The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 20 - 22 December 2024
GFT announces January programme, woman found dead in Shawlands, Cook Street crash bus driver pleads guilty, Rioja returns, new Saltspace gallery + the Weekend Guide
🌬 Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office has a yellow warning in place for wind. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the last Weekend Guide before Christmas for paid subscribers.
🚖 Private hire drivers have hit out at suggestions that there are not enough taxis on the road ahead of a consultation on the private hire licence cap. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎁 An entire office room in Glasgow' Kelvin College was gift-wrapped as part of a Christmas prank. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
📢 Glasgow’s WASPI women say they will continue to fight for compensation after Wednesday’s announcement that the UK Government doesn’t intend to pay those affected by the 1995 pension age increase. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🎞 The Glasgow Film Theatre has announced its programme for January with a season devoted to legendary British director Mike Leigh. - Mark McDougall, The Herald. All listings.
🚘 Justice Secretary Angela Constance has defended taking her teen son to Sunday’s Old Firm cup final in a chauffeured government car as she was at Hampden to discuss pyrotechnics. - Andrew Learmonth, The Herald.
🕵️♂️ John Swinney has promised to investigate reports that city centre CCTV cameras were left unmanned ahead of Sunday’s Old Firm match. - Andrew Learmonth, The Herald.
🦺 Glasgow Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy has branded changes to bin collections over the holidays as “unacceptable”. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A woman, 48, was found dead in a Shawlands flat and her death is being treated as unexplained. A 64-year-old man at the property was arrested in connection with a drug offence but not in connection with the death. - Lucy Jackson, Glasgow Times.
🚌 The bus driver who crashed into a railway bridge at Cook Street injuring a number of passengers has been ordered to do 96 hours of unpaid work and been disqualified from driving for a year. - Connor Gordon, Court Reporter, Glasgow Times.
☕ Glasgow Coffee Festival will return to The Briggait April 26-27, 2025. More info.
🛍 Cancer Research UK’s new flagship superstore at the Forge Retail Park was opened by guest of honour and cancer survivor Clare Lappin. - Alex Chisholm, Glasgow Times.
🚆 The Scottish Government announced procurement will begin to replace the Intercity high-speed train fleet next year. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🍷 Rioja, a late-night Spanish tapas restaurant that closed in Finnieston over a year ago, is set to return. This time taking over the former Barburrito unit on Hope Street. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🚲 500 new on-street cycle storage units will be placed around Glasgow early next year after the council’s contract with Cyclehoop was confirmed. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
📢 GGEC’s Nativity Procession in honour of Palestine starts at La Pasionaria Statue at 12pm on Saturday, December 21. - More info.
🖼 Saltspace has a new gallery at Albert Road in the Southside. - Details.
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