The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Tuesday 17 December 2024
Further fallout from Old Firm 'ultras' clashes, £80,000 minimum to maintain cycle lanes, Clydeside Containers entertainment venue proposed + English lessons for asylum seekers
🌧 Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts light rain with a high of 12C. Here’s Tuesday’s Wrap…
🎅 Photos from the Santa Dash 2024 at Glasgow Green are in the Glasgow Times. - Sandhya Suresh.
🚨 More fallout has been reported after ‘ultras’ stormed the city ahead of Sunday’s Old Firm match.
↳ Council leader Susan Aitken accused Celtic and Rangers of profiting off “thugs” due to their lack of action on fan violence. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
↳ St Margaret of Scotland Hospice has to cancel their Christmas Bus. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
↳ John Swinney called the violence “completely and utterly unacceptable” and said the two clubs have the responsibility. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
↳ A police officer was injured on Argyle Street and a 26-year-old man attacked nearby. No arrests have been made at this time. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🚲 The council has been accused of not “putting in place” the £80,000 needed to maintain current cycle paths despite spending millions on building more active travel routes. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
📢 Glasgow’s Homeless Health Visiting Service will be axed to save money with UNISON bosses saying the most vulnerable could fall through the cracks. - Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🍹 Clydeside Containers, a new social and entertainment space made of shipping containers, is being proposed for the Broomielaw by the team behind Max’s Bar, La Cheetah and Mikaku. - Jody Harrison, The Herald.
🎄 Musician Tom Grennan performed a secret gig at George Square’s Winterfest last night. - Jennifer Jones, The Scottish Sun.
👷♀️ The council has revealed a series of works to be carried out to sort out the shabby state of Laurieston’s Bridge Street. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🏫 Asylum seekers in Glasgow will get English classes to help ease integration with local communities thanks to a new £500,000 fund. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
🦺 Labour group leader George Redmond and SNP councillor Allan Casey went to one of the city’s cleansing depots amid calls for 150 extra staff to be recruited in 2025. - Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🍻 Plans for an All Bar One in Glasgow Central have been given the green light. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🚌 The Cook Street railway bridge that was hit by a bus on Saturday, injuring multiple people, has been hit 18 times in a decade. - Calum Ross, Glasgow World.
🤑 Lancaster University’s vice-chancellor will receive a £165,000 salary boost when he moves to Glasgow University next autumn. - Jessica Owen, The Tab.
🔋 Cold weather causes the batteries inside the city’s new fleet of electric buses to drain faster with commuters telling The Times they had been left stranded. - Catriona Stewart & Carla Jenkins, The Times.
🏢 A continuing shortage of new Grade A office space in Glasgow was created by a lack of new developments in the pipeline, according to research by international real estate group JLL. - Kristy Dorsey, The Herald.
🚧 MacLay Engineering, the firm carrying out works on Sauchiehall Street, has allegedly sacked 15 project workers prompting fears there could be more delays. The firm had yet to respond to requests for comment. - Jennifer Jones & David Donaldson, The Scottish Sun.
✈ Glasgow Airport has introduced a new AI travel assistant to improve festival travel conditions. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🏘 Glasgow’s creative exodus: Is the south side the new west end? Read this week’s Sunday Edition.
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