The Glasgow Wrap 🗞️ Wednesday 2 April 2025
Energy costs protest, settlement agreed in Celtic Boys Club abuse cases, Six by Nico under fire, Fairfield Technical Office Annexe may be C-Listed, Wyndford towers design forum + highland cow washdays
🔆 Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts a clear sunny day with a high of 17C. Here’s Wednesday’s Wrap…
📢 Trade union activists and Waspi campaigners protested against rising energy costs outside Ofgem yesterday as the cap on prices for the average bill went up 6.5%. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
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🧑⚖️ More than 20 legal claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club have been settled for a seven-figure sum. - Mark Daly, BBC News.
🍴 Restaurant group Six by Nico has come under fire for sacking its central customer relations team amid minimum wage and national insurance increases. – Hannah Brown, The Herald.
↳ A spokesperson for the company said 8 staff were made redundant “as part of a broader programme of restructuring”.
🏛️ Exclusive: The Fairfield Technical Office Annexe on Govan Road is being recommended by Historic Environment Scotland for Category C listed status after campaigning by shipbuilding historian Ian Johnston and Labour MSP Paul Sweeney. Local property developer Bradley Mitchell is currently converting the building (which has been derelict for 25 years) into office and studio space after acquiring it from Peel Group. Find out more via Keppie Design.
"We were both involved in the project to save and restore the A-listed Fairfield Headquarters building of 1891 immediately adjacent as Fairfield Heritage Centre just over a decade ago, so we thought that proposing the Annexe for listing would be a good way to emphasise the industrial importance of Fairfield's continued ambition and development in the post-war period, which is embodied by the Streamline Moderne 1956 extension to house the technical drawing offices of the company's marine engine building division. This simple red sandstone Annexe is a neatly composed complement to the French Renaissance grandeur of its Honeyman and Keppie designed neighbour, marking the first place in the world where shipbuilding and marine engine building were brought together in one integrated industrial complex."
💭 Residents are encouraged to discuss their thoughts with designers on the £100m development plans replacing the Wyndford towers at Maryhill Burgh Halls, May 21. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
↳ Check out our Sunday Edition on the rise and fall of the Wyndford towers by Eszter Tárnai.
🐮 Pollok Country Park will celebrate its highland cows with free events including field talks, cattle wash days, and a photography event. - See the event dates in Beth Oliver’s Glasgow Times article here.
🚧 Cleveden Road residents in Kelvindale are warned to expect disruption as SGN is investing £4.3m to upgrade the gas network in the area, with works beginning April 14. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
💐 East Kilbridge man Grant Paterson, 54, has died in hospital after his Rome B&B was destroyed in a suspected gas explosion while on holiday. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
😂 The Glasgow International Comedy Festival welcomed a record crowd of more than 61,000 people this year, with 103 events sold out. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🍻 This much-loved Scots pub has been sold, so will the ceilidh carry on? - Marissa MacWhirter’s feature in The Herald.
🔍 A police investigation persists two months after a rape was reported in the Garscube underpass near Cowcaddens subway station, February 3. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🚕 Private hire drivers are urging the council to keep the overprovision cap for fear that earnings will go down as the market may become oversaturated by cars. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🏫 First Minister John Swinney visited St Joseph’s Primary School in Busby after it was hit by sectarian graffiti and its play areas were set on fire in two separate arson attacks. - Xander Elliards, The National.
🏠 The council has warned that the asylum system risks “damaging social cohesion” with homeless refugees putting “unprecedented pressure” on the city’s services, costing millions. - Libby Brooks, The Guardian.
❗A schoolgirl, 16, was ‘grabbed by a man’ near St Aloysius College and was chased away by a lollipop man in Garnethill, March 31. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
↳ A man has been charged in connection with the incident, and another that took place an hour prior on West Graham Street, allegedly concerning an attack on a woman, 27. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🔨 A former Maryhill Job Centre will be auctioned off on April 23 with a guide price of £135,000. - Gillian McPherson, Glasgow Times.
☕ Pania in Merchant City has announced closure since opening last year due to “rising costs and difficult trading conditions”. - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🛒 Sainsbury’s planning application appeal to open a store in a 500-flat complex at Anderston Quay has been dismissed. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🗳️ Visit West End, a collective of businesses which votes to invest in local improvements, hopes to be re-elected for a third term. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🥡 A bid challenging a council decision refusing plans for a new takeaway at 124 Newlands Road in Southside has failed. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter.
🏘️ Interview: Ruairi Kelly has big plans for Glasgow. For this week’s Sunday Edition, Marissa MacWhirter spoke to Councillor Ruairi Kelly, the city’s new convener for housing, development, land use and built heritage.
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