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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who “takes out” the Packet Connoisseur gets £5,000, reads a comment under our Instagram post This piece of information was disturbing and threatening, it also explains the reaction I receive when I turn up on the doorstep. Read our latest story below🛎️ www.glasgowbell.co.uk

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's going on with the Southside's most delayed housing project? Read now via the link 🚨 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...

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Inside the Southside’s most ambitious, most delayed housing project

‘A dreadful tale of mismanagement from the word go’: welcome to the Victoria Infirmary

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did Susan Aitken make Glasgow better? It's a mixed picture. But we've got some cold hard numbers to tell her story. Let's start with waste. Under Aitken’s leadership, Glasgow’s street cleanliness score fell drastically. This might have something to do with budget cuts.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Your Monday briefing: 🔥 Coincidence and anti-migrant conspiracy surround the Possilpark fire 🏙️ Will Glasgow consume its neighbours? 🗽 George Square reopens, sort of 🔤 A hot conjugation debate over one of our headlines! (Photo: Paul Sweeney)

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On Saturday, we wrote about some of the behind-the-scenes reasons why the Boxpark-style venue, Clydeside Containers, is delayed. But we were left with a few questions...

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What happened to the Original Louden Tavern on Duke Street?🛎️

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What does that Hebridean legal stooshie have to do with Glasgow? Well, so much of the outrage stems from the legal aid granted for Ms Kellerman, which was applied for by her representatives at the Ethnic Minorities Law Centre which is based on St Vincent Place.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

American Claire Kellerman is suing a volunteer-run community cafe on Bernera after they allegedly refused entry to her black and white dog earlier this year 🛎️ Why is a Glasgow law firm involved? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/bernera-cafe...

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‘Absurd’ island doggy discrimination case being fought from Glasgow

Plus, historic bogs demolished and The Bell's first cartoon

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great fun going on tours of the centre for this piece. Nice to see your city as an outsider would.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Gordon Hart's approach to tour guiding is on the nose, shall we say. "Nice tour, but he called my mother a prostitute" read one review Hart remembers from a friendly Costa Rican family. He didn't really. He was joking. That's part of the deal when you book on a tour in the city centre of Glasgow.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Highlight of career so far: filming Robbie interview a wallaby at dusk. Mr Attenborough I'm available in the next quarter if you need me.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We have extended our summer deal for another 24 hours in hopes to reach our target.. We have only 40 members to go🤞Subscribe now and geet 22% off your first six months. Get a birds eye view of Glasgow with The Bell. Sign up now at www.glasgowbell.co.uk

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Amazing reporting from my colleagues in Manchester

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Truth and fiction entwined over the weekend, as two arrests for sexual offences mingled with rumours spread by a Facebook page about women being held hostage and a “naked man” trying to enter a primary school ... 🔗 The Bell tried to make sense of it all www.glasgowbell.co.uk/royston-spri...

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Royston anti-migrant protest: sifting fact from fiction as Glasgow’s right-wing summer picks up pace

Plus, CCA building goes on sale and ticket drama at the King’s

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🏘️ Where did a £720-a-month one-bed flat jump to £1300 in just 18 months? And where is gentrifying more quickly, Govan or Govanhill? We've made an interactive map of rental costs in Glasgow.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Working on a proper update. With you all shortly.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This year, our colleagues in Sheffield were nominated for the prestigious Paul Foot award - one of the top journalism awards in the country. If you know anyone in the Sheffield area let them know that this is now their best local paper.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Proud that Beth Templeton and I were able to find out exactly who the protestors, who probably wouldn't define themselves as racist, were actually rubbing shoulders with. I think it's important for everyone, would-be attendees as well as locals, to know who's at the centre of these marches.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hamza was manning the till in the St Enoch Square corner shop he works in when the men in balaclavas started pounding on the window. It was around 7.30pm on Tuesday evening and twenty-something Hamza was alone in the shop, with just vapes, sweets and drinks for company.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Why will there be no construction at the Union Corner gap site for at least five years? Plus, Queen’s Park koi are looking for a forever pond as glasshouses to close permanently www.glasgowbell.co.uk/union-corner...

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Union Corner: no construction at gap site for ‘five or six years’

Plus, lonely carps club: Queen’s Park koi looking for forever pond

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"At Cowlairs, I’ve heard tales of bonfires, cars that have been set ablaze and a group of dirt bike racers who’ve carved out paths that stretch over most of the 74-acre park. It’s this unofficial race track which has brought me up here.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My colleagues at The Tribune are up for the Private Eye Paul Foot Award. And for a few weeks, Sheffielders can join The Tribune as members for FREE. Please share this link with your Sheffield friends. Good luck to them!

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Countless break ins, missing jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and sophisticated criminal gangs: the Glasgow gold robbery crisis www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-gold...

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Glasgow’s gold robbery crisis

Indians say they are being targeted by organised criminals, Pakistanis say there’s always an inside man – what’s really going on?

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We've got papers. And we're not afraid to give them out to Sheffielders everywhere. Look out for us to get your copy! Then pledge your support 👇 www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/pledge/

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

When was the last time you were in the Rogano? It's been closed since 2020, but with a resolution to a drawn-out legal battle finally here, could we see it reopen soon? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/rogano-zara-...

