The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 28 March 2024
10pm parking charges halted, GSA suing fire safety firm, STV walkout, Aye Write festival axed, education cuts protest + school pupils name crane after Taylor Swift
⛅ Good morning Glasgow. Plenty happening today. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap:
🅿️ Glasgow City Council has halted plans to extend parking charges to 10pm following major backlash from local businesses. - Exclusive by Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
📚 Proposed education cuts in Glasgow will create a ‘state of emergency’ that will have a ‘seismic impact’ on young people, according to teachers and parents in the city. The Glasgow City Parents Group is among a group of organisations raising concerns. - James McEnaney, The Herald.
⮑ The parents’ group plans to protest outside the City Chambers today from 12.30pm. - More details in their Facebook post here.
⮑ Councillor George Redmond says he plans to tell today’s full council meeting that the education budget cut is a ‘profound betrayal of Glasgow’s youth, deepening educational inequalities and further widening the attainment gap’.
🚨 Two people were taken to hospital after three crashes on the Clydeside Expressway at rush hour yesterday. - Matthew Fulton, STV News.
🔥 Glasgow School of Art has admitted a failure to provide adequate fire protection for the Mackintosh Building in the wake of its 2014 fire caused the devastation of a repeat blaze four years later.
⮑ An exclusive report by Martin Williams in today’s Herald reveals that the GSA blames advice it received from fire specialists and is currently suing them for damages which could run into millions.
🔥 Today’s other updates from The Herald’s week-long investigation on the Glasgow School of Art fires:
⮑ The GSA sent an email to students offering support over what it called the ‘upsetting’ Herald investigation series.
⮑ Joan McAlpine: 'Why I pushed for inquiry'
⮑ ‘Loss of the ABC is felt by Glasgow more than the Mackintosh’
⮑ Fire service cuts ‘could lead to the loss of more treasures’
⮑ Clare Henry: ‘My heart weeps at the needless loss of The Mack’
⮑ How the world reacted to both Glasgow School of Art fires.
🗳️ A Glasgow councillor will today call for action to make it easier and safer for women to enter politics. Soryia Siddique will present a motion to today’s full council meeting demanding new practices to support women who stand for election. - Drew Sandelands, Glasgow Times.
“I know how disheartening it is to face barriers as a councillor. Women are under-represented at all levels of decision making. Progress doesn’t just happen and is too slow. We must take steps to ensure that democratic structures represent and, crucially, serve women in all their diversity.” - Soryia Siddique.
⮑ You can find the full agenda for today’s council meeting here. It starts at 11am.
🎥 Journalists at STV’s Pacific Quay newsroom will walk out today in a dispute over pay. The company’s National Union of Journalists members are seeking a seeking a six per-cent rise. They plan another strike on April 16. - Rory Cassidy, Daily Record.
🚔 Construction has begun on the new £400 million prison set to replace HMP Barlinnie. New pictures show how HMP Glasgow will transform the former Provan Gas Works site which lies between Blackhill, Blochairn, Germiston and Provanmill in the city's East End. - Nicole Mitchell & Gordon Terris, Glasgow Times.
🏥 A watchdog has given Baillieston Care Home a month to remedy a host of serious problems uncovered during a swoop, or face possible closure. - Exclusive by Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
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🏗️ Two new cranes on the Clyde are being named after popstar Taylor Swift and athlete Usain Bolt following a school competition. - BBC Scotland News.
📚 This year’s Aye Write book festival has been called off after Creative Scotland funding was pulled. - Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman.
🍺 Scruff Murphy’s staff say they have been left jobless and under-paid after the pub shut suddenly. - Keiran Fleming, Glasgow Live.
🐾 A dog was rescued from the river in Rouken Glen Park yesterday. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
💐 A Glasgow-born mother and daughter floristry duo are taking a ‘gravity-defying’ display to the world’s most famous flower show at Chelsea in London. - Exclusive by Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
🚴♀️ Grassroots cycling projects could get more investment following the success of a funding scheme run during last summer's UCI Cycling World Championships. - Exclusive by Catriona Stewart, The Herald.
🎬 As curtain comes down on another Glasgow Short Film Festival, Jamie Dunn of The Skinny looks at the award-winners.
🎭 The comedians behind serial killer podcast ‘All Killa No Filla’ say ‘Glasgow is the best place to gig’. Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Rachel Fairburn will take to the King’s Theatre stage this weekend. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🎬 The Glasgow Film Theatre has announced a full programme of special screenings to celebrate two milestone anniversaries. - Gabriel McKay, The Herald.
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