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25 THINGS YOU WON’T KNOW ABOUT GLASGOW UNLESS YOU'VE LIVED THERE

Forget the guide books and stereotypes… Harris Brine presents 25 things you won’t know about Glasgow unless you’ve spent some time there.

You can go to a roller disco


Dig the flares out, because roller disco is back. For anyone who wasn’t born before 1970, this is when human beings attach wheels to their feet and go around in circles for hours to funky music. Sound nuts? It is. (website)

You can walk around a chocolate factory (without a golden ticket)


Unlike Wonka’s, the No. 1 Chocolate Factory is open to the public seven days a week, with parties for little kids (and ahem, big kids) available too. There’s even hand-made treats by chocolatiers to make you go home feeling like Augustus Gloop. (website)

You can see stand-up comedy for only £2


The Stand is the perfect way to wake up with aching sides after laughing far too hard. Long-standing weekly night Red Raw (Tuesdays) is a mere £2, so get down early to snap up one of the limited tickets. (website)

You can pay homage to The Dude


Outrageously delicious burgers, a laid-back atmosphere and no less than 26 types of the Dude’s famous White Russian await you at Lebowski’s – even the most staunch of nihilists would find meaning to come here. (Tip: leave the dressing gown at home) (website)
You can watch classic silent movies



The Britannia Panopticon is the world’s oldest music hall (founded 1857) and it hasn’t lost any of its charm, regularly screening classics such as Metropolis (1927) andNosferatu (1922). Celebrate the venue which hosted Stan Laurel’s 1906 debut by watching classic Laurel and Hardy films. (Tip: bring a jacket) (website)

You can sift through mountains of books


There are few bookshops like Voltaire and Rousseau. No bigger than a living room, yet with enough books to rival a small library, browsing through the mountainous selection is an experience in itself. No genre is left unturned – if you can find it. (Tip: bring a packed-lunch) (website)

You can play ping-pong and Super Nintendo while you drink


Vintage fairs, Super Mario, ping-pong, sewing clubs, bingo; it all sound like a cheese-fuelled dream, doesn’t it? But at Hillhead Bookclub you won’t need a large amount of brie to experience all this (although you will need a bit of cheddar). An open-minded, open-plan joy of a haunt. (website)

You can rifle through bric-a-brac (or sweeties)


While the Barrowlands takes most of the credit, every Saturday/Sunday The Barras is a swarming market soused in Glaswegian personality. With more characters than a Broons back catalogue, its no-frills trade shops are bound to have you thrilled. (website)

You can try one of 350 different whiskys


Few other places can compete with the sheer range of whiskeys at Bon Accord, an old-school pub in Charing Cross, which also hosts tasting clubs and live folk music. There’s an incredible 350 malts to choose. On World Whisky Day (Sat 17 May), treat yourself to a 43 year old, £160 a nip, tipple. (website)

You can listen to old-school jazz every Sunday


If you think Louis Armstrong was the first man on the moon, this might not be for you. But The 78 is the best place in Glasgow to get educated in jazz, with an established resident trio playing from 9pm every Sunday night. (website)

You can visit the bones of St Valentine


In 1868 a small wooden box labeled Corpus Valentini Martyris was dropped off at the Gorbals. Turns out it contained ‘the body of St Valentine’, the man responsible for keeping card and flower businesses blooming. It now sits at Blessed St John Duns Scotus church. (website)

You can read an ancient tome (or just a very large one)


Want to trace your family history or source ancient Scottish scripts over a cuppa? Want to go see a gig? The Mitchell Library can cater for all these, and more. With over a million items to choose and a great theatre, the Mitchell Library is one of the most tranquil ways to dip out of the 21st century. (website)

You can walk around in a 330 million year old forest


You’re a few 200 million years short of recreating Walking With Dinosaurs, but the humble Fossil Grove in Victoria Park is home to fossilized plants, which formed long before the dinosaurs started munching everything in sight. You don’t need a plane to visit this Jurassic Park. City centre buses go to nearby Dumbarton Road. Who’d have thought it? (website)

You can have a party in a flat that’s not yours


With décor from the ’70s and with DJs with a “penchant for every decade”, Flat 0/1 on Bath Street has a double-bed and half a bathtub for you to lounge on. Out of old domestic fridges the bar staff serve MD 20/20, Lambrini, and Frosty Jacks. (website)
You can take part in a zombie apocalypse

Get in early practice for when the real zombie influx sweeps the cities of Britain (every Monday at 8am), by taking part in 2.8 Hours Later. You’re given a map, have to traverse across the city quarantine to your first location. If you get caught, you yourself turn into one of the undead. Again. (website)

You can drink in the bar where Belle & Sebastian met

With potent cask ales, the horseshoe-shaped watering hole that is the Halt Bar proved to be lucky for Stevie Jackson and Stuart Murdoch, who first played here in 1996. It’s on Woodlands Road, which is handy for any inebriated souls staggering back to either the city-centre or the West End.

