Glasgow, Scotland News

The argument that more centralisation of public resources will save money is not based on hard evidence, writes Richard Kerley WE HAVE a thing about special numbers.

Do the Scots dislike the English? Overlook for the moment the lamentable generalisations inherent in any such question and think of Nigel Farage struggling with his student opponents in an Edinburgh street recently.

Rutherglen and Cambuslang could be the wheel deal, if plans to turn the areas into Scotland's cycling capital get the go-ahead. Representatives from South Lanarkshire Council, councillors Brian McKenna and Robert Brown, the NHS and cycling charity Sustrans were invited to a recent meeting organised by local community health initiative Healthy 'n' ... (more)

Applications have been submitted, scores have been counted and the shortlisted companies now have to wait until an award ceremony next month to find out who wins.

Oh, how we love looking at the way other people live, our curiosity sated with home tours, design magazines and now a glam coffee table book that takes us into the private realms of renowned designers from across the country - Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living.

Bedroom Tax Evictions have started this week in the United Kingdom. The British Welfare Reform Act of 2012 modified the benefits offered by the British Social Security System.

A former Royal Mail worker who admitted embezzling A 45,000 has been given a community payback order and told to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work.

Services to and from Dalmar-nock were back on track after problems with ground work derailed a 11million upgrade ahead of the 2014 Common-wealth Games.

The mobbing of Nigel Farage by extreme left nationalists in Edinburgh has exposed to the rest of Britain what the UKIP leader calls the 'ugly face' of Scottish separatism.

SHARON Conway is claiming unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal and says other bodies were wrongly tagged in the past.

It comes as no surprise to read on imdb.com that British director Ken Loach has said the movie that inspired him most to become a filmmaker was Vittorio De Sica's heartbreaking "Bicycle Thieves." Set in post-World War II Rome, De Sica's 1948 Italian neorealist classic involves an Everyman, unemployed for years, who finally gets a job, but it ... (more)

Stuart MacFarlane, 45, from Glasgow, was caught with almost 15,000 images at his former family home in Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, on 28 December 2012.

DETECTIVES have released an e-fit image of a man they want to speak to in connection with a sexual assault on a young woman.

The city which has just been ordered to close its own dump in Cathkin, South Lanarkshire has signed a 2 million annual contract with the Greengairs tip, one of Scotland's biggest, near Airdrie.

Police have issued an image of a man they want to trace in connection with a sexual assault on a woman in Glasgow.

All of ScotRail's class 380 trains will also have wifi by March next year, according to a joint announcement by ScotRail and Transport Scotland.

THE city centre is to get a major boost to ensure it remains the busiest shopping centre outside London's West End.

But when children come along, only a 'grown-up' home with a back and front door and garden will do.

Ryan Gosling is famous enough to not need the internet to gain fame, but recently, someone created a series of videos on Twitter's Vine showing how he doesn't want to eat his cereal.

The sheer extent of its parkland must surely be the envy of other major cities across Scotland and the rest of Britain.