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Will Rogano finally reopen after Supreme Court farce?

Plus, embezzling charity boss sentenced and Chinatown transformation

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Jings crivvens it might happen. With Glasgow City Council telling Scot Gov that they favour demolition of the M8 at the Woodside Viaduct, east of Charing Cross, the unthinkable suddenly looks possible. We've heard one alternative is a sort of grand boulevard into the centre.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Over 2,500 pipers left for the trenches of WW1. They would usually go “over the top” first, an act of courage for the troops who followed the music. 500 were reported dead, and 600 injured.

A Highland brigade relieved from duty after the capture of Martinpuich, Battle of the Somme.

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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The name comes from the region’s old exchanges - the Corn Exchange in Leeds, the Wool Exchange in Bradford - places where people met, ideas took shape, and word got around. We’re here to do the same. 🌐 theexchange.news Launching 1st June.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Any readers with friends or family in West Yorkshire? They might like The Exchange!

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Greens and Reform "buzzing" after historic Glasgow breakthrough. Labour feeling "sh*te", Tories sent "back to the drawing board", and SNP dominant. And which Glasgow councillor spotted "two cock and balls" on ballot papers? Here's how a dramatic day of election results unfolded.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Energy difference between Greens and Labour and SNP is palpable

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Can a restaurant be humble while having gold cutlery, waiters in waistcoats, and the option of buying a whole lamb for £350?

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📝 Who'll win Glasgow's newest seat in the north? In 2025, the Scottish parliament decided that parts of the old Holyrood seats of Glasgow Kelvin and Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn should be chopped up and stuck back together in a new seat.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

On 23 October 2025, four days after the daring robbery at the Louvre, Glasgow had ones of its own treasures stolen. We are revealing it to the public for the first time, and police are appealing for any information relating to the theft of the Lipton Cup.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What did you call the part of Union Street that burned down in March? It turns, us calling it "Union Corner" caused a bit of a stir. But who's right? And is it just, "that Irn Bru sign building?" Well... we've got an answer.

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Brilliant piece from Alice Austin in The Bell. The sort of investigation that holds someone to account while also treating them with respect. Makes me wonder whether the various barriers to entry in the DJ/MC scene are what created Kieran Wells the DJ deceiver.

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Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Turns out the writer in me is alive and kicking. The hopeless romantic, not so much. Most honoured to have had a piece about dating when you’re ancient published in @glasgowbell.bsky.social today. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-down-and...

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The down and dirty of dating in your 60s

When her 20 year marriage ends, Mairi Damer finds herself single in Glasgow. How much has romance in the city changed?

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I believe the industry term "impact journalism" was invented for stories like this.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🥔 Five years ago, Jordan McMurrough found God. Then he found spuds. His faith was discovered while living in Tartan Lodge, a hotel for the homeless. This led him to baked potatoes. His shop, Spuddies, is so popular a woman in labour pulled over for one on her way to hospital.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🔔 Another ill-fated Glasgow cultural hub is in its final four days before tenants must sign a new lease or get kicked out. The landlord is the council's City Property, and tenants aren't too happy with them. 🧵 (Photo: Neil Scott)

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Claire @floweringc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

this story is WILD. This office really doesn't make sense as a workspace in a city wth so many other empty offices (the noise and rattle from the M8 will be unavoidable) but this is....utterly wild. Excellent local journalism from the Bell.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Bell: Moving the overtoun window as always. Err bridge.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Cities all over the UK deserve great local journalism, and Leeds is next! Very excited to see our new sister paper slowly taking shape. Check out their early writing and pledge if you can.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

What about the ownership of Union Corner? There's two main landlords at the centre. One is Afton Estates Ltd, who own the unit the vape shop is located in. The other is an offshore company with a trail to Tel Aviv. They own most of Union Corner. 👇

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Union Street fire: what we know and what happens now

Offshore owners and small businesses reel after 12 hours of destruction

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🍺“I recognised her face right away,” my coworker tells me about the night she ordered at our workplace. A busy shift and a dodgy cooler earned us a 2/10 rating, alongside a description of “monstrous head.”

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Adam from Glasgow @1707unsubscribe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Great work by @glasgowbell.bsky.social A recommended read, particularly for Glasgow’s residents. It’s about your money: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/humanitarian...

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Empty offices and child ‘directors’: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process

We’ve got to the bottom of that giant banner on the M8 office block

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🔔 Another major arts hub faces peril, accusations of 'cultural vandalism' 🧵 Also in today's briefing: ✝️ Co-founder of Homeless Project Scotland dies aged 47 🛣️ Is this the end for the M8 at the Woodside Viaduct? Or just a new beginning? Photo: GMAC

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Council tax goes up, free school meals get made, and why Glasgow could be "one catastrophe away from bankruptcy". The city's budget has been set for the next year. So what? Is it tinkering at the edges or a victory for cooperation and democracy?

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calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Really excited to be part of a company growing local journalism across the UK.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Yet another exciting update: We're launching a sister paper in Leeds. Check it out and pledge support for Leeds getting its own quality local newspaper.

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