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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.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-pro...

Late again: the Easdales' and McGill's 'adverse' accounts Exclusive analysis by The Bell raises questions over bus company's filings

Service running late: McGill's buses are punctual (usually) and well put together. Can the same be said for their accounts?

We rummaged through filings from the Easdales' bus empire so you don't have to.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/mcgills-easd...

What went wrong for Glasgow's exclusive members club? How Soho House became 'pure Fyre Festival stuff'

Exclusive members club Soho House is going to Manchester. So says our sister paper @manchestermill.bsky.social . It's always hard when your ex finds someone new.

We've been here before, Manchester, as Eve Livingston found out.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/soho-house-g...

What went wrong for Glasgow's exclusive members club? How Soho House became 'pure Fyre Festival stuff'

"When they told us six months later it wasn’t happening anymore, it really was like, ‘what the hell?’"

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/soho-house-g...

It's aye pulling ye back Acclaimed photographer Kirsty Mackay explores belonging as she moves back to Glasgow after 30 years

This summer, photographer Kirsty Mackay moved back to Glasgow after 30 years away. Here's her story of memories, hope, and a city in recovery.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/moving-back-...

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Thanks Nobody 😃

We always knew this place as 'The Ortak'

It later turned out that many letters had fallen off the 'eat in or take away' sign outside.

Glad! We hear the sarbeni was quite the order back in the day. We’d love to hear how it holds up today

I have fond memories of the cheese sarbeni. Fond, fond, cheesey memories. Also, my friend had verbals with some prick outside one Halloween, while dressed as Dracula (my friend, not the prick).

Intriguing …

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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?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

Then there’s the pugnacious service. Complaints are met with comments like “ur talking out yer donner filled arse” and “Listen to me ya wee weapon, im gonna skelp your arse … im gonna rip your jaw BARRED!!”, as well as other unrepeatable lines.

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).

Hiya 👋

If you want some fact based citizen journalism- have a look at these local outlets. Give them a follow, they are leading the way in speaking truth to power. Well done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for highlighting their work. This is a starter pack I’d like to see created.

Thank you kindly, Jo!

Any particularly fond memories, Rob? 👀

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

Trendsetter

Thanks Barbara!

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

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

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?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

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

Thanks for bringing this to our attention

'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
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...