Inverness Botanic Gardens

A BIOTECH veteran has hailed a Glasgow firm that claims to have discovered two separate potential treatments for Covid-19 patients for use before they are put on ventilators.

A 53-year-old man has been arrested in connection with smuggling firearms into the country.

It was an evening that began like any other night shift. Firefighters handed over at 6pm to start what they thought would have been a fairly routine night.

Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections

From Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2020, musicians from across the world will take part in over 300 events in venues throughout Glasgow for the UK's premier celebration of celtic music.

IT’S almost time for the last supper. Though not quite. Another 24 hours will have to pass before the concluding morsel is munched, the final nibble on the edge of no more. After that, a little part of Scotland’s living history will die.

IT’S been an up and down sort of day for Imran Akhtar. And in a much too literal sense, as far as he’s concerned. First, he had to clamber on top of the roof of the Ottoman Coffee House on Glasgow’s Berkeley Street, to make sure the temporary tarpaulin was still in place and keeping out the wind, rain, hail and snow. (It’s been one of those typical Scottish afternoons, with the weather behaving like a plump maiden aunt’s two-layered chocolate box. In other words, way too many delights

Zinfandel Gastro Bar

Temaki

FRANKLY? The restaurant world is going mad. Consider this: I order a home delivery from Yu-ca-taco early on Friday evening. For Saturday night. By text of course.

Glasgow's Summer Nights at the Bandstand festival has become the latest major music event to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

WE start at the low point. “It’s hard doing music,” Jill O’Sullivan admits. “I love it. I feel compelled to sing and play and write. But I was thinking of quitting.”

Everyone who knows anything about education seems to now be running a livestream from their room, and the explosion of home-schooling resources can be enough to send a busy parent into lockdown meltdown. That's why we've created a check-list of some of the books and sites that could help. It’s not all about BBC Bitesize and the Khan Academy – it can be all the more fun when you go a little off the beaten path.

Theatre

Theatre

London is crowned best major city in Europe in fDi's FDI Strategy category, with Glasgow, Vilnius, Reykjavik and Galway also winning out.

Studies of the former NE England coalfield in Tyneside demonstrated that heat flow perturbations in boreholes were due to the entrainment and lateral dispersion of heat from deeper in the subsurface through flooded mine workings. This work assesses the influence of historical mining on geothermal observations across Greater Glasgow. The regional heat flow for Glasgow is 60 mW m^–2 and, after correction for palaeoclimate, is estimated as c. 80 mW m^–2. An example of reduced heat flow above mine workings is observed at Hallside (c. 10 km SE of Glasgow), where the heat flow through a 352 m deep borehole is c. 14 mW m^–2. Similarly, the heat flow across the 199 m deep GGC01 borehole in the Glasgow Geothermal Energy Research Field Site is c. 44 mW m^–2. The differences between these values and the expected regional heat flow suggest a significant component of horizontal heat flow into surrounding flooded mine workings. This deduction also influences the quantification of deeper geothermal resources, as extrapolation of the temperature gradient above mine workings would underestimate the temperature at depth. Future projects should consider the influence of historical mining on heat flow when temperature datasets such as these are used in the design of geothermal developments.

Supplementary material: Background information on the chronology of historical mining at each borehole location and a summary of groundwater flow in mine workings beneath Glasgow are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4681100

Thematic collection: This article is part of the ‘Early Career Research’ available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/SJG-early-career-research

SUMMARY:

Use of mechanical thrombectomy for stroke has increased since the publication of trials describing outcome improvement when used in the anterior circulation. These results, however, cannot be directly translated to the posterior circulation. While a high NIHSS score has demonstrated an association with poor outcomes in posterior stroke, the NIHSS is weighted toward hemispheric disease, and complex scores potentially delay definitive imaging diagnosis. We performed a retrospective analysis to ascertain whether any rapidly obtainable demographic or clinical and imaging data have a correlation with patient outcome postthrombectomy. Seventy-three cases were audited between September 2010 and October 2017. Presenting with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of >13 meant that the odds of reaching the primary end point of functional independence (defined as a 90-day modified Rankin Scale score of 0–2) were 5.70 times greater; similarly, presenting with a posterior circulation ASPECTS of >9 resulted in the odds of reaching the primary end point being 4.03 times greater. Older age correlated to a lower odds of independence (0.97, p = .04).

