The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 21 March 2024
Healthcare cuts confirmed, cyclist killed, XL-Bully dog attack, swimming pool closed, Kelvingrove Bandstand acts announced + Glasgow Short Film Festival begins
⛅ Good morning Glasgow. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap:
💰 Cuts to health and social care services in Glasgow have been approved by councillors. The £36m savings mean services will be cut, 150 jobs will be lost and there will be longer waits for services, reports Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
⮑ More details on the impact on jobs are expected in May, but redeploying staff, not filling vacancies and voluntary redundancies will all be considered, reports Local Democracy Reporter Drew Sandelands for STV News.
⮑ But a new bid to reduce the impact of £8.7m of the most severe social work cuts — which risk the council breaching its statutory duties — will be considered later in the year following an amendment by Green councillor Jon Molyneux.
🚨 A 56-year-old female cyclist has died after being hit by an HGV on a busy road in Bearsden. - Caitlyn Dewar, STV News.
⮑ There’s a video from of the police investigation scene in this report by Sarah Vesty in the Daily Record.
🏛️ Meanwhile, in a separate case, a lorry driver will appear for sentencing at Glasgow Sheriff Court today for causing the death of young cyclist Emma Burke Newman. - STV News.
🐕 A Chihuahua dog has died after two 'XL-Bully' dogs attacked it on Finnart Street in the city's East End. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A man was filmed fighting with two youths in George Square after accusing them of ‘abusing pigeons’. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
🚇 There were smoky scenes at Cowcaddens underground station when a train pulled in with a suspected brake issue last night. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
🏊♀️ A boiler fault has forced the Glasgow Club Bellahouston swimming pool to close. The Southside venue will not have shower facilities either until it’s fixed. Glasgow Life said the pool will be shut until at least Friday, but it could take longer. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🌳 Developers have begun chopping down healthy, mature trees in Beith Street in Partick for the construction of 48 apartments. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🍟 The director of local chippy chain Blue Lagoon says new evening car-parking charges 'will chase people away from city centre'. Alessandro Varese said: ‘This will be a disaster’, while the council said the changes were agreed by councillors when they had to find £107m of savings. - Sarah Hilley, Glasgow Live.
🏗️ Plans for around 600 new homes in a ‘major new residential neighbourhood’ within Cowcaddens have been approved by councillors. - Brian Donnelly, The Herald.
🏡 Govanhill’s Community Newsroom has begun a series of monthly open meetings for people to share their stories about how the housing crisis is affecting them. - Greater Govanhill.
🏬 Revised plans have been submitted to redevelop the former Marks & Spencer site on Sauchiehall Street into 620 student rooms. - Daily Business.
🛝 A new nursery is set to open in Glasgow's East End. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🏚️ An 'eyesore' house in Croftfoot Road has had a dramatic renovation leaving neighbours delighted. The run-down property was boarded up and left to decay for nearly a decade. - This report by Lynn Love in the Daily Record has the photos.
💐 A local artificial flower company has been labelled the 'floral Banksy' after they covered the city in vibrant flowers yesterday morning in a bid to spread cheer. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
🎤 The final two acts have been announced to complete this year's Summer Nights series at the Kelvingrove Bandstand. Emeli Sandé and Ocean Colour Scene will play in July. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
📸 Line Of Duty star Martin Compston was spotted filming his new Amazon Prime series in Park Terrace yesterday. - Photos by Gordon Terris.
🎞️ The Glasgow Short Film Festival opened last night at the GFT and runs until Sunday. - The Skinny’s Jamie Dunn has the lowdown on what to expect from the festival.
⮑ This year’s programme includes a deep dive into feminist film archives, a focus on Moroccan filmmaker Randa Maroufi, a portmanteau film portrait of Govanhill and a thematic strand in defiance of oppression titled ‘Towards Liberation’. - The full programme is here.
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