Long grass in the central reservation on Brockburn Road, Pollok near the junction with Netherplace Rd and Levernside Crescent. Photograph by Colin Mearns.23 July 2021.For GT, see story by Heather Carrick.. POLLOK residents are furious after overgrown grass verges in the neighbourhood have been left in a “dangerous” state. Locals have claimed that central reservations on roads such as Brockburn Road, Braidcraft Road and Barrhead Road have been left abandoned by the council, after grass was left uncut for multiple weeks during the height of summer. Drivers in the area have blasted the council for leaving it to grow and say that the unattended grass verges, which stand almost two feet high, have resulted in dangerous driving conditions.
TWO young men who were on a ‘bad path’ following the Covid-19 outbreak have revealed how a community boxing club has helped them turn their lives around. Declan Reilly, 20 and Connor Gough, 17, are both employed at Bluevale Community Club through Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Glasgow City Council’s Step-Up scheme. The two young men were offered the opportunities after they started volunteering with the club and slowly improved their skills and confidence.
L: Connor Gough and R: Declan Reilly. Pics: Colin Mearns Declan was made redundant from his job in retail last year after Covid-19 decimated the sector. He also suffered two family bereavements last year and said he had ‘lost interest’ in boxing. He said: “I got made redundant through Covid and it put me in a kind of bad way. I was earning no money or anything and my uncle died.
1 Jabez Wolffe was the son of a Kelvinbridge watchmaker, an international celebrity more than 100 years ago - and possibly the unluckiest swimmer in the world. Born in the city in 1876, he became a champion swimmer with more than 10 marathon records to his name, but he was obsessed with becoming the second man to swim the channel (after Captain Webb in 1875). 2 A member of the Glasgow Dolphin Swimming Club, Jabez made his first attempt on July 23, 1907. Our sister newspaper the then Glasgow Herald reported: “He took water at 10.46. The sea was smooth, there was practically no wind…A Calais boat brought news that at 3pm he was seven or eight miles out and going well with his over-arm stroke. A later telegram says that Wolffe had to abandon his attempt owing to his leg giving out. He said he was resigned to his fate and would not make another attempt.” In fact, he did try again, 21 times, but he never succeeded.
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Author Peter Ross joined campaigners at the Couper Institute Glasgow Life lost £38m last year due to lockdown and its estimated income for 2020/21 is around £6.4m. An agreed council funding deal will see Glasgow Life receive a guaranteed £100m for the next four years to open 90 out of its 171 venues. Without further funding, they say they cannot reopen any more venues. It is why The Herald has launched A Fair Deal for Glasgow campaign calling on both Scottish and UK governments to agree a new funding deal for Glasgow’s culture and leisure and venues of national and international significance.