The Glasgow Bell

The Glasgow Bell has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in October 2024. Resources glasgowbell has populated their site with include: • Play to win: despite bingo being in decline, Glaswegians remain defiantly marking their cards • Glasgow's reinvention has stalled. Can we rekindle it? • Women’s football is gaining popularity across Glasgow. Are old rivalries heating up too? • Rethinking rain in the UK's soggiest city • The high rise and steep fall of Glasgow's Brutalist buildings • The last boat left afloat on the Clyde • Glasgow is filled with empty offices. So why is there a workspace crisis? • Sign up to The Bell • Give the gift of quality journalism • We’re hiring: Staff writer on The Bell • Buy tickets – Has Glasgow City Centre escaped the doom loop? – St George's Tron Church of Scotland • A hectic day with Glasgow’s last court reporters • The Battle of Langside’s koi • Inside the Southside’s most ambitious, most delayed housing project • Buy tickets to our event - Is Glasgow finally on the up? Thursday 15 October • Why did Thatcher try to drag down Sighthill’s standing stones? • Firing, rehiring and conspiring: unpacking the chaos at Glasgow City Council • Claim your free membership • Thistle’s crown of thorns: the holiest team in Scottish football • Buy tickets – The Bell presents: A Great Big Christmas Quiz – Dram, 232 Woodlands Rd • Did Susan Aitken make Glasgow better? • Tinderbox: the Glasgow fires map • Seven days after a parent bought Fernhill private school, it caught fire • The Scottish cocaine influencer who wound up homeless in Latin America • Possil tenement fire: coincidence and conspiracy • Meet the man meticulously cataloguing Glasgow’s dead • ‘Where has our money went?’: £144K down, this high street is at war • A bankruptcy body blow to Clydeside Containers • Who killed Louden? How one of Glasgow’s most infamous pubs met its end • ‘Absurd’ island doggy discrimination case being fought from Glasgow • Could this decrepit medieval tower become a five-star wedding venue? • ‘He called my mother a prostitute’: How Glasgow’s tour guides sell our city • Touchdown and out with the Glasgow Tartans • The winners and losers in Glasgow’s equal pay dispute • ‘Chaos’ at Tony Macaroni but has Sep Marini found an escape hatch? • Does Glasgow really get preferential treatment from the Scottish Government? • The best seat at the Barrowlands is behind the bar • The Daily Record has a far right problem • The Bell versus the most important man in Scottish music • The billionaire, the BBC broadcaster and the wallabies of Loch Lomond • 'Stop the sale': the fight to stop the CCA archive being flogged • Is Mr. Tony Macaroni in trouble? • King Tut's: Glasgow's venues are meant to make stars. But are its promoters breaking them? • Read our latest story • The great mayor debate • Pride and profitability: who owns Glasgow Pride? • What it’s like reporting on Glasgow’s far-right summer • Police called to more sexual assault demos as MSP rails against 'mass illegal migration' • No money, no buzz and just 18 months: how Glasgow built an impossible Commonwealth Games • Why was one of Scotland’s finest churches sold to a secretive religious sect? • Katy-Anne’s rent jumped 80% in 18 months: is Glasgow’s rent out of control? • Painting Glasgow back to life • Fernhill’s wealthy parents tried to save the school, so why did it still close? • Chaos at the school gates: Fernhill enters liquidation, tells staff they won’t be paid • How Glasgow watched the game • Neo-Nazi flags over St Enoch Square: how Tuesday’s protest took Glasgow by surprise • Union Corner: no construction at gap site for ‘five or six years’ • Glasgow’s sandstone is beautiful. But can it last? • The cowboys of Cowlairs • Glasgow School of Art hacked, or was it? • Glasgow: the worst city to find an allotment in the UK • Glasgow’s gold robbery crisis • Will Rogano finally reopen after Supreme Court farce? • The fleeting life of the club that birthed indie music • Easdales climb the rich list while backing an embattled Sarwar • Glasgow’s lost bagpipe sound: did going over the top change pipes forever? • Meet Reform’s new cheerleader: a rightwing Only Fans influencer who thinks Southside voters are ‘f*cking c*nts’ • 'Monumental' vs 'sh*te': down to the wire with Glasgow's Holyrood hopefuls • Has Laurieston invented the perfect restaurant? • How the north/south divide could decide Glasgow's newest constituency • Will the Greens surge or stumble in Glasgow Southside? • Exclusive: Heist at the Riverside Museum as tea magnate’s historic gold trophy stolen • Why is Strathclyde Pension Fund still profiting from fossil fuels? • There are two Gallowgates — but you can only get injera at one of them • Union Corner or Forsyth House: what was the building