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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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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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Will the Woodside Viaduct works ever be completed?
Questions answered about Glasgow's most expensive repairs.
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Tinderbox: a map of Glasgow's many fires
The propensity for so many buildings to catch fire has stoked conspiracy theories galore. Is there anything to them?
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Glasgow’s fires, not finishing Dracula and Humble Yums™
A writer's edition from Calum
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Rumours and ruffled feathers at Glasgow's Peregrine Project
'He's a master manipulator'
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What's going on with the Met Tower?
The tatty pink banner defines Glasgow's skyline. Will it ever see brighter days?
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