🎆 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. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/fireworks-co...

🔔 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 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/castlehill-c...

Why did a 140-year-old pet shop close down, and what happened to the animals? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/thomas-hays-...

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 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/why-did-the-...

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.

The victims of Scotland’s last mass witch hunt are far from forgotten in Renfrewshire today. Meet the folks keeping their memory alive👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/remembering-...

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?

Is Govan Glasgow’s secret economic powerhouse? An exploration of the past, present and future southwest of the Clyde www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-econom...

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/

A load of Polloks: who messed up the Southside station names? Catch up on our weekend read 🚂 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/pollok-south...

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 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-this-the-...

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. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...

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 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...

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

🔔 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.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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-...

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.

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).

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).

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.

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

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...

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

Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...

'Gas them all' 'Time to look after our own not everyone else' We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tartan-team-...

You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.

🔔 Follow me up Carmunnock Road and we’ll end up at Mount Florida Bowling Club. The gates are locked and the foliage is dense. This has been the state of affairs for six years. Believe it or not, in the late 2010s, both Cathcart and Mount Florida were in the same sinking boat.

We're delighted to announce that the former Senior Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Cameron Barr, has joined our central editorial team in Manchester as Investigations Editor. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies. 🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on? 🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.

I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-... Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:

Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic? Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city. Here are his favourites.

"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.

Have Glasgow’s ‘worst’ event promoters struck again? It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern? Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats.

St Paul’s Parish Church started the youth forum in 1994 to give young people in Blackhill a safe place to hang out and keep them off the streets. Since 2006, their co-ordinated efforts have seen gang-related violence in the area drop by 97%.

“Braid delights in slowly trapping the men with their own words, steadily tightening his grip as he reveals each grim detail and piece of evidence.” So why did Braid throw a successful career away to become a vigilante? @robbiejourno.bsky.social is on the case www.glasgowbell.co.uk/paedophile-h...

Why has the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society not acted on a report detailing which fire suppression system could best protect Toshie's only church - which is filled with original timber furniture? Read full article below

If God does exist, it’s impossible to imagine why he would smite a man like softly-spoken musician, Pete MacDonald. Yet, over the past five years, MacDonald has faced fire, the demolition of his home & hundreds of thousands in unexpected costs.

Also in today's Glasgow in Brief - exclusively for newsletter subscribers: are Police Scotland the UK only force to be pressing charges under the Terrorism Act, for support of Palestine Action? Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.

If God does exist, it’s impossible to imagine why he would smite a man like softly-spoken musician, Pete MacDonald. Yet, over the past five years, MacDonald has faced fire, the demolition of his home & hundreds of thousands in unexpected costs.

🏛️ The owner of the Egyptian Halls has told The Bell he is fighting the council's CPO decision 🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee" 🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam

Being a member of the Union Bears and Green Brigade is about rivalry and conflict – but it’s also one of the few spaces where young men feel part of a community. Danny Macpherson’s essay on ultras culture in Glasgow👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/how-glasgow-...

Thin-skinned, aye. But billionaire, I wouldn't be so certain, Ross ... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-easdale-...