really called? • Holyrood elections: party pledges and seats to watch • A fragile ceasefire at Celtic Park • Spinning lies: the man deceiving Glasgow's DJs • ‘Decapitated’: is the Lyons gang finished? • What should fill the Union Corner gap? • The down and dirty of dating in your 60s • Staff walkouts and ‘stolen’ recipes: the bizarre case of SugarFall Patisserie • The West End influencer with a line to Iran's exiled prince • Two hour queues for tatties: why is Glasgow going mad for spuds? • Four days left to save Trongate 103 • Debunking Dumbarton’s doggy suicide bridge • The £1m tax avoidance scheme and the case of the talking raccoon • Langside Halls set to reopen at last • Outsider lives on Union Street • Who owns 105 Union Street? A journey into the rabbit warren • Union Street fire: what we know and what happens now • Is Glasgow's top Guinness influencer the scourge of pubs or their saviour? • ‘Cultural vandalism’: major arts hub kicked out by council’s property company • Empty offices and child ‘directors’: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process • Glasgow's budget day: 'La La Land' or democracy at its best? • Proxy war in Possil? Glasgow's heritage bigwigs are clashing over a cinema • The cult book that claims to unlock prehistoric Glasgow • A £12m shortfall at the People’s Palace renovation, or just a fundraising target? • Fernhill School owed a parent £1.8m. Then its accounts stopped being filed • Crabshakk meltdowns, the best podcasts for spring and Glasgow’s glow up • Gaelic’s popularity in Glasgow is a lifeline — but has it come at a cost? • ‘We found out via ticket buyers’: arts orgs scramble to recoup losses after CCA collapse • The CCA goes bust, entering liquidation • How it all went wrong at Glasgow’s super hospital • Make Glasgow Swimmable Again • When racist graffiti and a stabbing shakes a community, who picks up the pieces? • CCA chair resigns and the Easdales enter politics • The many lives (and near-death) of Scott Agnew • Glasgow’s Gorbachev go-between • The car is king, but for how much longer? • Is Glasgow’s glorious water under threat? • The people keeping Glasgow going over Christmas • How a policeman’s 1920s photo album became one of Glasgow’s most unique hidden archives • Heroes and villains, Christmas gone quiet and Danish corruption • Southside opposition to parking controls is real and won’t go away • Another mystery fire, and who took down the Palestine flags? • Has Paesano Pizza passed its peak? • Why is an Israel advocacy group trying to get the Palestine-Saltires banned? • How to lose friends and house people • Glasgow’s flag wars go global • School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock • The story of Glasgow’s murder mile in eight unsolved cases • The cone ranger, AI agents and what makes us human • Are the Easdales spinning their way out of a bus fire crisis? • The motorway drove two friends apart. Half a century on, they reunited • Your favourite library is sinking • What’s going on at the Victoria Infirmary development? • Has Glasgow snuffed out problem fireworks? • The Men Who Raised the Flags • The last days of Thomas Hays Pet and Aquarium Corner • Renfrewshire's murdered witches refuse to rest • Govan is the secret economic engine of Glasgow. Do locals benefit? • Who Polloksed up the Southside’s station names? • Can a radical feminist housing co-op survive in 2025? • Flag wars: a new player enters the game • When the Ministry of Defence came to Glasgow • Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter? • Homeless Project Scotland v the council • Claypits and Blue Tits • Late again: the Easdales' and McGill's 'adverse' accounts • The Bell's first birthday and city centre Cineworld shuts • What went wrong for Glasgow's exclusive members club? • It's aye pulling ye back • 'Mr Big', Gazan students, and a whisky weekend • The tragedy of Best Kebab • 'Newspaper war’ on campus • 'Gas them all': Meet the man behind north Glasgow's saltires • Reporting perils, fishing the Kelvin, and more Humble Yum • The neo-Nazi raising the saltire across Glasgow • The war on dugs • The lucrative land deals closing Glasgow’s bowling clubs • T in the Park 1995 and Glasgow’s Weekend of Mayhem • Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic? • Is the River Kelvin’s remarkable regeneration in trouble? • Growing hope in Glasgow's most isolated community • Interview with the paedophile hunter • Marrooned on Barclays Island • Crisis at the CCA • Why is Mackintosh's only church flammable and unprotected? • All Springburn Park had left was the pitch. Has that gone too? • The anatomy of a fall at Albert Cross • Egyptian Halls owner says he’ll fight council’s compulsory purchase order • How Glasgow brought football ultras to Britain • How 'the black disease' ravaged