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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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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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Is the River Kelvin’s remarkable regeneration in trouble?
"You get the river you pay for"
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Marooned on Barclays Island
A dispatch from the banking behemoth’s campus. Does it fit in?
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Mackintosh's only church is flammable and unprotected. Why?
Worrying parallels between Queen's Cross and Glasgow School of Art over ignored calls for a fire suppression system
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It’s legendary, but is our music scene out of tune?
A pulse check on Glasgow’s grassroots venues
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More bars, fewer cars: can a new plan bring new life to North Laurieston?
"It doesn't need radical change. Its bones are beautiful"
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How not to buy a house in the Southside
The 'offers over' system is vastly inflating property prices — and predicting gentrification
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