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It's a day of reflection and mourning - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
how should the UK now respond to yesterday's terror attack | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
And we'll hear from Scotland's oldest student as he prepares | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Coming up, the king of crime, Chris Brookmyre, will talk to us | :00:11. | :00:41. | |
And we'll be speaking to the human swan planning a flight | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
across the Hebrides for the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
But first, vigils have been held tonight for the victims | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
of what was the most deadly act of terrorism on UK soil | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
As the streets around Westminster reopened today, | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Parliamentarians from across the UK have been echoing the sentiments | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
that there's more that unites us than divides us. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Lots of people have been commenting on social media, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
often using the hashtag "we stand together". | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
Let's take a look at some contributions made. We start with | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
the Scottish Parliament. They have been tweeting with pictures of flags | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
flying at half-mast today. That is the one I'm looking for. Scottish | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
parliament, with flags at half-mast as a mark of respect for events at | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Westminster, and people offering thoughts on what happened. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Lots of images being shared too, this one from Melissa Webb saying: | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
What unites human beings is huge and wonderful. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
While Tower Hill Tube station tube station sent this picture | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Earlier I spoke to Stuart McDonald, the MP for Cumbernauld and member of | :02:07. | :02:23. | |
the Home Affairs Select Committee, who was trapped in Parliament | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
He told me how it was to return to work today. | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
It was not easy. It's not easy for parliamentarians staff and London as | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
a whole. There was a unanimous feeling in the chamber yesterday | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
that the best way to show people who engage in violence and terrorism | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
that they will never win and it will not work is to make sure violent | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
action does not work. We now know the attacker was | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
British-born unknown to security services. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
From we understand from the Prime Minister's statement, there was an | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
historic interest that the security services... They had never been | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
concerned he was an imminent threat. The security services can't forever | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
follow the actions of every person that comes to their attention, and | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
they have to make risk assessments. They can't be impossibly invasive | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
and unrealistic. Why do we seem unable to prevent the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
radicalisation of our own citizens? We are not absolutely unable, and | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
there are programmes in place which to a lot of good work. We try to | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
make sure that does not happen. One thing used to try to stop | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
radicalisation is the Preventive strategy which you have previously | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
expressed concerns about. What are your concerns? | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
We had a debate about Prevent in Westminster Hall, with different | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
side of the political divide expressing concerns about the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
strategy. There is a fine line to be drawn. The difficulty in a lot of | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
MPs cab is it has not properly engaged with communities and in some | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
cases it has actively antagonised communities. We express concerns | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
that the programme has to be looked at carefully and probably | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
thoroughly... Not just MPs calling for that but the Government's own | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
review of terrorism legislation, David Anderson had concerns. A | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
different approach in Scotland. There has to be a look at what works | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
best and see if we can learn lessons from how it operates not just in | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
different parts of the UK but abroad as well. | :04:59. | :04:59. | |
Thank you for joining us on Timeline. | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
You don't meet many people with seven university degrees - | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
87-year-old Alex Stewart from Dundee is now looking into | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
What's more, he gained all of his degrees after his retirement. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
We spoke to him as he considered the prospectus | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
I would like you to explain some of the modules in the second year of | :05:14. | :05:28. | |
the degree in criminology, please. Yes. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
Studying at the University was a challenge like no other. I have | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
seven university degrees. The degree that I have enjoyed most is my | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
degree in philosophy. That is because the basis of philosophy is | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
to question everything that you have been told. It has been a real slog | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
and I have had to work hard. Preparation for essays, tapping away | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
on the computer until 1am in the morning. Where I have found it | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
getting harder, and I'll be honest, is in the written exams. At the end | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
of term, that is. Because your memory comes into effect, you see? | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
It was another world, because I was mixing with people a fraction of my | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
age, and the lecturers did not spare any anything that the other boys and | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
girls didn't have to do. I think it is remarkable and I don't | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
know if I could see myself doing that at that age, but good on him | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
for doing that. I think it's interesting to have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
someone with two or three generations ahead of you, and their | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
perspective will totally be different from the way you think. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
I look upon it as a challenge. That is on the basis that if I start to | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
feel anything, I'll call it a day. -- if I am failing a class. I'm | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
87... Nearly all of our friends have got dementia and everything. For an | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
old, old man with no education, I felt it is worth the effort, you | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
know? I seem to get quite a few sees and thes, and occasionally a A. I | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
have not got A yet in 21 years. Could not figure that out. | :07:44. | :07:44. | |
Absolutely amazing. The introduction of Personal | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Independence Payments in 2013 has been a bumpy ride - | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
to say the least - for both the Government | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
and recipients of the benefit. It's intended to help disabled | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
people live more independent lives, through an assessment that works out | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
how much they are entitled to get. We've been hearing about | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
people left stranded with no benefits at all, | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
