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🎄 45% off a year's subscription to The Bell for the lucky recipient. It's not too late to take advantage of our Christmas gift subscription offer, and help rebuild local journalism in the process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🎄 45% off a year's subscription to The Bell for the lucky recipient. It's not too late to take advantage of our Christmas gift subscription offer, and help rebuild local journalism in the process.
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Briefing out now
🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags
🔥 Yet another mystery fire
👮♂️ A death in police custody
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags
🔥 Yet another mystery fire
👮♂️ A death in police custody
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
Another mystery fire, and who took down the Palestine flags?
Plus, a death in police custody and cinema workers unite!
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Briefing out now
🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags
🔥 Yet another mystery fire
👮♂️ A death in police custody
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags
🔥 Yet another mystery fire
👮♂️ A death in police custody
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
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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?
🇵🇸 🏴 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
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?
🇵🇸 🏴 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?
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This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock
Plus, the well hidden beneath Glasgow Cathedral for centuries
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
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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.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
Your favourite library is sinking
Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🔍 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.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
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Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
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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
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...
🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not?
🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse
🤑 Mone money Mone problems
🍷 West End wine bar reviewed
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...
What’s going on at the Victoria Infirmary development?
Plus, the Lighthouse's new residents, dodgy taxes and wine reviews
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...
🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not?
🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse
🤑 Mone money Mone problems
🍷 West End wine bar reviewed
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...
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Fourwalls co-operative has been in Woodlands for nearly 40 years. But now, a giant landlord and a new male resident threaten to change the feminist co-living sanctuary forever.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...
Can a radical feminist housing co-op survive in 2025?
“Plonking a male into the close is bonkers.”
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fourwalls co-operative has been in Woodlands for nearly 40 years. But now, a giant landlord and a new male resident threaten to change the feminist co-living sanctuary forever.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...
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This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring:
🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars
👙 The fall of Michelle Mone
🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring
🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent
🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars
👙 The fall of Michelle Mone
🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring
🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent
🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
Flag wars: a new player enters the game
Palestine-Saltires, the secret IRA agent and that bra lady's dodgy garments
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring:
🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars
👙 The fall of Michelle Mone
🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring
🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent
🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars
👙 The fall of Michelle Mone
🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring
🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent
🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
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Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter? To them, "the war only just begins".
Calum has a dispatch from inside Homeless Project Scotland as they watched their fate unfold.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-pro...
Calum has a dispatch from inside Homeless Project Scotland as they watched their fate unfold.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-pro...
Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter?
Homeless Project Scotland’s founder is set on ‘war’ with the council
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter? To them, "the war only just begins".
Calum has a dispatch from inside Homeless Project Scotland as they watched their fate unfold.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-pro...
Calum has a dispatch from inside Homeless Project Scotland as they watched their fate unfold.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-pro...
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Service running late: McGill's buses are punctual (usually) and well put together. Can the same be said for their accounts?
We rummaged through filings from the Easdales' bus empire so you don't have to.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/mcgills-easd...
We rummaged through filings from the Easdales' bus empire so you don't have to.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/mcgills-easd...
Late again: the Easdales' and McGill's 'adverse' accounts
Exclusive analysis by The Bell raises questions over bus company's filings
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Service running late: McGill's buses are punctual (usually) and well put together. Can the same be said for their accounts?
We rummaged through filings from the Easdales' bus empire so you don't have to.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/mcgills-easd...
We rummaged through filings from the Easdales' bus empire so you don't have to.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/mcgills-easd...
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You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.
🔔 "Follow me up Carmunnock Road and we’ll end up at Mount Florida Bowling Club. The gates are locked and the foliage is dense. This has been the state of affairs for six years. Believe it or not, in the late 2010s, both Cathcart and Mount Florida were in the same sinking boat."
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🔔 "Follow me up Carmunnock Road and we’ll end up at Mount Florida Bowling Club. The gates are locked and the foliage is dense. This has been the state of affairs for six years. Believe it or not, in the late 2010s, both Cathcart and Mount Florida were in the same sinking boat."
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We're delighted to announce that the former Senior Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Cameron Barr, has joined our central editorial team in Manchester as Investigations Editor.
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
From Washington Post to Manchester's Mill Media for new investigations editor
Ex-Washington Post managing editor Cameron Barr hopes to help "restore and revive investigative accountability" at Manchester-based Mill Media
pressgazette.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We're delighted to announce that the former Senior Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Cameron Barr, has joined our central editorial team in Manchester as Investigations Editor.
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic?
Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city.
Here are his favourites.
Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city.
Here are his favourites.
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic?
Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city.
Here are his favourites.
Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city.
Here are his favourites.
Have Glasgow’s ‘worst’ event promoters struck again?
It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern?
Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats
It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern?
Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats
August 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Have Glasgow’s ‘worst’ event promoters struck again?
It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern?
Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats
It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern?
Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats
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Why has the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society not acted on a report detailing which fire suppression system could best protect Toshie's only church - which is filled with original timber furniture?
Read full article below
Read full article below
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Why has the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society not acted on a report detailing which fire suppression system could best protect Toshie's only church - which is filled with original timber furniture?
Read full article below
Read full article below
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In 2008, Glasgow was the third ever city to be honoured with UNESCO's City of Music status.
But in recent years, live music venues have struggled.
@calumgrewar.bsky.social does a pulse check in our weekend read.
But in recent years, live music venues have struggled.
