The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Thursday 26 June 2025
Two high-rises for demolition this weekend, council cyber-attacked, MSPs to debate bus public ownership, vast food options for TRNSMT, van flipped in collision + new Superman mural
☔ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts heavy showers followed by sunny spells with a high of 19C. Here’s Thursday’s Wrap…
🧨 Two high-rise Caledonia Road flats owned by New Gorbals Housing Association are to be demolished on Sunday, June 29, to make way for 152 social rent homes. - Exclusive by Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
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💾 A warning was issued after the council was cyber-attacked, which disrupted online services and may have involved the theft of customer data. The breach was first detected last week on Thursday, June 19 - Andrew Learmonth, The Herald.
🚌 MSPs are set to debate today (June 26) whether buses in Glasgow should be brought back into public ownership. - Lucy Jackson, The National.
😋 TRNSMT attendees will have 59 different food stalls and trucks to choose from during the event at Glasgow Green. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🚗 A woman has been charged following a crash on Wallace Street in Tradeston yesterday (June 25), in which a van was overturned. Both drivers declined medical treatment. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🦸 A new Superman mural painted by Warner Bros. has appeared on the side of Queens Park Boating Shed ahead of the new film’s release next month. - Exclusive by Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🚫 The CCA is to remain closed for the rest of the week following a sit-in demonstration at the venue by pro-Palestine protesters. - Posted on Instagram.
🧸 Parents are buying 'anti-theft devices' from Never Miss a Gift in the Barras for their kids' Labubu dolls, which are being 'stolen at school'. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🪧 Subway strikes went ahead yesterday, while workers took to the picket lines for the first of three planned days of action. - Jonathan Geddes, BBC News.
👨🚒 The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has launched a public consultation on proposals that could see Yorkhill and Cowcaddens stations close, and Govan and Springburn stations could be reduced to one appliance each. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🧑🎓 The 12-storey student flats development, Cullen House on Bath Street, offering 551 units for students, has been completed. - Scott Reid, The Scotsman.
📱 Councillors are being urged to condemn the rise of “far-right ideology” across the UK and Europe by Labour Cllr Rashid Hussain following an increase in extremist narratives on social media. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
🎭 The 16th edition of the Surge Festival is set to return to Merchant City between July 18 and 20, bringing street theatre acts from across the UK and the world. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🏳️🌈 Scotland's first openly gay professional footballer Zander Murray will host a community dinner at The Social Hub on Thursday, July 17. - Isla Storie, Daily Record.
⚓ BAE Systems Naval Ships officially opened the Janet Harvey Ship Hall at Govan, in honour of an 18-year-old electrician who served in the yard during World War II. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🪖 First Bus will offer free bus travel to all current serving members, veterans, and cadets attending an organised Armed Forces Day event this weekend. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
⚖️ A woman, 29, who fractured a four-month-old baby's elbow that she was caring for in the East End in August 2019 was ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work yesterday (June 25). - Connor Gordon, Daily Record.
🎸 Sting was spotted leaving the Blythswood Hotel ahead of his gig at Summer Sessions. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
⚽ Professional football freestyler Sam Madden wowed fans after doing keepie-uppies the whole way down Buchanan Street on TikTok. - Ben Waddell, Glasgimes.
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