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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Sep 20
We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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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
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Is Govan Glasgow’s secret economic powerhouse?
An exploration of the past, present and future southwest of the Clyde
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What can Govan’s past tells us about its economic present?
A blueprint for a sunnier Govan
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October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Every time someone complains about Southside train station names, we should rename another station. Shawlands becomes Pollokshaws North; Queens Park becomes Pollokshields South; Glasgow Central becomes Pollokshields North. https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/pollok-southside-train-station-names/
Who Polloksed up the Southside’s station names?
Four almost identically named train stations lie within two miles of each other. Why?
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October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A load of Polloks: who messed up the Southside station names?

Catch up on our weekend read 🚂
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Who Polloksed up the Southside’s station names?
Four almost identically named train stations lie within two miles of each other. Why?
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October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring:

📻 More drama at BBC Scotland
💊 Scotland’s first drug-testing spot
🇵🇸 Flag wars continue to rage
🍽️ Corner Shop review
🚢 Historic ship sunk
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Is this the end for Kaye Adams?
Plus: flag wars rage, a hipster corner shop and Scotland’s first drug-testing facility
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October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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.

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Can a radical feminist housing co-op survive in 2025?
“Plonking a male into the close is bonkers.”
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October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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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
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Flag wars: a new player enters the game
Palestine-Saltires, the secret IRA agent and that bra lady's dodgy garments
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October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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.

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Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter?
Homeless Project Scotland’s founder is set on ‘war’ with the council
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October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🔔 Homeless Project Scotland has had its application to run a night shelter refused by Glasgow City Council today.

📝 But committee members confirmed they won't close the site. Instead they'll invite HPS to submit a new planning application.

✒️ Dispatch from Calum tomorrow.
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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You don't need to read today's latest edition to enjoy The Bell (although it's also great). Reposting Dr Porter's take on our story about 'offers over', home reports, and how not to buy a house in the Southside. Enjoy!
fionaporter.bsky.social Dr Fiona Porter @fionaporter.bsky.social · Oct 1
Interesting read by @glasgowbell.bsky.social on the challenges of buying houses in Scotland - though having to offer way more than asking prices and valuations long preceded house reports. Even in 2006 offers 25% above asking prices were common. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/how-not-to-b...
How not to buy a house in the Southside
The 'offers over' system is vastly inflating property prices — and predicting gentrification
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October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Cheers Kenny. We love Natalie's piece too.
kennystew.art Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · Oct 4
I love the @claypitslnr.bsky.social. It’s wild that deer and red kites are common 20 minutes away from Sauchiehall St, but here we are. Good stuff from the @glasgowbell.bsky.social.
Claypits and Blue Tits
How the canalside went from 'a dump' to a haven
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October 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Today's briefing:
👀 Homeless Project Scotland v the council
🍉 The Sumud flotilla Glaswegians
🌳 Will you invest in Glasgow Council's solar panels?

Plus MUCH more.

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Homeless Project Scotland v the council
Plus, Sumud Flotilla Glaswegians and investing in council solar panels
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October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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.

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Late again: the Easdales' and McGill's 'adverse' accounts
Exclusive analysis by The Bell raises questions over bus company's filings
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October 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Exclusive members club Soho House is going to Manchester. So says our sister paper @manchestermill.bsky.social . It's always hard when your ex finds someone new.

We've been here before, Manchester, as Eve Livingston found out.

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What went wrong for Glasgow's exclusive members club?
How Soho House became 'pure Fyre Festival stuff'
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September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM