The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Wednesday 14 May 2025
Calton residents call on First Minister, record 999 calls from Barlinnie, plans for 49 homes at ex-festival site, teens arrested for Govan fire, GP shut disregarding patients + new Paesano coming
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💉 Calton residents are urging First Minister John Swinney to take action over their area becoming a ‘dumping ground’ after the opening of the safer drug consumption room The Thistle. - Exclusive by Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.
🏘️ 49 homes could be built on part of the former Garden Festival site after a planning application from Surplus Property Investments. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🚑 Barlinnie made a record number of 999 calls between January and March, with 62 ambulances sent to the prison to take seriously ill inmates to hospital. - Norman Silvester & Sally Hind, Daily Record.
🔥 Two teens have been arrested following an alleged wilful fire on Taransay Street in Govan, causing 500 properties to lose power on April 30. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
🩺 A whistleblower has said Glasgow City HSCP shut down a GP service for 167 homeless people, the Hunter Street Health Service, without a proper consultation process. - Mark McGivern, Daily Record.
🍕 Paesano announced it will open a new location on Pollokshaws Road on May 21. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🔗 A man, 36, has been arrested after a ‘serious sex attack’ at a property in the East End. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
🐦⬛ A magpie was euthanised after it was stuck in an illegal glue trap inside a communal bin store on Ashgill Road. The SPCA has issued a warning against the traps. - Isla Storie, Daily Record.
💎 B51 Boutique will stop trading at Barras Market to reopen on Parnie Street in Merchant City. - Posted on Instagram.
👔 GANT has shut its store on Ingram Street. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
🏫 Glasgow lockdown babies’ P1 reading and maths results are down. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter.
🔥 A home on Drumchapel Road was firebombed, believed to be related to the ongoing gang war, early Tuesday morning. - Keiran Fleming, STV News.
🍃 A 61-year-old carer was busted with more than £2000 of cannabis at his home in Springboig in October 2024. - Exclusive by Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
🏬 12 people were charged in an intensive crackdown on retail crime in the city centre. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
⚓ The first ever memorial plaque to the Merchant Navy was unveiled on the Govan-Partick bridge as part of VE Day commemorations on Saturday (May 10). - Exclusive by Ann Fotheringham.
📖 The story of the forgotten racist murder of Hector Smith 50 years ago has been retold in a new book, ‘Glasgow 1975’ by Liam Turbett. - Exclusive by Chris McCall, Daily Record.
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