A family of ducklings were spotted jumping off a flat in Glasgow as they left their nest for the first time.

Engineers from the University of Glasgow are responding to the coronavirus pandemic by producing up to 1,000 pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) each day.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh didn't do a lot of buildings, and this was his biggest and best.

This is not a new debate, and raises all kinds of questions.

Louis Smith has a stark message for those who still think he has just ‘waltzed’ back into England’s Commonwealth Games gymnastics team after retiring and then winning the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

The last time Louis Smith competed in front of a crowd this size he was doing a shirtless showdance in the final of Strictly Come Dancing. There was more material, fewer sequins, but the same strength and poise involved as he returned to the day job of trying to win gold medals.

Scotland's Dan Keatings put his London 2012 heartbreak behind him by winning Commonwealth gold on the pommel horse in Glasgow's SSE Hydro.

After returning to competitive action to take two Commonwealth medals, Louis Smith will go back to the small screen before launching an assault on the Great Britain squad next year.

LAURA WILLIAMSON: Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been left 'devastated' after she was forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games with a left foot injury.

The bank is building a 470,000 sq ft office complex – the size of eight football pitches – by the River Clyde. There will be no redundancies amid the changes.

Adele Burns, 47, was left unable to see or move 24 hours after a nightmare visit to Rainbow Rooms in Glasgow where stylists struggled to get her colour and cut right.

A depressing-looking wall in Glasgow has been transformed by the beanie-wearing artist, who spent a week painting the image of St Enoch holding her young son, St Mungo, Glasgow's patron saint.

Joseph MacMillan from Glasgow was deemed fit to work while also suffering from diabetes, pancreatitis and heart problems as he suffered from cancer that left him needing his nose amputated.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall - or of Rothesay as they are known in Scotland - paid a visit to the Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street, which date back to 1903, on Friday.

In just two-and-a-half years, Feezan Choudhary, from Pollokshields, managed to preside over the theft of an astonishing £113million from 750 hapless victims.

Stuart Hogg was denied a last-minute winner against former club Glasgow as his 50-metre penalty hit the bar but a pulsating 31-31 draw edged Exeter into the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals.

The highland cow, which escaped from Pollok Country Park in Glasgow, left commuters facing delays after it was able to walk onto the tracks and leave trains at a standstill today.

Emma Young, 23, from Glasgow, took to Twitter to share two images three years apart that were taken in front of the same hotel mirror in Tenerife.

A leaky roof was the reason given to audience members who were told to leave the The SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow for health and safety reasons.

The screen star, 56, is said to have met Jillian Lamb at the local pub where she worked, before hanging out at The Marriott hotel and One Devonshire Gardens back in 1994.

Lewis Wotherspoon, 41, from Calton, Glasgow, took his passengers on a three-mile drive through the city centre in October last year.

Two hundred heads of state and tens of thousands of delegates will gather for the Conference of the Parties summit at the Scottish Event Campus (pictured) in November.

The mayor of Noosa, on the Queensland's Sunshine Coast, called for Councillor Jess Glasgow to resign after he behaved inappropriately on The Bachelorette last year.

Salmond, 65, was flanked by police officers as he entered Glasgow's High Court this morning.

Disgraced Bachelorette contestant Jess Glasgow is selling his Noosa apartment.

Batman descended upon drizzly Glasgow in full black body armour as he roared around a cemetery on a motorbike during filming on Friday.

Set designers were seen out on the streets of Glasgow transforming the area they were set to film in into the dark city of Gotham, on Saturday.