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It’s been gutted by fire – and reduced to an empty shell. But what’s left of the historic Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art is said to be mostly “structurally solid”, after initial assessments were carried out. Friday’s fire broke out four years after another devastating blaze and the building was mid-way through…
Jon Snow
It was shocking enough – just four years ago – the call from a friend in Glasgow. Our precious Mackintosh Art School had suffered the most terrible inferno. In the days after, I was the first TV journalist allowed in to see the devastation. What was so extraordinary was the instantly detectable determination to…
Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop discusses the fire at Glasgow School of Art.
It was an art nouveau, grade A-listed architectural masterpiece. Now, the Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is a smouldering shell after fire tore through the building at the weekend. Council officials are hoping to save it from demolition, though.
The cost of rebuilding Glasgow’s much loved School of Art could be at least £100m, experts say – describing the damage caused by Friday’s fire as “overwhelming”. Channel 4 News approached the company carrying out the restoration work at the Mackintosh building – Kier – to ask about the sprinkler system. In a statement they…
Interview with Sinead Dunn, president of the Scottish Artists Union.
Glasgow’s world-renowned School of Art has been extensively damaged by another fire – in the midst of a multi-million pound restoration after the last blaze four years ago. 120 firefighters were called to tackle the flames – which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described as ‘heartbreaking’. Our correspondent Clare Fallon is there.
Last month, we brought you a report from Dundee, where the death rate from drugs is higher than almost anywhere in the European Union. A very close second to the drug death rates of Dundee is the city of Glasgow, which for three years now has been in the midst of an unprecedented HIV outbreak.…
Alex Thomson
Tonight in Glasgow and beyond all the signs are that this painful and tragic accident will remain painful and unresolved in the minds of many, forever.
Screening measures for Ebola are to be reviewed after a health worker was found to have the virus having flown on from Heathrow after repeated tests.
The Archbishop of Glasgow tells a memorial mass how he tried to comfort a woman whose parents and daughter were killed in the bin lorry crash in the city.
A couple and their teenage granddaughter are among six people killed when a bin lorry careered out of control in Glasgow city centre.
Janey Godley was at the scene of the crash moments after it happened and “never believed for a minute it was a terrorist attack”, but added: “I walked away, so I’m the lucky one.”
Police say six people were killed after a bin lorry crashed into a group of pedestrians in Glasgow’s George Square as the city was crowded with Christmas shoppers.
Hundreds of people crowded into Glasgow’s George Square tonight, with police separating rival supporters of the union and independence.