because of simple Since 2013, Disability | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Living Allowance has been slowly swapping over | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
to Personal Independence The Department of Work and Pensions | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
has been writing a letter to people when it's time for them | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
to make the change. Once that letter arrives, there | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
are four weeks to apply for PIP, Citizens Advice Scotland have | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
told us that it's often 10 days into the one-month timescale | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
before people receive the form, and the three-week waiting list | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
for advice means people struggle They're recommending the timeframe | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
be extended to two months. With us now - Claire McGuire, | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
who had her assessment and Layla Theiner, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
from Disability Agenda Scotland. Clay, first of all, how did the | :08:48. | :09:01. | |
assessment gold? It was better than I expected, if | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
I'm honest, but not particularly relevant to my condition and my | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
disability. There and then, if you have been | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
successful in being assessed for the benefit? | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
If only it was that straightforward that you would know, it will be | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
between two and six weeks. Previously you were receiving | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Disability Living Allowance, so what happened? | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
I have always been in receipt of Disability Living Allowance since I | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
was 16 and I moved house at the end of last year and missed the letter | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
at my old address, and I phoned up and they said, we are sorry, you | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
missed the four-week deadline and we are stopping the DLA and there is no | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
process to get it reinstated, and that was the end of it. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
What impact that have a new? My DLA has always paid for taxis to | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
get me around. That was my mode of transport, and that has left me | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
completely without transport, and impacted on my independence. That is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
just one of the things that has occurred since it stopped. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Let me bring in Layla How typical is her example? | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
From what we have heard, pretty typical. Not everybody has moved | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
over from the LAT PIP yet, but they aim to do it by the autumn. Although | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
a lot of people have not moved over from DLA. But a lot of people have | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
told staff they have been facing these problems with the application | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
or the assessment process people have to do, which, unlike with DLA | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
is face-to-face. Some of the problems Claire has had, they have | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
been facing. But might mean they are being asked about physical | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
conditions if they have a mental health condition, or physical | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
conditions being asked about if they have mental health issues. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
How difficult is the four-week period to apply from one benefit to | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the other? The four-week issue has come up and | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
some people have had advice and advocacy so they know they can | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
extend that in some instances, that it has been inconsistent for people, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
how much they have been able to know about their own rights. That issue | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
has come up for some people, and it is really dependent on what advice | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
and support they have had. Whether there has been a massive problem or | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
not. Claire, you had your assessment | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
today, as we said. What were you ask that you did not think was relevant? | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
The majority of the questions were focused on mental health, moods, and | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
depression, and things that did not apply to me in anyway. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Is there a one size fits all question are? | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
It seems so. The questions were very much geared towards that aspect of | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
health and disability, and that did not seem to fit my disability at | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
all. The point that she mentioned, I contacted my MP to get them to take | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
this case on, and even with their intervention, I was still told that | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
there was no grounds for reinstating the DLA. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
As you would expect, we have spoke to the Department for Work and | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Pensions and again is a statement, saying, the personal independent | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
payment process is continuing to work effectively with people waiting | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
just six weeks on average for assessment, and under PIP, they say | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
27% of people are receiving the highest possible and old, compared | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
to 15% under the old Disability Living Allowance. How did you | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
persuade them to consider you for the new benefit, one, as you said | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
yourself, you did not inform them about your change of address, so the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
letter went to the wrong place? To be honest, I think my MP getting | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
involved was the only impact that had, that they consider me for the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
PIP. But I had to wait 12 weeks almost by that, so it was not a | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
quick process at all to get the assessment. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Thank you for coming in and sharing your experiences with us. We | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
appreciate that. Now, many of you may | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
have been helping raise money for Comic Relief, | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
and tomorrow is the big day itself. One school in Aberdeenshire has | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
a lot to live up to, as last time around, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
it raised a record amount. Here's their story of this | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
year's big dance-athon, as well as a look at | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
where the money goes. We are Balmedie. This is for Comic | :13:14. | :13:30. | |
Relief. We are Balmedie Primary school and we like raising money for | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
comic relief. Modes schools raise up to ?1000. But | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
last time we raised ?21,000. That is a lot of money. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
That was more than any other school in Scotland and in the UK. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Last time we raised a phenomenal amount of money, and we did not | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
expect to raise nearly that amount. We have got really supportive | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
parents here and the kids got fully on board, which meant we raised so | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
much. This year we hope to raise more | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
money. This year we are doing dancing, a community cafe, and | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
putting teachers in stocks. Everyone was dancing the whole day | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
for a time. I enjoyed it a lot but it was sweaty. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
Today we had an assembly for all of the poorer children in other places | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
