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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 16d

I agree, there are huge barriers for getting into journalism, particularly for working class people. I’d argue it’s even worse than a living wage issue (Mill Media’s titles including the Bell pay salaries well over this of course), because unpaid work placements are so commonplace …

Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 17d

No Orange lodge x Masonic Lodge collabs?

Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 17d

Oh sorry my bad, didn’t read properly 🤦

Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 17d

Love that you used Doors Open Day to visit an 🍊 lodge

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 17d

But in recent months one of the city’s long-standing jokes has turned much more sinister. After 30 years as a Dundas Street institution, is Best Kebab’s relationship with Glasgow’s citizens turning toxic?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve heard unspeakable things have happened in that bathroom 🤢

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Rob MacKay @rjm.bsky.social · 18d

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 18d

Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 18d

I think he’s on the verge of breaking point what with all the egging and abuse …

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Peter Walker @pegerteg.bsky.social · 18d

Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks Peter. I heard the sarbeni genuinely used to be special. Sadly I don’t think that’s still the case. Best Kebab is the butt of so many jokes, yet reporting on this story was far from fun 😔 It’s a dire situation

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 18d

We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 18d

Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat

'Newspaper war’ on campus

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 21d

Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...

The plucky student paper courting controversy at the University of Glasgow

'Gas them all': Meet the man behind north Glasgow's saltires

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 25d

'Gas them all'

'Time to look after our own not everyone else'

We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tartan-team-...

‘Time to look after our own not everyone else’

The neo-Nazi raising the saltire across Glasgow

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Read all about it in our Monday Briefing.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/saltire-rais...

Plus, community saunas, dirty diggers and spicy noods

Firebombing, the Big Yin and a Gazan student's plight

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Sep 8

You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · Aug 23

I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-...

Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:

a map of lines snaking across central Glasgow, including a new tunnel across the Clyde between Central station and Tradeston

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Read all of our Monday briefing for free, here 👇

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/gaza-student...

Plus, hospitality gossip and the "curryspondent"

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Sep 1

🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies.

🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on?

🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

www.theguardian.com

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thinking of ace Glasgow cartoonist, Bud Neill, who died on this day, in 1970, aged only 59.

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Aug 26

"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.

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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · Aug 28

The 100 proof is a certified banger