You can taste beer made from Christmas trees
Alloa brewers Williams Brothers have a ridiculous (and inventive) selection of beers and ales on offer at their West End cavern, Inn Deep, which runs parallel to the River Kelvin. It also has picturesque outdoor seating, a mouth-watering menu, and Nollaig, a 7% tipple with ingredients derived from Christmas spruce. (website)

You can feast on A Play, A Pie and a Pint
The converted church that is Oran Mor offers the chance to ogle the work of some of Scotland’s best known playwrights with yep, you guessed it, a delicious pie. Each day you can wet one’s whistle with a pint too, but just make you don’t blow it when the curtains go up. (website)

You can visit a city-centre Lighthouse


Though the River Clyde is not far away, there’s no danger of boats needing to swerve this lighthouse. It’s on Mitchell Lane, in a building commissioned for one Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Architecture and art installations are topped off with an astounding view of the city from its open-top apex. (website)

You can ride the Clockwork Orange


Coined in the 70s, the Clockwork Orange is the nickname for Glasgow’s Subway, and is also the transport for those partaking in the Subcrawl. The Feat? Buy a day pass, get off at each stop on its cyclical route (15 in total) and have a drink. The achievement? A hangover the size of Jupiter. Check out the Subway challenge too, for clock-related dares. (website)

You should stay at home on Old Firm days


One of the most potent sporting rivalries in the world, things can get a bit hairy when they play (which isn’t as often as it used to be, given Rangers’ current league position). With a good chance that one side of the city will lose, Saturday nights can look a little bit like the food fight in the film Hook, only the imaginary grub being thrown is actually punches and bottles.

You can’t leave the Duke of Wellington statue without a cone on top


Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, put his life on the line to defeat the formidable-in-all-but-height emperor Napoleon, and then became Prime Minister. Twice. In Glasgow’s he’s most famous for having a cone on his head, one which the council recently had to do a dramatic U-turn on after the public objected to its removal.

You shouldn’t try a U-turn in the city centre


If you’re one wrong turn away from having a mental meltdown, you should probably take the bus than bring the car into Glasgow. Anyone who’s braved it knows it’s like travelling through a labyrinth House of Mirrors, only you’re doing it in a thin metal box that goes at 40mph.

You might see the ‘Glasgow Raver’

A neon-adorned grown-man raving in the middle of a busy high-street to silence does turn heads, but no one knew why Leo Mushet decided to go all 1994 until someone asked him. Turns out his bizarre act is one of kindness; he donates the money he receives to leukaemia research, in homage of his late sister. (Facebook page)

You can eat a week’s worth of calories at Buddys


Located in Shawlands, we feel sorry for anyone living within 100 metres of Buddy’s. Not only will they have to put up with endless queues, but they’ll have to resist the daily temptation not to splurge their week’s wages on heaps of tantalising slow-cooked BBQ glazed ribs. (Facebook page)

22 PHRASES YOU’LL ONLY HEAR IN GLASGOW

The gallus Glasgow tongue is a funny old thing.

Pick apart the words and saying common only to Glasgow (or the west coast of Scotland/suburban sprawl, if we’re being truthful) and you’ll find a mixture of good old-fashioned Scots phrasing, pop culture references and terms of endearment that can double up as insults, depending on who you’re talking to.

We asked you to give us your favourite Glasgow phrases, and here are just some of them (along with a few treasures of our own), picked apart and put into true Glesga context.

1. Ginger
In a land famed for them, you would think that in Glasgow, ginger would be the word for red hair, for carrot top – but you would be wrong. Sure, it has that use too, but chances are that when your average Glesga punter asks you for some ginger, or even a gingy bottle, they’re either looking to quench their thirst with a fizzy drink, or they’re looking to score the 30p they’ll get for returning those prized glass bottles. Whether they mean Irn Bru specifically or fizz in general is up for debate – either way, now you’ll know to step away from the redhead and hand over a can instead.

