The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Monday 28 October 2024
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Monday 28 October 2024
Hundreds take part in Moira's Run and the Love Rally over weekend, calls to ban local shipping firm carrying Russian gas, city firm set up by "mafia" shut down, "shooting" in Govan + new Hinba opens
🌧 Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office says it will be raining with a high of 15C. Here’s Monday’s Wrap.
🏃♀️ Hundreds of people took part in Moira’s Run through Queen’s Park yesterday. The 5km charity dash is held in memory of Moira Jones who was murdered in the park in 2008. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
❤ Elsewhere, people marched through the city on Saturday for the annual Love Rally, “demanding a lifetime of love for Care Experienced people”. - Photos by Robert Perry are in the Glasgow Times, words by Nicole Mitchell.
🏚 Hopes of transforming the derelict Whiteinch Burgh Hall into housing have been “dashed” due to redevelopment costs. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🧸 Glasgow’s Child Poverty Pathfinder is a new project aimed at helping ten city council wards with the highest child poverty rates. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Times.
🛳 Campaigners are calling for tougher sanctions on Russia by banning local shipping firm Seapeak Maritime from carrying the state’s gas around Europe amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. - Paul Hutcheon, Daily Record.
💷 Trustcom Ltd, a Glasgow firm set up by alleged Italian mafia money launderers, will be shut down with the loss of more than £7 million in tax. - David Leask, The Herald.
🍻 Ian Reid, who runs Merchant Square’s Tap Yard, is backing the Campaign for Real Ale’s push to have the Autumn Budget do more to support hospitality in the face of spiralling costs and closures. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live. You can help with the campaign here.
📢 Pro-Palestine protestors demonstrated outside the BBC to call out the media’s complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza. - Joe Scotting, The National.
💉 Hip hop artist, author and campaigner Darren McGarvey has penned an essay for UnHerd about Calton's forthcoming drug consumption room. Why Scotland can’t get clean: Politicians only pay lip service to addiction.
🏅 Former Glasgow City Council Chief George Black has been appointed chairman of the Glasgow 2026 organising company ahead of the Commonwealth Games. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
🧾 Labour councillor Jill Brown has raised concerns over the number of whistleblowing cases being upheld in the council with complaints ranging from theft/embezzlement, corruption/abuse of power and possible tenancy fraud. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🏚 At the same meeting, Cllr Brown called for action on a Southside property at Riverford Road that has been vacant for a decade but is not on the market. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Times.
♨ Two pensioners from Coatbridge have been permitted to go ahead with their legal bid to overturn the winter fuel payment cut. - Andrew Learmonth, The Herald.
🛏 Concerns have been raised over the Commonwealth Games’ potential impact on homeless people due to the increased demand for hotels. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Times.
🚧 Details on upcoming road closures planned for completion of the Avenues Project work around Sauchiehall Street are reported by Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
⚽ A new £1.8 million Hillwood Community Sports Hub has opened in Priesthill 25 years after chairman and founder Willie Smith dreamed it up. - Matthew Lindsay, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A man was taken to hospital after a report of a “shooting” on Drumoyne Road, Govan. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🌳 A dad and daughter from Partickhill spent two years visiting 108 parks and green spaces across the city. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🦢 SNP Councillor Malcolm Mitchell is calling for more to be done to resolve a longstanding leak in Knightswood Park pond. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
☕ Hinba Coffee Roasters is now open on Great Western Road.
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