The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 28 April 2025
Kiltwalk raises £3M for charity, George Square water feature scrapped, BMW torched in Govanhill, more controlled parking zones, Easterhouse derelict building fire + GFT May programme update
🌤️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts sunshine with a high of 17C. We have been very busy behind the scenes and will be back to our regular programming of the Sunday Edition next week. If you’ve been following the chatter around the Clyde Tunnel, check out our feature on it here (free). Here’s Monday’s Wrap…
👟 The Glasgow Kiltwalk has raised an incredible £3 million for charity so far. Pictures in the Glasgow Times via Elaine Livingston.
🤑 The council has spent £13 million on agency staff to prop up cleansing staff across the city over the last eight years to “maintain service levels and cover new posts, retirements and dismissals”. - Exclusive by Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🔥 A BMW was torched in Govanhill on Saturday night (no one was injured). - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
🎆 The council will shorten the time allowed to apply for a firework control zone after an embarrassing blunder that saw the local authority miss its deadline to introduce the legislation last year. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Times.
🏫 Jordanhill has once again topped the Sunday Times League Table as the best-performing secondary school in Scotland. See the full list.
🏰 An incredible £495,000 Langside home in one of the city’s finest “private mansions” has hit the market. - See inside via Beverley Brown, The Herald.
📢 Greens MSP Gillian Mackay called on the Scottish Government to “potentially extend” the buffer zone for anti-abortion protests outside hospitals after more than 100 protesters held a “vigil” outside the QEUH. - Exclusive by Abbi Garton-Crosbie, The National.
🏠 A Calton homeowner claims she has been left homeless after she and nine other residents were evacuated from their flats amid safety concerns. She says she has been “left in limbo” waiting for the council to provide reasons to her insurers. - Mark McGivern, Daily Record.
🏆 Thousands of Celtic fans were pictured celebrating the league title win at Parkhead. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
💃 Everyone is invited to join a line-dancing flash mob on Buchanan Street near the Donald Dewar statue on May 3 as part of “International Line Dance Flash Mob Day”. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
⛲ Plans for a water feature in George Square have been scrapped as the council plans to award the £20.5 million contract for its transformation next week. Council officials are backing Rainton Construction. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
👀 SNP business convener Angela Constance reprimanded former SNP MP David Linden in a “strongly worded” email to party members for “falsely suggesting” John Swinney had endorsed him in an MSP selection contest. - John Boothman, The Times (£).
💰 A rogue trader exploited the Grenfell tragedy to scam a Glasgow man out of £3,000. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🔥 A huge fire ripped through a former homeless shelter in Easterhouse yesterday, with residents warned to keep their doors and windows closed. No injuries have been reported. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🅿️ More than 570 fines have been issued since the council’s pavement parking ban was enacted last month. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🚗 Plans for more parking control zones will go ahead this year, meaning 12 communities across the city will be subject to parking charges, and residents will need permits. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎖️ A service was held at the Glasgow Western Necropolis on Friday to commemorate ANZAC Day in remembrance of the Australian, New Zealand and Tonga soldiers who died in World War I.
🍎 A report titled Update on Glasgow City Food System Development is to be presented to the council this week, warning that more people will face food poverty in the city unless there is a “step change” amid rising supermarket prices. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
📽️ Glasgow Film Theatre has announced its programme for May. - Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.
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📌 Ossian Scotland and Hometown Promotion Soundsystem are hosting a documentary screening, q&a, and reggae dance next week at The Art School. Thanks to a subcriber from Ossian for sharing! - More info.
