Some top memories
TIMES FILE... OUR WRITERS REVIEW THEIR PICK OF THE BEST STORIES
SIX days a week, 52 weeks a year the Evening Times brings you the best in Glasgow news coverage, from the courts, council, comm1unity groups, schools and streets. We report the good and bad of the city and hope the stories we tell encourage and inspire the public bodies and citizens of the city to do the best they can. Here ANN FOTHERINGHAM looks back through her cuttings file over the past 12 months
Despite her own battle with Crohn’s Disease, the young girl from East Lothian is determined to change lives and help others. As the youngest ever winner of an Editor’s Award, Grace is also the inspiration behind our new Young SWOTY award which we have launched for 2018.
Our community campaigns Glasgow Community Champions and Streets Ahead – have been fun to write about this year.
They have given me the chance to catch up with a bunch of brilliant people, all tackling important issues on their doorsteps, inspiring and informing others, and changing the city for the better.
One of the most impressive projects in the city today is Heart of Scotstoun.
This outstanding group of volunteers has transformed the community centre into a vibrant hub, with a whole host of clubs and classes for all ages.
There are hundreds of projects like Heart of Scotstoun out there, and it’s great having the chance to tell everyone about them.
As always, Strictly Come Dancing featured heavily in my working week. Getting the chance to spend an afternoon with 2017 winner Joe McFadden and the cast of the live tour was an excellent start to 2018.
It was great to have the chance to cover some arts features this year. From exclusives on a Glasgow family’s connection to a powerful First World War exhibition and the first ever Sandfest concert, featuring the greats of Scottish 80s pop performing in aid of Down’s Syndrome Scotland, to interviewing
Getting out and about around Glasgow and the west is a brilliant part of my job – especially when it involves gin. Sampling the Gin Afternoon Tea Tour on the Red Bus Bistro, the city’s newest tour bus with a difference, was a proper highlight of 2018.
In April, I caught up with the gents who run East Kilbride Men’s Shed, a fantastic initiative set up to help men beat isolation