Sir Chris Hoy is aiding a Scots charity in their campaign to raise £1m for the construction of homelessness villages in Glasgow and London. The campaign called Break the Cycle has been launched by Social Bite and will see the six-time Olympic champion accompany 1,000 fellow cyclists on a 60-mile charity bike ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh. All money raised from the event on Sunday, September 5 will go towards creating two highly supported communities to help people affected by homelessness to build an independent life, with the help of engineering firm Arup. Sir Chris Hoy said: “I have seen the impact of the funds raised and I am passionate about supporting the bold approach to breaking the cycle of homelessness.
Plea to stop investing in fossil fuels GLASGOW councillors are backing calls for the Strathclyde Pension Fund to end their support in fossil fuel firms after campaigners revealed investments of more than £508m. Councillors from the SNP, Labour and Greens spoke out after a new report showed that Strathclyde Pension Fund has invested over £508 million in fossil fuel projects in the 2019/2020 financial year, comprising 2.24% of the fund’s value. Campaigners and local government representatives are stressing that as the host of the UN climate conference, Glasgow must show greater climate leadership and take swifter and bolder action to end Strathclyde Pension Fund’s fossil fuel investments.
I’M sick of reading constant moans from readers. I want to spread some positivity and thank all the key workers who have been working so hard during the pandemic. The shop workers who have kept going despite facing abuse from shoppers who refuse to wear face masks. The bus drivers who turn up every day despite many buses being half empty. The postal workers and couriers who deliver our parcels with a smile on their faces. Well done to the workers across the country who are keeping going despite the uncertainty caused by the pandemic. I just hope we can have some sort of normality by the summer.
IT IS a famous saying - the Clyde made Glasgow and Glasgow made the Clyde . The success of the River Clyde in the 17th and 18th centuries was down to the city s location facing the Americas. Merchants began to make commercial links and Glasgow became the international centre for the tobacco trade. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean-going ships and in 1662, Glasgow Council purchased land and built harbours where there was deeper water, at what would become Port Glasgow. There was mounting pressure to deepen the river so that large boats could reach the city. In 1759 the first of many Acts of Parliament was passed, giving town councillors the powers ‘to cleanse, scour, straighten and improve’ the Clyde between Glasgow Bridge and Dumbuck Ford near Dumbarton.