Scotland's top prosecutor paves way for more hard drug 'shooting galleries' for junkies despite claims pilot site has fuelled crime and used needle littering

found 2025 › May › 07 (Wed) @ 12:50 UTC

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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC told MPs there was 'no reason' why more consumption rooms could not be created, after a three-year pilot scheme was launched in Glasgow.

More than 100 residents form human chain to 'hug' bowling green in bid to protect the 'only green space' from developers

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 16:10 UTC

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Furious locals held hands to create a ring around the site in Carmunnock Road, Glasgow, to show their outrage at blueprints to rid them of their 'only green space'.

Dying Syrian grandmother allowed to come to UK in Home Office U-turn

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 10:35 UTC

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Soaad Al Shawa had been barred from spending final days with her family, who fled Damascus to settle in Glasgow

A Syrian grandmother who is dying of cancer has been given permission to come to the UK …

Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyond

Eco-anxiety is not an official medical diagnosis, but everyone knows what it mea…

I spent £5,000 on a mummy makeover after I was turned away from a rollercoaster in Benidorm

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 11:10 UTC

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Carla White, 33, from Glasgow, was left crying at the bottom of a rollercoaster on a family holiday and it was that ordeal that pushed the mother-of-one to lose weight.

How gangland hitmen are firebombing homes and terrorising the streets of a UK city as ex-undercover detective warns 'organised crime has taken over'

found 2025 › Apr › 27 (Sun) @ 12:55 UTC

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EXCLUSIVE: Former undercover police officer Simon McLean, 66, who infiltrated the Glasgow mobs, told MailOnline that 'organised crime has taken over' the city.

The dos and don’ts of good petiquette: four cardinal rules for dog owners

found 2025 › Apr › 26 (Sat) @ 12:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Dog walks can be a fraught time for both humans and their unruly friends, but follow these well-learned good behaviours and you’ll be the envy of the park

Across the hours of the day and the seasons o…

Mother calls police on her son after he leaves home with a knife in his sock

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 09:20 UTC

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Neil McDonald, 48, was arrested on Aikenhead Road, Glasgow, at around 2pm on May 24, 2024, after cops received his mother's concerned phone call.

Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 08:10 UTC

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As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases

P…

‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 04:35 UTC

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Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

Last year in early summer, Alex Glasgow could be seen hauling up a long string of orangey-black se…