01/08/2016 Reporting Scotland


01/08/2016

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The headlines on Reporting Scotland this Monday lunchtime:

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An Australian family living in the Highlands could face

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And a bid at Holyrood to scrap the Offensive

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An Australian family living in Dingwall face deportation

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from tonight despite a high profile campaign aimed

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Kathryn Brain arrived with her husband and young son

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on a student visa five years ago, but since finishing her studies,

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Mrs Brain has been unable to find a job that would allow

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It was the Brain family's dream to live in Scotland, and being here has

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exceeded expectation. Seven-year-old Lachlan knows nothing else, but the

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scheme that brought them here has come to an end. They have been

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fighting to stay but today is the end of the line. Unless Kathryn gets

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a job offer. We are still hopeful common sense will prevail and the UK

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Government will see that they made a promise to us six years ago that

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these visas would be available, and encouraged us to sell our house,

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invest our lives here on a multi-year programme. And our

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livelihood as well. Our livelihood. I gave up ?40,000 your job to come

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here. So what happened? In 2010 the family were granted at visa with the

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promise of staying here for two years after study. In March 2011

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this was scrapped. The family arrived here three months later. It

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was only the following year they arrived here three months later. It

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realised the post study work Visa was to be withdrawn. It ended a

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month later. The family feel the British Government is going back on

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its promise. They do not want to go back to Australia. Yes, we love

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Australia and we have friends and relatives back there. But this is

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where we belong, and this is all Lachlan knows as well. He has grown

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up your and he does not remember Australia at all. So we do really

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feel belonging to this place. The Home Office see all Visa

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applications are considered on their merits, and applicants must meet

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requirements of immigration rules. The value is to keep fighting. Ten

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years of planning and struggling and saving and looking at visa options,

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going through a house fire. Both of our mothers dying of cancer in that

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period and telling us, do not try with your dreams still inside of

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you. It took us ten years to get there. We do not do giving up. The

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Brains say they do not know what will happen at midnight, but

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tomorrow they are expected to start making arrangements to leave.

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A Labour MSP has officially lodged proposals to scrap

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the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.

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James Kelly says the law, which was introduced in 2012,

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had damaged trust between police and football fans.

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When the law came in in 2012, the Scottish Government said it was

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needed to tackle unacceptable behaviour like this. Historically

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linked to football, especially in the West of Scotland. It has always

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been controversial, prompting protests from supporters. Now this

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Labour MSP is launching a consultation on scrapping the Act.

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The Act is unjust and unfair. It criminalises football fans, has

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created division between fans and police. And it has been widely

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criticised by judges. I think something had to be put in place.

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Legislation is now in place that shows we have an issue and we will

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deal with it. If it is not the right legislation, let's look at that, but

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at the moment I think it gives the police the powers they need to take

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through any problems that arise that happen within the football arena.

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The Scottish Government says its law is making things better. It claims

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80% of Scots support the legislation. The catalyst for this,

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if you remember, was an Old Firm game, and prior to that game it did

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seem this sort of behaviour was seen as acceptable from people outside

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Scotland, to people in Scotland, and I think for the first time in a long

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they will be having these Old games on a regular basis again, it is

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certainly not the time to be scrapping the Bell and certainly not

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if we cannot see what we will replace it with. All four opposition

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parties at Holyrood have pledged to repeal the law so there could now be

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moved in Parliament for kicking the act into long grass.

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A dispute between ScotRail and the RMT union over driver-only

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The train operator believes some actions by the union

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contravene legislation that governs industrial action.

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The RMT says it will respond once it's examined

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Further strikes are planned later this month over plans

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An independent investigation is to be carried out

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after Police Scotland breached guidelines on accessing

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data in a row linked to journalists' sources.

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Durham Constabulary has been asked to look into the circumstances

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after Police Scotland admitted it fell below the required standards.

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The five breaches were linked to the investigation into the murder

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of Emma Caldwell, who was killed in 2005.

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They were the forerunners of modern photography.

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Camera obscura - the projection of images into a dark room

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from a pin hole or glass lens - date back at least 2000 years.

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One in Dumfries is thought to be the oldest in continuous operation

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As this rope, if you look up words, you will see that the cover to the

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camera obscura opens... 180 years old, still in perfect working order.

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The mechanism, original. The table I use for focusing, so as I bring it

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up words, to make the picture come clear... The lens project on live

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picture of Dumfries, people on their daily business, moving cars and

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bridges, familiar landmarks from an unfamiliar angle. The old bridge

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across here, running behind it. As I show the picture, people are still

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amazed it is in colour. That is a question we get at -- a lot. The --

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Dumfries is in colour. Formally a corn mill, it was bought by the

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astronomical Society and turned into an observatory, though not quite as

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quickly as the founding fathers hoped. They come across this guy in

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1835 and they really hoped to have the instrument installed in time to

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view it. But unfortunately due to the time it took to convert the

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building and commission the instruments, they were not prepared

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quite intentionally did not see it. The Observatory opened eventually on

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the 1st of August 18 36. Too late for Healy 's Comet, but that did not

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stop people flocking here to pay sixpence at a time to see unique

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moving colour images of Dumfries. Scotland's first camera obscura was

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in Edinburgh, but it change location, so this is the longest

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continuous operation in this country, and it is believed, in the

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world. Modern life viewed through ancient technology. Big Brother's

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been around longer than you thought. Thank you very much. Good afternoon

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to you. The first day of August so far has provided us with a lot of

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drives bright weather and some spells of sunshine and there will be

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very little in terms of change this afternoon. Just a scattering of

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showers, primarily across the North. One or two heavy showers across

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Aberdeen shower this afternoon. And a fairly cloudy prospect in Shetland

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with perhaps very late and Apache outbreaks of rain. It surely feel

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across the northern Isles and Caithness, generally with fresh

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westerly winds -- and Apache Caithness, generally with fresh

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outbreaks of rain. Temperatures 17 to 19 Celsius, peaking around 20

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degrees for central and southern parts and a pleasant feel in bright

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or sunny spells. This evening, the showers will tend to fade. A few

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hanging on across the Northern Isles. A dry night will follow for

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most of us with clear shelves. Temperatures include rural areas

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falling to four or five Celsius, quite chilly. But for the most part

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holding up around eight or 10 Celsius with light winds. Tomorrow,

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a ridge of high pressure will maintain mostly dry and settled

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conditions for a good part of the day, although this weather front

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will gradually make inroads into the south-west later. A dry and bright

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start, plenty of sunshine. Very gradually as we go through the day

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we will see cloud increasing from the south-west, and that will be

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followed by outbreaks of rain later in the day. Temperatures tomorrow

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will peak around 20, is not 21 Celsius. That is your forecast.

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Thank you very much.

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