Council a credit to students
An initiative by Glasgow City Council will ensure every S1 school pupil will have £10 deposited as a ‘Starter for Ten’ in a credit union account. Councillor Paul Rooney with two of Lochend S1 students...
View ArticleBedroom tax eviction process flawed
A large number of people are being wrongly evicted for rent arrears when part of their arrears has been bedroom tax. In the first case of its kind in Scotland, a tenant in Glasgow was saved from...
View ArticleHelp offered to home owners
GLASGOW HOME OWNERS Thursday 27 February 2014 7pm Jurys Inn Hotel Jamaica Street, Glasgow ALL HOME OWNERS WELCOME Agenda – Campaign strategy + Home owners’ help surgery
View ArticleAnti – Atos campaigners petition Scottish Parliament
A petition asking for Atos to be removed as a sponsor of the 2014 Commonwealth Games moved to the next stage of the Scottish Parliament process without one question being asked of the people presenting...
View ArticleTrained midwives follow from the birth of a nation
Professor Barbara Parfitt (centre) with four of her 178 Bangladeshi ‘daughters’ who are continuing their B.Sc Nursing Studies at Glasgow Caledonian University. The nurses are from left: Popi Rani...
View ArticleNo hullaballoo at hustings – candidates all heard.
In true Presbyterian tradition, all six election candidates for the Glasgow South seat had their say in Cathcart Trinity Church. Each was listened to with respect by the audience of almost 200 people....
View ArticleNo numpties at Glasgow East hustings
On a warm, sunny afternoon in Easterhouse a local Tenants’ Conference ended with a lively hustings with ‘numptie’ and ‘liar’ coming into play. All the candidates for Glasgow East Constituency were...
View ArticleTusc addresses the task ahead
The Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) were ahead of the vote at their hustings meeting in the Jurys Inn Hotel. They are planning for the Scottish elections next year. Each...
View ArticleWipe out for Labour in Glasgow
All of Glasgow Labour MPs were made redundant last night. Each of the city’s seven constituencies voted for the Scottish National Party to represent them at Westminster. But Conservative David Cameron...
View ArticleResults by Constituency
Margaret Curran (in red dress) lost her Glasgow East seat to Natalie McGarry of SNP (in black and white dress) with the biggest swing of the night at 39% Glasgow East showed that 60.31% of the...
View ArticleFAIR HAND OVER CHEQUE
Govan Fair cheque is handed over by Linda Yates to Calvin Lynch who received it on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Care, supervised by Govan Fair Association Vice Chair Sandy Black. The Govan Fair...
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