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

🥔 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.

🔔 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)

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.

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

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.

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. 👇

🍺“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.”

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

🔔 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

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?

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

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.

🔔 If you haven't yet read our insider's report on how the CCA's collapse happened, do it now, as our friends at @theferret.scot report the CCA is being investigated by the charity regulator over "potential financial mismanagement'.

Thanks to the people who spoke to me. I hope you can find new venues soon!

'When staff at the beleaguered Centre for Contemporary Arts logged onto a scheduled Google Meet video call yesterday lunchtime, they had an inkling of what might be coming'. We've got the inside story on the CCA's troubled final days.

Bad news for Sauchiehall St, staff, Glasgow, and Scotland's art scene.

Glasgow Caledonian don't seem to be entertaining the idea of firing him at the moment, as has happened to his cousin in the States. He's been in Scotland for 30 years, so it's an interesting question.

I'm only a wild swimming casual aka summer not winter. But it'd be soo good to take a dip in the city.

Thanks for sharing our piece. Alec Nove sounds like a real one.

Briefing out now: 🏛️ built heritage double-header 🚗 parking: Glasgow's golden goose? 🥘 is Sri Lankan food having a moment? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/parking-cont...

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Briefing out now 🇵🇸 Exclusive: council removes Palestine flags 🔥 Yet another mystery fire 👮‍♂️ A death in police custody www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...

In today's news briefing: 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who's behind a campaign to bring down the Palestine Saltires? 🏚️ Long-awaited good news for displaced Albert Drive residents 🥃 Does Glasgow need a whisky quarter?

This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...

🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...

Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group

Today's briefing: 🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not? 🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse 🤑 Mone money Mone problems 🍷 West End wine bar reviewed www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

In 2008, Glasgow was the third ever city to be honoured with UNESCO's City of Music status. But in recent years, live music venues have struggled. @calumgrewar.bsky.social does a pulse check in our weekend read.

🔔Last few days to apply to join us at The Bell! We’re looking for a full-time editor to steer The Bell through the next stage of its journey. Your job will be to commission and edit gripping, intriguing and exclusive stories that get the whole city talking. glasgowbell.co.uk/were-hiring-...

A man wants to unshackle Govan's Lyceum, this long derelict building, and create a community asset at the heart of this proud part of the city. Or at least that’s his claim. Others aren’t quite so sure of his motives — and have notions of their own. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-lyceum...

I made a map for @glasgowbell.bsky.social about Glasgow's mysterious fires phenomenon. Took quite a bit of work to find ownership info etc but you can interact with it and see who owned what when. Hope you find it useful. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...

"In an ideal world you'd consolidate [Glasgow and Edinburgh] airports into a larger one in Cumbernauld." Cumbernauld to the world. Moya Lothian-McLean spoke to Gareth Dennis for today's Glasgow Bell about the future of Glasgow Airport. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-glasgow-a...

Monday briefing out now! Including: 🇵🇸 Greens councillor proposes the city council back demands that Glasgow Pride to observe BDS guidelines 🏠 Robbie door knocks the Strathbungo sex tenement 📽️ The Eighties documentary depicting Glasgow on the up

Been wondering what's going on with the derelict College of Building and Printing? @calumgrewar.bsky.social attempts to find the answers in his second piece for the Bell, featuring this poetic wee outro

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-rangers-g... My first piece for The Bell. Always open to tip-offs, people!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Five years on from their introduction, are Stalking Protection Orders being used enough?

We've actually gone back to Claire in Catterick for a third time. Since we were last there, her eviction notice has been withdrawn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You might remember Claire who we met earlier in the year - she is facing eviction from the house she and her two boys have called home for 8 years. We met up with her again as she faces a Christmas of uncertainty. Good luck to Claire and her boys.