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Stranraer railway station is served by trains run by Abellio ScotRail to Ayr, Kilmarnock and Glasgow Central.
The title refers to the River Kelvin, which flows close by his laboratory at the University of Glasgow.
William is also memorialised on the Thomson family grave in Glasgow Necropolis.
The family grave has a second modern memorial to William alongside, erected by the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.
Among the most prominent definers of the Glasgow School collective were The Four.
Their subject matter featured rural, prosaic scenes from in and around Glasgow.
The Glasgow Boys consisted of several men, most of whom were trained in, or had strong ties to the city of Glasgow.
A large collection of work from the Glasgow Boys is held in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, where one room is dedicated to the group.
The versatile Glasgow designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh also made jewellery, using traditional Celtic symbols.
Other distinctive designs came from Glasgow School, and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.
Around 1892, Mackintosh met fellow artist Margaret Macdonald at the Glasgow School of Art.
During the early stages of the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh also completed the Queen's Cross Church project in Maryhill, Glasgow.
It is the only church by the Glasgow born artist to be built and is now the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society headquarters.
The group exhibited in Glasgow, London and Vienna, and these exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation.
A meeting of the Assembly was held in Glasgow to mark the city's status as European City of Culture.
From Glasgow his reputation as a preacher spread throughout the United Kingdom.
In 1840 Chalmers was unsuccessful in applying for the chair of divinity at the University of Glasgow.
The universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen were ecclesiastical foundations, while Edinburgh was a civic foundation.
The original site on the High Street was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway and replaced by the College Goods yard.
The University also has use of half of the East Boathouse situated at Glasgow Green on the River Clyde where Glasgow University Boat Club train.
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There are currently four Colleges within the University of Glasgow, each containing a number of Schools.
It was in 1769 when James Watt's engineering at Glasgow led to a stable steam engine and, subsequently, the Industrial Revolution.
In terms of research 'power' however, Glasgow placed fourteenth in the UK and second in Scotland.
In common with the other ancient universities of Scotland, students at Glasgow also elect a Rector.
At the turn of the twentieth century the Clydeside area in Glasgow experienced rapid industrial and population growth.
In 1914 the Independent Labour Party Housing Committee and the Women's Labour League formed the Glasgow Women's Housing Association.
On 31 January 1919, a massive rally, organised by the trade unions, took place on George Square in the city centre of Glasgow.
Even since then, Glasgow has been known for political and industrial militancy.
Bus services run to Inverness and Glasgow, and there are local services on the island, mainly starting from Portree or Broadford.
Loganair provide daily flights to Glasgow International and Hebridean Air Services fly to Coll and Oban.
It is visited regularly by surfing clubs, including Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow university clubs.
After the Second World War, Glasgow, already suffering from chronic housing shortages, incurred bomb damage from the war.
Glasgow would also undertake the development of its peripheral housing estates.
The operators at the bus station are First Glasgow, Stagecoach West Scotland, Citylink.
Livingston was built as part of the New Towns Act of 1946, in part to ease overcrowding in Glasgow.
Livingston has buses to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Lanark, Fife, Falkirk and most West Lothian towns and villages.
In October 1878, this was compounded by the failure of the Bank of Glasgow in which much of the village's money was invested.
The forensic experts, professors at Glasgow and Edinburgh, appeared as witnesses on opposing sides and a not proven verdict was returned.
The town has rail links to Glasgow, Falkirk, Motherwell and Edinburgh via Cumbernauld railway station.
Croy railway station to the north of the town has rail links to Edinburgh, Alloa, Dunblane and Glasgow.
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The harbour for Irvine has a long history and once was one of the most prominent ports in Scotland after Glasgow.
Much of the harbour went into decline in the 19th century when Glasgow, Greenock and Port Glasgow achieved higher prominence as sea ports.
In 1740, the Glasgow philosopher Francis Hutcheson argued for a right of colonial resistance to tyranny.
The bitter rivalry between Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow, known as the Old Firm, is known worldwide for its sectarian divide.
Today the College offers degrees in conjunction with the University of Glasgow.
With some growth it was recognised as a church plant in 2014 by the Glasgow Presbytery, and in 2016 appointed Iain MacAskill as its minister.
A law graduate of the University of Glasgow, Sturgeon worked as a solicitor in Glasgow.
Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan.
