As well as her and pro partner Giovanni Pernice winning the audience vote, Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis had another reason to celebrate in Newcastle on Friday night.
And that was the fact that after lots of campaigning from her and others, British Sign Language is set to be recognised as an official language throughout the UK, after the Government backed a new bill to see it instated as one.
Rose, Strictly's first ever deaf contestant, sparked a massive surge in Google searches for BSL on her way to victory on the show with Giovanni last year.
