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Here’s Tuesday’s Wrap…
🔥 First Minister John Swinney has vowed “all the force of law” will be applied if the Stonyhurst Street tenement fire in Possilpark was deliberate. – Craig Paton & Nick Forbes, The Herald.
↳ Police are now treating the blaze as wilful. – Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🚌 The new £2 single bus fare cap has been launched across Glasgow and West Scotland. First Bus and Stagecoach are participating. – Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
👮 A man, 31, has been arrested and charged after an alleged assault that endangered life during mass disorder following a demonstration at Glasgow Green on July 25. – Rosie Lewis, Glasgow Times.
🌉 More than 2.55m people have crossed the Govan-Partick Bridge since it opened two years ago. – Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
☕ Plans have been submitted to turn the former Wylie and Lochhead LTD Funeral Directors on 1281 Pollokshaws Road into a cafe. – Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🗣️ The chair of Dennistoun Community Council has claimed Glasgow City Council is making community councils feel like a “nuisance,” as communication with the local authority has allegedly worsened since 2024. – Exclusive by Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🍪 A £1m donation from the owners of the former McVitie’s factory in Tollcross will be split across four projects aimed at tackling poverty. – Drew Sandelands, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
↳ Cllr Cecilia O’Lone and Cllr Jill Pidgeon have argued the allocation does not ‘reflect what the community asked for’.
🏫 A council employee who works at a school in the Southside has said she was bitten by a pupil days after learning she faces a pay cut, leaving her feeling “undervalued” and “deflated”. – Exclusive by Lauren Brownlie, Glasgow Times.
🏆 Kingsway Community Connections, who supported teenager Amen Teklay before he was killed in a sword attack last year, has been shortlisted for the Community Group Award in the BBC Make a Difference Awards. – Chiara Pollock, Glasgow Live.
📚 Glasgow Life will share in the £230k Public Library Improvement Fund. – Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
⚖️ Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, will appear before the Glasgow Employment Tribunal this week amid an ongoing legal battle after 31 workers were dismissed in October last year. – Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🧠 Men’s mental health charity Men Matter Scotland will open a new base on the Clydeside. – Exclusive by Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🎄 The Tollcross Christmas Parade will not go ahead this year as its organiser has moved away from the area. – Emily Moore, Glasgow Times.
🐘 Cage The Elephant will play the O2 Academy on February 25, 2027. – Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
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🎹 Internationally acclaimed pianist Angela Hewitt joins Dunedin Consort in at the Royal Concert Hall on September 26 for a programme of music influenced by the cosmopolitan musical life of 18th century Vienna with music by Mozart, Haydn, CPE Bach and Martines. – Thanks Dunedin Consort!
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