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The attractions run by Glasgow Life for the council include the People's Palace. The statement said the recovery package was being supported by Glasgow City Council through its £100m funding guarantee for the next five years. However, it stressed it was “unrealistic to expect that it can raise significant additional income this year that will support the reopening of venues beyond the 91 already announced”. The spokesperson added: “Glasgow Life will be a very different organisation at the end of this period. “We are asking staff for flexibility during this process and are regularly u...

Our readers had plenty to say on a union boss’ warning that Glasgow is not fit to host COP26 (July 1) HE’S quite right. Many places look like a midden. Take a walk past Candleriggs Park/Square at the moment and the most appalling, sewage smell hits you. I don’t know how people can sit out eating and drinking at the establishments nearby. On parts of Argyle Street too, the stench is horrendous. There also needs to be a big drive to tackle littering, with harder fines for those who drop litter in the street, or fly tip beside street bins, backcourt, laybys and country roads.

John Hamilton Mortimer and the discovery of Captain Cook John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779), Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Dr Daniel Solander and Dr John Hawkesworth, c. 1771, oil on canvas, nla.pic-an7351768 The National Library of Australia holds within its large collection of artworks a most intriguing eighteenth century painting, the bequest of Dame Merlyn Myer. A beautiful work in good condition, the painting is unsigned and lacks its original title. Early research into the painting revealed that it had hung unremarked in private collections for 150 years and t...

Gwoja Tjungurrayi features on our $2 coin and was the first living Australian to feature on a postage stamp. It turns out he made his stamp debut much earlier.

From Shakespeare to the Australian Constitution (almost), mate is a short word with a long history. So how has the term evolved to become so recognisably Australian?