Evening Times

Stations Plan Puts Trains On the Right Lines

TRANSPORT bosses' plans to invest GBP20million in six new railway stations will be money well spent. Anyone who travels on packed peak-hour trains, in particular, can see the demand is there.

Flights Boost Will Keep Airport On Top

THE news that Glasgow Airport is to get five more winter routes is certainly welcome. BAA has invested in recent years in making the facility more attractive to cut-price operators.

Can We Build the New Las Vegas. . . In Bowling?

LITTLE was stirring in the village of Bowling yesterday - until, that is, you mentioned just one little word: casino. For Bowling has been selected by one of the world's biggest gaming companies as the possible site of a GBP350million casino resort.

Race Is On to Find Who Leaked Relocation Story Political Editor Brian Currie's Holyrood Week

SPORTS Minister Patricia Ferguson is one of the few senior Holyrood politicians who can probably claim never to have leaked a story - unless ordered to by her boss, of course. So the look on her face on Wednesday when she heard the long- awaited confirmation of the relocation of sportscotland to Glasgow had got out could not be misunderstood.

Bid for Outdoor Workers to Get Sun Protection Call for Firms to Help Stop Cancer

TRAFFIC wardens and binmen should be given high factor sun cream to prevent skin cancer, union leaders said today. And they should be out of the sun for up to four hours during the hottest part of a summer's day.

Arts Production Firm Up for Top Prize

THE artistic director of a Glasgowbased arts production firm is in line for a prestigious award. Alina Mirza, boss of Heer Productions and founder of the groundbreaking Pakistani Film, Media & Arts Festival, has been shortlisted for the arts and culture category of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.

Times Past Hat Shop, Buchanan Street, 1938

BEFORE the dawn of the Swinging 60s it was almost unknown for men to go about hatless. While working men wore 'bunnets', and some city toffs plumped for a bowler, middle-class chaps felt more comfortable in a Trilby or an Eden, above.

Turn Kelvingrove Park Over to National Trust

WITH the refurbished Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery soon to reopen, what are the city council's plans for the adjoining Kelvingrove Park? This park should be the city's pride and joy, but it is now heavily vandalised and semi-derelict.

Passengers' Joy at Build Six New Train Moves to Stations Transport Chiefs to Look at Sites for Expansion

TRAIN passengers are in line for a massive boost with six new railway stations planned in the west of Scotland. Transport chiefs want to spend GBP20million on stations in Glasgow at Parkhead, Jordanhill and Millerston.

Cops Net Gbp93,000 of Drugs After Raid On Flat

POLICE raided a flat and found heroin worth GBP83,170, crack cocaine with a street value of GBP10,000, and GBP5800 in cash, a court heard. The drugs, in various weights, some of it in wraps ready to be sold, were found in clothing ina wardrobe and a hall cupboard. Most of the cash was also found in the wardrobe, but some wasontopofatelevision and in clothing.

City Hosts Top Authors

SOME of Glasgow's favourite writers will read from their new works in a city centre bookshop. Waterstone's will host a chance to meet Cutting Room author Louise Welsh, reading from The Bullet Trick at its Sauchiehall Street store on July 25.

City Cooking Session Leaves Princes with Chinese Puzzle

PRINCE Charles and son Harry joked about their recent visit to Glasgow during a television interview with Ant and Dec. The Royal father and his son visited a Get Into Cooking course run by the Prince's Trust at the Larchfield Centre, Govanhill, last month.

Top Pub May Be Shut Over Gbp100,000 Unpaid Rates City Holds Crisis Hearing As Bosses Bid to Get Tough

ONE of Glasgow's most popular bars could be forced to shut over an unpaid rates bill of more than GBP100,000. Now council finance bosses have had enough of Bar Budda on Sauchiehall Street and were today holding a special meeting to argue the case for it to be closed.

Bart Is Top Pick for School Walk

KIDS in Glasgow want cartoon star Bart Simpson to ditch his skateboard and walk them to school, according to new research. Almost a third of school children are looking to inject a bit of attitude into their daily commute by voting the loveable rogue as their most popular pedestrian pal. Bart earned 29-per cent of the vote, while 18-per cent of Glasgow kids wanted Harry Potter to walk with them.

Mp Set to Make a Splash for Charity

GLASGOW MP Ian Davidson will be in deep water next month when he takes the plunge for charity. Mr Davidson, who represents Pollok, will join other Labour MPs in a charity swim against Tory colleagues competing for the Speedo Shield.

I Had to Leave Glasgow. . . It Was Too Mean a City Taggart Star Tells of Day of Terror As He Walked in George Square

TAGGART star Alex Norton today told of the violent incident in George Square that made him decide to quit living in Glasgow. Hespoke out as a new theatre production began of No Mean City, a story of Glasgow violence and knife crime that was adapted for the stage by Norton in the 1980s.

Pupils Scoop Award for Anti-Sectarianism Book Primary Kids Win Trip to Euro Parliament

PUPILS at a Glasgow school have picked up a top award after creating a book they hope will help beat bigotry. Dion Duffy and Christopher McNeil, both 11, and fellow pupils from St Benedict's Primary in Easterhouse, produced the book which scooped a Diamond Award in Glasgow City Council's Education Enterprise Awards.

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My Life Linda Speir

Administrator, Tearfund relief and development charity Where do you live? I'm a daughter of the Rock. I can actually see the Rock from my house in Dumbarton.

This Isn't Just a Football Pitch . . . It's an Ancient Burial Ground

GENERATIONS of young peoplehaveplayedona city football pitch unaware they were running around on an ancient graveyard of nuns and priests. Now a city builder is to turn it into a garden of remembrance as part of a development of 80 two-bedroom flats in Calton.