Etichetta: Glasgow
‘Cramped and unsafe’ Glasgow housing unit forced to suspend mother and baby services
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A housing unit has been forced to close its services to mothers and babies after a damning report found that the “cramped and unsafe” accommodation breached their human rights. In its report, the Children and Young Pe...
Sudanese refugee made 72 calls seeking help before Glasgow hotel stabbings
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An asylum seeker who stabbed six people before being shot dead by police had made more than 70 calls seeking help from the Home Office and its contractors, è emerso. Badreddin Abadlla Adam was shot after he att...
Glasgow apologises for role in slave trade, saying its ‘tentacles’ are in every corner of city
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Glasgow authorities have apologised for the city’s role in the Atlantic slave trade, saying the “tentacles” of money from the practice reached every corner of Scotland’s biggest metropolis. The apology comes as Britai...
Glasgow homes under the jackhammer – a photo essay
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Glasgow is no stranger to demolitions – the city’s built environment has been torn down, built up, and then torn down again every generation. It has witnessed the wholesale demolition of many of its tenements in the 1...
Burrell Collection reopening: a great Glasgow one-off becomes just a little less extraordinary
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The Burrell Collection is majestic and abundant, a rich man’s hoard of 9,000 objects, industrial wealth transmogrified into Chinese porcelain and medieval stained glass, paintings by French impressionists and Scottish...
Cause of fire that destroyed Glasgow School of Art ‘will never be known’
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The fire that ripped through Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building in 2018 was so fierce and all-consuming that the cause can never be known conclusively, according to a long-awaited report. The art school said ...
Glasgow becomes Gotham for Batgirl as Scottish film industry booms
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Icicles were glued on to vintage streetlamps as Glasgow was transformed into a wintry Gotham City over the weekend, as Batgirl became the latest blockbuster to take advantage of Scotland’s versatile urban locations an...
Tom O’Flaherty’s hat-trick inspires Exeter to thumping win over Glasgow
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At least one could actually see the teams from the stands this time, unlike in the fog-bound reverse fixture at Scotstoun last month. It was also infinitely prettier viewing for Exeter’s supporters, who can now look f...
Unalome by Graeme Cheevers, Glasgow: ‘Self-consciously ambitious’ – restaurant review
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Unalome by Graeme Cheevers, 36 Kelvingrove Street, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7RZ (0141 501 0553). Three courses à la carte £80, tasting menu £90, wines from £34 At the start of our dinner at Unalome by Graeme Cheevers, w ...
‘I’m not impressed’: Glasgow unmoved by Boris Johnson’s Cop26 return
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When Boris Johnson stepped off the train as he returned to Glasgow for the final days of Cop26, he was met with boos at the city’s central station. Many people were unhappy at his decision to return to the conference ...
Glasgow University retreats over ‘antisemitic’ label for journal article
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The University of Glasgow has backed down from labelling a peer-reviewed journal article about pro-Israel lobbying as “antisemitic”, amid criticism from leading international academics. The university was criticised f...
Climate protests: fury, and optimism, in the Glasgow rain
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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Glasgow on Saturday to demand stronger climate action from world leaders as the climate crisis summit reached its halfway stage. Protests were also held in London...
‘It’s incredibly rainy’: Glasgow welcomes Cop26 activists amid waste crisis
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It isn’t raining as Maria Azul flies into Glasgow airport from Buenos Aires, but there are so many clouds in the sky she knows it will pour down soon enough. It is Azul’s first visit to the city, as part of a Cop26 de...
Cop26 activists head to Glasgow via land, sea – and in a giant metal ball
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Arnd Drossel has spent the past three months rolling around inside a 160kg steel ball. The German environmental activist left his home in Paderborn on 30 July in the giant contraption resembling a hamster ball that he...
‘We’ve been caught half-dressed’: ambivalent Glasgow awaits Cop26
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Diwali candles in pretty terracotta pots are stacked around the counter at Suresh & Sons grocer in Finnieston, the Glasgow district that borders the UN-managed “blue zone” of the Scottish Event Campus. Next weeken...
Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement: that stuff stays with you’
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Bobby Gillespie’s memoir, Tenement Kid, starts by documenting Gillespie’s Glaswegian working-class background and ends in 1991, as Primal Scream prepare to release their Mercury prize-winning album, Screamadelica. Come ...