Deep-rooted schisms, fan boycotts and the return of the Green Brigade 🍀
Our long read on the trouble at Celtic Park, Dermot Desmond’s grip on the club and an end to the protests, for now
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Brilliant piece from Alice Austin in The Bell. The sort of investigation that holds someone to account while also treating them with respect. Makes me wonder whether the various barriers to entry in the DJ/MC scene are what created Kieran Wells the DJ deceiver.
In this week's briefing:
🗳 Holyrood elections: political promises and the key seats
🎶 Another music festival hits the skids
🥣 Who's been stealing soup from the BBC?
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Great piece this in @glasgowbell.bsky.social about a DJ scam.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/kieran-wells...
Reminds me of a similar investigation I did about a DJ scam crew in the 2010s, ironically the only time I’ve had a death threat 👇
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But, of the dozen or so DJs I’ve spoken to for this story, no one has actually sent Wells money. So what does he get out of it? How can a scammer not actually scam anyone? That’s the big question. And to get the answer, I had to go back to the beginning.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/kieran-wells...
It was Kieran Wells: West and Central Scotland’s notorious DJ deceiver.
Hutton outed him in the group chat, and within a day or two he wrote: “TO EVERYONE.. I’M SORRY”, removed everyone from the chat, deleted the event page and left the DJs with no gig.
“He put a video of him speaking to the camera,” she says. Another DJ sent her frantic messages.
“This guy puts these nights on, sells all the tickets, gets all the money, and then days before the event cancels it, and disappears off the radar, taking all the money and leaving all DJs with no gig,”
“There were two rooms, and the club was only open from 10:30pm to 3am,” she says. “I did the maths and it was going to be 20-minute sets back-to-back.” What was the point? Nevertheless, she encouraged the promoter to do a video to publicise the event.
She also noticed the events page — events_1357 — was five years old and the name had been changed multiple times. But Hutton accepted the gig anyway, and was immediately added to an Instagram group chat with around 12 other DJs. As more names were added to the chat, Hutton had questions.
💽 Renfrewshire DJ ATØN, AKA Amy Hutton, didn’t think much of a message from TECHNO PRODUCTIONS when it landed in her inbox on February 10th 2026.
"Hi are you free for a hard techno set 4th July 6th avenue nightclub Stewarton"
🫓 Middle Eastern: Babylon, 3-5 Commerce Street
🥠 Chinese: Wah Kee, Chinatown business centre
🍞 "Justice for the Grants tattie scones", protested reader Heather in the comments section of our Glasgow bakeries rankings. Well, Heather, you needn't have feared. Here are our top picks for Glasgow's best bakeries outside the bougie Viennoiserie category.
📰 Monday briefing out now 🗞
🦁 Is the Lyons era over?
🎨 Trongate 103 update
💸 Digging into scandal-hit politician's finances
🍞 Bakery rankings: best of the rest
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Hey Rob. We didn’t include Freedom (or Forn) as they are wholesale suppliers and don’t have bricks-and-mortar premises. FWIW, Robbie thought Cottonrake’s loaf was superb: high hydration, not in the least bit dry, tangy, great crumb and crust etc.
🍞 The city’s 10 best breads and pastries: our arbitrary but absolutely authoritative guide 🥐
Read our rankings below, from the best focaccia and sourdough to the top viennoiserie in the city. There are a few surprises 👇
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Which of Glasgow's bougie bakeries is this? It's number one on our list.
"The sourdough is stupendously good, operating at a level above anything else you can find in the Kingdom of Strathclyde."
Read our rankings to find out
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What should fill the Union Corner gap site? Readers, and writer Calum, are saying to keep it open plan with space for local vendors' stalls.
What of the Woodside Viaduct? Can we imagine replacing it? Calum's started the conversation in his writer's edition. Have your say 👇
We're very pleased that The Bell's brilliant @calumgrewar.bsky.social has been shortlisted for Regional Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards.
Calum joined The Bell a year ago and he's been behind some of our biggest scoops.
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We agree!
And what a great story it is. Our favourite bit, if we can describe it that way: "One fella enquired, at the top of his pipes in a crowded cafe at the Burrell Collection, how I’d like him to bring me to orgasm."
This story is one of the more unusual we've covered. Texts calling Ukrainian women 'prostitut[es]', an alleged fight in a basement office & a 14 month course case that the presiding judge deemed a "disgrace".
The cakes are beautiful though.
Read here.
In the dock are three former employees that Karolis has accused of stealing from him - recipes to be exact.
Marianna Balwierz, Yulia Blazhenko and Olexander ‘Sasha’ Trach worked at SugarFall for over a year before a mass staff walkout in Sep 2024.
SugarFall Patisserie on Byres Road is an influencer favourite. Behind it is a young boss: Karolis Juskenas. Staff have hit him with a slew of mistreatment claims, including the AI NDAs, an assault and withheld wages.
He denies them all.
📰 There's a lot of bakery beef in Glasgow but it usually involves customers and a business.
Today's story is about the bizarre events at a West End bakery, that ended with allegations of assault, coercion into signing ChatGPT, NDAs and staff on trial for 'stealing' recipes.
Govan's very much back in the news right now. It's Glasgow's secret economic powerhouse, but how much do the locals actually benefit? This is our blueprint for a sunnier Govan
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In this week's briefing:
🦁 The Lyons king arrested in Bali
🍽️ Glasgow restaurants: an open and shut case
🏚️ Historic gardens get a major glow up
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interesting read and well worth subscribing to The Glasgow Bell for top quality local journalism.
