The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Tuesday 17 June 2025
City transformed for filming, ABC owners and Glasgow School of Art row erupts, man hospitalised after 'stabbing', taxi fares could rise, Carmyle hits out at council + Kiki the cat nominated for award
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🎥 Parts of Glasgow have transformed this week as filming is set to begin for JJ Abrams’ new film Ghostwriter, starring Samuel L. Jackson. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
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👀 A row has erupted between the Glasgow School of Art (GSoA) and the owners of the O2 ABC over new plans to build student accommodation on the site. - Exclusive by Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
↳ The ABC owners have said the GSoA have not engaged in discussions on any proposed development plans and ignored fire warnings.
↳ The GSoA refuted these claims as “factually incorrect and disingenuous.”
🚑 A man, 42, was taken to hospital after being allegedly stabbed on Carntynehall Road. His condition is unknown. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🚕 Taxi fares could rise by 3.32% after an independent review, with the minimum charge flag fall set to rise from £4.40 to £4.50. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Repoter.
🌲 Council chiefs have been blasted by Carmyle residents after approving the controversial £1.45m sale of five plots of land extending to more than 30 acres. - Exclusive by Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
🐈 Kiki, a Glaswegian cat who walks a child to school every day is a finalist in the 2025 Cats Protection National Cat Awards in the Connected Cats category. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
🧑🎓 Plans have been approved, subject to conditions, to build 454 student flats on ground at Borron Street in North Glasgow. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🛠️ Criminals have been unable to carry out community payback orders in the East End after the council closed a justice centre on Boden Street. - Exclusive by Amanda Keenan, Glasgow Times.
👷 Work has begun to remove the athletic track and temporary stands to lay a new surface at Scotstoun Stadium for next summer’s Commonwealth Games. - Peter Cassidy, STV News.
🧑⚖️ Alexander Brennan, 53, is to stand trial next year charged with the murder of his partner Brodie MacGregor, 23, at her flat in Springburn last August. - Grant McCabe, Glasgow Times.
👮 The Scottish Police Federation has lodged a formal complaint with Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum for a Black Lives Matter display which features a "Sheku Bayoh Street" sign, claiming it “presents a one-sided and biased account of the circumstances surrounding Mr Bayoh's death." - Ben Borland, Scottish Daily Express.
↳ Sheku Bayoh died in police custody in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015.
🎧 Tributes have poured in for world-famous Glasgow DJ and vocalist behind Nightcrawlers John Reid, after his death aged 61. - Fahad Tariq & Susan Knox, Glasgow Live.
🚘 A driver left eight teenage boys "scattered across a car park" in Provanmill, with six needing hospital treatment, following an alleged hit and run in August 2022, a court heard. - Connor Gordon, Glasgow Times.
🪙 Glasgow has overtaken Edinburgh with 27 foreign direct investment projects compared to the capital city’s 24 in the last year. - Ian McConnell, The Herald.
📺 A 70-year-old man from Hillhead is accused of stalking BBC Scotland news presenter Anne McAlpine between February 2021 and November 2024. - Connor Gordon, Glasgow Times.
🏚️ The council are offering grants with The Meanwhile Use Fund to transform vacant ground-floor properties. - Posted on Instagram.
🏥 The parents of a baby who died days after being born at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2018 say they felt blamed during an inquiry into their daughter's death. - Hannah Rodger, Daily Record.
🍸 Hummingbird on Bath Street has gone up for sale with an asking price of £900,000. - Declan McConville. Glasgow World.
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