The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 30 August - 1 September 2024

The Shed closes, drug cartel boss pleads guilty, pavement parking ban update, lawyer convicted of "dark web murder plot", new ice cream parlour opens + the Weekend Guide

Aug 30, 2024

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🌥 Good Morning Glasgow. Expect sunshine and a high of 21C this weekend. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the Weekend Guide for paid subscribers.

🕺 The Shed nightclub on Langside Avenue is closing after 26 years in the city. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
↳ Owner Michele Pagliocca said: “The decision to close has been incredibly difficult, but it’s the right time for us to say goodbye to this chapter of 26 Langside Avenue.”

🦺 Looming bin strikes have been halted after union members accepted an improved pay offer. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.

🚨 Crime boss Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson has admitted to masterminding a worldwide multi-million-pound drug cartel. - Connor Gordon, Court Reporter, Glasgow Times.
↳ It involved nearly £80 million of cocaine getting smuggled from South America in a “banana shipment” addressed to a Glasgow fruit market.

🅿 “All the Glasgow streets set to have pavement parking ban from next month” - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.

🏗 The council’s refusal of Fusion Student’s plans to demolish the old M&S Sauchiehall Street has been overturned. The developer can now choose which of its two plans to take forward. - Stewart Paterson & Xander Elliards, Glasgow Times.

⛪ Kelvinbridge Parish Church is set to close and its congregation is to merge with Wellington Parish Church due to “insufficient” numbers. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.

👩‍⚖️ A former lawyer has been convicted of a “dark web murder plot” to kill a Glasgow procurator fiscal. - Grant McCabe, Court Reporter, Glasgow Live.

🚴‍♂️ Travis Barker, drummer for Blink 182, was spotted cycling along Broomielaw near the Clyde ahead of the band’s gig at the Hydro. - Zoe Phillips, Scottish Sun.

♿ A team at the council has managed to cut the wait time for a disabled parking space from a year to only two months. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.

🛸 Alien UFO Burger and Coffee Cafe is opening “soon” on Union Street. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.

✍ My latest column for The Herald addresses the pending demolition of the O2 ABC.