The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Thursday 23 January 2025
Hydepark Street building collapses, over 200 monthly legal threats over homeless accommodation, BOAC building sold, trio of sex crimes not linked + Battlefield flat on Housing Horrors
☔ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts heavy rain today with a high of 6C. There’s an amber weather warning in place for wind, rain and snow on Friday and Saturday due to Storm Éowyn so anticipate disruption. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap…
🏗 A four-storey building on Hydepark Street collapsed prematurely during a demolition, allegedly crushing a van and damaging a BMW. One person suffered minor injuries. A video of the incident is in The Scottish Sun - Mark Hannah & Zoe Phillips.
🏠 Glasgow City Council faces more than 200 legal threats per month over its failure to provide suitable accommodation to the homeless, a new report revealed. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🏢 Westerwood Properties has sold the BOAC building for nearly £5 million. - Scott Wright, The Herald.
🗳 Canal ward Labour councillor Fiona Higgins has hit out at being reported to the Standards Commission after she spoke out about the council’s education cuts. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🥾 Blacks on Argyle Street will be converted into a GO Outdoors Express store in May 2025. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🍎 Free school meals for Primary 6 and 7 pupils whose parents receive the Scottish Child Payment will roll out next month. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🌴 Cafe Ibiza in Maryhill has once again applied for permission to set up a beer garden after its initial bid was refused last year. The bar is currently closed until April. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
📱 University of Glasgow has introduced an app to monitor the attendance of international students. - Hannah Gross, The Tab.
🚨 Three sex crimes that took place on January 20-21 are not being treated as linked. Two happened on separate buses (indecent exposure, voyeurism) and one on a canal path (indecent exposure). - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
📈 Meanwhile, Police Scotland has revealed an increase in the number of registered sex offenders (RSO) living in the Greater Glasgow area, making it home to the most RSOs living across the community of any police force. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🥩 It was “Instagram vs reality” at The McMillan on Pollokshaws Road when The Herald’s food and drink writer Sarah Campbell tested out the £12 steak lunch deal: “They say never meet your heroes, and maybe the same should be said of seeking out the Insta-perfect food you've been drooling over online.”
🚿 A flat on Ledard Road, Battlefield advertised for £795 pcm has ended up on the Housing Horrors TikTok for having “the worst shower in the history of Rightmove”. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
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🥦 Glasgow Community Food Network’s fourth peer budgeting opportunity is now open for community groups delivering (or wanting to deliver) work around community food and climate. - Find out more.
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