The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 23 - 25 May 2025
Ruchill Community Centre deadline extended, buses face disruption for over a year, UK policy hampering GCC, police statement on Kneecap at TRNSMT, Olly Murs lasts 20 minutes + the Weekend Guide
🌦️ Good Morning Glasgow! The Met Office forecasts sun, cloud, and the return of rain this weekend with a high of 18C. Here’s Friday’s Wrap, followed by the Weekend Guide for this long weekend…
⏳ Campaigners fighting to save Ruchill Community Centre from closing for good say they are “not finished” yet, after the council has agreed to extend the deadline until the end of March next year. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
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🚌 First Bus has warned of “significant disruption” to 19 services lasting at least 18 months as roadworks for the Avenues Project start on North Hanover Street on May 26. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
👮 Police Scotland have said allowing Kneecap to perform at TRNSMT would require "a significant policing operation" after one of their members was charged with a terror offence. - Laura Pollock, The National.
❤️🩹 According to Cllr Chris Cunningham, Brexit and the current UK immigration policy are impacting the council’s ability to recruit and retain staff to deliver social care services. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎤 Olly Murs pulled the plug on his OVO Hydro gig after five songs in 20 minutes, saying, “My voice has gone,” with fans having forked out upwards of £57.55 for tickets. - Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
↳ Murs said: “I’m going to come back, but I need to go now.”
📢 The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee staged a sit-in demonstration at Glasgow City Council Chambers, calling for the removal of Israeli military-founded CCTV software ‘Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering’. - Laura Pollock, The National.
🚶♀️ The family of murdered teenager Kory McCrimmon, 16, is planning a peaceful ‘Parents Against Knives’ walk on June 8 beginning at Ibrox Stadium to raise awareness of knife crime. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🤘 Metallica has announced that they will play Hampden Park on June 25, 2026, the only Scottish date for their new ‘M72 World Tour’. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
⚖️ A driver, 60, who struck a woman, 64, with his car on Elmbank Street in February 2023, resulting in her death a month later, was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work yesterday (May 22). - Connor Gordon & Fahad Tariq, Glasgow Live.
🤔 The mystery of a tank travelling on a flatbed truck along the Clydeside has been solved for puzzled Glaswegians, as it was on its way to the Ideal Home Show at the SEC. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🏛️ The historic Grade C-listed office building at 190 St Vincent Street has hit the market valued at £1.125m. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
⚓ The Princess of Wales has officially named the recently completed Royal Navy warship the ‘HMS Glasgow’ by smashing a bottle of whisky against its hull. - Tony Jones, The Herald.
🍣 Byre’s Road restaurant Okome has submitted a second planning application for a new location at the former Superdrug on Dumbarton Road. - Eszter Tárnai, Glasgow Times.
✈️ Around 140 Glasgow Airport staff employed by ABM and the OCS Group have agreed to a basic pay increase of 5%. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.
🏆 Glasgow homeless charity The Marie Trust has received one of this year’s GSK IMPACT Awards, a prestigious accolade for healthcare charities in the UK. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
🥳 Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Out of 180 children, nine-year-old Amelia from Dumfries has been appointed Glasgow Fort’s first-ever chief fun officer. - Stuart Gillespie, Daily Record.
🍽️ In this week’s Food & Drink Wrap: Parveens Canteen closing party, Colombian Bites at The Barras, new pasta spot, how to get free pints, Sano and Paesano open new locations & more...
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