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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.
📝 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
🔔 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.
📝 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.
Best Kebab’s infamy has made it both a rite of passage and one of the city’s modern myths. There’s the dismal quality of its döner meat (getting a 1.8 star average on TripAdvisor takes some doing).
September 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Best Kebab’s infamy has made it both a rite of passage and one of the city’s modern myths. There’s the dismal quality of its döner meat (getting a 1.8 star average on TripAdvisor takes some doing).
We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Kieran Logan has since admitted this is his (now deleted) account.
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Kieran Logan has since admitted this is his (now deleted) account.
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 3:02 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.
🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies.
🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?
🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.
🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?
🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies.
🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?
🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.
🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?
🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.
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.
"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.
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 1:59 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.
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
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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
The Scottish Government have no say over the law proscribing Palestine Action. But a Holyrood spokesperson told The Bell: “it is important we live in a society where groups & organisations have the democratic right to campaign" & that this right isn't "affected" by the new law.
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Scottish Government have no say over the law proscribing Palestine Action. But a Holyrood spokesperson told The Bell: “it is important we live in a society where groups & organisations have the democratic right to campaign" & that this right isn't "affected" by the new law.
This is despite the majority of 200 or so initial arrests of people suspected of supporting Palestine Action occurring in England. From current data, it seems most were bailed - in Scotland, they weren't.
These cases now go to the Procurator Fiscal who might dismiss charges.
These cases now go to the Procurator Fiscal who might dismiss charges.
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is despite the majority of 200 or so initial arrests of people suspected of supporting Palestine Action occurring in England. From current data, it seems most were bailed - in Scotland, they weren't.
These cases now go to the Procurator Fiscal who might dismiss charges.
These cases now go to the Procurator Fiscal who might dismiss charges.
Also in today's Glasgow in Brief - exclusively for newsletter subscribers: are Police Scotland the UK only force to be pressing charges under the Terrorism Act, for support of Palestine Action?
Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.
Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Also in today's Glasgow in Brief - exclusively for newsletter subscribers: are Police Scotland the UK only force to be pressing charges under the Terrorism Act, for support of Palestine Action?
Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.
Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.
MacDonald is one of the owner-occupiers of the Albert Drive building that sensationally collapsed earlier this month, after a 2020 fire.
But how did the block, at first solid, end up crumbling? The story is a Kafa-esque nightmare of housing bureaucracy.
But how did the block, at first solid, end up crumbling? The story is a Kafa-esque nightmare of housing bureaucracy.
July 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
MacDonald is one of the owner-occupiers of the Albert Drive building that sensationally collapsed earlier this month, after a 2020 fire.
But how did the block, at first solid, end up crumbling? The story is a Kafa-esque nightmare of housing bureaucracy.
But how did the block, at first solid, end up crumbling? The story is a Kafa-esque nightmare of housing bureaucracy.
🏛️ The owner of the Egyptian Halls has told The Bell he is fighting the council's CPO decision
🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee"
🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam
🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee"
🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam
July 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🏛️ The owner of the Egyptian Halls has told The Bell he is fighting the council's CPO decision
🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee"
🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam
🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee"
🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam
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.
At first, John remembers, it “just felt like an ordinary protest.” But after a while, he heard it: a shout breaking out amongst a small cluster of protesters, and it sounded like “immigrants go home”.
July 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
At first, John remembers, it “just felt like an ordinary protest.” But after a while, he heard it: a shout breaking out amongst a small cluster of protesters, and it sounded like “immigrants go home”.
In today's read, Calum analyses the impact of the home report/offers over system - and how the data is predicting Govan is the next spot to get the gentrification treatment.
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In today's read, Calum analyses the impact of the home report/offers over system - and how the data is predicting Govan is the next spot to get the gentrification treatment.
Would-be buyers who should be able to afford houses are being priced out. Renters are suffering too.
And in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city, high-demand areas are seeing houses bought for up to 34% more than their home report valuations.
And in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city, high-demand areas are seeing houses bought for up to 34% more than their home report valuations.
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Would-be buyers who should be able to afford houses are being priced out. Renters are suffering too.
And in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city, high-demand areas are seeing houses bought for up to 34% more than their home report valuations.
And in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city, high-demand areas are seeing houses bought for up to 34% more than their home report valuations.
Glasgow is littered with 'roads to nowhere' - unfinished infrastructure that was supposed to be part of a giant ring road strangling the inner city.
@robbiejourno.bsky.social examines their myths and meaning in today's read.
@robbiejourno.bsky.social examines their myths and meaning in today's read.
June 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Glasgow is littered with 'roads to nowhere' - unfinished infrastructure that was supposed to be part of a giant ring road strangling the inner city.
@robbiejourno.bsky.social examines their myths and meaning in today's read.
@robbiejourno.bsky.social examines their myths and meaning in today's read.
"I was hit with a profound melancholy as I made my way through one of the blandest margs of my life — no by-the-slice here, it was whole pizza or go home, each bite of drab dough a chore". 😬
Which top-ranked city favourite is Robbie talking about here?
Which top-ranked city favourite is Robbie talking about here?
June 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"I was hit with a profound melancholy as I made my way through one of the blandest margs of my life — no by-the-slice here, it was whole pizza or go home, each bite of drab dough a chore". 😬
Which top-ranked city favourite is Robbie talking about here?
Which top-ranked city favourite is Robbie talking about here?
Local businesses are moving as a consequence of the works. Popular eatery Parveens, located in nearby Civic House are looking for a new home because spontaneous footfall is so low. The owners blame the works.
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Local businesses are moving as a consequence of the works. Popular eatery Parveens, located in nearby Civic House are looking for a new home because spontaneous footfall is so low. The owners blame the works.
The Underline Phase 2 was put on hold in 2023 "due to the works being undertaken at the M8 Woodside Viaduct," said the council.
GCC has now told The Bell that the Underline Phase 2 has been cut from the Avenues programme completely and it isn't possible to progress with plans.
GCC has now told The Bell that the Underline Phase 2 has been cut from the Avenues programme completely and it isn't possible to progress with plans.
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Underline Phase 2 was put on hold in 2023 "due to the works being undertaken at the M8 Woodside Viaduct," said the council.
GCC has now told The Bell that the Underline Phase 2 has been cut from the Avenues programme completely and it isn't possible to progress with plans.
GCC has now told The Bell that the Underline Phase 2 has been cut from the Avenues programme completely and it isn't possible to progress with plans.