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I don't recognise the Possil that I grew up in in the early 60's. Saracen Street/Cross was a busy, sociable meeting place with wee shops that had served a good few generations. Although there was always social problems in Possil, as elsewhere, they seemed to have increased and enveloped the area on...

glasgowken wrote:Any reason for the Milingavie train (not an express) to not stop at Partick today ? Something going on ?

Partick was shut about teatime yesterday due too 'emergency services attending an incident'

Does a letter from most utility companies etc not include your requisit details for ID fraud? HBOS are IMO one of the better ones - to change address etc details on my account they wouldn;t do it over the phone and asked me to pop in with proof of ID and proof of old and new addresses. seemed much m...

I agree with you but the 'smooth' politician doesn't do it for me either. I like people who actually have conviction and I really hope Smeaton does. Good luck to him if is passionate about making things right, then I don't care how articulate he is. Maybe I'm just super cynical ...... He is someone...

The girl of the new boots tv adverts "looks for how you feel"


anyone know her name?

yoker brian wrote:What's the odds on Harry Ramsdens / Blue Lagoon selling Whale Supper's the night?

Yeah but if people got a taste for it and they sold out, you'd soon have people singing old Vera Lynn songs:

"Whale meat again, don't know where, don't know when...."

Why not just cross the river at the airport and join the North Clyde lines. Then send trains from north on E&G via Cowlairs, Maryhill,Anniesland, the curve at Jordanhill to the old docks branch by Yoker Depot, across the river, then down the edge of airport land and into the station. The only is...

Hi all. I've added a new gallery to my site containing photographs of Dalmarnock station, a station in the East End of Glasgow which will hopefully be given the go ahead this Friday (Friday 18th September 2009) to benefit from an £8million refurbishment project in preperation for Glasgow's 2014 Com...

Surely the council should not have signed off the site as meeting planning conditions and residents not permitted to take up residence? Bollards in the path might stop cyclists running over pedestrians anyway.....

Please to God tell me you did not call the Police for this. If so i hope they charge you for wasting Police time and make you pay for the waste of time - £500/hour might do

Hansard HC Deb 29 March 1971 vol 814 cc1172-283 William Small MP, Glasgow Scotstoun "I cannot envisage Glasgow to London electrification by 1974 or 1975" He was right it took another 30 + years. umm no, completed 1974. Hands up to that howler of mine Dave :D I guess I got so confused abou...

Icecube wrote:Hansard HC Deb 29 March 1971 vol 814 cc1172-283

William Small MP, Glasgow Scotstoun

"I cannot envisage Glasgow to London electrification by 1974 or 1975"

He was right it took another 30 + years.

umm no, completed 1974.

It said he was a family friend, but obviously not close enough to realise that his friends were quite conservative in their interpretation of their holy book and it's teachings.

IN which case you take the ambulance plates and use it in your defence]
the red light camera should notice you only doing 3-4mph anyway.

i got stopped outside asda by a woman i knew and she aked me to get her cigarettes as she no passport to prove her age.she is 25 and looks it.the asda worker was a young man aged about 19. Some supermarkets now have an 'ask 25' policy - i.e. if they think you look 25 or under you will be asked to p...