The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 9 - 11 August 2024
At risk register adds dozens of buildings, £1M cocaine seized, Glasgow teen riot arrest, Govan BAE shipbuilding facility named + the Weekend Guide
🌥 Good Morning Glasgow. Expect sunshine, rain and a high of 22C. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the Weekend Guide for paid subscribers.
🏚 Dozens more buildings have been added to the at-risk register including several on Sauchiehall Street: old BHS, former Watt Brothers and the upper floors of Ashfield House. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
✍ I’ve written this week’s column for The Herald on how mad it makes me when our built heritage burns down. What can we do about it?
🗑 Drumchapel/Anniesland councillor Paul Carey has hit out at a surge in flytipping on Drummore Road. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🚨 Cocaine worth £1M was seized at a property in Giffnock on Wednesday afternoon. Two men were arrested and charged. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
↳ Meanwhile, drugs, weapons and more than £35K were seized by police in Priesthill in a separate incident. - Lauren Brownlie, Glasgow Times.
🛝 Councillor Thomas Kerr has shared his delight that the council has agreed to clean up and refurbish Mount Vernon Park’s playpark. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🛝 Meanwhile, a Knightwood mum has started a petition to try and speed up the council’s impending refurb of Temple Park after £50K was set aside from the Scottish Government to refresh it. - Emily Moore, Glasgow Times.
🕌 Glasgow Central Mosque released a statement reassuring the community and thanking Police Scotland for their ongoing support following racist riots in England. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A 15-year-old boy from Glasgow was charged with violent disorder and burglary after far-right riots in England. He will appear on the dock at Liverpool Youth Court. - Adam Robertson, The National.
🚆 ScotRail has warned of a busy weekend with Rangers playing Motherwell at Hampden on Saturday and the Fringe ongoing in Edinburgh. A temporary timetable is still in place amid pay talks with ASLEF. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🏚 Lynne Sheerin, a survivor of the Fornethy House residential school, is calling for the building to be demolished after hundreds of girls were abused there. - Ruth Suter, Daily Record.
🛳 The new BAE shipbuilding facility in Govan has been officially named the Janet Harvey Hall in honour of the pioneering WW2 shipyard electrician. - Forces News.
🩺 The Royal College of Nursing said it was “extremely concerning” that more than 200 nursing students from Glasgow Caledonian University reported they couldn’t find work after graduation. - BBC.
↳ She said: "It is extremely concerning given the scale of staff shortages that are being reported on a daily basis. There still remains almost two and a half thousand nursing vacancies across Scotland. Is this a failure of workforce planning, or is it, more worryingly, a recruitment decision financially driven?"
⛓ A notorious former prisoner who infamously led a six-day siege and riot at Peterhead jail in the 80s is back behind bars after trying to kill a neighbour. - Connor Gordon & Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
🍔 The Baby Grand, Charing Cross is offering 1984 prices in honour of its 40th birthday. - John Dingwall, Daily Record.
↳ Owner Billy McAneney said: “This could be our last year of business because the whole area is slowly and surely being demolished and I know there are big plans over the next 10 years to knock the whole place down…If it goes on that’s fine but not many places last 40 years. We’re going out with a bang."
🏃♂️ Outlier Run Club is raising money for three charities ahead of the Great Scottish Run: Scottish Sports Futures, Kindness Homeless Street Team and Refuweegee. More info.
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📌 Join bestselling memoirist Graham Morgan MBE to hear about his remarkable life, and what it means to be human whilst walking step-in-step with schizophrenia. Hosted by Glasgow Humanists. Date: Sunday 11th August/ Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm. - Humanist Society Scotland.
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📢 Stand Up To Racism is having a national day of protest to stop the far right at George Square on Saturday from 11am. Instagram.
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