The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Tuesday 29 April 2025
GPs threaten strike action, Easterhouse fire update, calls to axe Kneecap from TRNSMT, Hoolie in The Hydro for The Big Yin + Dishoom confirmed
🌤️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts sunshine with a high of 21C. Here’s Tuesday’s Wrap…
🩺 GPs are threatening to strike in a dispute with the Scottish Government over rising workloads after their share of the NHS budget fell from 11 to 6.2 per cent since 2008. - Vivienne Aitken, Daily Record.
🔥 A boy, 14, has been arrested in connection with a fire at a derelict homeless shelter on Wardie Road in Easterhouse. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
↳ Drone footage shows the smouldering remains after the fire gutted the building on Sunday. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
🎤 John Swinney demanded that Kneecap be axed from the TRNSMT lineup over a concert video from November 2023 where a member of the band is heard saying, “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.” - Paul Hutcheon, Daily Record.
🏘️ Plans for 125 new homes at the Commonwealth Games athletes’ village will take a step forward as a sublease to two developers is proposed. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Times.
💷 The birthplace of universal credit where one in three are out of work - Adam Forrest’s dispatch from the East End for The i Paper.
✈️ New scanners at Glasgow (and Edinburgh) airports mean holidaymakers can now keep liquids and electronics stowed in their bags when going through security. - John Glover, Scottish Daily Express.
🚸 Pupils at Riverbank Primary in the East End are fed up with selfish parents and carers double-parking or blocking pavements with their cars. They have launched a campaign to remind them to park safely. - Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times.
📢 Abortion buffer zones cannot be enforced when clinics are closed, according to legal advice from Police Scotland lawyers and the Crown Office. - Craig Paton, The Scotsman.
🏠 A bidding war over a Hyndland flat saw the property, which opened at £120,000, sell for £201,000. The home report value was £150,000. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🍀 Donegal County Council is appealing for any members of their diaspora who may have worked in Glasgow between 1940-1990 to take part in a new exhibition. - Mark McDougall, The Herald. More info via Donegal.ie
🛒 Lidl has released a new wish list of locations for new shops, with five in Glasgow (Cathcart, Drumchapel, Ibrox, Merchant City, Summerston). - Laura Pollock, The National.
🗳️ One Year Out: The outlook for the 2026 Holyrood election is a political discussion event hosted by the Scottish Election Study team on May 8 at the Boyd Orr Building, exploring how recent events might shape voter behaviour at the upcoming election. - Tickets.
🪩 December’s Hoolie in the Hydro will celebrate 60 years since Billy Connolly first performed with The Humblebums. - John Dingwall, Daily Record.
🍛 Popular Indian restaurant Dishoom has confirmed its opening on Nelson Mandela Place later this summer. - Paul Trainer, Glasgow World.
💻 Glasgow City Innovation District has shared the agenda for Fusion Fest 2025, the headline event of Glasgow Tech Week on May 29. - Strathclyde University.
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