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ARM Architecture has been appointed as the Principal Design Consultant for the Melbourne Girls Grammar campus overhaul, which will see the historic institution’s school grounds revamped for the 21st century.

FOR many years, I had a flat in Glasgows Merchant City, a couple of streets from George Square. I used to fall asleep to the companionable sound of bar tenders tipping empty bottles into recycling bins beneath our windows. A couple of hours later I’d be woken by a sozzled opera singer, wending his way home along Ingram Street and treating us to arias from Verdi and Puccini. I’d never lived anywhere like it, and even though I am now happily ensconced in the country, I miss the buzz and...

DELIGHT over the demolition of the Talisman pub will be an opportunity to reset the community’s frayed relationship with the site’s owner, an MSP has said. We told last month how the pub, viewed by many as symbolic of the community’s decades-long decline, will finally be demolished after a show-down between its owner Mohammed Ameen Mirza and the council. In light of the local authority’s grand plans to redevelop the north of the city with its Strategic Development Framework, Bob D...