The result was considered a surprise, as there was speculation that the SNP could have won an upset similar to Glasgow East.
They held their majorities on the councils of Glasgow and North Lanarkshire and regained control of Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire.
However, many of Labour's traditional strongholds favoured the Yes side, notably including Glasgow.
Labour also lost control of Glasgow and three other councils where it had a majority.
He became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and the Glasgow University Union.
Smith grew up in the Maryhill district of Glasgow and was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow.
On 8 February 2008, Smith was appointed as Chair of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games organising company.
In the case of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the districts had city status, although this did not confer any additional powers.
The surrounding towns, like Bridge of Allan, Alloa, Falkirk and Glasgow via Cumbernauld have services from the bus station.
Stirling has no airport but there are international airports at Glasgow and Edinburgh which can be reached within an hour.
In Glasgow, the volume of business required the employment of four solicitors as stipendiary magistrates who sit in place of the lay justices.
Shipbuilding, although significantly diminished from its heights in the early 20th century, is still a large part of the Glasgow economy.
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By the end of the 15th century schools were also being organised for girls and universities were founded at St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The bank opened its first branch office outside Edinburgh in 1783 when it opened one in Glasgow, in part of a draper's shop in the High Street.
Further branches were opened in Dundee, Rothesay, Dalkeith, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and Leith in the first part of the nineteenth century.
In March 1838, an advertisement appeared for a new joint stock banking company in Glasgow, the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Brock came of a merchant family, was an accountant and one of the founders of the Glasgow Savings Bank.
A few months later came the acquisition of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank, which had been weakened by the same economic disturbances.
Some Scottish independent schools, including St Aloysius' College, in Glasgow, chose to do likewise.
Major venues include Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Usher Hall, Edinburgh and Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
The entirety of the World Championships takes place on one day in August, on Glasgow Green.
She started playing in pubs and coffee houses around Glasgow at the age of 15, including the Brunswick Cellars on Sauchiehall Street.
Macdonald had tonsillitis at the same time but still performed at Glasgow and at the BBC's Hogmanay Live show the same night.
The final date for 2010 was in the Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow which is traditionally where the band finishes their Scottish tours.
This was released on 31 March 2017 with a special screening, the day before, at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.
The band recorded the album in a disused building in Glasgow that had been a town hall in the past.
In 2016 Alex Kapranos took part in a documentary about Glasgow music, and Chemikal Underground Records, called Lost in France.
In 2015 Boyle was awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow.
The View toured in early March 2010, visiting Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh.
The first gigs that the View played in 2011 were at King Tut's in Glasgow, on 25 and 26 January.
The band announced unplugged show scheduled for June in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and three dates at Oran Mor in Glasgow.
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The locations included Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London.
The album was recorded in Glasgow with Jon Fratelli and Stuart McCredie on production duties.
It was around this time that the band began touring extensively, including supporting Weezer on 20 March at the Barrowlands in Glasgow.
Between the two headline slots, Biffy Clyro also performed a huge outdoor show in Glasgow, with Fall Out Boy filling in as the support act.
In October 2014 Nutini was forced to pull out of shows in his hometown of Glasgow, Cardiff and London due to tonsillitis.
He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow.
At the opening of the Glasgow LGBT Centre in 1995, he read a poem he had written for the occasion, and presented it to the Centre as a gift.
The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January.
In the past, Celtic Connections events have taken place in The Barrowlands, The Arches, Tramway and Glasgow Cathedral.
The Celtic Connections festival has been broadcast on community radio station Celtic Music Radio 1530am in Glasgow.
In 2006 events were held in Arbroath, Aberdeen, Montrose, Kilmarnock, Stirling, Perth, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Daily Record, part of Trinity Mirror, is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow.
In 1802, Mennons sold the newspaper to Benjamin Mathie and Dr James McNayr, former owner of the Glasgow Courier, which.
In 1805 the name changed again, time to The Glasgow Herald when Thomas Mennons severed his ties to the paper.
In 1980, the publication moved to offices in Albion Street in Glasgow into the former Scottish Daily Express building.
The newspaper changed its name to The Herald on 3 February 1992, dropping Glasgow from its title, but not its masthead.
In 2013, STV won licences to launch local TV channels in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The STV studios in Glasgow were originally located in the former Theatre Royal in the Cowcaddens area of the city.
The Scottish Football Union was founded on Monday 3 March 1873 at a meeting held at Glasgow Academy, Elmbank Street, Glasgow.