@calumgrewar.bsky.social does a pulse check in our weekend read.
July 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
In 2008, Glasgow was the third ever city to be honoured with UNESCO's City of Music status.
But in recent years, live music venues have struggled.
@calumgrewar.bsky.social does a pulse check in our weekend read.
But in recent years, live music venues have struggled.
@calumgrewar.bsky.social does a pulse check in our weekend read.
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🔔Last few days to apply to join us at The Bell!
We’re looking for a full-time editor to steer The Bell through the next stage of its journey. Your job will be to commission and edit gripping, intriguing and exclusive stories that get the whole city talking.
glasgowbell.co.uk/were-hiring-...
We’re looking for a full-time editor to steer The Bell through the next stage of its journey. Your job will be to commission and edit gripping, intriguing and exclusive stories that get the whole city talking.
glasgowbell.co.uk/were-hiring-...
We’re hiring an editor for The Bell
The Bell’s mission is to provide a new kind of local journalism about Glasgow — narrative, thoughtful and full of investigative rigour and insight - and so far, it’s working. In just nine months, more...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🔔Last few days to apply to join us at The Bell!
We’re looking for a full-time editor to steer The Bell through the next stage of its journey. Your job will be to commission and edit gripping, intriguing and exclusive stories that get the whole city talking.
glasgowbell.co.uk/were-hiring-...
We’re looking for a full-time editor to steer The Bell through the next stage of its journey. Your job will be to commission and edit gripping, intriguing and exclusive stories that get the whole city talking.
glasgowbell.co.uk/were-hiring-...
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A man wants to unshackle Govan's Lyceum, this long derelict building, and create a community asset at the heart of this proud part of the city. Or at least that’s his claim. Others aren’t quite so sure of his motives — and have notions of their own.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-lyceum...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-lyceum...
Is Mohammad Choudhry going to save Govan's Lyceum Cinema — or ruin it?
The owner says he's going to revive the derelict B-listed building. Others aren't so sure.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A man wants to unshackle Govan's Lyceum, this long derelict building, and create a community asset at the heart of this proud part of the city. Or at least that’s his claim. Others aren’t quite so sure of his motives — and have notions of their own.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-lyceum...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-lyceum...
I made a map for @glasgowbell.bsky.social about Glasgow's mysterious fires phenomenon. Took quite a bit of work to find ownership info etc but you can interact with it and see who owned what when. Hope you find it useful.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...
Tinderbox: The Bell launches a new map of Glasgow's many fires
The propensity for so many buildings to catch fire has stoked conspiracy theories galore. Is there anything to them?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I made a map for @glasgowbell.bsky.social about Glasgow's mysterious fires phenomenon. Took quite a bit of work to find ownership info etc but you can interact with it and see who owned what when. Hope you find it useful.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...
"In an ideal world you'd consolidate [Glasgow and Edinburgh] airports into a larger one in Cumbernauld."
Cumbernauld to the world.
Moya Lothian-McLean spoke to Gareth Dennis for today's Glasgow Bell about the future of Glasgow Airport.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-glasgow-a...
Cumbernauld to the world.
Moya Lothian-McLean spoke to Gareth Dennis for today's Glasgow Bell about the future of Glasgow Airport.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-glasgow-a...
Is Glasgow airport doomed?
A controversial prediction has got politicians up in arms. We speak to the man prophesying the airport’s demise.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"In an ideal world you'd consolidate [Glasgow and Edinburgh] airports into a larger one in Cumbernauld."
Cumbernauld to the world.
Moya Lothian-McLean spoke to Gareth Dennis for today's Glasgow Bell about the future of Glasgow Airport.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-glasgow-a...
Cumbernauld to the world.
Moya Lothian-McLean spoke to Gareth Dennis for today's Glasgow Bell about the future of Glasgow Airport.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-glasgow-a...
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Monday briefing out now! Including:
🇵🇸 Greens councillor proposes the city council back demands that Glasgow Pride to observe BDS guidelines
🏠 Robbie door knocks the Strathbungo sex tenement
📽️ The Eighties documentary depicting Glasgow on the up
🇵🇸 Greens councillor proposes the city council back demands that Glasgow Pride to observe BDS guidelines
🏠 Robbie door knocks the Strathbungo sex tenement
📽️ The Eighties documentary depicting Glasgow on the up
City council called on to support Kneecap, and Strathbungo sex party updates
Plus: an Eighties ode to swinging Glasgow
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Monday briefing out now! Including:
🇵🇸 Greens councillor proposes the city council back demands that Glasgow Pride to observe BDS guidelines
🏠 Robbie door knocks the Strathbungo sex tenement
📽️ The Eighties documentary depicting Glasgow on the up
🇵🇸 Greens councillor proposes the city council back demands that Glasgow Pride to observe BDS guidelines
🏠 Robbie door knocks the Strathbungo sex tenement
📽️ The Eighties documentary depicting Glasgow on the up
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Been wondering what's going on with the derelict College of Building and Printing?
@calumgrewar.bsky.social attempts to find the answers in his second piece for the Bell, featuring this poetic wee outro
@calumgrewar.bsky.social attempts to find the answers in his second piece for the Bell, featuring this poetic wee outro
May 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Been wondering what's going on with the derelict College of Building and Printing?
@calumgrewar.bsky.social attempts to find the answers in his second piece for the Bell, featuring this poetic wee outro
@calumgrewar.bsky.social attempts to find the answers in his second piece for the Bell, featuring this poetic wee outro