Queen Camilla officially opens new library in Edinburgh

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Queen Camilla officially opened the newly refurbished Ratho Library as part of her visit to Scotland alongside the King for Royal Week. Her Majesty praised the work of the staff in a speech, saying: "What wonderful places libraries are, literally from toddlers to pensioners – they manage to inspire a love of reading of books". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's nice to see you, as I said, slightly cooler.

00:03Yeah, it's nice to see you.

00:06I guess I'm a bit of a community committee.

00:12Well, this is quite a vibe that you said earlier.

00:15I'm going to start with a mobile library.

00:20It's very hot this morning.

00:23Hello, how are you?

00:26Fine.

00:26Good morning, and welcome to the fabulous Ratho Library.

00:38I was going to say on this fine July day,

00:40I might say on this Scottish July day.

00:43It's really wonderful to have everybody here.

00:45Thank you so much for coming.

00:48Unveil the plug.

00:49Visiting this library today has just reinforced my belief

00:58in what wonderful places libraries are.

01:02From, literally, from toddlers to pensioners,

01:06they've managed to inspire a love of reading books.

01:10And to actually see a new library like this,

01:14well, I'm thrilled to be opening it today,

01:16but I wish a lot of other people would follow your example

01:20and open more new libraries all over the country,

01:24because I think, sadly, a lot of them have been closing down.

01:28So to see something as wonderful, so speak, re-opened

01:32is all to the credit to all of you who've made it happen.

01:37So thank you all very much, writers, volunteers, backers,

01:42everybody who's made this possible.

01:44I'm so pleased to have been able to come and open it today.

01:48So thank you.

01:54I just finally wanted to end by something we discovered,

01:58by doing some research with my reading book,

02:01with some neuroscientists who've been looking at the power of reading.

02:08And it's just been proved that 10 minutes of reading a day

02:11reduces stress by 20%.

02:15Just 10 minutes, that's all.

02:17So just keep on reading.

02:19Thank you very much.

02:31It's a bit cold, as you know, isn't it?

02:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:34I'm used to it.

02:40How are you?

02:40Nice to see you.

02:42Hello.

02:43Very nice.

02:45Nice.

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