Radio training for blind people

Former Big Brother runner-up Mikey Hughes is an Insight presenter

A new facility in Glasgow is to help train 30 blind and partially-sighted people to work in radio broadcasting.

The training suite is based at Insight Radio, the station set up by the Royal National Institute of Blind People.

Those who qualify will help staff an planned satellite studios in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham and Manchester.

Over the next three years, the station will also offer training to commercial and community broadcast companies.