We need to help save Glasgow’s high streets ON THIS DAY
IDON’T know how our high streets are going to recover from this pandemic. Famous streets, such as Sauchiehall Street, will never bounce back.
The street looked bad enough before the pandemic with huge empty stores, such as the old BHS.
I can’t imagine many retailers rushing back to fill massive units like that any time soon.
The council will have to seriously think out of the box about how to ensure the street doesn’t become a no-go area.
Perhaps more green spaces could help.
Demolishing the BHS store and making a multi-use space for markets and outdoor events could help transform the street and encourage more investment. Catherine James
Via email
YOUR reader “AR” refers to the “waste monster” in “Edinburgh” – a thinly-veiled reference to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
He claims that the UK Government has been “giving her the funds to fight this (coronavirus) pandemic”. This is simply not true. The funds that Scotland gets come from money raised from taxes paid by people etc in Scotland and allocated by Westminster according to the Barnett formula.
Alastair Stirling
Via email
Readers had lots to say on our Facebook page when we asked whether they were hoping for a staycation this year. Here’s a selection of comments...
WHILE news of staycations for the summer are welcome – especially for the cleaning industry as we have had no financial support – the news that we will not get Easter is disappointing.
Tourism cleaning makes up 80% of my turnover and it’s all gone with no support. Krissi Foskett
I THINK people are old enough and big enough to decide what to do for their holidays.
Everybody’s case is different, so why shouldn’t you go away if you feel you want to?
Scott Stewart
LET’S rebuild our own economy and let’s see family again – to me that’s more important then overseas trips. Dean Burne
HOLIDAY-GOERS are just Covid-contributors and they help nobody.
I bet you they will be stupid enough to flock to locations in the thousands as soon as they’re told they can, not realising that’s what the government wants, so the cases spike and we go back into lockdown.
Stephen Malcolm
1546: Martin Luther, father of the Reformation, died at his birthplace at Eisleben, Germany, aged 62 – supposedly of overwork.
1564: The great Renaissance artist and sculptor Michelangelo died in Rome, aged 88.
1678: John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress was published.
1745: Count Alessandro Volta, physicist who devised the first battery, was born in Como, Italy. He gave his name to the electrical unit volt.
1911: More than 6,000 letters and postcards were flown five miles from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India by Henri Picquet – the first official airmail.
1915: Germany’s blockade of Britain by submarine began.
1930: American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto from a series of pictures taken the previous month at Lowell Observatory.
2005: Fox hunting, above, became illegal in England and Wales. The Hunting Act outlawed hunting with dogs.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A baby was believed to be the first in the world to be born after eggs were taken from his mother and matured in a lab before being frozen, scientists said.