Oct 23, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Scores of schools in Scotland have been targeted by an email claiming a bomb had been placed inside the building. Despite Police Scotland swiftly declaring it a hoax, the incident has led to a sharp…
Beth TempletonGuestIf you are the parent of a school child in Scotland, you probably got a bit of worrying news this week.
Maybe you saw a headline in the news or maybe you first heard of it from your school saying that police were investigating threatening emails which said a bomb had been placed in the school.
But the data that we have on school attendances this week shows us that scores of parents are not convinced.
So what does this all say about our trust in schools, police, institutions in general? Do we get enough clear communication? And what does it say about the influence of online rumours? Well, we have been talking to two people who have been following the story very closely.
Beth Templeton from the Glasgow Bell and Andrea Bradley from the EIS Teaching Union.
I was saying that on Monday we had quite a, I suppose, robust conversation in our newsroom about if we should be covering this story in the first place and how we should be covering it.
If you are the parent of a school child in Scotland, you probably got a bit of worrying news this week.
Maybe you saw a headline in the news or maybe you first heard of it from your school saying that police were investigating threatening emails which said a bomb had been placed in the school.
But the data that we have on school attendances this week shows us that scores of parents are not convinced.
So what does this all say about our trust in schools, police, institutions in general? Do we get enough clear communication? And what does it say about the influence of online rumours? Well, we have been talking to two people who have been following the story very closely.
Beth Templeton from the Glasgow Bell and Andrea Bradley from the EIS Teaching Union.
I was saying that on Monday we had quite a, I suppose, robust conversation in our newsroom about if we should be covering this story in the first place and how we should be covering it.
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