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The organisers behind Mardi-Gla said they were fed up with Pride Glasgow being run by a "small group" who "made all the decisions". Pride Glasgow sent over a legal warning for Mardi-Gla to cease their alleged attempts at becoming the main Pride. But Mardi-Gla won.

In the past six years, the city's biggest Pride event has been run by at least three different groups. In 2019 and 2022, two rival Prides duked it out for dominance: Pride Glasgow and Mardi-Gla. Pride Glasgow was the longstanding Pride - Mardi-Gla was a new challenger.

🏘️ Where did a £720-a-month one-bed flat jump to £1300 in just 18 months? And where is gentrifying more quickly, Govan or Govanhill? We've made an interactive map of rental costs in Glasgow.

🚨 We’re hiring a Senior Editor 🚨 We need an exceptional editorial leader - someone who can edit ambitious journalism, develop writers, and help shape the direction of one of the most exciting teams in British journalism.

Breaking: Fernhill School closes a day early, calls in liquidators, and tells staff they can't pay redundancy pay and no salary for June. Pupil's fun day cancelled last minute as staff describe situation as "farcical". More to come later.

And The Bell can reveal that two flags bearing white supremacist and neo-Nazi symbols were flown in St Enoch Square. But as men dressed in black jeered at Hamza — who is visibly South Asian — through the window, he didn’t have any context. He just knew that it was “scary”.

Hamza was manning the till in the St Enoch Square corner shop he works in when the men in balaclavas started pounding on the window. It was around 7.30pm on Tuesday evening and twenty-something Hamza was alone in the shop, with just vapes, sweets and drinks for company.

"At Cowlairs, I’ve heard tales of bonfires, cars that have been set ablaze and a group of dirt bike racers who’ve carved out paths that stretch over most of the 74-acre park. It’s this unofficial race track which has brought me up here.

Jings crivvens it might happen. With Glasgow City Council telling Scot Gov that they favour demolition of the M8 at the Woodside Viaduct, east of Charing Cross, the unthinkable suddenly looks possible. We've heard one alternative is a sort of grand boulevard into the centre.

Over 2,500 pipers left for the trenches of WW1. They would usually go “over the top” first, an act of courage for the troops who followed the music. 500 were reported dead, and 600 injured.

Got plans on Thursday 4 June? Join us for an important and interesting discussion, featuring council leader Susan Aitken. Get tickets here (they're going fast): www.tickettailor.com/events/millm... Paid members have a discount link in their emails.

Greens and Reform "buzzing" after historic Glasgow breakthrough. Labour feeling "sh*te", Tories sent "back to the drawing board", and SNP dominant. And which Glasgow councillor spotted "two cock and balls" on ballot papers? Here's how a dramatic day of election results unfolded.

Can a restaurant be humble while having gold cutlery, waiters in waistcoats, and the option of buying a whole lamb for £350?

It has three areas in the top 1% most deprived parts of Scotland, and three in the richest 1%. The dividing line is clear. If you follow Maryhill Road or the Kelvin, you’ll see the seat dissected into blue or red clumps of those in the wealthier half of Scotland and those in the less wealthy half.

📝 Who'll win Glasgow's newest seat in the north? In 2025, the Scottish parliament decided that parts of the old Holyrood seats of Glasgow Kelvin and Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn should be chopped up and stuck back together in a new seat.

On 23 October 2025, four days after the daring robbery at the Louvre, Glasgow had ones of its own treasures stolen. We are revealing it to the public for the first time, and police are appealing for any information relating to the theft of the Lipton Cup.

Stroll down to the Barras and you'll see two Gallowgates. One has been there since the 1840s. The other is more recent, and it comes with injera and ginger coffee. Welcome to Little Eritrea.

Publicly, the jury’s still out. The media still alternates between ‘Forsyth House’ and ‘Union Corner’. But, through online sleuthing and enlisting the help of the Mitchell’s finest archivist, we have an answer.

What did you call the part of Union Street that burned down in March? It turns, us calling it "Union Corner" caused a bit of a stir. But who's right? And is it just, "that Irn Bru sign building?" Well... we've got an answer.

“He put a video of him speaking to the camera,” she says. Another DJ sent her frantic messages. “This guy puts these nights on, sells all the tickets, gets all the money, and then days before the event cancels it, and disappears off the radar, taking all the money and leaving all DJs with no gig,”

💽 Renfrewshire DJ ATØN, AKA Amy Hutton, didn’t think much of a message from TECHNO PRODUCTIONS when it landed in her inbox on February 10th 2026. "Hi are you free for a hard techno set 4th July 6th avenue nightclub Stewarton"

🫓 Middle Eastern: Babylon, 3-5 Commerce Street

🥠 Chinese: Wah Kee, Chinatown business centre

🍞 "Justice for the Grants tattie scones", protested reader Heather in the comments section of our Glasgow bakeries rankings. Well, Heather, you needn't have feared. Here are our top picks for Glasgow's best bakeries outside the bougie Viennoiserie category.

Which of Glasgow's bougie bakeries is this? It's number one on our list. "The sourdough is stupendously good, operating at a level above anything else you can find in the Kingdom of Strathclyde." Read our rankings to find out 🍞 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgows-bes... 🥐

What should fill the Union Corner gap site? Readers, and writer Calum, are saying to keep it open plan with space for local vendors' stalls. What of the Woodside Viaduct? Can we imagine replacing it? Calum's started the conversation in his writer's edition. Have your say 👇

In the dock are three former employees that Karolis has accused of stealing from him - recipes to be exact. Marianna Balwierz, Yulia Blazhenko and Olexander ‘Sasha’ Trach worked at SugarFall for over a year before a mass staff walkout in Sep 2024.

📰 There's a lot of bakery beef in Glasgow but it usually involves customers and a business. Today's story is about the bizarre events at a West End bakery, that ended with allegations of assault, coercion into signing ChatGPT, NDAs and staff on trial for 'stealing' recipes.

Today: how Crosshill got caught up in the struggle between partisans of Iran's current regime, and supporters of one its chief opponents: the deposed former Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi. Weekend read, out now.