The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 11 April 2024
Body found at recycling centre, Glasgow Restaurant Week begins + exciting updates from various venues, People's Palace closes this weekend, new location for Scandi shop + MSP talks crumbling buildings
🌥 Good morning Glasgow. Looks like we could see the sunshine and a high of 16C today. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap:
🚨 The body of a man was found at Queenslie Recycling Centre, Easterhouse. Police locked down the centre to carry out investigations and residents were told to take their waste elsewhere. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
↪ The death is not being treated as suspicious at this time and the centre is understood to be open again today.
🍴 Glasgow Restaurant Week starts today! Dozens of venues in the city are offering discounted menus until April 18.
↪ Restaurants involved include The Finnieston, Ka Pao, The Gannet, Five March, Mamasan, Chaakoo West End & loads more.
↪ See all the restaurants and book via Glasgow Food & Drink.
🏛 The menu has been revealed for the Sacred Garden rooftop bar at the new House of Gods Hotel, set to open on Glassford Street tomorrow. Think small plates (£8-10) and sharing boards (£16-20). - Paul Trainer, Glasgow World.
🍩 In other menu news, cocktail bar Somewhere by Nico’s new theme, Nostalgia, promises to bring customers back to the 90s. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Times.
🍝 Seven21, Pollokshaws Road has announced a new special menu evening - a night filled with delicious pasta. You can reserve now for the event on May 8. A 4-course menu is £30pp with a welcome drink included.
🏪 The White Elephant pub on Merrylee Road, Cathcart will be turned into a convenience store after plans were approved. 15 jobs are expected to be created. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🛍 Scandi lifestyle store Søstrene Grene will open a second Glasgow location on Buchanan Street later this year. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🤘 Glasgow Central is one of the first stations in the UK to install information screens with British Sign Language. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
😻 A new cat cafe is set to open on Woodlands Road near Charing Cross. The exact date has yet to be announced. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🎸 Deacon Blue will headline a concert at the Royal Concert Hall on May 1 to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians. - Adam Robertson, The National.
⚽ Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee have started a campaign calling on UEFA to expel Israel ahead of the Israeli women’s team’s match at Hampden against Scotland on May 31. - More info on the campaign via GGEC.
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🕵️♂️ A Fatal Accident Inquiry into serial killer Peter Tobin’s death in custody will be held next month. - Jody Harrison, The Herald.
🏛 The People’s Palace closes on Sunday for a huge £35M refurb set to last three years. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a car on Woodburn Way, Milngavie. - Keiran Fleming, Glasgow Live.
📣 Care workers from Renfrewshire, Falkirk and West Dunbartonshire gathered at George Square to call for better pay. - Taylor Murray, Glasgow Times.
🏢 The council has approved plans to knock down a former convent at Mansionhouse Road, Langside to build 16 flats despite receiving almost 80 objections from the community. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↪ At the committee hearing, those opposing the plans said the approval went against council policy to protect historic sandstone buildings and those in favour of the development cited the housing crisis.
🟥 Labour MSP Paul Sweeney has taken aim at the state of our historic buildings in his latest column for the Glasgow Times.
↪ “…Glasgow has more listed buildings on the Buildings at Risk Register than any other city in Scotland – around 100 such buildings across the city need urgent attention to secure their future, but it is like pulling teeth trying to get the council to step up and get a grip of the situation by using its statutory powers to enforce repairs, ironically as it is the single biggest owner of the city’s most at-risk heritage buildings, and its planning department has borne the brunt of the decimation of the city’s budget by central government over the last decade,” he writes.
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