The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 4 - 6 October 2024
No early trains for GSR, teacher strike update, financial scams with fake police, protestors at Scottish Power, new Sprigg + more in the Weekend Guide
🌦 Good Morning Glasgow. Expect a mix of sun, clouds and some rain this weekend. Here’s Friday’s Wrap followed by the Weekend Guide for paid subscribers.
🏃♀️ Great Scottish Run travel chaos ahead as ScotRail confirms no trains will run before event. - Jordan Shepherd, Glasgow Live.
👩⚕️ The city’s Home Care service could be affected by strike action unless a deal is reached over “unsustainable” staffing levels. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🏫 Teaching unions balloting members for industrial action over cuts failed to meet turnout requirements. - James McEnaney, The Herald.
💰 Drumchapel residents have shared their feeling of betrayal over the looming potential that a promised £15 million of Levelling-Up cash won’t be delivered. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
🏜 Milton councillor Robert Mooney has branded the area a “desert” in response to Wheatley Group considering building new homes in the area. It has no supermarket, needs a new road and kids have to take two buses to school. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
👮♀️ Police Scotland has issued a warning over criminals impersonating officers for financial scams. - Josh Carmichael, The Herald.
🚧 West End residents will be sending a letter to the council expressing concerns over the years-long closure of Queen Margaret Drive due to “safety issues”. - Eszter Tarnai, Glasgow Times.
🅿 How does Glasgow's residents parking permits compare to Edinburgh? - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.
📢 Protesters gathered outside Finnieston’s Scottish Power buildings in response to the UK Government’s axe of the winter fuel payment and Ofgem’s energy price “cap” rising by 10%. - Charles Pring, Glasgow Times.
🏛 Glasgow City Chambers was named the 30th most beautiful building in Britain by a Leonardo Hotels poll. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🌉 Work has begun on a 140-year-old railway bridge over Salkend Street near Glasgow Central. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🏡 A Cathcart flat dubbed “cheapest in the Southside” is going under the hammer with bids starting at £32,500. - Laura Ferguson, Glasgow Live.
✍ Glasgow was better off with Strathclyde Regional Council. - My column in The Herald this week.
🏛 Specialist conservation architect Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Longo has written a fascinating feature on the conservation (or lack thereof) of Glasgow’s built heritage for The Herald.
🥗 Sprigg salad bar is opening a new location on Waterloo Street. - Sarah Campbell, The Herald.
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🎵 Civic House Party returns on Friday with host baile/baile, promoting rural Scotland and the Highlands through club nights. - Instagram.
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