Yet Another City Centre fire

[Dexter St. Clair]

Firefighters tackle major fire in South Clerk Street




Nothing worth burning left in Glasgow.

[Haggis]

South clerk st is in Nedinburgh

[Dexter St. Clair]

South clerk st is in Nedinburgh

[Josef]

It was a junk shop, not a charity shop.

Also unlike these parts, it won't be getting demolished. The shop is pretty well burnt out, but the windows above are still intact as are the flats. They'll have to hire a proper Weegie developer lackey next time.

[Lawman]

Spotted this on Sunday afternoon...

[HelenD]

Buchanan Galleries, this time, in a cavity wall, of all things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-23812678

I thought Buddleia preferred the great outdoors

[HelenD]

Now here's a novel idea:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675
'Walkie-Talkie' skyscraper melts Jaguar car parts

This was yesterday's news from London, where the reflections of the sun from a building have actually caused plastic on a car to buckle under the heat. Since then, two shops on the other side of the road have started smouldering.

So you buy your land, apply for planning permission, wait for the rejection, light the planning weed, apply again and this time build a tower with a south-facing concave facade which burns down the rest of the neighbourhood, thus obviating the need for bothering the planning department excessively. Which presumably explains why the plannng department allowed it through in the first place.

[Lawman]

The quotes from the owner and the note are priceless

I'm sure I would have uttered something a little more substantial than "Crikey, that's terrible"

[banjo]

ashfield speedway looks like the latest bit of arsonist action.

[Mark N]

The School Of Art's on fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-27541883

[gap74]

Looking quite serious too...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoUaLjQIgAAy__m.png

[Vinegar Tom]

That is unbelievable.

[hound dog]

Smelt the smoke when I came out the North St entrance of the Mitchell at lunch time. Could see it was somewhere in the city centre - just read in the ET online that it's the School of Art

[Doorstop]

Just been asking my brother about this on the phone (he was on duty and in attendance) .. half the building, including the beautiful library, completely gutted.

What an absolute tragedy .. I understand no lives were lost .. but, the library.

All that oaken shelved, well worn and completely irreplaceable history - gone forever.

[Toby Dammit]

How could that have happened? A major loss for Glasgow, just terrible news.