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"... the next day, when the taps came back on, the water sputtered, but it was still glorious — the famously fresh “cooncil juice” brought to Glasgow from Loch Katrine up in the Trossachs.
January 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This week’s briefing out, featuring:
🚘 Parking proposals continue to divide
🍕 Glasgow’s pizza wars heat up
💉 Ozempic boom time for opportunistic businesses
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Pizza pies, parking cries, and Ozempic opportunists
Plus, Stanley Baxter remembered and 1.4 million museum artefacts
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December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Southside's proposed parking controls are eliciting quite the response from locals. Readers are getting into the detail in the comments.
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Briefing out now
🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags
🔥 Yet another mystery fire
👮‍♂️ A death in police custody
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Another mystery fire, and who took down the Palestine flags?
Plus, a death in police custody and cinema workers unite!
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December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Gas ovens, inferior flour and culinary shortcuts - is this proof that Glasgow’s favourite pizza really is getting worse?
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Has Paesano Pizza passed its peak?
As Glasgow’s beloved pizzeria scales up, critics say the quality is scaling down
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December 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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In this week's briefing, we're asking:
🇵🇸Who is the pro-Israel group trying to get the Paltire banned?
🕵️‍♂️Where's the Wally, Rangers capo turned gangster Ross McGill?
🗳️Does Glasgow need greater devolution?
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Why is an Israel advocacy group trying to get the Palestine-Saltires banned?
Plus, where’s the wally Ross McGill? And more devolution for Glasgow
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December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Is Glasgow's most controversial charity, Homeless Project Scotland, solving homelessness — or deepening the crisis?
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How to lose friends and house people
This charity says it can solve the city’s homelessness crisis. The council says it’s making it worse.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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In today's news briefing:

🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who's behind a campaign to bring down the Palestine Saltires?
🏚️ Long-awaited good news for displaced Albert Drive residents
🥃 Does Glasgow need a whisky quarter?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
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School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock
Plus, the well hidden beneath Glasgow Cathedral for centuries
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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🔥 WARNING, takes may be very hot 🔥

🍸 A writer’s edition from Robbie, including media picks and the best of Glasgow’s whisky, coffee and cocktails

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The cone ranger, AI agents and what makes us human
A writer’s edition from Robbie, including media picks and the best of Glasgow’s whisky, coffee and cocktails
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November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This week's briefing features:

🚌 Spinning wheels and bus fires
😠 Sauchiehall Street takes a Brillo bashing
🎨 The Glasgow Style revisited
💩 A jobby geyser sh*temare
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Are the Easdales spinning their way out of a bus fire crisis?
Plus: jobby geysers, Sauchiehall takes a Brillo bashing and Glasgow Style revisited
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The M8 separated two childhood best friends, but it couldn't keep them apart forever. This is the story of how Robin and Brian rekindled their friendship, fifty years on.
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The motorway drove two friends apart. Half a century on, they reunited
Long lost pals, the M8’s destructive path and a drunken punch up
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource.

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Your favourite library is sinking
Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?
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November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Today's briefing:
🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not?
🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse
🤑 Mone money Mone problems
🍷 West End wine bar reviewed

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What’s going on at the Victoria Infirmary development?
Plus, the Lighthouse's new residents, dodgy taxes and wine reviews
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🎆 Did you know that many of the fireworks heard around the city have a higher explosive content than those used at giant stadium shows? Neither did we.

Find out if Glasgow's first Firework Control Zones worked from our reporters on the ground.

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Has Glasgow snuffed out problem fireworks?
A dispatch from the city's first firework control zones
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November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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🔔 Monday Briefing out now 🔔

🏡 The Bothwell owners of a 'cruel' care home
🥵 New sauna to get to get the community sweating
🎥 Another BBC Scotland casualty
✒️ Elspeth King's legacy

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Who owns the ‘cruel’ care home?
Plus, another BBC Scotland casualty, community sauna opening and RIP Elspeth King
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Why did a 140-year-old pet shop close down, and what happened to the animals?

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The last days of Thomas Hays Pet and Aquarium Corner
Tragic tales from the closure of a 140-year-old pet shop
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October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Monday briefing out now. Featuring:

🥬 The inside scoop on Your Party’s Green defectors
🔫 Gang wars latest
🎤 James English in the New Yorker
🌶️ Glasgow’s top dosa
🚲 Cycling charity on the brink
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Why did the Green defectors jump ship to Your Party?
Plus, James English in the New Yorker, a cycling charity on the brink and Glasgow gangsters told to leave Dubai
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October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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In 1697, seven Renfrewshire locals were sentenced to death for witchcraft.

They included two young brothers - the 'town rascals' -, beggars and a serving girl. The child who accused them was one of Erskine's wealthiest daughters.

Their deaths are said to have cursed Paisley to this day.
Renfrewshire's murdered witches refuse to rest
In 1697, seven people became the victims of Western Europe's last witch hunt. What is their legacy?
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October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The victims of Scotland’s last mass witch hunt are far from forgotten in Renfrewshire today. Meet the folks keeping their memory alive👇
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Renfrewshire's murdered witches refuse to rest
In 1697, seven people became the victims of Western Europe's last witch hunt. What is their legacy?
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October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Question: What are the three wards with the highest number of jobs in the whole of Scotland?

Answer: Glasgow City Centre, central Edinburgh and... Govan.

Govan is Glasgow's secret economic engine, with more jobs than people. So, asks James Gilmour, do locals feel the benefit?
Govan is the secret economic engine of Glasgow. Do locals benefit?
A blueprint for a sunnier Govan
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October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM