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Nicola Sturgeon has been put on the spot about plans for cutting 800 teacher posts and closing schools early in Glasgow.

Stringent budget cuts could see parking in Glasgow increase to nearly £6 per hour in a bid to save £68million.

The leader of Glasgow city council has demanded to know why the Clyde lost out in the race to win freeport status.

The leader of Scotland’s ­biggest council is spending more than £7000 going to Cop27 just days after the authority announced eye-watering budget cuts.

A ' racist ' group has sparked fury after hanging banners reading 'White Lives Matter' over landmarks in Glasgow. The disturbing pickets were hung up on statues in city centre at 9am on Sunday, July 31.

Scottish Labour is set to become the main challenger to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP in future elections after Conservative support plunged to its worst Scottish showing a decade.

One of Scotland's most iconic museums could be remortgaged to help settle a long-running dispute over equal pay in Glasgow.

Nicola Sturgeon has said female council workers in Glasgow were "robbed of money" by the city's previous Labour administration during a long-running dispute over equal pay.

Labour’s candidate to lead Glasgow City Council has apologised for his party’s role in the long-running equal pay scandal.

The leader of the SNP in Glasgow has said she will step down if the party loses May's council election. Susan Aitken took over as the leader of Glasgow City Council in 2017, heading up an SNP minority administration.

Glasgow residents face a whopping 40 per cent price hike for parking permits if a proposal by a council department is accepted.

Officials in SNP-run Glasgow city council have drawn up a series of “brutal” options to fill a £34m funding black hole.

A homeless charity has blasted Glasgow council bosses after 'shocking' pictures emerged of people sleeping rough on the steps of the authority's chambers.

Glasgow’s streets and houses are being overrun by 1.3 million rats, a trade union leader has said.

Susan Aitken believed some of the criticism directed at her and the council was "unfair and inaccurate". It comes as world leaders, activists and journalists are set to descend on Glasgow for the COP26 conference from October 31 to November 12 at the SEC.

Film production company Warner Bros would like to produce a ‘first of its kind’ major feature movie in Glasgow. Planning papers from Glasgow City Council note that council leader Susan Aitken hopes to incentivise the production.

Glasgow as soon thousands of bin will display phone scanning codes. The QR codes similar to many uses for track and trace purposes will be hitting the city streets this year, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said.

Gary Smith accused Susan Aitken of “desperate and disgraceful” politics and claimed her attack was “grossly insulting” to his members.

SNP-led city council has been blasted for its record on waste, but John Mason said it was “not sustainable” for local authorities to solve the issue on their own.Labour MSP Pauline McNeill hit out: “The city is in the midst of a waste crisis because of failures by the SNP Council and years of cuts from the SNP government – it is shameful to try and pin the blame on residents."Glasgow council, led by the SNP’s Susan Aitken, has been on the receiving end of criticism over pictures showing piles of

COP26 summit. Glasgow city council’s leader has said she is “absolutely” focused on ensuring an international climate change meeting does not become a covid super-spreader event.

iOS - Android Youngsters from Cathedral Primary in Motherwell joined Glasgow city council leader Susan Aitken for the inaugural planting event at Cart and Kittoch woodland near Carmunnock, where 40,000 trees will be planted to connect the woodland with nearby Cathkin Braes.Meanwhile, North Lanarkshire leader Jim Logue planted a tree at Clarkston in his home town of Airdrie to help launch the project.The Clyde Climate Forest aims to link up the region’s 29,000 existing but fragmented hectares of

Susan Aitken took to social media to state that she was following guidelines when out with three colleagues in the city last Friday night, despite it 'appearing' that she was not. Scottish Government guidelines demand groups meeting in bars and restaurants do not include members of more than three households.

Susan Aitken was caught up in a social distancing row.The First Minister said people in public life must not give the impression the "rules apply to other people and not to us".She added that the public have a right to expect that "we will practice what we are preaching."Aitken, the leader of the SNP-run council, said sorry at the weekend for appearing to break social distancing rules days after coronavirus restrictions were tightened in the city.Pictures published in the Sunday Mail showed her

Sunday Mail show the SNP’s Susan Aitken enjoying drinks at a pub with three colleagues on Friday night.

asylum seekers, the local authority leader has said.Susan Aitken told the Record she was "as confident as I can be" the majority of Glaswegians still wanted to help refugees who were fleeing persecution in their home countries, following the stabbing incident that shocked the city.Council bosses are now pushing the Home Office in London - which controls the UK's immigration system - to make changes to the contract tendering process which sees private firms given responsibility for looking after

The leader of Glasgow City Council has called for politicians to stop using football to score political points in the wake of a row over a Rangers FC fans zone.