New Mary Barbour mural in Govan, Glasgow Pride bans politicians, Langside refurb greenlight, council workplace accident costs revealed, Southside scheme hits market + care home opens Still Game pub
🎨 Internationally acclaimed mural artist Jeks has completed a stunning rendition of the activist Mary Barbour on a gable end at 1198 Govan Road. ↳ The work is a joint project between SWG3’s Yardworks GRID & Linthouse Housing Association (LHA) to celebrate 50 years of social housing in Govan.
🏳️🌈 Glasgow Pride has banned politicians from attending amid concerns over a lack of action following the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the definitions of “sex” and “woman”. - Steph Brown, The National.
📚 Plans to refurbish the B-listed Langside library with a new accessible entrance, a platform lift, and more toilets have been given the go-ahead. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🏘️ 56 new homes at the King’s View development in Toryglen, the Southside, have hit the market with prices starting from £216,000. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🍻 Wyndford Locks Care Home in Maryhill has created its own version of the Still Game pub ‘The Clansman’, which will open on Friday, May 16. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🏥 The number of Glasgow patients stuck in hospital when they are due to be released has reached the highest number in a decade, at 199 in March. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
✒️ The UK Government is moving thousands of civil service roles to 13 Scottish towns and cities, with Glasgow among them. - Douglas Dickie, Scottish Daily Express.
🏠 Migrants are not being given homes ahead of local people, the council deputy leader, Ricky Bell, has said. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎹 Organist Bill Hutcheson, 80, marked more than 56 years of performing at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with a special recital arranged for Glasgow 850. - Jonathan Blackburn, Glasgow Live.
🎶 Wastelands Festival has struggled to sell tickets despite extensive marketing and may have to cancel, with a promise of full refunds. - Posted on Instagram.
🛝 Summer playscheme, Impact Arts, for disadvantaged children in Govan, has issued an urgent appeal to help raise £3500 by June 30 to fund Outdoor Creative Play. - Exclusive by Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
🪠 A plumber who was caught moving £50,000 of drug money from Glasgow to England has been jailed for 14 months. - David Meikle, Daily Record.
🪐 Researchers at the University of Glasgow have built the NextSpace Testrig, a small piece of outer space recreated below the city to test the structural integrity of 3D printed materials for space. - Kevin Scott, STV News.
✈️ UK-based startup Global Airlines will operate its maiden charter flight from Glasgow Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York today. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
🪰 A couple kept two children, 3 and 6, in a Shettleston flat strewn with animal waste and insects on the bedding. - Connor Gordon, Daily Record. ↳ They pleaded guilty to wilful neglect between September and October 2024.
🤬 A Dennistoun resident has slammed railway works on Alexandra Parade station, which he claims are taking place at 1am and leaving his building "shaking". - Fahad Tariq, Glasgow Live.
🧘 Scottish Action for Mental Health has launched a Glasgow-inspired wellbeing wallpaper. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
Yvonne Elliott-Kellighan and Eve McGhee (Image: Supplied)
🧑⚖️ An English teacher groomed a pupil and was sexually inappropriate to two other girls in his class at a school in the north of Glasgow between 2008 and 2023. - Connor Gordon, Glasgow Times.
🩺 Glasgow Central Mosque has paid tribute to Dr Mohammad Shafiq Kausar, the city’s ‘first Asian GP’. 1,000 mourners attended his funeral. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
📌 WE'RE STILL ALIVE: RESISTANCE, SOLIDARITY AND HIP-HOP IN IRAN On Thursday, May 29, at Some Great Reward in the Cooperage, Index on Censorship are hosting a listening party to stand in solidarity with the persecuted Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi, who was sentenced to death for his music and solidarity with the Women, Life, Freedom movement. Join us at SGR in the Cooperage to celebrate his music and stand together for everyone calling for human rights in Iran. Free and unticketed! - Thank you for sharing Nik Williams with Index on Censorship!
