The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 21 - 23 February 2025
Council tax to rise by 7.5%, funding for 200 extra cleansing staff, Quiz enters administration, drug room misinformation spreads, new pizza spot in Gallowgate + the Weekend Guide
🌧️ Good Morning Glasgow. The Met Office forecasts heavy rain today and there is a yellow warning in place for wind on Sunday at the time of writing. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the 50th (!) Weekend Guide for paid subscribers.
🤑 A budget deal was agreed between the SNP and the Greens at yesterday’s full council meeting. - Stewart Paterson has full budget commitments for the Glasgow Times.
↳ Council tax will rise by 7.5%, the biggest increase in more than a decade. Here’s what you will pay. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
↳ 2.5% of the increase will be ring-fenced for an extra 200 cleansing staff and for road repairs, pavements and parks.
↳ Teacher numbers will be returned to 2023 levels under the new budget. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🚗 Suggestions that a toll should be put on the Clyde Tunnel to fund essential services received heavy backlash on the Glasgow Times Facebook page. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times. What do you think?
👗 Quiz will close 23 stores and cut 200 jobs as it calls in administrators. The Forge location in Glasgow is expected to be impacted. - Sabina Weston, Drapers.
👮 Several windows were smashed at Costa on Crow Road, Anniesland amid an early morning break-in. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
✈️ Glasgow Airport passengers faced huge security queues yesterday due to a glitch in new security software that saw some angry holidaymakers miss their flights. - Samantha Croal, Daily Record.
📢 Hundreds of Strathclyde University workers will strike over pension changes from March 10-23. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🏥 US anti-abortion group 40 Days For Life is allegedly planning to protest outside of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital from March 5-April 13 despite a law banning such activity within 200 metres of abortion clinics. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
💉 Health secretary Neil Gray has condemned misinformation being spread online about The Thistle, Glasgow’s drug consumption room, amid untrue claims that surrounding areas are seeing an increase in drug-related litter and that the centre is handing out drugs. - STV.
↳ It comes after MSP Paul Sweeney brought the issue up in parliament, referencing a viral online video spreading falsehoods.
🍕 Boss Pizza is opening a new location in the Gallowgate. The firm has outlets in Hamilton and Larkhall. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🚔 Two men are due in court after an alleged assault on a train from Coatbridge Sunnyside to Glasgow Queen Street on Tuesday. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🏨 The Marriot Hotel on Argyle Street has unveiled a new Leisure Hub, Fitness Centre and lux spa. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
💆♀️ A luxury care home with a cinema and hair salon has officially opened in Anniesland. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
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📌 Join Amicus Orchestra this Saturday, February 22 at 7.30pm in the New Auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for an evening of music and birdsong. The programme includes Rautavaara's Cantus Articus and Sibelius's most popular symphony all conducted by Oliver Rundell. Tickets. Thanks Alison for sharing!
📌 Peer Works (part of Prosper) offers regular free events where key speakers share their insights and expertise on improving business processes, performance, productivity and profit. Come along to network and learn along your peers: our next event is at The Corinthian in Glasgow, Wednesday March, 12.30-2.30pm. Neil Sullivan (Head of Projects) will share how Boxfish transformed their identity and ways of working through a rebrand and the introduction of a 4-day workweek. More info. Thanks to a subscriber from Peer Works for sharing.
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