2. Bolt ya rocket
Those of us with siblings (usually older) know all too well the angry cry of “bolt ya rocket!” Translated simply, it means go away – but with the added insult that you’re a rocket, or (to use another fine Scottish word), an eejit. Perhaps put to best use when someone tries to take a swig of your ginger without asking – use it sparingly for maximum effect.

3. How/how no?


Oh, I know this one, I hear you say. A request for instructions! Well, not quite. In Glasgow ‘how’ is just as likely to mean ‘why’ – for example: “Gonnae no dae that…” “How?” “Just gonnae no.” Add a ‘no’ on the end and you’re really driving the point home with a touch of indignation, Glesga style.

4. Piece
It’s an oldie, but a goodie. Forget your sandwich – that’s a posh lunch here. Going back to your granny and yer granny’s granny, that magical meal of two slices of bread and filling is known as a piece. Add jam and you’ve got yourself a jeely piece, made famous by that childhood song about a Glasgow high rise (“Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty story flat”) – and few among us would dare.

5. Away an bile yer heid
Let’s face it, Glasgow has plenty of phrases telling you where to go. Like some others, this one implies that you’ve to go for talking nonsense – so much nonsense, in fact, that you’ve to boil your own head in shame for being so ridiculous. We’re an incredulous lot, that’s for sure.

6. Shut yer geggy
There’s not a lot to this one, so stop going on about it. No, really. A geggy’s a mouth (or a mooth) and you’re being asked to refrain from opening it. In other words, zip it and haud yer wheesht.

7. Havnae a scooby


And you thought it was only cockneys who were fond of the old rhyming slang. If you ask a Glaswegian for directions and this is the response, they don’t have a Scooby Doo – in other words, a clue. Not to be confused with the city’s other scooby, the mighty scooby snack – an artery-clogging feast of a roll fit for the king of cartoon dogs himself.

8. Gaun yersel!
This one needs an exclamation – and it’s for special occasions only. We might have many a phrase for telling people to get lost, but nothing shows encouragement in Glasgow like a cry of ‘gaun yersel!’ (go on yourself). It’s often followed up with ‘big man’ or ‘wee man’ (depending on the recipient) and it’s a sure-fire sign that the speaker is behind you all the way. That it wasn’t on the Glasgow 2014 banners was a missed opportunity.

9. Boggin
Picture, if you will, wandering forth onto the streets of Glasgow in search of the mythical deep fried Mars Bar. You might love it – all oily batter and melted chocolate. But if you don’t, there’s only one word for your disgust, and that word is boggin. Example: “That’s boggin man!” You can also use this word in place of dirty or filthy – but use it to describe someone (to their face at least) and you might get a punch in the geggy.

10. Swally


What’s that clinking in your bag on the Friday walk home? A few bottles of plonk or cans of top quality lager, perhaps? That’ll be your carry out – and what’s contained within is ‘a wee swally’, or an alcoholic beverage or 10. Don’t be fooled by the singular – you can never have just the one when the word swally is involved.

11. Gallus
Gallus is more than a just a west end pub – it’s that swagger, the strut you save for walking into a club or dancing like Beyonce (or so you think). This one can swing either way, from the compliment (stylish, impressive, cheeky in a good way) to the all-out insult (mouthy, brash, needing to shut their geggy). It may have gone the way of ‘banter’ in recent times thanks to those pesky westenders (Glasgow Uni students, we’re looking at you) – but it’s still a pure gallus word to pull out on occasion.

12. Greetin


Leo says it all for us here. If you’re greetin, you’re probably not a happy chappy. The word can be used to describe anything from a bit of a moan to all-out sobbing – and it’s usually used in phrases, again, telling you to zip it. See also: greetin face – one of the best insults in the Glasgow collection.

13. Winch
Now, we’re not here to tell you about the birds and the bees. But we will tell you that your gran and your granda were at it back in the ballroom days. Your maw and da were at it too. And you’ve been at it since those school disco days when it was an introduction (“will you winch ma pal?”) – and probably many a Saturday night since. The Glasgow kiss means something altogether different here – and it’s a lot more pleasant, depending on who you’re kissing.

14. Bawbag
Remember when Hurricane Bawbag was a thing? Glasgow does – it’s a word we’ve attributed to many a pal or an enemy over the years, either in affection or irritation. We won’t give you the literal translation, but we will tell you that it’s another word for a dafty – not to mention a storm which hit Scotland so hard that even trampolines were on the run. It became a world-trending hashtag then – but it’ll always be in the Glasgow vocabulary.

