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Commonwealth Games Scotland has offered Glasgow as a back-up if another host city cannot be found.

At a time when lives are being put in danger every hour of every day on Scotland’s highway of shame, our leaders are busy elsewhere, writes Mike Edwards.

Culture and leisure services and the access to them are key drivers which offer healthier lifestyles, according to a leading academic who believes lockdown weight gain is one of the biggest health issues coming out of the pandemic. Professor Naveed Sattar, of University of Glasgow 's Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, said city services including museums and leisure facilities are crucial to allowing people to be active and widen their horizons. His comments come at a time when Glasgow Life, the arms-length council organisation which runs the services, lost £38m due to t...

IT is difficult to believe now, but less than a year and a half ago there was concern that Glasgow had too many hotels. As a seemingly never-ending procession of new builds were proposed, adding to the large stock of rooms already in circulation, there was worry in some quarters that the city had so many hotels it was becoming increasingly difficult for operators to compete. The picture was crystallised by Nicola Taylor, the chief executive of Chardon Hotels, whose family owns six Holiday Inn hotels across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and Dunfermline. Ms Taylor said she had “never seen s...