Evening Times

Europe's most advanced school for blind youngsters has been given the go-ahead in Glasgow's south side. The new school, in Dumbreck, has been designed to allow children, who are either blind or suffer serious visual impairment, to make their way around the school to the other without supervision. Some of the 50-plus students, aged from four to 18 and who would normally attend Carnbooth and Kelvin schools, also have mobility and hearing problems. However, they will benefit from the pioneering design which allows them to feel their way through the school by touch and the arrangement of the walls.