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Controversial proposals to ease overcrowding in a primary school have been passed, despite fierce opposition from parents.
For the past 17 months, Glasgow City Council’s education services and parents have been debating ways to solve chronic lack of space at Hillhead Primary with 2,400 responses to a public consultation generated.
A decision has now been taken by an executive committee to redraw catchment areas around the primary.
A great-grandmother is to celebrate her 90th birthday white-water rafting... after her doctor refused permission for her to do a parachute jump. Jean Hodson, from Linlithgow, West Lothian, said extreme sports appealed much more than the lunch party and cake enjoyed by most people her age. On March 5, she will go on the hair-raising trip down the River Tay in aid of her favourite charity, Blythswood Care, which helps poor families in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
The SNP has won a victory over a 1200-year-old Scots defeat after launching a Euro-protest on St Andrews Day. A statue representing Britain and commissioned to celebrate European unity has now had words offensive to Scots struck from its accompanying text. The battle of Brunanbur, where the Scots were massacred near the Humber in 837 by the Saxons, formed the inspiration for the statue produced by artist Cristobel Gabaron.
Mrs Margaret Stevenson, wife of a Glasgow councillor, denied a charge at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday of embezzling £2435 5s 10d while acting as a sub-post mistress at 53 Govan Road.
During the trial yesterday Mrs Stevenson said: “It was my dream to have my own post office and I did not want to lose it – that is why I covered it up.” She added that she had taken money from the post office to pay for fittings within the office, and to pay for electricity to heat and light the office.
Sheriff-substitute D. J. Mackenzie has appointed the defender in an action brought to Glasgow Sheriff Court by Guy Cibelli, hairdresser, 282 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, against Bernard Wyun, dentist, 233 Cambridge Street, Glasgow, for £100 damages in respect of loss, injury and damage sustained by him through, he alleged, defender extracting a tooth other than the septic molar which caused him pain. In his note, the Sheriff said defender practised dentistry, but was not registered under the Dentists Act.