The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 17 October 2024
Residents hit out at Collegelands regeneration, family dies in M6 crash, Motto by Hilton mystery, council selling Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, Hollywood filming + do we need a mayor?
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🏗 Two residents in the Calton area have expressed concern that a brownfield site is being “massively overdeveloped” amid the Collegelands regeneration. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A man, woman and two children from Glasgow were among five tragically killed after a crash on the M6 near Tebay Services involving ‘a car driving the wrong way’. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🍻 Developers behind plans for student flats at the former Admiral pub on Waterloo Street have launched an appeal with the council due to the time taken by the authority to make a decision. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🏨 What happened to the Motto by Hilton Glasgow planned for the gap site next to the ill-fated Virgin Hotel on Clyde Street? Due to open in autumn 2024, Paul Trainer looks at why the hotel is still “missing from the skyline” for Glasgow World.
🏛 Glasgow City Council has put one of the earliest buildings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the former Martyrs’ Public School, up for sale. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
↳ The move has prompted concern from conservationists. SAVE Britain’s Heritage said: “This important building needs a sympathetic owner who will celebrate the legacy of one of Scotland's most famous architects.” - Via X.
♨ A dozen tenements will be fitted with electric wallpaper as part of a pilot scheme to combat climate change by replacing gas central heating. - Gaby McKay, The Herald.
✍ Labour MSP Paul Sweeney’s column in the Glasgow Times calling for a directly elected mayor for Greater Glasgow has sparked fierce debate on X.
📚 Boris Johnson admitted in his new book that Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed him at COP 26. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🩺 Tory MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane called for action on the “dire state” of Drumchapel Health Centre at First Minister’s Questions last week. - Emily Moore, Glasgow Times.
🏗 New photos from the Glasgow Times Camera Club photographer Charlie McGeachan show the ongoing demolition of the O2 ABC. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🛏 The Home Office has been urged to bring an “immediate end” to asylum hotels in Glasgow by the Scottish Refugee Council where temporary accommodation is driving more people to homelessness. - David Bol, The Scotsman.
🎥 The reboot of sci-film The Running Man starring Glen Powell will be filmed in the city Paramount Pictures notifying residents near Hope Street, Renfrew Street and St Vincent Street. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
🛁 Govanhill Baths have released their Winter Wellbeing Programme. It’s open to adults living within a mile of Govanhill who are not currently employed, are on low income and are not in full-time education. Refugees and asylum-seekers are welcome to attend from anywhere in the city.
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📌 We, at BreizhAlba, are delighted to invite you for a fantastic weekend of Breton music and dance on November 1-2, 2024 across our beloved cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow! Our friends and usual suspects from Brittany, musicians Jean-Luc Thomas (Flute) and Gabriel Faure (Fiddle), are back to our delight and will accompany us throughout the weekend! Local musicians will take to the stage too. More info. Thanks Nadia for sending this in!
📌 Trad Talk is the Traditional Music Forum's annual event which brings together folk involved in traditional music in Scotland to discuss key issues in the trad scene today. With the theme this year Roots Not Tethers, we will discuss how we got here and where we go next, how the traditional music scene in Scotland has developed and where we go from here. This is a free event which is ticketed - advance booking is essential. Sat 26 Oct, 10.30am - 4.15pm at The Scottish Music Centre, Candleriggs. More info/tickets.
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