By Heather Carrick and Lauren Gilmour ENTRIES for the Times Talent competition have now closed, but we continue to take a look at four more contestants including a rapping Grandad. The contest, sponsored by food delivery company Foodhub has seen entries from people of all ages with a variety of talents throw their hat into the ring. Entries will now be longlisted down to 20 with the public being asked to vote as of next week. One contestant hoping to bring a smile to people’s faces is former postie, Joe McMonagle, 61.
Joe McMonagle The Milton Grandad decided he would start learning to play the guitar three years ago after forty years of putting it off . He said: “There’s a wee local music group up in Milton and for forty-odd years I wanted to play the guitar and never got round to it.
THE foundation of the United States of America was disastrous for the Tobacco Lords of Glasgow, some of whom lost their plantations in the new country, but it forced the city fathers to address the issue of the lack of manufacturing capacity in and around Glasgow. There was a wide variety of products made in Glasgow just before the American Revolution which showed the change that was occurring in the city over the space of 30 years. Alexander ‘Jupiter’ Carlyle wrote in his famous memoirs that in the year 1744: “There were not manufacturers sufficient,” either there or at Paisley, to supply an outward-bound cargo for Virginia.
Yesterday, Glasgow City Council closed recycling centres due to the bad weather, but the local authority has announced that the centres will be open as normal today. Update (Wed 10 Feb) All Household Waste Recycling Centres are open as normal today. Please only travel if your journey is essential and it is safe to do so. https://t.co/cX979fk7XX Glasgow City Council #StayHome (@GlasgowCC) February 10, 2021
Last November, the deadline for bids was extended to allow developers more time due to Covid restrictions. It is the Glasgow Times understanding that the new deadline for bids will be at the end of next week. Campaigners who want the land retained for social housing have begun an occupation of the site and are preparing for a stand-off. Living Rent want to prevent the sale of the land to any private developer. Their argument is land that was previously social housing should only be used for social housing in the future. Meanwhile the council says that mixed tenure is the successful model that supports sustainable communities across the city.
Glasgow restaurateur Lee Conetta at home near Lanark. STY .Pic Gordon Terris/Glasgow Times.18/11/20. EVERYONE has a story to tell. Over the decades, running some of Glasgow’s best-loved restaurants, Lee Conetta has heard her fair share of them. “I learned a lot working in the east end, at the Briggait, in Cambuslang – all over the city,” she explains. “I met many wonderful characters, and I learned a lot about Glasgow and her people. Most of all, I learned every person is a life, every person has a story to tell.” Meet the woman behind the Glasgow Times’ exciting new food column, Cooking with Mrs Conetta. Each fortnight, starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 28) she will be sharing one of her favourite recipes with our readers alongside some moving, funny anecdotes about life as part of the city’s ‘food royalty’.