that can't get all the school staff, and it was really good. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
# Sunshine... Moon light... # Here's a charity that we helped | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
with her benefits. We do what we do Sorely Circus, | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
where the main point is the social benefits that people get and the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
circus is the hook that gets them started. We do it here because I | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
suppose we wanted to reach the people who faced the most | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
disadvantages. You can imagine that learning to walk on stilts is a huge | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
confidence boost and much of what we do is about the social benefits they | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
get working with a team, learning to express themselves, becoming more | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
confident about their own abilities. It's really good. I get better | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
social skills out of it. Without it I can't speak to new people myself | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
as it is very hard. I get it speak to new people. I've learned fire and | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
juggling from it. In a small town there is not very much, other than | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
stay at home, hang out with friends elsewhere but I like it here. It's | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
quite fun. You can learn a few new things. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
Well done to them. I hope that they make lots of money. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
We want to bring you up to date on one of the stories | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
the case of married couple Robert and Adam, who are being forced | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
to live on separate continents after the Home Office denied | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
Here's a quick reminder of their interview. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
The explanation was, it was really weird. All the points that they | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
brought up seemed like petty, weird, prejudiced type things. Like the | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
fact we don't have a child... Obviously, aside from biology | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
between the two of us, we could not adopt. Adam has no citizenship not | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
being in the UK. Yes but good news, this week, Adam | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
and Robert received a letter Obviously Robert and Adam are | :16:48. | :17:05. | |
seeking legal advice on the reapplication and which will let you | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
reapplication and which will let you know how they get on. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
This week, Adam and Robert received a letter saying that it has been | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
decided that on an exceptional basis, their application | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
Robert and Adam are now asking for legal advice | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
on their reapplication, best of luck to them. | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
If you've got a story for Timeline, like Robert and Adam's, | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
don't forget to get in touch with us. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
You can email us - [email protected] - | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
and you can let us know what you want us to follow up | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
through our Facebook and Twitter timelines. | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
And while you're there, take a look at what we're up to online. | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
This week, we've just shared a story of a hidden Victorian gem | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
in dire need of some TLC - the Springburn Winter Gardens. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
That's on our Twitter timeline, or the BBC Scotland Facebook page. | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
It's a busy weekend coming up for Glasgow - | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
the BBC 6 Music Festival is bringing lots of huge acts to town, | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
while the Comedy Festival has stand-ups doing gigs | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
One comedian, Abi Roberts, has a very topical edge to her set - | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
it's all about Russia, and her time living in the former | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
I spoke to her at the Yesbar Comedy Club in Glasgow. | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
I asked her how she got into doing stand-up comedy in Russia. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
I guy came to see me at a comedy club. I mentioned I spoke Russian | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
during the set. It turned out that the guy ran a comedy club in Moscow. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
This is very new in Moscow, only one club. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
I went there and did four nights in Russian, some in English. It was | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
incredible. I hadn't been back for 18 years to Moscow, where I trained | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
as an opera singer. My mother want meet to be an opera singer, that | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
comes out in my show. It is called "English Woman" my mother wanted me | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
to be an opera singer, my father was a spy, sorry! Diplomat! It was an | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
interesting child growing up. He spoke Russian. As soon as I heard | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
the Russian language, I was Merwised by the gut alsound. | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Tell me what it was like for you as a woman going on stage in Russia? I | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
didn't realise that at the time but now I have done it, I was privileged | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
to go over, not only as the first chuck comic but as a woman. I felt | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
like a pine year going over. And helping. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
In Russia it was like international relations, going over, telling | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
jokes, relaying some of the good stuff about the Russian nature, and | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
the Russian culture as well. Is the comedy different there? Did | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
you change your routine? Some parts. Obviously they have western | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
products, western names. They have Spenks, which is the Russian | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
underwear for the larger laid. I was doing a bit about wearing them, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
creating a tsunami of fat, that comes up the body, cars, trees, | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
houses. They loved that. It was relatable. And some things that I | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
touched on which, if you did it in the UK, nobody would bat an eyelid, | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
if you spoke about David Cameron... Doing whatever he was doing, and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
then when I touched on Putin and made a joke about him and possible | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
extra curricular activity, there was a kind of... A change of automatic. | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
Then a guy at the back said: Be careful, even the windows have ears. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
I looked closely, he had a leather jacket on, not like mine, with a | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
bulge visible in his pocket, so I thought, yes... Probably the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
strangest heckle I have ever had. You are here for the festival, I | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
wonder if anything, apart from the cold, that Scotland shares with | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Russia? Definitely the sense of how many your. When I was there, you can | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
tell the difference between the English audiences - bravo, darling. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
But in Russia, they are likuraway, and slapping their thighs. I | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
thought, has the revolution started? And actually, that's what it is like | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
when I do shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow! Can I get a thigh slapping | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Can I get a thigh slapping on the show! | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
He's one of Scotland's most famous crime writers - | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
