The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Wednesday 16 April 2025
Ex-council leader arrested, plans to build 29 Baillieston homes, seven charities receive funding, drug hospitalisations rise 13%, thousands granted for new Gaelic projects + Social Hub rooftop bar
☁️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts an overcast and rainy day with a high of 10C. Here’s Wednesday’s Wrap…
🔗 Former council leader Frank McAveety of Scottish Labour has been arrested and charged in connection with fraud which place in the city between 2022 and 2024. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
🏘️ A planning application to build 29 affordable homes on Caledonia Road in Baillieston has been submitted by The JR Group on behalf of Wheatley Group. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
💰 Seven charities in the city have received funding from the Bank of Scotland Foundation, who has given out £760,000 to 25 Scottish charities overall. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
↳ The Aviva UK Broker Community Fund Award has also given the charity Scottish Sports Futures the highest possible grant of £20,000. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
⚕️Drug overdoses and people needing hospital treatment for drug use have risen by 13% in the last year in the city. There were 1713 hospitalisations in 2023/24. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🍏 Bòrd na Gàidhlig has allocated more than £42,000 for eight new Gaelic projects in the city through its Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd funding scheme. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🏨 The Social Hub hotel on Candleriggs Square has announced plans to open a rooftop bar and restaurant later this year. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
⚖️ A witness has said the Glasgow paedophile ring should have been stopped sooner and that “the system has failed”, describing one of the children having head lice so as to keep attackers “away from her”. - Connor Gillies, Sky News.
❤️🔥 The owners of Beauty by Nirvana on Clarkston Road in Netherlee have been left “devastated” after their salon was set on fire in “an arson attack” on Monday morning. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
👏 Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren and Cllr Soryia Siddique have welcomed the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities campaign encouraging women in politics to stand up to unacceptable behaviour. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter.
👩⚕️ Two NHSGGC nurses, Kirstie Law and Julie Ferguson, have been named as finalists for the Nurse of the Year Awards. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🚆 A person has been hospitalised after being found on the tracks at Hyndland railway station on April 15. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
↳ They have no life-threatening or life-changing injuries.
🖥️ The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) has launched SEConnect, a £4m investment to SEC’s IT infrastructure that hopes to provide better experiences for guests and vendors. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🚅 Glasgow Airport could close in decades if high-speed rail is introduced across the country, as Edinburgh Airport would be retained as the Scottish aviation hub, according to Rail engineer Gareth Dennis. - Amelia Neath, Independent.
🪰 A man has been fined £2615 for fly-tipping sofas, cushions and sheets of wood on Napier Terrace in Govan by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. - Calum Loudon, STV News.
☕ Blank Street Coffee has had its plans to open a location on Byres Road refused. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🚌 Flixbus is adding a new service to Glasgow Airport from April 17. Eight daily services will connect the airport to Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, and Stirling. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🍨 Chillicious Cafe and Desserts has had their planning appeal to convert the old Bank of Scotland on Albert Drive in Pollokshields into a dessert bar rejected. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🐰 The Church on the Hill in Southside has cancelled its Easter plans for a petting zoo event this year following “concerns” from the community. - Calum Loudon, STV News.
🍣 Japanese restaurant chain Okome has had plans to open on Dumbarton Road rejected by the council. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🧀 The Cheese Box on Wilson Street in Merchant City has become so popular that tourists are coming “straight off the plane” to grab a bite. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
📔 The Glasgow Zine Library: Self-publishing and community arts space. For this week’s Sunday Edition, Marissa MacWhirter spoke to LD Davis about the Glasgow Zine Library and Zine Festival’s evolution since its humble beginnings in Davis’ studio.
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