The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 09 June 2025
Tour of Britain Women's race, hundreds of homeless refused accommodation, road disruption galore, hundreds of GLA airport staff may strike, finance advisers save parents millions + Clyde jet skis
🌧️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts a rainy day with a high of 14C. Here’s Monday’s Wrap…
🚲 See ten amazing pictures from the final of the Tour of Britain Women’s race on Sunday (June 8), where competitors made ten laps of a five-mile course around the city centre. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🏨 Homeless people were refused accommodation in the city on 456 occasions between April 1 and May 1, with figures also showing almost 100 people have been found rough sleeping this year. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
✈️ Unite has warned holidaymakers that more than 800 workers at Glasgow Airport could be balloted for walkouts, which could “ground planes and passengers” in the middle of July. - Sarah Ward & Dale Miller, The Scotsman.
🚦 Nearly 60 streets across the city will experience significant disruption this summer from June 26 as Glasgow Green prepares to host a series of large-scale concerts and events. See the full list of roads affected in Amy Myles’ Glasgow Times article.
↳ See the 69 key streets that will also be affected by filming for a major production until June 23 in Amy Myles’ Glasgow Times article.
🏫 Nine finance advisers in 50 Glasgow schools have generated £5.27m for parents in poverty over the last year, while others received assistance to manage £718,382 in debt. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
🌊 A group of men were spotted riding jet skis on the River Clyde - a crowd sitting by the river cheered and clapped them on. - Rosie Lewis, Glasgow Times.
📝 The council is facing a backlog of planning application cases, which is causing delays, as the public body says it is struggling to recruit staff in the planning department. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
💉 The council has cleared up a drug den on Tobago Street near The Thistle safer drug consumption room in Calton and placed needle bins. - Exclusive by Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🏢 A £60m plan for purpose-built student accommodation of 531 beds at the disused site at Carrick Street in Broomielaw has been recommended for approval. - Brian Donnelly, The Herald.
↳ Plans have also been submitted to build 338 student flats on an empty site on Meadow Road in Thornwood. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🏥 NHSGGC is suing Brookfield Multiplex, despite previously giving the firm a £250,000 eco-bonus for achieving certain environmental credentials at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. - Hannah Rodger, Daily Record.
🏛️ The Martyrs’ School in Townhead is to be sold by the council to the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland to be used as a museum of Scottish Catholic archives. - Exclusive by Craig Williams, The Herald.
🧑🏫 An extra 100 teachers are to be hired in the city, with the majority supporting children with additional needs, after the council received an extra £7.6m. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
🚕 The Scottish Private Hire Association has urged all of Glasgow’s MSPs to back its call to keep the cap on the number of vehicles working in the city. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🚶➡️ The Parents Against Knives walk, which has been organised by the family of murdered teen Kory McCrimmon, will now take place on Sunday, June 22, after being blown away by the public response. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🛝 Woodland next to Birsay Road in Milton, which has been targeted by flytippers, is set to be transformed into a “natural” play area and outdoor learning space. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🔗 A man, 20, has been arrested in connection with alleged fire raising on Drumchapel Road on May 13 amid a suspected 'gangland war'. - Ruth Slater, Daily Record.
🧑💼 The council has accepted a £600,000 grant for an entrepreneur centre on Saracen Street in Possilpark, set to open later this year. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🪰 Parkhouse residents are crying out over the lack of action clearing up 20-year-old fly-tipping railway site next to Claddens Street owned by Reigart Contracts Ltd. - Exclusive by Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
👨🚒 A fireman from a photo of the famous St Andrew’s Halls fire in 1962 shared his story of the dramatic night in an exclusive interview with Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
🔪 A man, 58, was caught with a knife he bought from Poundland in Glasgow Sheriff Court. - Exclusive by Connor Gordon, Glasgow Times.
🏠 A major tenement refurbishment at 90-94 Park Road in Charing Cross has been completed by West of Scotland Housing Association. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
📚 Partick Library celebrated its 100th birthday on Thursday (June 5) with an event which looked back at its history and how the place has changed over the years. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
📄 The council plans to issue a Compulsory Purchase Order on a flat on Gartuck Street in Govanhill that has been empty for more than two years. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
↳ The owner is now in a care home and has no prospect of returning to the flat.
❤️ A Knightswood man has opened up about how volunteering has helped him combat seven years of isolation and reconnect with his home city. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
👗 American global lifestyle brand Anthropologie is opening a unit at Princes Square in Autumn. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
💷 23 organisations across the city have been awarded a share of £150,000 from the Wheels in Motion Fund to promote cycling and wheeled sports. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
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Park Road isn’t in Charing Cross. Woodlands or Kelvinbridge