26th October 2019
Ben Coulson Reporter Glasgow City Council has launched a communities fund worth more than £60m that aims to tackle inequality and poverty across the city. The initiative is led by the principle that communities are best placed to identify needs and deliver solutions that meet their requirements. The fund plans to empower individuals and ...
26th October 2019
Ella Mayne Writer University is the first tiptoe in many people’s journeys into independent living, which comes with a whole host of unfamiliar challenges. For many, a big step is cooking for themselves every day. We arrive at uni with piles of pots and pans, armed with an IKEA set of plates and a razor-sharp ...
24th October 2019
Katarína Laurošková Writer It’s Wednesday evening and it’s slowly getting dark outside. I’m sitting in Waterstones on Argyle Street to attend a book talk for a new short horror stories collection by Glaswegian author Kirsty Logan. To begin with, Logan reads an excerpt from the book. The first story is of two boys – twins, ...
24th October 2019
Laurie Clarke Production Manager A transphobic sign in the female toilet of the music department has been disavowed by the University of Glasgow. The sign was first spotted on campus yesterday and has now been removed. The sign read: “This is a Female Toilet. If you don’t qualify as Female, please use the Gents toilet ...
24th October 2019
Morgan Carpenter Writer Government funding for universities in Scotland may have disproportionately affected newer universities with smaller pools of income, according to a report. A report published by Audit Scotland last month stated that the Scottish Funding Council pulled back funding when universities “delivered less than the agreed volume of teaching activity.” The report also ...
24th October 2019
Hailie Pentleton Writer It’s 12am. I turn to my friend, her face a blurry haze, and yell “How on earth am I going to make my 9am tomorrow?” She smiles and raises her eyebrows as if to say, “God knows”. I make it to my bed around 3am. If, like me, you’ve decided to turn ...
24th October 2019
Riordan and Rowling: two authors responsible for the creation of two completely different universes. Harry Potter far outsells the Percy Jackson series, with Rowling having sold 500m copies worldwide which considerably outshines Riordan’s 20m. In terms of representation, however, the Percy Jackson series has been far more successful in effectively portraying characters in minority groups. ...
24th October 2019
Rachel Stamford News Editor Glasgow has been ranked the top city in Europe for graduates, according to a recent analysis. Resume.io, a resume-building company, analysed rent levels, cost of living, the economy, the local graduate community, sports and fitness facilities and local culture using data from European Commission’s Eurostat program and Numbeo. Glasgow ranked the ...
24th October 2019
Michael Craig Writer American television aficionados may know him as Jack Bauer in the action-packed 24, or President Tom Kirkman in political thriller Designated Survivor. Cult film fanatics may recognise him as the vampiric overlord from 80’s classic The Lost Boys. But at the Old Fruitmarket on Wednesday evening, Kiefer Sutherland was very much himself ...
24th October 2019
Joanne Krus Deputy News Editor Hundreds of videos have been removed from accounts, but Street Attraction said they were for educational purposes only. YouTube has removed hundreds of videos from accounts linked to Adnan Ahmed, also known as Addy A-Game, and Street Attraction, on the basis that these videos violate YouTube’s rules on nudity and ...
