The Glasgow Bell

Why is an Israel advocacy group trying to get the Palestine-Saltires banned? Plus, where’s the wally Ross McGill? And more devolution for Glasgow

In this week's briefing, we're asking:
🇵🇸Who is the pro-Israel group trying to get the Paltire banned?
🕵️‍♂️Where's the Wally, Rangers capo turned gangster Ross McGill?
🗳️Does Glasgow need greater devolution?
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How to lose friends and house people This charity says it can solve the city’s homelessness crisis. The council says it’s making it worse.

Is Glasgow's most controversial charity, Homeless Project Scotland, solving homelessness — or deepening the crisis?
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Glasgow’s flag wars go global Plus, do we need a whisky quarter? And a breakthrough for Albert Drive residents

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In today's news briefing:

🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who's behind a campaign to bring down the Palestine Saltires?
🏚️ Long-awaited good news for displaced Albert Drive residents
🥃 Does Glasgow need a whisky quarter?

School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock Plus, the well hidden beneath Glasgow Cathedral for centuries

This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
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The cone ranger, AI agents and what makes us human A writer’s edition from Robbie, including media picks and the best of Glasgow’s whisky, coffee and cocktails

🔥 WARNING, takes may be very hot 🔥

🍸 A writer’s edition from Robbie, including media picks and the best of Glasgow’s whisky, coffee and cocktails

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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

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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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

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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Your favourite library is sinking Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?

🔍 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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What’s going on at the Victoria Infirmary development? Plus, the Lighthouse's new residents, dodgy taxes and wine reviews

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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Has Glasgow snuffed out problem fireworks? A dispatch from the city's first firework control zones

🎆 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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Who owns the ‘cruel’ care home? Plus, another BBC Scotland casualty, community sauna opening and RIP Elspeth King

🔔 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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The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found.
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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

Why did a 140-year-old pet shop close down, and what happened to the animals?

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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

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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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?

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?

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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Govan is the secret economic engine of Glasgow. Do locals benefit? A blueprint for a sunnier Govan

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?

What can Govan’s past tells us about its economic present? A blueprint for a sunnier Govan

Is Govan Glasgow’s secret economic powerhouse?
An exploration of the past, present and future southwest of the Clyde
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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?

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?

A load of Polloks: who messed up the Southside station names?

Catch up on our weekend read 🚂
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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

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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Can a radical feminist housing co-op survive in 2025? “Plonking a male into the close is bonkers.”

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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Flag wars: a new player enters the game Palestine-Saltires, the secret IRA agent and that bra lady's dodgy garments

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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Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter? Homeless Project Scotland’s founder is set on ‘war’ with the council

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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🔔 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.

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!

Cheers Kenny. We love Natalie's piece too.

Homeless Project Scotland v the council Plus, Sumud Flotilla Glaswegians and investing in council solar panels

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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