and having just won huge acclaim for his last novel, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Chris Brookmyre is here to tell us about his next one, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
due out in a couple of weeks, and it couldn't be more topical. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
And that is because? It is touching on hacking. It was finished about a | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
year ago. At the time I thought that with a year having passed, you | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
wonder what the subject matter is going to be, if it is relevant at | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
the time. It had been inspired by things like Anonymous. And a year | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
has pasted and hacking is top of the agenda. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
So all of this was written before accusations that Russia had hacked | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
the Democratic Party in America, all of that? Yes. And amazingly, a lot | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
of the techniques seem to recurl. There is a part in the book, two | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
people attempt to hack something by leaving US B sticks around in an | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
office building and remark it is something that people have been told | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
not to do. If you find a U is B stick you don't put it in the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
computer. But it turns out that one of the things that the Russians did | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
was to flood the local area, the newspaper stalls with cheap US B | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
sticks so sell them. So people were buying the US B sticks, thinking it | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
is new, it is fine. Are you sure you are not into it? | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
But it's amazing how the techniques have not changed. What was | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
fascinating that people think that hacking is all about code, it is | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
about computer techie stuff but it is all about confidence tricks. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
About getting someone to tell you information they should not or the | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
#1r58 of which they don't appreciate. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Did what you find out frighten you? You did a lot of research into this? | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
I grew up with computers, so it is about 20 years since I bought a | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
modem and went online and watched the escalation of how much we putm. | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
-- online. So I have, because of that, always been squeamish about | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
how much I put online. I up am always shocked about how much | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
information people share about themselves. That is what makes you | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
vulnerable. You have a heist going on as well as a hack. It is how | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
about one piece of information gets you to the next level of security | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
and so on and so on until you are at the top floor. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
It is great fodder for you but how much is the internet changing crime | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
writing? There are new books, Intrusions, Craig Robertson has | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
written about it, crime writers are always looking... We are a weather | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
vain, anticipating what is the next deception you can get up to using | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
new technolgy. In that respect, the internet is a great tool for crime | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
writing in a way that mobile phones were a problem. You always had to | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
come up with a reason why to the to use a mobile phone so as not to get | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
into trouble. Good luck with the book. | :24:54. | :24:54. | |
How can schools offer support to young children | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
With scientific developments, all sorts of things | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Hazelwood School in Glasgow invited us in to see their new sensory room, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
which helps children make choices about what they can | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
Hazelwood School is a school for children, young people were aged | :25:08. | :25:21. | |
three to 18, who have akissal support needs. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Go on... Big step! Hazelwood School is a school that is especially | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
designed and has specialist teachers for that provision. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Caitlin, do you want to use the switch? Good girl! The newest aspect | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
of the school is the sensory room. We have spent some years phrasing | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
for it. . Caitlin is clearly communicating with us that is her | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
choice. If she didn't want the bubbles on, she would push the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
switch away. We have fair range of abilities in the school, so we | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
needed an environment that is flexible and adaptable for the needs | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
of the children. Good boy! Some of the work that the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
kids can do in here is establishing cause and effect skills... Selecting | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
preferences, whether it is colours or lighting in the room... I think | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
that just about ever school in Scotland could justify having a | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
resource like this. There are pupils in main stream with conditions like | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
autism, dyspraxia but they may need a different environment away from | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
the main stream classrooms to find an environment where they can get | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
Now there are all sorts of ways to raise awareness for your cause, | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
but this from the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust takes it | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
To raise awareness of the demise of the Berwick swan, | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
the biologist Sacha Dench has turned herself into a human swan, by taking | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
to the skies in a paramotor - last year she flew over | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
the English Channel, and this year she's set | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
How did you get into this, Sacha? Well, the paramotor, I started to | :27:10. | :27:26. | |
fly in order to get a better view of the wetlands. So from above they | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
look absolutely amazing. That is how I got into flying. Then I saw a use | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
for that in saving the Berwick swan. You have done amazing travels over | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
the English Channel, now to Hebrides, is that next? I am flying | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
tip to tip over the Hebrides. They are a special place. I absolutely | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
love Scotland but never flown up there, that looks really exciting. | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
And briefly, the Berwick swan, why is it in trouble? We have lost about | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
half of them in 20 years. It has been shot at, they hit the power | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
lines. Climate change is having effect, and in the UK and the west | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
of Europe, we are losing the wetlands too fast. All of those | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
things. That is why I needed to fly the route. | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
Thank you very much. Good luck with that. | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
But, before we go, we want to leave you these pictures of how people | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
around the UK have responded to yesterday's appalling | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
The alternative spirit of 6 Music comes to Glasgow, | :28:32. | :29:07. | |
He believes himself to be your equal. | :29:08. | :29:37. | |
We would have no quarrel with Aelfric. | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
I need 200 Christian men of Bebbanburg. | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
In return, I shall require the head... | :29:44. | :29:48. |