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Douglas Naismith took his own life a decade after the helicopter crashed through the roof of the Clutha Vaults pub, killing 10 people and leaving him with broken bones

T IS ten years this week since The Clutha Vaults became synonymous with horrifying tragedy after a police helicopter fell from the sky and plunged through the roof of the crowded Glasgow bar.

IT was a regular Friday night in a busy Glasgow pub. As a local ska band took to the stage, Norman Maciver made his way to the bar to buy his first pint of the evening.

Billy Connolly and the city where he was born and raised have been tightly interwoven throughout his eight decades. To paraphrase the famous song,…

It was like a war zone. There were bodies everywhere and people wandering around in shock

The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, Archbishop of Glasgow; born January 11, 1951; died January 13, 2021. THE Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, who has died aged 70, had served as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (in the post-Reformation reckoning) since 2012, and before that as Bishop of Paisley and rector of seminaries in both Glasgow and Rome. He was generally seen as theologically orthodox and, in practical matters, as a safe pair of hands; in the aftermath of the resignatio...

Died: January 13, 2021. THE Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, who has died aged 70, had served as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow (in the post-Reformation reckoning) since 2012, and before that as Bishop of Paisley and rector of seminaries in both Glasgow and Rome. He was generally seen as theologically orthodox and, in practical matters, as a safe pair of hands; in the aftermath of the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien over allegations of sexual impropriety, it was Tart...