The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 17 March 2025
Lawyers believe QEU Hospital still "unsafe", demonstration planned over £120m health and social care cuts, university staff to picket outside graduations, Glasgow in top Europe cities for food lovers.
🍀 Good Morning Glasgow and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The Met Office forecasts a cloudy day with a high of 11C. Here’s Monday’s Wrap…
🏥 Lawyers working on a major safety probe into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital infection scandal believe it is “still unsafe” due to a defective ventilation system. The hospital’s chiefs accuse the solicitors of using “flawed evidence”. - Exclusive by Hannah Rodger, Daily Record.
↳ Families affected by the scandal hit out at the hospital after a website PR error on Wednesday. - Ryan Thom, Daily Record.
✂️ UNISON, GMB, and Unite plan a demonstration on Albion Street, Tuesday, over the city’s Integration Joint Board budget meeting on Wednesday, proposing more than £120m of cuts to health and social care. - Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
↳ More than 145 jobs could be cut in plans to plug a £42.5m budget gap. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
↳ A supported living service may be axed. - Exclusive by Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🪧 Striking staff at Strathclyde University will picket outside graduation ceremonies on Monday and Tuesday over pension scheme move. - Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco, The Herald.
🍽️ Glasgow came tenth in the ten best destinations in Europe for food lovers, according to Travelbag. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
📚 Parkhead’s Carnegie library could be sold for £175,000 to Hector House Ltd who plan to use the closed B-listed building as a “community and event space”. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🏨 There is a huge rise in the number of homeless people having to be put up in hotels and B&Bs. Month on month, the number has been rising for more than a year to almost 2000 people. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🚲 120 new cycle storage units are set to be installed in the city by November. The City Council has been engaging with residents to see where the new units are needed. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
👮 A group of 90 football supporters were denied entry to Sunday’s Old Firm match after refusing to be searched by police, who were granted special powers ahead of the game. - BBC News.
↳ Rangers beat Celtic 3-2.
🏛️ Glasgow City Council is to spend more than one million pounds on sheriff officers to chase debt. The biggest contract is worth £701,091. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🛢️ Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer has written to Westminster to shut down the Glasgow shipping firm Seapeak Maritime. - Andrew Quinn, Daily Record.
↳ The company uses oil tankers which export Russian liquified natural gas, Cllr Greer said he believes there are loopholes in the sanctions placed on Russia.
🏠 Tenants’ union Living Rent wants Glasgow City Council to implement national policy which would require at least 25% of homes in new developments to be affordable. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
↳ The union also wants the council to reinvest money raised by its proposed tourist tax into housing and public services. - Scottish Housing News.
🚔 Police and paramedics were pictured last night at an “incident” on Duke Street. It is understood they were attending a two-car crash in the area. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🏫 A new Gaelic school, the redevelopment of the former St James’ Primary, Calton, has been awarded a £17.6m contract, and could open in October next year. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
☕ Robyn’s Nest, a café that was a well-used filming location for Still Game, is up for sale in Maryhill. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
🕊️ Glaswegians are calling for a memorial to Stephen Clarkson, the “secret hero” who foiled the 2007 Glasgow Airport terror attack, after he died from cancer on March 9. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🚇 Social media star Francis Bourgeois bought one of the city’s old subway carriages. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
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🦢 Three swans found dead in Richmond Park are suspected to have died from bird flu, warning signs have been placed in the green space. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🔪 Valetine Ejihkeme, a restaurant worker at a Dundas Street business who chased a would-be-thief away from a till with a kitchen knife has lost his personal licence. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
🚶♂️ Ibrox native Alistair MacDonald will be walking 23 miles from Glasgow Green to Balloch in a kilt for STV Children’s Appeal as part of Glasgow’s Kiltwalk, on 26 & 27 April. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🥼 Doctor Martha Quinn, a consultant at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, is running the London Marathon to raise funds and awareness for Sarcoma UK, a rare type of cancer. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
❤️ Schoolboy Dayn Montgomery has been nominated for a Pride of Scotland award after overcoming his heart defect to help other kids receiving treatment in hospital. - Heather Greenaway, Daily Record.
🩺 The University of Glasgow has launched a pioneering kidney transplant project. The initiative aims to tackle the consequences of kidney failure and the chronic shortage of living donors for transplants. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
⛔ Numerous city roads will be closed each weeknight, March 17 - 21, due to M8 works. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🔗 Charity Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland is asking Glasgow’s business people to get locked up for a good cause as part of their new fundraiser “Jail or Bail”. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
👨⚖️ A dealer from Pollock, Isa Ali, has avoided jail after using a taxi to collect £105,000 of drugs in 2021. He was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work and tagged. - Connor Gordon, Court Reporter at the Glasgow Times.
💐 Rangers have announced the passing of former player Don Kichenbrand aged 91, who played for the Glasgow side 37 times. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🚛 Scottish Labour Councillor Stephen Docherty has expressed concerns over Glasgow City Council’s fleet vehicles. He claims they are at least ten years old. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
🥟 Chinese restaurant Sweet and Sour has opened on Bothwell Street after more than a year-long wait. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🫘 The catering team at Glasgow City Council’s Full of Beans campaign, who feed 37,000 children daily across the city, received a special prize at the Scottish School Food Awards. - Exclusive by Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
🎤 Singers Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will perform at the OVO Hydro on April 8 as part of their Together At Home tour. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🧥 The Secondhand Wonderland Market will be at The Social Hub on 29 March.
🥪 Sub126 announced on Instagram they will be opening a second venue in the city centre, they clarified their West Regent Street site will remain open.
🍺 The Georgic, Pollockshaws Road, has submitted several planning applications for refurbishment. - Eszter Tarnai - Glasgow Times.
🤠 American country duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will perform at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on October 29. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
⚡The hotel House of Gods, Merchant City, came 17th in The Times’ list of 100 Best Places to Stay in the UK for 2025. - Rosie Lewis, Glasgow Times.
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🛒 The years long battle to conquer the city’s most notorious food desert: For this week’s Sunday Edition, Marissa MacWhirter went to Castlemilk, where the third sector is fighting for the area’s human rights.
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📌 Maryhill Burgh Halls opens new exhibition about local suffragette and activist Jessie Stephen (1893-1979). This exhibition delves into her journey from a young domestic servant in Glasgow to a national activist, highlighting her dedication to improving the lives of others until the very end. - Thank you Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust for sharing!
📌 Glasgow Chamber Choir share stunning choral works by Arvo Part, Purcell and Poulenc at St Margaret's Episcopal Church in Newlands on Sat 22 March at 7.30pm. Get tickets here! - Thank you Keren Nicol, member of Glasgow Chamber Choir, for sharing this with us.