15/04/2016 Reporting Scotland


15/04/2016

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All 7,600 pupils affected by Edinburgh school

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closures now have alternative plans for their education

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Many will be bussed several miles across the capital.

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But some of the younger students at one secondary won't

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return till Wednesday - a week and a half since the closures

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We will confirm when pupils are returning...

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waiting all week for, Susan's son is in the first

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returning to school on Tuesday in one of 16

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temporary classrooms being

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delivered this weekend. But for his mum, it has been a stressful week.

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It just feels as though we have been up to 90 all week, trying to find

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out what the contingency plans for the council are, I just feel as

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though they have just, the council has been really slow with it.

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Hundreds of pupils are already being accommodated in other schools. More

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Some will have lessons at Napier University.

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council has apologised to parents but say the alternative arrangements

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I know it is still an effort and a slight

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disruption for pupils to move from one location to another, but they

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are moving with their class groups and existing teachers, so they are

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still in the same classrooms, you know, not physically, but with their

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classmates and teachers, and that will stay

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period of time that they have to be outside of their own school, so to

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is a concern, but not all parents are worried it will affect pass

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rates. It is a critical year for my oldest son, he is attempting to get

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good grades in his highers to get to the university of his choice.

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Thankfully, he has been working hard, the school have been

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supporting him since the preliminary results came through, so touch wood,

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A week on since the safety concerns were

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first raised, 14 schools in the city remain closed.

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Alternative arrangements are now in place for all pupils, but if the

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buildings cannot be fixed soon, the question is just how adequate are

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More questions are being raised over how the completed school

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This was done by the construction company involved -

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Earlier, I put it to our education correspondent Jamie McIvor that many

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people would be surprised to learn the council didn't actually

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sign the buildings off when they were completed.

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A process of self certification was used. The construction company was

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responsible for signing off the building, for reassuring Edinboro

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council that had been properly built, complied with necessary

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arrangements. Council building officials would not have been

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involved in that stage of the would-be would have been involved

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earlier in the construction process. I have been speaking to an industry

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expert who argues that the fact that self certification took place as

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sinister, it is a common arrangement, but he does argue that

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it is a system that can be potentially open to abuse.

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A young boy giving evidence in the Liam Fee murder trial has

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told the court that he strangled the toddler.

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The jury at the High Court in Livingston were played

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a pre-recorded video of the child talking to a police woman

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It was filmed two days after two-year-old Liam died.

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The jury watched three and a half hours of video evidence on the fifth

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day of this trial. The boy being questioned is the one who is accused

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falsely blaming for Liam Fee's death.

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He was found dead in

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Glenrothes. The young boy was asked questions about the day he died. The

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child broke down and struggled to speak at times when he was

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questioned. It was put to him that he knew something serious had

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happened that Saturday night. He was asked, what did you do that was bad?

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He replied, I strangled Liam. He raised a hand to his mouth and was

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asked, what happened when you took your hand away? He said that Liam

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was sitting up. When questioned further, he said that Liam was

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looking at the telly. Earlier, the boy had described accompanying

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others into Glenrothes on the bus. He said he had been with the couple,

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with Liam and another boy. He said they had lunch at McDonald's and

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Liam had eaten a happy meal. He said he played with Liam and the other

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The Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto

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for the Holyrood elections - giving top priority to extra

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They'd fund that by increasing income tax - although they insist

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a Westmister increase in the personal allowance will help

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This from our Political Editor Brian Taylor.

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We like to organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms...

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Exactly one week ago, Willie Rennie finds out

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with animals. And so at the tea party for the press, he ensured that

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the only pigs were small, sweet and above all stationary.

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was at a children's play area in Leith. Why? Willie Rennie explained

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the event symbolised their pledge on childcare which will be extended to

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a wider group. The Lib Dems would raise income tax by 1% at all levels

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in Scotland, devoting the cash to education. Inevitably, some might

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frown at the tax hike. In the last Parliament, Willie Rennie was one of

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five Lib Dems. Are they now on the slide, falling behind the Greens?

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Definitely not, says the leader. With our record of punching well

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above our weight, and a positive, optimistic agenda to make Scotland

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the best in the world again, I think the Liberal Democrats are back to

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Being back to our best with that agenda means we can grow

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with more MSPs, punching well above our weight. I think the chances are

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For the NHS, they would recruit more GPs.

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50,000 more affordable homes with plans to keep them warm. They would

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reform police powers and decriminalise sex work. They say

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they would transform mental health care, more cash going into the

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system, in particular doubling the support for younger people. They

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intend to reform drugs policy, offering help to users, not prison,

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and ultimately allowing the personal use of cannabis. And they intend to

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ban fracking, as well as banning opencast coal mining as part of a

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drive towards renewable energy. So a fun launch, but Willie Rennie knows

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politics is not child's play. He is seriously determined to win seats

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and influence policy. Brian Taylor, Reporting Scotland.

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Here is the weather. Wintry conditions continuing more

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especially across the north tonight and into tomorrow. Snow potentially

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falling to low levels at times. Else where tonight dry and clear. A

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widespread frost developing. Risk of ice on untreated roads and surfaces.

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We will continue to see these showers tomorrow morning. Wintry in

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nature, gradually becoming fewer and further between through the course

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of the day. Around lunchtime tomorrow southern and Central

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Scotland a lot of dry and bright weather. One or two sharp showers

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across the southern uplands. Turning cloudy across the Western Isles

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across the southern uplands. Turning tomorrow afternoon. Across the north

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sunshine and showers. They will become fewer and lighter and they

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will tend to become a high ground feature. The rest of the Duke

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tomorrow afternoon, sunshine and showers across Northern Ireland,

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northern England, for much of central and southern England this

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band of rain continues to track south eastwards. Cold northerly here

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across the UK tomorrow, temperatures will struggle to reach double

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figures. Into the evening across Scotland, Schober is dying out and

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becomes dry and clear and cold across the board. Rain feeding then.

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That is a sign of things to come. For Sunday and East West split.

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Cloudy in the West and light patchy rain being pushed in. The best of

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the conditions will be in the East. From everyone on the late team

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here in Glasgow and around

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