Glasgow merged with Caledonian to form a team to be known as Glasgow Caledonian.
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As a consequence Edinburgh Reivers became simply Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow became Glasgow Rugby.
In the same year, the SRU began organising the Scotland Sevens, first held in Edinburgh and later in Glasgow.
Hamilton Crescent is a cricket ground located in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland.
The West of Scotland Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Glasgow, Scotland.
The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow.
Celtic was initially founded to raise money for the poor in the East End of Glasgow and the club still retain strong charitable traditions today.
In May 1990 former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Michael Kelly, and property developer Brian Dempsey were invited to join the Celtic board.
Rangers' first match, in May that year, was a goalless friendly draw with Callander on Glasgow Green.
Royal Troon Golf Club is a links golf course in Scotland, located in Troon, South Ayrshire, southwest of Glasgow.
Kentigern's Cemetery, Glasgow, with some 2000 people attending the funeral.
Glasgow was selected as the host city on 9 November 2007 during CGF General Assembly in Colombo, Sri Lanka, defeating Abuja, Nigeria.
In October 2006, the first voting delegates arrived in Glasgow, to inspect the city's existing and proposed amenities and facilities.
Glasgow announced on 16 January 2007, the 17 sports to be included should its bid be successful.
Glasgow Green was the venue for Field hockey and saw the construction of a new Glasgow Green Hockey Centre.
The Athletes Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was situated on a 35 hectare site, in the east end of Glasgow.
Glasgow hosted 4,500 athletes who required transportation between the Athletes' Village, training venues, and competition venues.
The mascot was designed by Beth Gilmour, who won a competition run by Glasgow 2014 for children to design the Mascot.
Due to popularity in the city, the Clyde mascots are currently proposed official mascots of the City of Glasgow.
This bus accepts National Rail tickets between Glasgow Airport and any railway station.
Glasgow Airport was opened in 1966 and originally flights only operated to other places in the United Kingdom and Europe.
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In the 1960s, Glasgow Corporation decided that a new airport for the city was required.
It is also served by a frequent bus service, the Glasgow Airport Express, which operates services to city centre.
The airport is owned and operated by AGS Airports which also owns and operates Glasgow and Southampton Airports.
The most frequent services are on the electrified route between Glasgow Central and Ayr on the Ayrshire Coast Line.
With the completion of the northern electrification in 1974, London to Glasgow journey times were reduced to 5 hours.
On summer weekends trains from Glasgow Central also operate to Paignton, Penzance and Newquay.
These services use the West Coast Main Line from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central.
The North Berwick Line runs from Glasgow Central High Level via Motherwell to Carstairs and onto Haymarket, Edinburgh Waverley and North Berwick.
At Carlisle the Glasgow South Western Line runs for several miles before heading west towards Dumfries, Kilmarnock, Ayr and Stranraer.
The WCML is noted for the diversity of branches served between the London and Glasgow main line.
It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line to Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central.
In June 2009, a new company acquired the hotel building, and planned to refurbish and rebrand it as the Glasgow Grand Central Hotel.
The 2002 Glasgow floods had a number of other effects, causing a cryptospiridium outbreak in Glasgow's water supply.
To accommodate the cancelled Glasgow Airport Rail Link plans, the platforms were renumbered.
The West Highland Line links Mallaig railway station by rail to Fort William, Oban and Glasgow.
The line also runs along the Clyde between Helensburgh and Glasgow and offers views across the estuary.
In 2011 Glasgow historian Robert Pool added over 200 letters and documents to his collection relating to David Hutcheson and the Dawson family.
Many daily flight operate to and from other major UK cities such as Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Belfast.
Unlike St Columba, Kentigern, the supposed apostle to the Britons of the Clyde and alleged founder of Glasgow, is a shadowy figure.
However a victory over Heineken Cup champions Toulon followed by back to back wins over Glasgow eased pressure on the Director of Rugby.
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Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh matches are also broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland.
In the meantime Scotland would have only two professional teams based in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The Scottish teams and particularly Glasgow came of age and had a fine season, finishing 3rd in the end.
Ulster topped the table in the regular season, with Leinster, Glasgow and Scarlets completing the top 4 in that order.
Glasgow had a late surge to finish 2nd overtaking Munster and Ulster in the process.
