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Gove’s plan to ‘make marchers pay’ as he vows to tackle antisemitism There is no original title provided. Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailMichael Gove has revealed plans to “make marchers pay” for the massive weekly pro-Palestinian protests dominating the centre of london at weekends.In a hard hitting speech this morning Mr Gove warned of a huge rise in antisemitism in the UK, pointing out that the number of incidents were up 147 percent last year.He pointed to evidence from the Community Security Trust (CST)…

Glasgow Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard gig venue change announced There is no bias in the original title provided. In October of last year, we reported that rock icons Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard were due to play at Hampden Park on Thursday, July 6 2023. While the original date remains the same, the show will now take place at Glasgow Green.   VENUE CHANGE » Please note that the @MotleyCrue & @DefLeppard World Tour originally due to take place at Hampden Park Stadium on 6th July has moved to Glasgow Green.Original tickets remain valid.TICKETS ⇾ https://t.co/orj3vMnofS pic.twitter.com/2yG1Xd4ys7 — Gigs in Scotland…

Glasgow family of four raise hundreds for refugee charity There is no bias in the original title provided. Gillian Armstrong, 45, Vikki Graham, 46, and their two daughters, Ines, 9, and Margot, 6, recently raised more than £600 for Refuweegee, a community-led charity which provides a space for forcibly displaced people arriving in Glasgow. The Shawlands family of four decided to raise funds for the charity after being inspired by stories of refugees in both films and books.  Gillian said: “What jolted us into doing this was actually a young adult fiction book called The Boy at the Back of the Class,…

Local authorities should be ‘more entrepreneurial’ There is no bias in the original title provided. Scotland’s councils are facing a £700 million funding gap ahead of setting their budgets for the coming year and some have even hinted that they could introduce or increase charges for some services to help boost funds. As the government comes under increasing pressure over squeezed local council budgets, Labour peer Lord Willie Haughey said: “I don’t mind paying my taxes and local council tax and I don’t mind if they go up – but the service I am getting isn’t good. If you were…

Jack Whitehall bringing new live show to Glasgow OVO Hydro There is no bias in the title provided. The multi-hyphenate comedian, actor, presenter and writer will be bringing his “most personal show yet” called Settle Down to Glasgow in June. Whitehall will perform at the OVO Hydro on June 19. Pre-sale tickets will be available from April 5 at 10am with general tickets going on sale from April 6 at 10am. Jack said: “This is my most personal show yet, with plenty of material about the big changes that have happened in my life. “It’s about my struggle to settle down…

Mike Dailly: Of cabbages, kings and £100m royal coronations There is no bias in the title provided. This is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Within the novel itself, we have the roguish twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, reciting to Alice The Walrus and the Carpenter poem: “The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings”. Next month the UK will experience an event more surreal than anything imagined by Lewis Carroll – the coronation of King Charles III. On Saturday, May 6, a 74-year-old man will…

Scots firms get nothing from £220m ferry deals given to Turkey There is no bias in the title provided. It has emerged that Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), the Scottish Government-owned firm which owns and procures ferries and harbours failed to stipulate that there should be any Scottish benefit from the £220m contracts given to Turkish shipyard Cemre Marin Endustri. It can be revealed that as Turkey landed a second £115m contract earlier this year to build two ferries for longsuffering islanders in a bid to shore up the nation’s ageing ferry fleet, the only Scottish benefit stipulated was that…

Blood infection scandal victim from Perthshire speaks out There is no original title provided. It took seven years – during which she experienced extreme fatigue and was forced to give up work – for her to be notified the blood had been infected. On Monday, the findings of a long-running inquiry were released, with chairman Sir Brian Langstaff finding more than 30,000 people were infected with contaminated blood between the 1970s and 1990s, which he described as a “calamity”. Deliberate attempts, the inquiry found, were made to cover up what had happened and patients were knowingly exposed to an unacceptable…

Majority of Scots have no religion census data shows There is no bias in the title provided. The question is voluntary and was first introduced in 2001, when just 27.5% said they had no religious beliefs. The largest decrease has been in followers of the Church of Scotland, with 42.4% identifying as a follower in 2002. That has dropped to 20.4%, a fall of 610,100 people since 2011, and over 1 million since 2001, though Church of Scotland remains the largest group for those who identified as religious. The next largest religious groups were Roman Catholic (13.3%), Other Christian (5.1%) and Muslim (2.2%). There was a…

TRNSMT Festival to takeover Barras Market for one off event There is no bias in the title provided. They’ll be taking over the iconic market with live music from artists playing this year’s River Stage and Boogie Bar, as well as having a sustainable fashion pop-up and food vendors on site. Those attending will be in with a shout to win tickets if they’re checking out the fashion pop-ups as organisers have hidden five golden labels among the railings that will award each winner two VIP passes to the festival. DF Concerts, Kevin Mackay says the fashion pop-up aims to…