The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 19 December 2024
Go ahead for £250M Charing Cross Gateway plan, Subway fares going up, Scotsman Group luxury hotel approved, Reform party organiser sacked over family terror links, petition to grant Clyde personhood
🌤 Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts a clear day with a high of 6C. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap…
🏢 The £250 million Charing Cross Gateway plan, which could include knocking down Tay House bridge over the M8, has been granted planning permission in principle. The development would include homes, student flats and hotel space. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🚇 SPT will increase Subway fares from the start of the New Year. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
🏨 The Scotsman Group has been granted permission to redevelop the former High School of Glasgow site on Elmbank Street/Holland Street into a luxury five-star hotel. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🗳 Nigel Farage’s Reform party organiser Craig Campbell has been sacked after the Record uncovered his family’s links to a Loyalist terror plot in Glasgow. - Paul Hutcheon, Daily Record.
📚 Work has begun on a £12.6 million project to upgrade the Annexe of the University of Glasgow Library. - Paul Trainer, Glasgow World.
🏢 Nearly 600 student studios and 20 social rent flats can be built on empty land near the Scottish Power headquarters in the city centre by Vita Group after plans were approved. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
⚽ Scottish FA president Mike Mulraney called for a stronger response from the Scottish Government to deal with violent fan disorder after chaos between Rangers and Celtic fans in the city centre on Sunday. - Andy Coyle & Vanessa Taaffe.
↳ Mulraney said scenes of the streets of Glasgow were “not the responsibility of the footballing authorities”.
🍻 9 Wetherspoons in and around Glasgow which will be open on Christmas Day - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
🌊 Writer Louise Barber and architect Jude Barber are calling on people to back their petition to protect the River Clyde by granting it a legal “right to personhood”. - Jody Harrison, The Herald. Petition.
⚽ Pitching In is a new campaign from the Scottish FA and Scottish Partnership Trust to raise £50 million over the next five years to improve football facilities across the country. - Aidan Macdonald, Glasgow Times.
🩺 NHS Glasgow festive opening times for GPs and pharmacies - and what to do if you need medical help - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
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