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Katy-Anne's rent jumped 80% in 18 months: is Glasgow's rent out of control?
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (103+ words) Faulds" story might sound extreme, but across Glasgow, renters are describing a market where affording to stay put is becoming increasingly difficult." But do not fear, as a monthly subscription to The Bell costs just 0. 69% of the rent for a…...
What would Prime Minister Burnham mean for Glasgow?
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (145+ words) Good morning readers. Beth clearly has a nose for a good story: she's down in Manchester this week, just in time for Andy Burnham's big speech setting out his agenda as the PM-in-waiting." There's still time to apply for (or…...
Painting Glasgow back to life
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (165+ words) "It lets people know we're still here": The signs reviving Glasgow's "forgotten' high streets Bungo Sign Co is only four years old, but you can already see its signs across Glasgow " largely Southside, where both Lindsay and Millar are based,…...
Five hours to defend Glasgow's twin city
1+ week, 5+ day ago (163+ words) Mykolaiv. We have received information from the Circular Defense team 12 tanks have broken through from the Kakhovka side, and enemy forces are following them." Barricades need to be built in the city so that [military] equipment cannot enter specific areas....
Chaos at the school gates: Fernhill enters liquidation, tells staff they won't be paid
1+ week, 6+ day ago (111+ words) A quarter hour into the meeting, David Equi, director of Fernhill School walks in, followed by Donald Mc Kinnon of WBG liquidators, and then the school's head and deputy head teachers." David Equi " also the owner of Equi's Ice Cream…...
How Glasgow watched the game
2+ week, 2+ day ago (305+ words) The new name is misleading; by no stretch of the imagination is the stadium in Boston. The train begins to pass through verdant forest. As I look out the window at the evening sunshine streaming through the leaves my first…...
A hectic day with Glasgow's last court reporters
2+ week, 5+ day ago (371+ words) It's a drizzly Tuesday morning at Glasgow's High Court of Justiciary. On the docket are cases befitting its status as Scotland's supreme criminal court: a murder sentencing, the start of a high-profile youth murder trial, and a serious organised crime…...
Neo-Nazi flags over St Enoch Square: how Tuesday's protest took Glasgow by surprise
2+ week, 6+ day ago (178+ words) But as men dressed in black jeered at Hamza " who is visibly South Asian " through the window, he didn't have any context. He just knew that it was "scary. One of those local updates was posted an hour later by…...
Union Corner: no construction at gap site for "five or six years
3+ week, 2+ day ago (624+ words) The Glasgow Bell Union Corner: no construction at gap site for "five or six years" Plus, lonely carps club: Queen"s Park koi looking for forever pond Dear readers, we hope you enjoyed your weekends in spite of the dreich…...
The cowboys of Cowlairs
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (248+ words) Well can you come out then?" I push. But eventually, curiosity wins out. Within minutes, three boys emerge from the camp laughing amongst themselves. My first interaction with the Cowlairs cowboys (actually teenagers) is when two of them on a…...