The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Tuesday 06 May 2025
Police investigating Old Firm tifo, new SWG3 mural, MSP warns of "tenement timebomb", trams ruled out of Clyde Metro + Mount Florida residents "hug" former bowling club
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🔍 Police Scotland are investigating a tifo, depicting Graeme Souness holding a shotgun, displayed ahead of the Old Firm game on Sunday (May 4). - Martin McMillan, Glasgow Times.
↳ First Minister John Swinney has condemned the display as “unacceptable”. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🎨 A new billboard installation by New York artist Lloyd Foster has been unveiled at SWG3. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🏠 Glasgow MSP Paul Sweeney is demanding a review of building control regulations over old “timebomb” tenements that need massive overhaul. - Mark McGivern, Daily Record.
🚋 A tram network appears to have been ruled out of the Clyde Metro programme, as exact details of the project are still to be decided. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🤗 Mount Florida residents gathered to “hug” a former bowling club, which could be used for flats in a fight to save the green space. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🍼 NHSGGC midwives have delivered more than 1,000 babies each month since May 2024, amounting to 13,283 births in the past year. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
🌫️ People were “evacuated” from a screening at the Vue cinema in St Enoch’s Shopping Centre when firefighters responded to “synthetic” smoke on Saturday (May 3). - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
↳ The cinema was allowed to get back to work.
☕ La Casa Del Caffe in the East End has revealed it will open two new locations in the Southside and Castlemilk. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
⛷️ Nevisport on Sauchiehall Street will temporarily close for a refurbishment. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🍔 American-style diner Sanfords will be opening in Glasgow Airport this summer. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
🐾 The Pawesome Parties Doggy Disco is bringing a throwback 90s party for dachshunds and pugs at Dog Days on June 7. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
💃 Darnley Court Care Home celebrated International Dance Day by welcoming the Victoria Knights Acro Dance Academy. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🛍️ St Enoch Centre staff raised more than £1,300 for Street Soccer Scotland in the Kitwalk challenge. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
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