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All 7,600 pupils affected by Edinburgh school | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
closures now have alternative plans for their education | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Many will be bussed several miles across the capital. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
But some of the younger students at one secondary won't | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
return till Wednesday - a week and a half since the closures | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
We will confirm when pupils are returning... | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
waiting all week for, Susan's son is in the first | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
returning to school on Tuesday in one of 16 | :00:40. | :00:56. | |
temporary classrooms being | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
delivered this weekend. But for his mum, it has been a stressful week. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
It just feels as though we have been up to 90 all week, trying to find | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
out what the contingency plans for the council are, I just feel as | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
though they have just, the council has been really slow with it. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Hundreds of pupils are already being accommodated in other schools. More | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
Some will have lessons at Napier University. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
council has apologised to parents but say the alternative arrangements | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
I know it is still an effort and a slight | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
disruption for pupils to move from one location to another, but they | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
are moving with their class groups and existing teachers, so they are | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
still in the same classrooms, you know, not physically, but with their | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
classmates and teachers, and that will stay | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
period of time that they have to be outside of their own school, so to | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
is a concern, but not all parents are worried it will affect pass | :01:43. | :01:54. | |
rates. It is a critical year for my oldest son, he is attempting to get | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
good grades in his highers to get to the university of his choice. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Thankfully, he has been working hard, the school have been | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
supporting him since the preliminary results came through, so touch wood, | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
A week on since the safety concerns were | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
first raised, 14 schools in the city remain closed. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Alternative arrangements are now in place for all pupils, but if the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
buildings cannot be fixed soon, the question is just how adequate are | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
More questions are being raised over how the completed school | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
This was done by the construction company involved - | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Earlier, I put it to our education correspondent Jamie McIvor that many | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
people would be surprised to learn the council didn't actually | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
sign the buildings off when they were completed. | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
A process of self certification was used. The construction company was | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
responsible for signing off the building, for reassuring Edinboro | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
council that had been properly built, complied with necessary | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
arrangements. Council building officials would not have been | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
involved in that stage of the would-be would have been involved | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
earlier in the construction process. I have been speaking to an industry | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
expert who argues that the fact that self certification took place as | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
sinister, it is a common arrangement, but he does argue that | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
it is a system that can be potentially open to abuse. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
A young boy giving evidence in the Liam Fee murder trial has | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
told the court that he strangled the toddler. | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
The jury at the High Court in Livingston were played | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
a pre-recorded video of the child talking to a police woman | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
It was filmed two days after two-year-old Liam died. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
The jury watched three and a half hours of video evidence on the fifth | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
day of this trial. The boy being questioned is the one who is accused | :04:11. | :04:22. | |
falsely blaming for Liam Fee's death. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
He was found dead in | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Glenrothes. The young boy was asked questions about the day he died. The | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
child broke down and struggled to speak at times when he was | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
questioned. It was put to him that he knew something serious had | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
happened that Saturday night. He was asked, what did you do that was bad? | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
He replied, I strangled Liam. He raised a hand to his mouth and was | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
asked, what happened when you took your hand away? He said that Liam | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
was sitting up. When questioned further, he said that Liam was | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
looking at the telly. Earlier, the boy had described accompanying | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
others into Glenrothes on the bus. He said he had been with the couple, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
with Liam and another boy. He said they had lunch at McDonald's and | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Liam had eaten a happy meal. He said he played with Liam and the other | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
The Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto | :05:08. | :05:27. | |
for the Holyrood elections - giving top priority to extra | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
They'd fund that by increasing income tax - although they insist | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
a Westmister increase in the personal allowance will help | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
This from our Political Editor Brian Taylor. | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
We like to organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms... | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
Exactly one week ago, Willie Rennie finds out | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
with animals. And so at the tea party for the press, he ensured that | :06:00. | :06:15. | |
the only pigs were small, sweet and above all stationary. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
was at a children's play area in Leith. Why? Willie Rennie explained | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the event symbolised their pledge on childcare which will be extended to | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
a wider group. The Lib Dems would raise income tax by 1% at all levels | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
in Scotland, devoting the cash to education. Inevitably, some might | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
frown at the tax hike. In the last Parliament, Willie Rennie was one of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
five Lib Dems. Are they now on the slide, falling behind the Greens? | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Definitely not, says the leader. With our record of punching well | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
above our weight, and a positive, optimistic agenda to make Scotland | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
the best in the world again, I think the Liberal Democrats are back to | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Being back to our best with that agenda means we can grow | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
with more MSPs, punching well above our weight. I think the chances are | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
For the NHS, they would recruit more GPs. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
50,000 more affordable homes with plans to keep them warm. They would | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
reform police powers and decriminalise sex work. They say | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
they would transform mental health care, more cash going into the | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
system, in particular doubling the support for younger people. They | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
intend to reform drugs policy, offering help to users, not prison, | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
and ultimately allowing the personal use of cannabis. And they intend to | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
ban fracking, as well as banning opencast coal mining as part of a | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
drive towards renewable energy. So a fun launch, but Willie Rennie knows | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
politics is not child's play. He is seriously determined to win seats | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
and influence policy. Brian Taylor, Reporting Scotland. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Here is the weather. Wintry conditions continuing more | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
especially across the north tonight and into tomorrow. Snow potentially | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
falling to low levels at times. Else where tonight dry and clear. A | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
widespread frost developing. Risk of ice on untreated roads and surfaces. | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
We will continue to see these showers tomorrow morning. Wintry in | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
nature, gradually becoming fewer and further between through the course | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
of the day. Around lunchtime tomorrow southern and Central | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Scotland a lot of dry and bright weather. One or two sharp showers | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
across the southern uplands. Turning cloudy across the Western Isles | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
across the southern uplands. Turning tomorrow afternoon. Across the north | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
sunshine and showers. They will become fewer and lighter and they | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
will tend to become a high ground feature. The rest of the Duke | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
tomorrow afternoon, sunshine and showers across Northern Ireland, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
northern England, for much of central and southern England this | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
band of rain continues to track south eastwards. Cold northerly here | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
across the UK tomorrow, temperatures will struggle to reach double | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
figures. Into the evening across Scotland, Schober is dying out and | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
becomes dry and clear and cold across the board. Rain feeding then. | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
That is a sign of things to come. For Sunday and East West split. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Cloudy in the West and light patchy rain being pushed in. The best of | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
the conditions will be in the East. From everyone on the late team | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
here in Glasgow and around | :09:55. | :09:59. |