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Magnet fishing is supposed to be a wholesome hobby. Why all the beef? TikTok embezzlers, outlaw leaders and a five year Scottish Canals dispute: welcome to the wild west of Glasgow’s waterways

TikTok embezzlers, outlaw leaders and a five year Scottish Canals dispute: welcome to the wild west of magnet fishing in Glasgow’s waterways [ @robbiejourno.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social ]
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I agree, there are huge barriers for getting into journalism, particularly for working class people. I’d argue it’s even worse than a living wage issue (Mill Media’s titles including the Bell pay salaries well over this of course), because unpaid work placements are so commonplace …

No Orange lodge x Masonic Lodge collabs?

Oh sorry my bad, didn’t read properly 🤦

Love that you used Doors Open Day to visit an 🍊 lodge

The tragedy of Best Kebab TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

But in recent months one of the city’s long-standing jokes has turned much more sinister. After 30 years as a Dundas Street institution, is Best Kebab’s relationship with Glasgow’s citizens turning toxic?
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I’ve heard unspeakable things have happened in that bathroom 🤢

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

I think he’s on the verge of breaking point what with all the egging and abuse …

The tragedy of Best Kebab TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social

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Thanks Peter. I heard the sarbeni genuinely used to be special. Sadly I don’t think that’s still the case. Best Kebab is the butt of so many jokes, yet reporting on this story was far from fun 😔 It’s a dire situation

We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The tragedy of Best Kebab TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
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'Newspaper war’ on campus The plucky student paper courting controversy at the University of Glasgow

Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social
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'Gas them all': Meet the man behind north Glasgow's saltires ‘Time to look after our own not everyone else’

'Gas them all'

'Time to look after our own not everyone else'

We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts.

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The neo-Nazi raising the saltire across Glasgow Plus, community saunas, dirty diggers and spicy noods

Read all about it in our Monday Briefing.

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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.

a map of lines snaking across central Glasgow, including a new tunnel across the Clyde between Central station and Tradeston

I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-...

Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:

Firebombing, the Big Yin and a Gazan student's plight Plus, hospitality gossip and the "curryspondent"

Read all of our Monday briefing for free, here 👇

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🇵🇸 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.

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
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Thinking of ace Glasgow cartoonist, Bud Neill, who died on this day, in 1970, aged only 59.

"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.

The 100 proof is a certified banger

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.

Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.

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.

Growing hope in Glasgow's most isolated community A Blackhill charity is bouncing back from acts of vandalism stronger than ever

St Paul’s Parish Church started the youth forum in 1994 to give young people in Blackhill a safe place to hang out and keep them off the streets.

Since 2006, their co-ordinated efforts have seen gang-related violence in the area drop by 97%.

Interview with the paedophile hunter Oliver Braid was a rising star in the art world. Then he packed it all in to become a vigilante.

“Braid delights in slowly trapping the men with their own words, steadily tightening his grip as he reveals each grim detail and piece of evidence.”

So why did Braid throw a successful career away to become a vigilante? @robbiejourno.bsky.social is on the case

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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?

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