The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 28 - 30 June 2024
Fire behind Zara, student accommodation prices soar, Barry Keoghan spotted, retro cafe opens, researchers crack Antikythera Mechanism + the Weekend Guide
☁ Good Morning Glasgow. The weather looks a bit meh to be honest but it’s pay weekend! Clouds, rain and a high of 16C. Here’s Friday’s Wrap & the Weekend Guide. If you have any events going on or something to be featured 👉 Send it in via form or email. Have a great Weekend!
🔥 Firefighters locked down Buchanan Street for several hours yesterday after a building behind Zara caught on fire. It’s understood no one was injured. - Kirsty Feerick, Glasgow Times.
✍ Guess what? I have a new weekly column in The Herald! This week, I wrote a love letter to Glasgow’s nighttime economy and shared what I think needs to be done to save it. You can read it here.
🎤 Megan Thee Stallion said she was forced to cancel her Hydro gig due to “a complex construction project that will close the venue”. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
↳ A spokesperson for the SEC said: "This date could indeed have gone ahead however the artist needed to move the original date and the venue was unavailable on the dates requested for reschedule.”
🐧 The beloved Glasgow penguins are supporting the petition to save Kingston DIY Community Skate Park. See the adorable photos in Glasgow Live. - Keiran Fleming.
🏢 Students are facing a huge 18% price hike for purpose-built accommodation from next term, according to real estate advisor CBRE. It could cost up to £235 a week and around £5,000 more per year here than counterparts in Aberdeen. - Scottish Construction Now.
🍝 Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan was spotted at Eusebi Deli in the West End. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
👀 George Galloway claimed he was stalked by Fiona Harvey (who inspired Martha in Baby Reindeer) while he was an MP for Hillhead. - Eve Beattie, Daily Record.
🎙 A new podcast, Coatbridge: The Disappearance of Moira Anderson, is now available on Audible. It covers the disappearance of 11-year-old Moira in 1957. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🍰 Partenope in Shawlands has made it on La Liste’s World Pastry Awards 2024. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
⚽ Rare Rangers FC items are going under the hammer on July 4 via McTear’s and are expected to fetch thousands. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🥰 Fans had their dreams come true at two separate Glasgow gigs.
↳ Green Day brought a fan onstage to play their song Dilemma on guitar at Bellahouston Park. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
↳ Meanwhile, The Killers invited care home worker Sam Hirschfield on stage to play drums while at the Hydro. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
🚨 A boy, 5, and a man, 45, were taken to hospital after a crash involving a police vehicle on Paisley Road West. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🧦 The use of B&Bs and hotel accommodation to house homeless people has doubled in less than a year. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🎖 Joan Cameron, 81, has been honoured with a British Empire Medal for spending five decades volunteering for Glasgow Samaritans. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🌵 The council has issued a warning to the public to avoid giant hogweed as it is very dangerous and flourishes in the summer. - Laura Ferguson, Glasgow Live.
↳ If you see giant hogweed, report it to the council. More info.
💪 Children’s social care staff in Glasgow are getting a £12 per hour wage uplift, backdated from April 8. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
👨🔬 Councillor Norman MacLeod says illegal drugs should be available to buy from pharmacies to cut out criminal suppliers. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🧮 Glasgow researchers say they have solved a bit of the mystery around the Antikythera Mechanism - one of the “oldest machines known to have been developed by human hand” (and featured in Indiana Jones The Dial of Destiny). - Jody Harrison, The Herald.
🏠 The licencing committee has granted a one-year licence to a company that “put lives at risk” by allowing tenants to live in an unlicensed house on London Road. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
☕ A retro-themed coffee shop called Central Cafe has opened under the Hielanman’s Umbrella. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🔑 An Airbnb in Partick has been approved despite neighbours complaining about “nuisance”. - Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🎥 Filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra has launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for the production of a documentary about the Kenmure Street protest. - Samar Jamal, Greater Govanhill.
🟢 The Scottish Greens want Glasgow to be the first council in Scotland to introduce a tourist tax. - Katrine Bussey, The Standard.
🔋 Figherfighters are still at the scene of the battery plant fire in Linwood, four days after the blaze. - Calum Loudon, STV.
⚽ The first Celtic V Rangers match of the season is on Saturday, August 31. - Ewan Paton, The Herald.
👩⚖️ The sentencing of a human trafficking gang has prompted calls for harsher punishments to be handed to men seeking sex-for-pay with vulnerable women. - Caitlyn Dewar, STV.
🏢 Plans to turn a 19th-century tenement on St Vincent Street back into flats have been submitted to the council. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow World.
♻ The council has raised nearly £2 million since introducing the brown bin permit for garden waste last October. They were criticized for charging elderly residents £200 with no wiggle room in the fees. - Catherine Hunter, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↳ Councillor Ruairi Kelly said: “So far [this policy] has raised £1.962 million for the council. If that were to be removed or flexibilities brought into it that would result in us having to find savings equal to what that amount was elsewhere."
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🖼 It’s the last weekend to see Sam Ainsley’s show, Wednesday is Cobalt blue, Friday is Camium red, at the GoMA. More info.
🎤 P!nk’s Summer Carnival Tour is at Hampden on Friday and Saturday. Info.
🎸 LCD Soundsytem is playing three nights at the Barrowland Ballroom from June 30-July 2. Info.
🦪 There are several exciting food pop-ups this weekend.
↳ First, Deadmenseyes is taking over the beer garden at West Side Tavern on Saturday and Sunday. Info.
↳ Also on Saturday and Sunday, Radio Buena Vida is having a “two-day sandwich extravaganza” with Bread & Butter. Info.
↳ Oyster pros The Shuckle Brothers are at Chinaskis on Saturday from 3pm til sell out. Info.
↳ The OUTLIER dinner service this weekend is a Smashed Patties burger menu. Bookings.
🎖 There will be a march through the city on Saturday to mark Armed Forces Day. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🕺 There’s a Let’s Go Back to the 80s Weekender this weekend at Webster’s Theatre. - Gabriel Mackay, The Herald.
🎸 Mogwai’s self-curated Big City festival is at Queen’s Park Recreation Ground on Saturday. Tickets.
🌳 Treetop Rocks is a family-friendly event teaching tree climbing at Queen’s Park on Saturday. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🎶 The Glasgow Annual Hip Hop Jam is at Queen’s Park Arena on Saturday from 12pm-10.30pm. Info.
🎵 Scotland’s first alcohol-free festival, Recovery Connects, is at Queen’s Park Arena on Sunday from midday to 6pm. - More info.
👟 Trainer festival Crepe City is at Box Hub Warehouse in Whiteinch on Sunday. Tickets.
🕌 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Glasgow North has an Eid Reception Dinner at their Haugh Road community centre on Sunday at 5.30pm. Free but ticketed.
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