The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 19 June 2025
Glasgow taxi outing, Stagecoach West strike action paused, Orange Walk road disruption this Sunday, Govan tenants celebrate, First Bus urged to reconsider service axe + Byres Road bee bollard
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🚕 The taxi outing to take kids with additional supports to Troon was held yesterday, seeing hundreds of decorated cabs pass by Sauchiehall Street. - See eight of the best decorated taxis in Donald Erskine’s Glasgow Times article.
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🚌 Stagecoach West’s strike action involving 430 bus drivers, which began on June 9, has been suspended following a new pay offer. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🥁 55 roads are to face disruption due to 1000 people set to march in an Orange Walk on Sunday, June 22. See the full list of streets affected in the Glasgow Times here.
🎉 Tenants at the Water Row development in Govan took to the streets outside the building to celebrate after the landlord halted a 12% rent increase. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🚏 A petition has reached more than 1000 signatures urging First Bus to reconsider axing service 65 which travels between the city centre and Halfway in Cambuslang from July 13. - Fahad Tariq, Glasgow Live.
↳ First Bus said the service is to be cut due to “insufficient passenger demand”.
🐝 A bollard featuring a bee on Byres Road, which is allegedly the Manchester logo, is causing a buzz in the Glasgow West End facebook group. - Posted on Facebook.
🔗 TRNSMT ranked third place in the top 10 for the most arrests at a UK music festival between 2022 and 2024, with 107, behind Glastonbury and Reading. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🌲 The council is scoring highly on climate action, but Govanhill leaders question whether the benefits are reaching the city’s most deprived communities and are calling for more to be done. - Clare Harris, Greater Govanhill.
🎼 Leading Scottish Jazz musician Tommy Smith has been dismissed from the Head of Jazz Position at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland following reports he had started relationship with a student. - Mark Howarth, Scottish Mail On Sunday.
⚽ Pollok Football Club has announced the death of one of their committee members, Archie McDougall, 82. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🦐 Seafood eatery Gamba on West George Street has been sold, changing hands for the first time in 27 years. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
✈️ Glasgow Airport has announced changes to its security with upgraded security scanners to ‘help make your journey smoother’. - Eve Beattie, Daily Record.
🎭 Buchanan Galleries is hosting Scotland’s first "shopera," a full-scale, 60-minute, opera performance set in a retail environment. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
👓 Vision Express will open a new store in the former Royal Bank of Scotland branch on Sauchiehall Street. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
💓 A new defibrillator has been installed on a mobile phone mast at the corner of Easterhouse Road and Springcroft Road in Swinton. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
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📌 Wesley Poison performed at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art as part of his tour for The Calling From Life’s Clock and The Value of Time. The event fused spoken word and poetic techniques to explore the human relationship with time, memory, and identity. - Thanks Wesley!
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