Motherwell teenager with sight loss stars in video campaign to get youngsters to vote

Rosie Murray who is from Flemington and attends Uddingston Grammar School is supporting the week long campaign to encourage her peers to vote, especially those like herself who have sight loss.

Voters who are 16 by election day which is Thursday May 5 will be able to vote and of course Rosie will be one of them.

And she was inspired to urge others to register via a short video on Twitter which has been organised by the Welcome To Your Vote campaign organised by the Electoral Commission and the RNIB Scotland's youth forum.

Rosie said: "I'm 17 and I haven't voted yet but I think that it's very important that people do. I think it's really important to take the opportunity to vote when you get it, because it doesn't come up a lot, because elections only happen every few years.

"Plus, you're doing it for your community. It's not like it's a worldwide thing or a Westminster thing, it's for your community. So you get to decide who you want to lead your community. And I think that is really, really important.

"I also think, especially for those of us who are visual impaired and blind, we don't really get as much opportunities as sighted people to get our voice heard. So I think that voting is really good and equal way of getting that across."