The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 23 - 25 August 2024
Teacher cuts to impact poorest students, parking fine and car impounding update, man hit by car dies, new student flat plans, more on-street bin hubs + the Weekend Guide
🌥 Good Morning Glasgow. Expect sunshine, heavy rain and a high of 17C this weekend. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the Weekend Guide for paid subscribers.
🏫 Glasgow City Council has admitted that plans to cut 450 teachers from the city’s schools “may have a detrimental impact on the poorest children and young people”. - James McEnaney, The Herald.
🅿 Parking fines will increase from £60 to £100 and the council is introducing a new scheme where it will impound cars belonging to drivers who dodge multiple fines. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🚨 A man, 45, died after being hit by a car on Bowfield Road in Penilee. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🏢 A category B listed building on St Vincent Street could be transformed into a 150-bed student accommodation. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
❤ A new British Heart Foundation charity shop is now open at the Forge Retail Park. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
🗑 New on-street bin hubs will be installed in Cessnock, Govan, Craigton, and Cardonald. - Sandhya Suresh, AI Reporter, Glasgow Times.
📯 The French Horn is now open on Great Western Road from the firm behind Chaakoo and Topalabamba. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🥩 The Loveable Rogue will take over the former Sur Lie unit on Nithsdale Road next month. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
📢 Anti-racism campaigners warn against a “false sense of security” as riots across England and Northern Ireland have yet to be seen in Scotland ahead of a planned Stand Up To Racism event on September 7 in George Square. - Libby Brooks, The Guardian.
🍻 A new sports bar from Superlative group (Glaschu, Duke’s Umbrella) has opened an all day sports bar in Princes Square called The Clubhouse. - Sarah Campbell, The Herald.
🏘 I’ve written my column for The Herald this week on the rapid development of family houses in Robroyston without the social infrastructure to support it.
✈ Jet2’s new winter holiday destinations are Rome, Krakow, and Prague. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
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📌 Pull Shapes Indie Disco is back upstairs at the Old Hairdressers on Saturday 24th August! Summer is here (sort of) and it's time for another one of our sporadic, euphoric dance parties! Expect the usual mix of eclectic floor fillers and wall to wall bangers. Thanks Team Pull Shapes for sending this in.
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🎙 Ben Gibbard is putting on a double act with Death Cab for Cutie & The Postal Service at the Hydro tonight. - Tickets.
🏃♂️ The Smalltown Boy exhibition opens at SWG3 today and runs until September 20. More info.
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