The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Monday 16 September 2024
Window trail for forgotten working-class Glaswegians, Maryhill councillor resigns, Commonwealth Games update, gun scare at Buchanan Bus Station + James McAvoy pops into East End pub for pint
⛅ Good morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts sunshine with a high of 18C. Here’s Monday’s Wrap:
📚 A new library window trail is celebrating the forgotten histories of extraordinary working-class Glaswegians. So far, eight windows have been installed in three libraries including Woodside and Pollokshaws and more are planned for Castlemilk and Easterhouse. - Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
🗳 Keiran O’Neill, Labour councillor for the Maryhill ward, has resigned with immediate effect. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
↳ He said: “…due to changes in my personal and professional life, it is now in the best interests of both my constituents and myself that I step down at this time.”
🏅 The Scottish Government and Commonwealth Games Australia will meet this morning to discuss Glasgow potentially hosting the 2026 Games. Talks are expected to secure a deal if Australia's promised “multimillion-pound investment” is confirmed. - Kieran Andrews, The Times.
🦢 North Glasgow residents are calling for CCTV to be installed in Springburn Park after attacks on swans. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🏫 The council’s top lawyer warned Labour councillor Fiona Higgins she could face a standards investigation over claims elected members were “wilfully and cynically” misled about teacher cuts in a social media post. - Calum Ross, The Scotsman.
🔥 A tenement fire in Crossloan Road, Govan took 999 crews four hours to tackle. One person was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. - Gillian Loney, Glasgow Live.
🚌 Buchanan Bus Station was shut down on Saturday afternoon following reports of a man with a gun on a bus. It’s understood the firearm was a toy and a man, 50, has been arrested in connection with the alleged offence. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
👀 Bailie James Scanlon hit out at the state of the Clydeside at last week’s full council meeting. He described it as a “ghetto” with people smoking hash and painting “frightening” graffiti. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
⚽ Parents at Glasgow Gaelic School in Finnieston have expressed concern over harmful chemicals in artificial pitches and are pulling their children out of sport amid health fears. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🎓 ‘I’m exhausted’: Glasgow care-experienced students speak out about juggling work and uni. - Hannah Gross, The Tab.
🍾 Detectives stopped a vehicle on London Road in the early hours of Friday morning and recovered 17 bottles of Buckfast, 13 bottles of vodka and five bottles of MD 20/20 as well as herbal cannabis, edibles and cocaine. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
↳ Two people in the vehicle failed a roadside drugs wipe and were charged with “the respective offences”.
🎆 Councillor Jon Molyneux has suggested the council use the Common Good Fund to help pay for Bonfire Night celebrations at Glasgow Green. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
↳ Cllr Annette Christie said “…in theory yes the funding could be taken from the Common Good Fund but it's not something that personally I would find appropriate."
🚨 One woman was hospitalised and fined for a road traffic offence after a three-car crash that resulted in one motor ploughing into a building on Finnieston Street on Friday. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🚑 A woman is fighting for her life after being knocked down by a car at Great Western Road and Duntreath Avenue in Knightswood. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🚆 Glasgow Queen Street Station won Major Station of the Year at the National Rail Awards. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
👟 Invisible Cities and care home Florence House have celebrated the second anniversary of the social enterprise’s Meet Me in Govan weekly walks. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
💻 The HFD Charitable Foundation and Virgin Money Foundation's Building Digital Skills Fund have allocated £688,000 to eight community groups and charities in the city to tackle the digital divide. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🍻 Actor James McAvoy popped into Hielan Jessie in the East End for a pint. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🕌 The Al-Furqan Islamic Centre on Carrington Street will hold the Mosque Open Day on September 28-29 to build bridges in the community following recent unrest in parts of the UK. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🎃 Pumpkin picking near Glasgow this Halloween - all the patches open for spooky family fun. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🍕 Daryl of BAKED Pizza Al Taglio is opening an NY slice joint at Chancellor Street in the West End called Sear’s Pizza. - Instagram.
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📌 Merchant City and Trongate Community Council will be sprucing up some of the city centre by holding its next quarterly Litter Pick on September 21. Volunteers should join Community Councillors at 10.30 am outside the Ramshorn Graveyard in Ingram Street. All equipment will be provided. If you can spare a couple of hours between 10.30 and 1.30 you'll be made very welcome. All you need to bring is a smile, enthusiasm and a desire to make the area as pleasant as possible. For more details email info@mctcc.scot or see mctcc.scot.
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