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Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Aug 14

New substack about air quality in Glasgow, the LEZ and what next! 💨💚

@glasgowgreens.bsky.social
@asthmaandlung.org.uk
@parents4futurescot.bsky.social
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Glasgow LEZ Air Quality Improvements

Glasgow city centre meets air quality targets for the first time, LEZ revenue spend and updates on the air quality action plan

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Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks Paul for sharing!!

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Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Jun 10

😍😍😍

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Paul Mason @paumas.bsky.social · Jun 9

Check out our fab Victoria Park Cllr @lanareidmcc.bsky.social latest newsletter of what she has been up to in the ward.

Victoria Park Newsletter 2: Local Area Partnership

How does it work? What do we get up to? The local area partnership is an important piece of local democracy that not many people know about so I hope this article helps give an overview!

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Love Thornwood (Glasgow) @lovethornwood.bsky.social · May 28

Yay! Mud-Play for the Thornwood weans! #TheAnnexe @thornwoodpri.bsky.social @glasgowcc.bsky.social @glasgowwood.bsky.social @lanareidmcc.bsky.social

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · May 15

Today is Full Council in Glasgow! 💚

Here's a thread on what your Green Councillors are doing 👇

Pictures of 11 green cllrs smiling to camera, with text above saying Glasgow City Council - Full Council Meeting, May 2025

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · May 15

Moving to the SNP's motion on the River Clyde, @lanareidmcc.bsky.social highlights the opportunities the Clyde can bring to have a space that everyone can enjoy like many cities around the world. 🌊

quote: “If we truly believe our constituents have a right to access our river then we should be making it compulsory that land is secured to remove health and safety risk so that it can be enjoyed.

Other cities globally
have managed to
do this, we can too”

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markmcc.bsky.social @markmcc.bsky.social · Apr 10

If Paris can do it, we all can.

Would love to see more work to make this happen in our neck of the woods @lanareidmcc.bsky.social.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 10

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · Apr 3

Seconding, @lanareidmcc.bsky.social raises the wider impacts these cuts will have on our wider Health system ✊️

Quote: All of these cuts across mental health and health improvement will only add more pressure to the number of people ending up in emergency situations for example in A&E.

Is that when those higher up will take notice?

A lot of pain and suffering could be prevented.

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · Apr 3

Health spokesperson @lanareidmcc.bsky.social raises the voice of service users in the decisions about cuts to those very service 🗣

Question: To ask the City Convener for Health, Care
and Caring and Older People if they have
met with users of services due to cease
such as the Sandyford Clinic Counselling
and Support Service, Flourish House and
the Supported Living Service to hear their
concerns over the loss of that service?

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · Apr 3

Today is April's Full Council Meeting!

Here is a thread on your Green Councillor's work at today's meeting 👇

Graphic with 11 cllrs smiling to cllr, with text saying Glasgow City Council - Full Council Meeting April 2025

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Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Mar 18

news.stv.tv/west-central...

Health partnership facing £42.5m budget gap with 145 jobs under threat

A supported living service for the elderly — including people with dementia — is at risk, while a counselling service for sexual assault victims at the Sandyford clinic could also be axed.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · Mar 17

Mental illness is on the rise in the UK as a direct consequence of austerity, entrenched inequality, crumbling public services, and now a cost of living crisis.

Cutting benefits would make people’s health worse, when what they need is to be taken seriously and supported.

Me on @lbc.co.uk:

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Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Mar 18

@jonmolyneux.bsky.social @glasgowgreens.bsky.social @scottishgreens.org

Lana Reid-McConnell @lanareidmcc.bsky.social · Mar 18

Yesterday we wrote to Glasgow MPs, highlighting our deep concern about decisions made by the UK government and the devastating impact they're having on Glasgow's health and social care services.

Without additional funding, there will be approx. 140 job losses this year alone.

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