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The fact the council tends to only respond once it gets complained about on the app or highlighted on the website confirms it isn’t working. The city is being left in a mess as the council simply is not doing its job. It hasn’t been for a long, long time. Whether that is down to the fact the Scottish Government just doesn’t care about Glasgow or whether Glasgow City Council doesn’t have the budget or whether it simply doesn’t really give a c is not acceptable.
Moonk Calder Posted online THE recycle bins on Great George Street in the West End are never emptied often enough and end up overflowing with bags of rubbish left around them.
THIRTY-FIVE businesses in the city centre have united to warn shops may be forced to close if additional government support is not provided during Covid-19. The Glasgow City Centre Small Business Alliance has said jobs and livelihoods will be lost due to long hardship brought on by the global pandemic. The group are calling on the local authority and Scottish Government to give urgent cash support to prevent the area from falling into “further collapse and decay”. Amjid Bashir, who owns Newsbox on Queen Street, said he has been excluded from all financial grants due to the fact his business has been deemed as “essential”.
Alison McRae Well, it has been an unprecedented year – an expression none of us knew would be so heavily used as we started 2020. It has also been a year of new words with Covid-19, furlough, pivot, lockdown, Nightingale hospitals, social distancing and bubbles – the latter with a whole new meaning – all being peppered throughout everyday language. We’ve also experienced a new virtual work life with so many of us working from home. ‘You’re on mute’ has become a regular line as we huddle around one of the many new digital technologies which have been embraced with such vigour and pace – after previously being met with great resistance by many. A global pandemic certainly forced that dial.