The Bell

16/06/2026

A double-header today: one man in
Boston, Danny, realising his dream of watching
Scotland play at a world cup; the other, Calum,
desperately trying to stay awake on a Saturday night. 👇

11/06/2026

"If we didn’t have all these immigrants coming over in the boats we would never have the problem"

That's what The Bell was told when we were investigating Tuesday's protests in Glasgow.

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. He told us his experience working on the night of the protest, including when he was urged by police to shut the shop early.

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11/06/2026

“If we didn’t have all these immigrants coming over in the boats we would never have the problem.”

That’s what The Bell was told when we were investigating Tuesday’s protests in Glasgow.

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. He told us his experience working on the night of the protest, including when he was urged by police to shut the shop early.

Read the full story for free. Link in bio 🔔

11/06/2026

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. “They were banging on the window”, Hamza told The Bell when we spoke to him on Wednesday, “and they had metal rings on”. By then, he and the rest of Glasgow had a broad overview of the protest that took the city by surprise earlier this week, which saw at least 250 demonstrators respond to a call by far-right figures like Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk to take to the streets. 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”.

Read our full story on Tuesday's protests for free. Link in comments.

08/06/2026

Why will there be no construction at the Union Corner gap site for at least five years?

Plus, Queen’s Park koi are looking for a forever pond as glasshouses to close permanently

https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/union-corner-update-koi-carp-youth-knife-crime/

06/06/2026

In earth’s swampy Carboniferous period, about 359.2 to 299 million years ago, mountains were eroded by rainfall, turning the rock grain to sand, which was deposited in deltas and compacted downwards. Under the earth, with minerals from water forming a kind of cement, the sand thickened into beds of stone.

Sandstone, one of the toughest and oldest building materials on the planet, makes up the large part of Glasgow’s tenements and many of its landmarks. But it’s surprisingly easy to damage. Just how much longer will it be here? 👇

04/06/2026

"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... My first interaction with the Cowlairs cowboys (actually teenagers) is when two of them on a blue dirt bike come flying over a rise, sunlight behind them, dirt spraying from the back wheel. Both are wearing balaclavas... Almost on cue, three more boys appear over the hill and the original pair quickly disappear with them. I wait for their return for a bit, before deciding to keep walking. Roughly 20 minutes later, I stumble across something I wasn’t expecting at all.

01/06/2026

🔔 Monday briefing out now:

💾 Was the art school hacked?
🎷 What kind of jazz is Reform MSP Thomas Kerr?
🦁 Fresh violence between Lyons/Daniels gangs while some flee east.

Plus, prime ministerial cafe drama and what kind of jazz is Thomas Kerr?

01/06/2026

Was GSA hacked last week? What's Thomas Kerr's favourite type of jazz? And the latest in Glasgow cafe drama, sparked by a prime ministerial visit.

Plus, prime ministerial cafe drama and what kind of jazz is Thomas Kerr?

30/05/2026

Three men stabbed to death and another fighting for his life in the early 1960s on Glasgow Green. Is this a serial killer we've never heard of or the work of one of the most notorious murderers?

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