The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Monday 30 June 2025
Caledonia Road high-rises demolition, Council cyber attack: identity theft fears and parking fine scam, CCA contradicted by protesters, three convicted of murder face life + revival of the Golden Z
🌥️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts a cloudy start to the day with sunny spells in the afternoon and a high of 23C. Here’s Monday’s Wrap…
💣 The high-rises at 305 and 341 Caledonia Road, two of the last standing Gorbals tower blocks built in 1965, were demolished yesterday, June 29, to make way for 152 social rent homes. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
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💾 A cyber security expert fears that hackers who carried out a cyber attack on the council may have been attempting to harvest personal data for identity thefts. - Jonathan Blackburn, Glasgow Live.
↳ The council has not yet confirmed that data has been removed, but is operating on the assumption some customer data has been stolen.
↳ A warning has been issued over a parking fine scam amid the attack, as people are being sent scam text messages directing recipients to pay outstanding fines online. - Matthew Fulton, STV News.
🗣️ Art Workers for Palestine Scotland (AWFPS) have stated: “At no point did AWPS ‘occupy’ or ‘take over’ the CCA building.” contradicting the CCA's version of events following its closure due to the group’s pro-Palestine protests. - Jamie Dunn, The Skinny.
↳ The CCA told The Skinny: “Groups gathered outside both public entrances. A group entered the building's Scott Street foyer area. At this point, the police were called.”
⚖️ Three people are each facing a life sentence after being convicted for the murder of a man, 30, in Braid Square, Maryhill, in September 2023. - Grant McCabe & Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
🪙 Inside story of the revival of Glasgow’s Golden Z shopping streets. - Marissa’s feature in The Herald.
🧑🎓 Glasgow Labour MSP Pauline McNeill has said student accommodation has reached saturation point and residents should be allowed to challenge overprovision. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🪧 Striking Subway workers with Unite picketed at Govan Subway Station, then demonstrated outside the SPT headquarters on Friday, June 27. - Exclusive by Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🍬 The Wee Sweet Shoppe in the Southside has announced it will be closing this Saturday, July 5, due to rising costs. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🖼️ A new poster is to be displayed in the city so people know how to report hate crimes, which have increased by 42% compared to the previous year to date. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
🫴 The National interviewed the founder of Refuweegee, Selina Hales, who expressed the charity ‘won’t shut up, it will show up’. - Matthew Gallagher, The National.
📢 Palestine flags were draped across the floor of the City Chambers as part of a sit-in protest over links between council-run CCTV systems and Israeli surveillance company ‘NICE’. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
🔉 TV historian Neil Oliver commentary appears to have been ‘quietly’ dropped from the City Sightseeing Glasgow’s tour bus service. - Fiona Brown, The National.
😡 Residents near Hampden Park were angry following Lana Del Rey's concert, with claims that traffic clogged their streets until after midnight. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🍺 Birdhouse Bar & Kitchen on Dumbarton Road has been ordered to pay a former employee over £1,600 after dismissing them without notice weeks before Christmas. - Exclusive by Gabriel McKay, The Herald.
🚲 The Glasgow Times fact-checked the observation that ‘no one ever uses the [city’s] cycle lanes’, with numerous statistics showing they are being utilised. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎳 King Pins, equipped with bowling, pool, an arcade, and more, officially opened in Silverburn on Friday, June 27. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🩳 Glaswegian activewear brand DFYNE is Scotland’s and Britain’s fastest-growing private company, according to the fourth annual Sunday Times 100 rankings. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
🍴 Around 400 pupils from S1 to S3 in four secondary schools will benefit from a free school meal pilot, which will launch this August. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
🔨 Pictures: See 14 ‘eerie’ images of the former Sauchiehall Street M&S as its demolition is underway in Eszter Tárnai’s exclusive Glasgow Times article.
⛓️ A 29-year-old male who was part of a gang machete attack on a man, 35, in Drumchapel in March 2024, has been jailed for seven and a half years. - Glasgow Times.
❤️🩹 A Tollcross boy, 14, is planning to run 5k every week throughout the school holidays in memory of his mum, who died following a battle with diabetes. - Ruth Suter, Daily Record.
🍳 Bodachs Kitchen on Eldon Street has reopened under a new name: Eldon St West End. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🍻 Early bird tickets are now on sale for the fourth annual Beer is for Everyone Festival, taking place at the Queen Margaret Union. - Darren, beertoday.
💐 Partick Thistle have led tributes to honorary president Robert Reid after he passed away aged 90. - David Irvine, Glasgow Times.
💉 NHSGGC is launching ‘drop-in and chat’ vaccination clinics to help adults make informed vaccine decisions. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🏠 The Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre in Dennistoun could soon have a new operator as part of plans to secure its future. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🌿 Lana Del Rey was spotted 'exploring' Glasgow ahead of her gig at Hampden Park on Thursday, June 26. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
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