Empty offices and child ‘directors’: How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process
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Calum Grewar
Calum joined the Bell full-time in April 2025. He's mapped the city's fires, investigated dodgy businesses and tracked the collapse of the CCA.
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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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Ye cannae shove yer granny off a franchised bus
John Swinney thinks Scotland’s buses need reform, but will disgruntled Strathclyde operators divert his plans?
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A night to remember
In Bell HQ, Glasgow’s on the up. But what did our panellists think?
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Did Susan Aitken make Glasgow better?
From rubbish-filled streets to surprising successes: the former council leader by the numbers
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Adulterer? Heretic? Saint? Glasgow's 'rebel reverend' faces judgement day
Brian Casey provided moral leadership in the pandemic. Then the affairs started
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Meet the man meticulously cataloguing Glasgow’s dead
Chris McKay has been logging tombstones across the city for years. Why is he doing it?
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Has Clydeside Containers crashed and burned?
Nathan Sparling promised a ‘first-of-its-kind’ venue. Then came the embezzlement charge
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‘He called my mother a prostitute’: How Glasgow’s tour guides sell our city
Numbers are down, the city centre’s a building site but the guiders are prevailing
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The Bell goes to court!
We like tradition, but sometimes modernity does come up trumps.
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What it’s like reporting on Glasgow’s far-right summer
A writer’s edition from Calum
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Who goes Orange in 2026?
Scotland’s Orange order is on a modern push for Protestantism without sectarianism. At least that’s what they say
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Katy-Anne’s rent jumped 80% in 18 months: is Glasgow getting out of control?
‘My dreams of living on my own are slowly dying’
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Fernhill’s wealthy parents tried to save the school, so why did it still close?
‘We couldn’t get past [Sep Marini’s] firewall’
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Five hours to defend Glasgow's twin city
Mykolaiv is a tough city with a dark sense of humour. Sound familiar?
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Chaos at the school gates: Fernhill enters liquidation, tells staff they won’t be paid
“I apologise… but there’s no money in the bank account”
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