A hectic day with Glasgow’s last court reporters
Thirty courtrooms, endless case loads and two dogged journalists
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Glasgow’s sandstone is beautiful. But can it last?
'Even the Alps will end up in the sea'. The same forces are at work in Glasgow
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The £1m tax avoidance scheme and the case of the talking raccoon
Taking you deeper into the strange world of a charity, major landlords, and empty offices in Glasgow
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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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The story of Glasgow’s murder mile in eight unsolved cases
The Gorbals has the most unsolved homicides in Scotland. Why?
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The motorway drove two friends apart. Half a century on, they reunited
Long lost pals, the M8’s destructive path and a drunken punch up
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Carnarvon Street co-op was women-only for 35 years. Then a man moved in
“Plonking a male into the close is bonkers.”
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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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Interview with the paedophile hunter
Oliver Braid was a rising star in the art world. Then he packed it all in to become a vigilante.
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Marooned on Barclays Island
A dispatch from the banking behemoth’s campus. Does it fit in?
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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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The last days of Glasgow Zoo
It's hard to believe now, but tigers once roamed a site off Baillieston Road
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Glasgow beat its youth violence reputation once. Can it do it again?
Recent increases in violence among the city’s youth are concerning. But the blueprint for change remains
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Paramilitaries, King Billy tattoos and a racist murder in Woodlands
What can a senseless killing from 1975 tell us about the fight against fascism today?
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The ghosts of Glasgow
A quest for answers about family links to the city leads to unpleasant personal truths for one writer
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Flourish House’s radical work ‘saves lives’. So why is the city cutting its funding?
'You’re expected to work to survive, but here we’re working to build a community’
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