In January 1963, he defended his British title for the third time, defeating Johnny Morrisey by a technical knockout in the eleventh, in Glasgow.
Channel 4 has a dedicated director of nations and regions, Stuart Cosgrove, who is based in a regional office in Glasgow.
In 1817 he moved from Belfast to Glasgow, where, besides keeping a flourishing school, he continued to write for the stage.
Other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Cardiff, are important centres of newspaper and broadcasting production in Scotland and Wales respectively.
The clippers belonging to the Glasgow Tobacco Lords were the fastest ships on the route to Virginia.
Until the American War of Independence in 1776, Glasgow was the world's premier tobacco port, dominating world trade.
Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the largest city is Glasgow, which has just over 584,000 inhabitants.
The Central Belt is where most of the main towns and cities are located, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Perth.
Immigration since World War II has given Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee small South Asian communities.
The match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club.
The Scottish Government owns Glasgow Prestwick, having purchased the airport from Infratil for a nominal sum.
Tennant's factory at St Rollox, North Glasgow, became the largest chemical plant in the world.
Everybody knows that Glasgow is hoatching with film companies shooting movies on its mean streets.
Popular unrest occurred in Edinburgh, as mentioned above, with some lesser but still substantial riots in Glasgow.
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Glasgow had probably been declining as a university before his arrival, but students now began to arrive in large numbers.
The works of Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow often dealt with social inequalities and the role of women in her culture.
Economic inequality within Birmingham is greater than in any other major English city, and is exceeded only by Glasgow in the United Kingdom.
However, large proportions of Gaelic speakers also live in the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland.
Chartism was launched in 1838 by a series of enormous meetings in Birmingham, Glasgow and the north of England.
Labour was less successful in Scotland than England and Wales, but retained control of Glasgow despite predictions it would not.
Edinburgh and Dundee represented two seats each, and Glasgow represented three seats.
Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh were accepted as cities by ancient usage by the 18th century, while Perth and Elgin also used the title.
The four districts of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow had City included in their titles by the Act.
Urban rail networks are well developed in major cities including Glasgow, Liverpool and London.
He promoted the idea of sterile portable ports while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
There is a statue of Lister in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, celebrating his links with the city.
Lister Room, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland.
While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines.
He proposed, for example, a method for constructing a flexible pipe to be used for pumping water under the Clyde at Glasgow.
In 1806 he was conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow.
In Scotland, however, the Glasgow Subway underground rapid transit system is known as the Subway.
Heavy rail underground technology is used in the London and Glasgow Underground systems.
These include Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield.
Initial services flew to Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool, Ryde, Shoreham, Manchester and Southampton.
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Liverpool traditionally is known as having the strongest Irish heritage of any British city, with the possible exception of Glasgow.
Serf was the teacher of Saint Mungo, the apostle of Strathclyde, and patron saint of Glasgow.
On a typical dark, wet Glasgow night, a bus driver coming off shift came in and ordered a chicken curry.
North Cumbria is closer to Newcastle, Glasgow Prestwick and Glasgow International.
The exhibition was held in Glasgow, Scotland, in the Tramway, a contemporary art, theatre and dance space.
The first match recorded by the Scottish Football Association took place in 1892 in Glasgow.
There are clubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London however and it was once played throughout Scotland and England until the early 20th Century.
Hampden Park in Glasgow is the traditional home of the Scotland team and is described by the SFA as the National Stadium.
A hidden gem of Glasgow, also designed by Mackintosh, is the Queen's Cross Church, the only church by the renowned artist to be built.
During the postal vote phase, Police Scotland arrested a man from Glasgow on suspicion of selling his vote on eBay.
Scotland hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, less than two months before the referendum.
The Glasgow City Region, is a collection of local authorities clustered around Glasgow.
This cabinet consists of the leaders of all eight councils, with the leader of Glasgow City Council being Chair of the Cabinet.
By 1821, Edinburgh had been overtaken by Glasgow as Scotland's largest city.
This makes Edinburgh Scotland's second largest city after Glasgow and the seventh largest in Britain.
St Bernard's' New Logie Green was used to host the 1896 Scottish Cup Final, the only time the match has been played outside Glasgow.
The Pool underwent refurbishment in 2012 and is due to host the Diving competition in the 2014 Commonwealth Games which will be held in Glasgow.
In 1144, David and Bishop John of Glasgow prompted Kelso Abbey to found a daughter house, Lesmahagow Priory.
