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Robbie Armstrong
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These are our six campaign pledges - the things we will do next year if we manage to add 1,000 new members. They were chosen by our readers because they’re things we believe will make Manchester better.

Share them and join the campaign 🙏

manchestermill.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
In today's news briefing:

🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who's behind a campaign to bring down the Palestine Saltires?
🏚️ Long-awaited good news for displaced Albert Drive residents
🥃 Does Glasgow need a whisky quarter?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
This morning we sent Calum to a primary school picket to see why English lessons are stoking community tension👇
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/dalmarnock-f...
School protests and anti-migrant paranoia in Dalmarnock
Plus, the well hidden beneath Glasgow Cathedral for centuries
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
This week's briefing features:

🚌 Spinning wheels and bus fires
😠 Sauchiehall Street takes a Brillo bashing
🎨 The Glasgow Style revisited
💩 A jobby geyser sh*temare
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/easdales-mcg...
Are the Easdales spinning their way out of a bus fire crisis?
Plus: jobby geysers, Sauchiehall takes a Brillo bashing and Glasgow Style revisited
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
The M8 separated two childhood best friends, but it couldn't keep them apart forever. This is the story of how Robin and Brian rekindled their friendship, fifty years on.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/m8-motorway-...
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
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Today's briefing:
🏨 Victoria Infirmary flats, ready or not?
🌳 The green investors moving into the Lighthouse
🤑 Mone money Mone problems
🍷 West End wine bar reviewed

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/victoria-inf...
What’s going on at the Victoria Infirmary development?
Plus, the Lighthouse's new residents, dodgy taxes and wine reviews
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Monday briefing out now. Featuring:

🥬 The inside scoop on Your Party’s Green defectors
🔫 Gang wars latest
🎤 James English in the New Yorker
🌶️ Glasgow’s top dosa
🚲 Cycling charity on the brink
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/why-did-the-...
Why did the Green defectors jump ship to Your Party?
Plus, James English in the New Yorker, a cycling charity on the brink and Glasgow gangsters told to leave Dubai
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Is Govan Glasgow’s secret economic powerhouse?
An exploration of the past, present and future southwest of the Clyde
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/govan-econom...
What can Govan’s past tells us about its economic present?
A blueprint for a sunnier Govan
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring:

📻 More drama at BBC Scotland
💊 Scotland’s first drug-testing spot
🇵🇸 Flag wars continue to rage
🍽️ Corner Shop review
🚢 Historic ship sunk
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/is-this-the-...
Is this the end for Kaye Adams?
Plus: flag wars rage, a hipster corner shop and Scotland’s first drug-testing facility
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Fourwalls co-operative has been in Woodlands for nearly 40 years. But now, a giant landlord and a new male resident threaten to change the feminist co-living sanctuary forever.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/feminist-coo...
Can a radical feminist housing co-op survive in 2025?
“Plonking a male into the close is bonkers.”
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
This week’s Bell briefing is out! Featuring:

🚩 A new player in Glasgow’s flag wars
👙 The fall of Michelle Mone
🤼 A new wrestling promoter enters the ring
🇮🇪 The academic and the undercover IRA agent
🥙 The unstoppable rise of Shawarma King
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/palestine-sa...
Flag wars: a new player enters the game
Palestine-Saltires, the secret IRA agent and that bra lady's dodgy garments
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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TikTok embezzlers, outlaw leaders and a five year Scottish Canals dispute: welcome to the wild west of magnet fishing in Glasgow’s waterways [ @robbiejourno.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social ]
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/magnet-fishi...
Magnet fishing is supposed to be a wholesome hobby. Why all the beef?
TikTok embezzlers, outlaw leaders and a five year Scottish Canals dispute: welcome to the wild west of Glasgow’s waterways
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
But in recent months one of the city’s long-standing jokes has turned much more sinister. After 30 years as a Dundas Street institution, is Best Kebab’s relationship with Glasgow’s citizens turning toxic?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...
The tragedy of Best Kebab
TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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rjm.bsky.social
Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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pegerteg.bsky.social
Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...
The tragedy of Best Kebab
TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...
The tragedy of Best Kebab
TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...
'Newspaper war’ on campus
The plucky student paper courting controversy at the University of Glasgow
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
'Gas them all'

'Time to look after our own not everyone else'

We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tartan-team-...
'Gas them all': Meet the man behind north Glasgow's saltires
‘Time to look after our own not everyone else’
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Read all about it in our Monday Briefing.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/saltire-rais...
The neo-Nazi raising the saltire across Glasgow
Plus, community saunas, dirty diggers and spicy noods
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-...

Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:
a map of lines snaking across central Glasgow, including a new tunnel across the Clyde between Central station and Tradeston
August 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Read all of our Monday briefing for free, here 👇

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaza-student...
Firebombing, the Big Yin and a Gazan student's plight
Plus, hospitality gossip and the "curryspondent"
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies.

🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?

🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM