Writers' | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Association Young Player of the Year award. May's scored 27 goals this | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
season. Four more track and field athletes | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
have been added to Team Scotland for this summer's Commonwealth Games, | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
including 42-year-old marathon runner Hayley Haining. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
For all the breaking news, at your leisure, may I suggest the BBC Sport | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
Scotland website? That is all the sport for tonight. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
If you're a certain age, the word "ukelele" might conjure up the image | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
of the comedian George Formby strumming away while leaning on his | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
lampost or cleaning windows. Strictly speaking, he was playing a | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
banjolele, but in recent years the ukelele has enjoyed a renaissance | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and seems to be more popular than at any other time in its history. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
Willie Johnston reports. It came out of Hawaii in the 19th | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
century. For much of the 20th century, an instrument of fun for | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
musical comics. But in the 21st-century, the ukelele suddenly | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
is an icon of call. Galloway -based singer songwriter Zoe Bestel | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
launches her debut album, one of many young artists inspired in part | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
by the ukelele's new-found popularity. Right now it is coming | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
into its own and it is becoming quite a cool instrument. It is | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
brilliant, exactly what I want. Everyone, it seems, wants to join | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
in. Stuart Butterworth has taught ukelele for three years. 100 players | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
a week attend his groups like this one in Dumfries. It is such a | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
lovely, quirky instrument of the time, of the moment. People do say | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
about the ukelele that you cannot play the ukelele without somebody | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
smiling. It is its affordability and relative ease of mass to be that | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
makes it popular for hockey players and professionals alike. -- ease of | :25:37. | :25:48. | |
mastery. It has been superb. I started recently as a beginner. I | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
have been to a couple of concerts and I loved the sound so I thought I | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
would give it a try. Definitely the ukelele is my thing now. It is so | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
light as well, you can take it everywhere. And it is quite cute! | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
I feel 105, having had to educate Christopher on George Formby. | :26:14. | :26:25. | |
The unsettled theme continues with weather this week. St John, showers | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
and rain. Here is the satellite and radar picture. A swathe of rain | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
across the Southern Upland is pushing into Glasgow and drifting | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
down the M8. Tonight, eventually, it will be dry for most. We just need | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
to get rid of the rain first. 7p, APM, the rain clears away towards | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
the North Sea leaving many area strike. For most of us during the | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
second half of the night, it is largely dry and cloudy and | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
temperatures are no lower than six or seven or eight Celsius, rural | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
spots possibly a touch cooler. Tomorrow, some bright spots around. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
A case of bright spells and showers into the afternoon. The exception is | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
down towards the South. Here there will be a band of rain pushing in. | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
Not as heavy as this afternoon. Further East, generally dry. Some | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
bright skies. Similar to many parts of the central belt. Further North | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
showers moving and further West showers not too far away and in the | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
farther North, showers in existence, too. Wind fairly light once again | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
which means they are slow-moving if you do catch one. The rest of the | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
afternoon into the evening, staying fairly cloudy and damp and the | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
reason for all of this, low pressure. A big flabby area of low | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
pressure, as we call it. So Friday once again is unsettled. There will | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
be showers, some heady, and with the risk of hail and under certainly | :28:11. | :28:20. | |
across the North. The weekend is staying unsettled. Rain on Saturday, | :28:21. | :28:21. | |
showers on Sunday. Now a reminder of tonight's main | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
news: New research suggests five-year-olds from poorer families | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
in Scotland are a year behind other children in basic skills by the | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
they start school. It describes this attainment gap | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
between richer and poorer children as "persistent and significant". | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
I am back with the headlines at 8pm, and the late bulletin just after the | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
ten o'clock news. Goodbye. | :28:50. | :28:51. |