The alliance was renewed between the two kingdoms in 1371, with the embassy of the Bishop of Glasgow and the Lord of Galloway to France.
The industrial belt of central Scotland, also a major shipbuilding centre in Glasgow, was also hard hit by the slump.
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, although Edinburgh is the capital and political centre of the country.
Such ranges include the Ochil Hills, near Stirling, the Campsie Fells outside Glasgow, and the Lomond Hills in Fife.
As a result, the majority of the population live in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, surrounding the chief cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
At the same time, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen all witnessed population decline.
This service connects directly with the Abellio ScotRail service to Glasgow.
Ocean liners are frequent callers at Greenock, and Glasgow International Airport and Glasgow Prestwick Airport are nearby.
Rail services to and from the coast, including links to Oban and Fort William, are frequent, with city terminals in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In the upper Clyde two major shipyards continue at Glasgow Govan and Scotstoun, run by BAE, whose major client is the Royal Navy.
There is a Marine Biological Station run by the Universities of Glasgow and London on Great Cumbrae.
Ferguson Shipbuilders yard, adjacent to Newark Castle, Port Glasgow, remains.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Britain.
Glasgow is also known for Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city.
The origins of Glasgow as an established city derive ultimately from its medieval position as Scotland's second largest bishopric.
Sometime between 1189 and 1195 this status was supplemented by an annual fair, which survives as the Glasgow Fair.
At the time, Glasgow held a commercial importance as the city participated in the trade of sugar, tobacco and later cotton.
The development of civic institutions included the City of Glasgow Police in 1800, one of the first municipal police forces in the world.
Glasgow became one of the first cities in Europe to reach a population of one million.
A Glasgow Economic Audit report published in 2007 stated that the gap between prosperous and deprived areas of the city is widening.
Although marginally behind the UK average, Glasgow still has a higher employment rate than Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and that bell is still on display in the People's Palace Museum, near Glasgow Green.
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During the 1930s, Glasgow was the main base of the Independent Labour Party.
Glasgow is represented in both the Westminster Parliament in London, and the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.
In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the boundaries of the Glasgow region were redrawn.
Glasgow is located on the banks of the River Clyde, in West Central Scotland.
Owing to its westerly position and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, Glasgow is one of Scotland's milder areas.
Since 2000 Glasgow has experienced few very cold, snowy and harsh winters where temperatures have fallen much below freezing.
The population of the city council area was 593,245 in 2011 and around 2,300,000 people live in the Glasgow travel to work area.
This area is defined as consisting of over 10 per cent of residents travelling into Glasgow to work and is without fixed boundaries.
Moving northward up High Street towards Rottenrow and Townhead lies the 15th century Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.
Glasgow is the home of the SECC, Great Britain's largest exhibition and conference centre.
The East End extends from Glasgow Cross in the City Centre to the boundary with North and South Lanarkshire.
Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 1990 when Glasgow was designated European City of Culture.
Jim Carruth was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate for Glasgow in 2014 as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy.
Most of the museums and galleries in Glasgow are publicly owned and free to enter.
The city of Glasgow was appointed a UNESCO City of Music on 20 August 2008 as part of the Creative Cities Network.
Global Radio's Central Scotland radio station Capital FM Scotland also broadcast from studios in Glasgow.
There are almost 10,000 Sikhs in Scotland and the majority live in Glasgow.
Glaswegian, otherwise known as the Glasgow patter, is a local variety of Scots.
Glasgow is Scotland's main locus of Gaelic language use outside the Highlands and Islands.
The city is notable for architecture designed by the Glasgow School, the most notable exponent of that style being Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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Glasgow generated immense wealth from trade and the industries that developed from the Industrial Revolution.
Glasgow has the largest economy in Scotland and is at the hub of the metropolitan area of West Central Scotland.
The 1990s and first decade of the 21st century saw substantial growth in the number of call centres based in Glasgow.
In 2007 roughly 20,000 people, a third of all call centre employees in Scotland, were employed by Glasgow call centres.
The only operational dock left in Glasgow operated by Clydeport is the King George V Dock, near Braehead.
There is a heliport, Glasgow City Heliport located at Stobcross Quay on the banks of the Clyde.
The Hyndland area of Glasgow is the only tenement conservation area in the UK and includes some tenement houses with as many as six bedrooms.