15. It’s pure baltic
And speaking of weather, remember that glorious summer in Glasgow? No, neither do we. You’d think we Glaswegians would be used to the cold and the rain by now – and we are, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a whine about it. And that’s where ‘it’s pure baltic’ comes into play.

16. Check the nick
Us cynical Scots invented the snide look – and Glasgow has as many a phrase for ‘aye right’ as the eskimos do for snow. But check the nick flies high above the rest, summing up a thorough eyeballing in just three wee words. It’s similar to ‘look at the state of that’ – but with added weegie oomph.

17. Fandan
It might not have its own weather event yet, but give it time. A fandan is a lot like a bawbag, in that it can be term of endearment or abuse, depending on who’s talking. It’s also a certain female body part – imagine the Scottish equivalent of The Inbetweeners when we say “the room was wall to wall fandan” and you’ll get the picture.

18. Glaikit


The single best word to describe someone with a silly look on their face, this word translates as stupid, careless, gormless – daft, in a word. But let’s face it, daft isn’t as fun to wrap your mooth around as glaikit.

19. Buttoned up the back
Is someone trying to take you for a fool? Make a mug of you? Con you into doing something? Then this is the phrase for you. Utilised by many a Glasgow maw or da, it’s usually a question, as in “d’ye think ahm buttoned up the back?” – often in answer to “Can I get a loan eh a tenner?” or “Gies a lift to…” The answer, in case you’re wondering, is always no, they’re not.

20. Giein it laldy
It’s fast approaching midnight, you’ve had a wee swally and you’re feeling gallus. Should you rock up to a club and hit the dancefloor, there’s only one thing for it – and that’s giein it laldy. It means really going for it, getting mad wae it and regretting nothing. Forget tomorrow’s hangover – it’ll be soothed with texts from your friends telling you were totally giein it laldy last night. Worth it.

21. Taps aff
Remember when it was pure baltic? Well now it’s that one day of the year when the sun shines on gorgeous Glesga and us grateful, peely wally types take to the city’s many parks, benches or spare bits of grass. How do we know that the sun is out? Put that thermometer away – the only indicator Glasgow needs is a peek out the window to see if taps are oan or aff. There’s even a website which will tell you the current status, setting taps aff at around 17 degrees – but we’ve all seen the odd anomaly as low as 14 or 15.

22. Did ye, aye?


Thank Glasgow comedian Kevin Bridges for popularising this gem of a put down. Nowadays, it’s a no brainer route to putting someone in their place, as with Mr Bridges sending up the waffle spouted by self-important celebrities. Whether it’s a pal spinning tall tales about what they got up to on their holidays or a co-worker going on about yet another wild weekend, nothing could top those eight little letters and a knowing smirk. Argument won, end of.

Football: Mourinho in line to be sacked

CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho has seen his odds of becoming the next Premier League manager to be sacked slashed following his team’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday.

File: Jose Mourinho

Odds released by Betfair Sportsbook on Monday show the Portuguese tactician is now 7/1 second favourite – previously 25/1 – to leave his post behind Sunderland coach Dick Advocaat.

Mourinho had to also deal with heavy criticism in the build-up to the clash on Sunday for demoting first-team doctor Eva Carneiro after she had attended to Eden Hazard in the dying minutes of the draw against Garry Monk’s side last Saturday.

Despite the Portuguese manager only signing a new four-year dealearlier this month, odds from Betfair suggest Mourinho could be on his way out of Stamford Bridge if Chelsea do not get their title defence back on track in the coming weeks.

Football Trader for Betfair, Michael Bowers, said: “Jose is struggling to get off on the right foot this season, after a poor game against Swansea and an even poorer game against the new title favourites

Manchester City, he has gone from 25/1 to 7/1 second favourite as the next manager to leave the market after heavy backing.

“The club will remain loyal to Mourinho for the time being, but if the blues don’t start picking up some points after four or five games, even The Special One could face the chop.”

21 things you need to know before moving in with your boyfriend

They make it all look so easy… (Picture: monkeybusinessimages)

It’s August, that month when everyone’s tenancies run out and couples take the plunge.

Moving in with your boyfriend is really exciting.

You’ve made it through the hell that is flat hunting intact, you still like each other and have been planning which of your pictures is going in the living room for months.

But setting up a home with him is also terrifying.

It’s a big step, what if things don’t work out? What if you lose your job and can’t make rent?

What if he finds out about that weird thing you do in the bathroom and is grossed out?

If you’re about to collect the keys together, here’s 21 things you should know.

