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A quiet Buchanan Street, Glasgow this morning, Tuesday 5th January. Mainland Scotland went into a full national lockdown from midnight last night to try and curtail the spread of the mutated strain of Covid-19. Photograph by Colin Mearns.5 January Living in the heart of Glasgow City Centre has many benefits. From being the hub of many transport links, the array of shops, bars, restaurants and cafes, popular nightlife and even a world-renowned University, Glasgow City Centre truly has a lot to offer any home buyer. It’s much more than just a living destination for students.
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The Steading was a house in which Tim Stead pioneered the use of locally sourced hardwoods rather than imported timber IT was in November 2020 that Nichola Fletcher decided it was all over. After five years of trying to raise money to save for the nation the remarkable home of craftsman and sculptor Tim Stead, the last funding application had been rejected. She and her colleagues on the Tim Stead Trust had reached the end of the line. Stead, who died in 2000 aged just 48, occupies a unique place in Scotland’s cultural landscape. Even those who are familiar with his most famous works – the North Sea Oil Industries Memorial Chapel in Aberdeen’s St Nicholas Kirk, the National Museum of Scotland’s Millennium Clock and the interior of Glasgow’s Cafe Gandolfi – may not know his masterpiece was actually the home he made for his family in the Borders village of Blainslie.
The W Hotel in the St James Quarter. Brands such as SushiSamba restaurant group and Bonnie & Wild are taking sites among cinema and bowling facilities while Salerno will occupy a 3,500 sq ft space on the premium floor. “It is huge, but exciting. We are looking to try to fit in about 130 seats, socially distanced, Ms Fleming said. “We hope to be able to continue with plans to make it fairly communal in the seating, whether or not that has to be spaced out to begin with as the tier system develops. “Hopefully it will be at the tail end of things in the spring next year.”