The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Wednesday 30 October 2024
The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Wednesday 30 October 2024
Thriller protest against fossil fuels, Victorian Barlinnie pics released, woman dies in Townhead, key motions ahead of full council meeting, Christmas light switch on road closures+ The Arlington sold
🌥 Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts sunny intervals with a high of 15C. Here’s Wednesday’s Wrap.
🧟 A group of Extinction Rebellion protestors gathered outside Howden in the city centre to do the Thriller dance and call on the firm to demand an end to fossil fuel projects. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
🎥 More than a quarter of Glasgow’s CCTV cameras do not work, new figures have revealed. Public safety fears have been raised over to blackspots. - Gabriel McKay, The Herald.
📷 Two thousand rare mugshots of Barlinnie prisoners taken between 1882-1899 can now be found on Scotland’s People. - National Records of Scotland.
🏗 A site at Dixon Street between St Enoch Square and the Clyde is up for sale with consent for a 22-storey hotel or student block. “Just a short walk along Broomielaw sits the Virgin Hotel building empty since the company went into administration,” Stewart Paterson reports for Glasgow Times.
🚨 Dobbies Loan in Townhead was cordoned off yesterday after a woman was found with serious injuries and died. The death is currently classified as “unexplained”. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🗳 There is a full council meeting tomorrow (Thursday). You can find all the details here including motions.
🏗 The North Laurieston Masterplan could act as a catalyst for the regeneration of Glasgow’s “South Bank”, according to SNP councillor Ruairi Kelly. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↳ He will present a motion to Thursday’s full council meeting calling out the UK Government’s VAT imbalance between renovations and new builds to support the preservation of heritage assets.
📋 Meanwhile, Labour councillor Eunis Jassemi is expected to bring a motion to the full council meeting calling on the local authority to address the 2024 Glasgow Household Survey which revealed a decline in trust and satisfaction with council services. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↳ Councillor Jassemi is requesting the administration publish an action plan to restore public trust.
🏡 Greens councillor Seonad Hoy will bring a motion to the full council meeting asking fellow councillors to reaffirm their support for rent controls as part of the proposed Housing Bill. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🏘 SNP councillor Paul McCabe is bringing a motion calling for Castlemilk to be included in the Glasgow 850 celebrations as the area marks its 70th year. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🚔 Three men who used fake solar panels to smuggle mass amounts of cocaine and heroin from Spain were jailed. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
⚽ Rangers released their latest financial results, reporting record revenues of £88.3 million alongside a £17.2 million loss. - Ewan Paton, Glasgow Times.
📋 A damning Care Inspectorate report into children’s care facility St Mary’s Kenmure in Bishopbriggs has been released. - Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
👮♀️ Glasgow has recorded 10 murders or homicides in 2023/24, up from seven the previous year. The study includes murders and culpable homicides and refers to all as homicides. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🛳 Sea trials have begun for a “groundbreaking” wing sail ship made in Glasgow. - Brian Donnelly, The Herald.
🎄 List of road closures for the Christmas lights switch on (November 17) via Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🍻 The Arlington on Woodlands Road, said to be home to the Stone of Destiny, has been sold. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🥩 Beat 6 in Bearsden is rebranding as a Spanish steakhouse and wine bar called Bamboléo. - Sarah Campbell, The Herald.
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