Glasgow • Is the media self-censoring over Palestine? • More bars, fewer cars: can a new plan bring new life to North Laurieston? • How fake news and an anti-immigrant agenda rocked Royston • Neil almost lost everything. Now he’s showing tourists a hidden side of the city • Six years ago Glasgow settled its equal pay problem. Except it didn't • What’s going on at the University of West Scotland? • How not to buy a house in the Southside • The last days of Glasgow Zoo • Glasgow's pizzas: a highly subjective but absolutely definitive ranking • Glasgow beat its youth violence reputation once. Can it do it again? • Will the Woodside Viaduct works ever be completed? • Jim MacNee's wife got sick. So he taught pigeons to play football • Paramilitaries, King Billy tattoos and a racist murder in Woodlands • Is Mohammad Choudhry going to save Govan's Lyceum Cinema — or ruin it? • Tinderbox: the Glasgow Fire Theory • The fridge magnate and the football club • Glasgow’s fires, not finishing Dracula and Humble Yums™ • All aboard the Paisley party train • Peregrine man vs the 'master manipulator' • Is Glasgow airport doomed? • The UK's most important avant-garde music festival is in a Maryhill community hall • What's going on with the Met Tower? • We’re hiring an editor for The Bell • Flourish House’s radical work ‘saves lives’. So why is the city cutting its funding? • A murder in Springburn • Is Rangers going MAGA? • Is it time to move on from Mackintosh? • The Greenock man standing between veterans and life on the streets • Speedway: the sport that's fast, furious — and on the brink of fading away • This photographer captured Glasgow for 30 years. What’s changed? • The man who refuses to let the Apollo die • Pews it or lose it: the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is at war • Support independent journalism today: sign up • A day doon the Clyde, meditations on social media and sandwich philosophy • What really happened to Africa House? • Has Dennistoun ‘come up’ yet? • £60,000 in unpaid rent and an 'absolute worm' of a boss: welcome to Escape Reality • Paul Sweeney, Springburn missionary • Dalmarnock residents were promised a gleaming village. Now it's a fly tip • The secret spots delivery riders go to eat • Conspiracies, closed doors and conflict: where’s Castlemilk’s supermarket? • The £30k war over Cathkin Park • The most prolific theatre company in Europe? It’s on Byres Road • The Chessmaster of Woodlands Road • We're Scotland’s economic powerhouse. Why doesn’t it feel like it? • How Glasgow made jazz cool again • James O'Connor's lonely goodbye • Magnet fishing is supposed to be a wholesome hobby. Why all the beef? • 'The Locksmith is coming for you all': Glasgow’s anti-cyclist vigilante • Exclusive: post-Budget fallout as Glasgow councillors slam 'calculated' leaks • The secret ‘smart-canal’ trying to solve Glasgow’s housing crisis • Can Glasgow get a handle on its potholes? • Why can’t Glasgow just buy back its old buildings? • Will Glasgow gobble up what Michelin has to offer? • For over 50 years, Kizzy has read Glasgow's future. Who is she? • Glasgow council trials a new penpal strategy to tackle the housing crisis • Crack pipes and viral TikToks: the gospel of The Streets • The defector: Reform UK's first in-road into Glasgow • Will Glasgow ever get rid of its riddy? • 'Oh aye, let’s go to the bingo in Barlinnie’ • One foot in the grave • Monday briefing: Glasgow’s last Conservative? • We’re hiring a new reporter • What happened to the Scots who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War? • Glasgow's other football club • Was Limmy behind one of Glasgow's most notorious websites? • Photographing a disappearing generation of Glasgow market traders • Does the West of Scotland man really exist? • Glasgow is the biggest backer of the new tipping bill — but does it really benefit the workers? • A blueprint for Glasgow’s rail future • tTthe rocky politics of Glasgow's hills • Free: Shipbuilders of the Clyde, reunite! • Members only: The groups keeping Glasgow's parks afloat • Glasgow's asylum crisis stokes unsavoury tensions • Should Glasgow's suburbs subsidise the city? • Members only: Syncing up Glasgow’s buses, trains and subway • Members only: 'The named people in the history of Glasgow are a disgrace' • Maryhill is sick of the status quo. So who are they meant to vote for? • Members only: The court battles blocking The Mack's rebirth • Can the Clyde become a person? • Join our paying members now • Fighter, grafter, shagger: this is Trackie McLeod's all-caps universe • Glasgow’s oldest street is falling apart. Who’s responsible? • How Glasgow's young teams got happy for hardcore • The wrap game: how the shawarma ate Glasgow • The Easdale brothers want everyone to know they are billionaires. Are they?