1. You are going to start with high minded ideals about equality, cleanliness and hygiene that were absent from your old place.

Surely all the dirty plates and gone off milk cartons in the fridge were your housemate’s, right?

2. But that won’t stop you letting him carry all the heavy stuff on moving day.

3. And somehow, despite your best intentions, he’ll still mostly ends up taking the bins out and you will often seem to be the one folding the washing.

4. You’ll do the IKEA shop that everyone talks about, and it really won’t be that bad.

But you will realise that neither of you has ever been without your parents, and you’re not really sure how it works. One of you will try and buy a display item.

You’re mostly there for the meatballs. 

You’ve brought many stolen pint glasses but still haven’t got a chest of drawers (Picture: Ximagination)

5. You’ll get most of your big furniture from Freecycle anyway.

Let’s face it, it’s mostly IKEA bookshelves from three years ago in any case.

6. And one month in you still won’t have found chairs or a bookcase you can agree on that suit your paltry budget.

When you are still sitting on the floor around the coffee table to eat dinner you’ll probably just settle for the first ones you see at the local market. At least you won’t have to carry them far.

7. There will be limited cupboard space in your bedroom. Shotgun two thirds of it early on.

He will have vastly underestimated the number of clothes you own.

8. Similarly, the number of toiletries you need on a daily basis will confuse him.

9. And now there is no-one else to blame you will have to take responsibility for the hair clogging up the shower.

Buy plug unblocker in your first big shop.

10. That thing about the kirby grips is true.

You won’t know how they got in the washing up, down the back of the sofa and on top of the fridge.

But those bobby pins are definitely yours.

11. He’s probably been hiding some weird ticks from you, but now they will come flooding out.

Eating Golden Nuggets out of the box while sitting on the sofa in his pants and watching nature documentaries?

Yeah, that’s your Sunday now. 

It’s mostly not like this (Picture: JackF)

12. But you’ll both probably start eating a bit healthier and cooking properly.

If only because it’s more cost effective to do a weekly shop and actually buy vegetables.

13. Whether you have a joint account, monthly standing order or a list of who owes what on the fridge, get your bills and rent sorted quickly.

It’ll save a hassle when one of you is short at the end of the month.

14. And work out whose job it is to get the internet hooked up straight away.

You’ll need it for everything else.

15. You’ll probably find yourself scolding him like a small child at some point for leaving the toilet seat up or not picking up his dirty socks.

Don’t do that.

16. Especially because you’ll probably find that you’ve spread your things all over the house too.

17. And you’ll wonder how all that stuff used to fit in your bedroom in your old shared place.

Those fairy lights aren’t really working there (Picture: Kevin Kozicki)

18. Have a housewarming and show off your new place.

The mates who buy you kitchen bits and flowers are keepers.

The ones who break your brand new wine glasses probably aren’t.

19. Also have a dinner party when you finally buy a dining table and pretend that now you are a real grown-up.

20. You will squabble in the kitchen and bicker over what to serve, but that’s fine.

21. Because now you can walk round your flat naked and have sex with your housemate.

And it’s awesome.

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Indonesian plane: Rescue team reaches Papua crash site

Images taken by search teams show the wreckage strewn across a dense forest

An advance party of an Indonesian rescue team has reached the site where a Trigana Air plane crashed in the western Papua region on Sunday.

Initial reports from the team say the aircraft was completely destroyed and 38 bodies were found in the wreckage.

It came down in dense forest in a mountainous area, a few kilometres from its original destination of Oksibil.

The plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children, and five crew members.

The plane was also said to be carrying about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was due to be distributed to poor families in the area.

A rescue team of about a hundred police, military and civilians is due to reach the site in the coming hours.

Media caption54 people were reportedly onboard the flight, which crashed into a mountain in eastern Papua

Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said the advance party arrived at the site at 09:30 local time (00:30 GMT) on Monday and found the aircraft "completely destroyed".

"The plane has crashed, it is completely destroyed," he told reporters. "Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt."

He said rescuers were still looking for survivors at the site but the chances of finding anyone alive were "slim".

Mr Soelisyo added that rescuers were also hunting for the plane's flight data recorders, known as black boxes, which should shed light on what caused the accident.

The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21 local time on Sunday, but lost contact with air traffic controllers half an hour later.

Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash. A search plane was forced to turn back on Sunday because of dangerous flying conditions.


Oksibil, which is about 280km south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.

Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list.

Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year.

Last December, an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra, claiming 140 lives.