Empty offices and child ‘directors’: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process
We’ve got to the bottom of that giant banner on the M8 office block
Calum Grewar
Calum joined the Bell full-time in April 2025 and has mapped the city's fires, investigated businesses, and loves telling Glaswegian stories.
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Heroes and villains, Christmas gone quiet and Danish corruption
A writer’s edition from Calum, including ‘complexifying’ stories and a 2026 preview
How to lose friends and house people
This charity says it can solve the city’s homelessness crisis. The council says it’s making it worse.
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Outsider lives on Union Street
Forced out by fire, the city’s fringe people are trying to regroup
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Empty offices and child ‘directors’: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process
We’ve got to the bottom of that giant banner on the M8 office block
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Glasgow's budget day: 'La La Land' or democracy at its best?
Tax rises, rent controls, and free school meals. What the budget means and how it happened.
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Fernhill School owed a parent £1.8m. Then its accounts stopped being filed
The £20k a year Rutherglen private school, overseen by two Scottish hospitality titans, is closing amid a ‘misconduct’ probe
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‘We found out via ticket buyers’: arts orgs scramble to recoup losses after CCA collapse
With no way to contact the insolvent centre, those doing business with them say they’ve been left high and dry
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Inside the final days of the CCA
Shock resignations, ‘absent leadership’ and an 80% drop in cash on hand. What happened?
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When racist graffiti and a stabbing shakes a community, who picks up the pieces?
A tale of struggle, support and resilience in Knightswood
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Heroes and villains, Christmas gone quiet and Danish corruption
A writer’s edition from Calum, including ‘complexifying’ stories and a 2026 preview
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How to lose friends and house people
This charity says it can solve the city’s homelessness crisis. The council says it’s making it worse.
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Your favourite library is sinking
Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?
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Has Glasgow snuffed out problem fireworks?
A dispatch from the city's first firework control zones
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Is this the end for the city’s most controversial homeless shelter?
Homeless Project Scotland’s founder is set on ‘war’ with the council
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Late again: the Easdales' and McGill's 'adverse' accounts
Exclusive analysis by The Bell raises questions over bus company's filings
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'Gas them all': Meet the man behind north Glasgow's saltires
‘Time to look after our own not everyone else’
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Reporting perils, fishing the Kelvin, and more Humble Yum
A summer writer's edition from Calum
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The lucrative land deals closing Glasgow’s bowling clubs
Members stand to pocket big sums from selling up. But local communities aren’t so enthused.
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