Medical care is mainly provided by NHS Scotland and is directly administered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Gartnavel Royal Hospital and The Priory are the two major psychiatric hospitals based in Glasgow.
A strong Teaching tradition is maintained between the city's main hospitals and the University of Glasgow Medical School.
Aloysius' College and The High School of Glasgow, which was founded in 1124 and is the oldest school in Scotland.
The Glasgow Cup was a once popular tournament, which was competed for by Rangers, Celtic, Clyde, Partick Thistle and Queen's Park.
This is the first time that a top level ice hockey team has represented Glasgow.
Glasgow hosts Scotland's only professional basketball team, the Glasgow Rocks, who compete in the British Basketball League.
Glasgow is also host to many cricket clubs including Clydesdale Cricket Club who have been title winners for the Scottish Cup many times.
Glasgow Green and the Gorbals are home to a number of rowing clubs, some with open membership the rest belonging to universities or schools.
Motorcycle speedway racing was first introduced to Glasgow in 1928 and is currently staged at Saracen Park in the North of the city.
The home club, Glasgow Tigers, compete in the British Premier League, the second tier of motorcycle speedway in Britain.
Glasgow is also one of five places in Scotland that hosts the final of the Scottish Cup of Shinty, better known as the Camanachd Cup.
Glasgow bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics but lost to Buenos Aires in the 4 July 2013 vote.
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On 9 November 2007, Glasgow was selected to be the host city of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The nearest international passenger airports are Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, Glasgow International Airport and Edinburgh Airport.
As a court of first instance the court sits regularly throughout Scotland with permanent seats in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Courts such as those in the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow have a large number of staff and can in one day deal with hundreds of cases.
The conditions in industrial Glasgow at the time helped form his socialist convictions but also contributed to his ill health.
Instead, the proposals suggested a possible third major station in Glasgow.
As well as hangar facilities at Heathrow and Gatwick airport it has two major maintenance centres at Glasgow and Cardiff Airports.
The airline also operates flights from Glasgow and seasonal flights from Belfast.
It has a headquarters in Dunfermline and offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.
National Rail services are available for onward journeys, from stations at Oban, which has direct services to Glasgow.
There are also relatively large concentrations in the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In the 2001 Census there were 6,572 Sikhs, predominantly in Glasgow and Edinburgh but also in Dundee and Aberdeen.
The largest community in Glasgow had perhaps reached 5,000 by the end of the century.
A legacy of its two precursor bodies, the Authority's offices remain split over two sites, one in Glasgow and one in Dalkeith.
Nuffield Health runs a private hospital in Glasgow which is a major centre for In vitro fertilisation.
One series in Glasgow was scheduled for a dozen plays but proved so popular they eventually had over a hundred.
Initially resistant, he was finally persuaded by Balfour to accept, and took passage on the SS Batori from Glasgow a few days later.
The piece appeared one year later in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald.
In Glasgow, Walter Scott's Monument dominates the centre of George Square, the main public square in the city.
At the age of 8, Barrie was sent to the Glasgow Academy in the care of his eldest siblings Alexander and Mary Ann, who taught at the school.
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MacDiarmid stood in the Glasgow Kelvingrove constituency in the 1945 and 1950 general elections.
Both trained in Glasgow, but spent most of their careers in and around their respective native cities of Dundee and Montrose.
The Boys of the Lough and Battlefield Band, emerged from the flourishing Glasgow folk scene.
On 21 June 2014, Clapton abruptly walked off stage during a concert at the Glasgow Hydro.
Oasis, along with a group of friends, hired a van and made the journey to Glasgow.
Celtic revival took hold here, and motifs such as the Glasgow rose became popularised.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art were to influence others worldwide.
Based in Glasgow, it duplicates much of the content of the main edition but with alternative coverage of Scottish news and sport.
Hume failed to gain the chair of philosophy at the University of Glasgow for his religious views, too.
In Glasgow, Stewart boarded in the same house as Archibald Alison, author of the Essay on Taste, and a lasting friendship sprang up between them.
He was born in rooms at the University of Glasgow He was from an academic family, his younger brother being Robert Hamilton, the economist.
His general scholarship found expression in his library, which became part of the library of the University of Glasgow.
Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy and during this time wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Smith entered the University of Glasgow when he was fourteen and studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson.
Smith considered the teaching at Glasgow to be far superior to that at Oxford, which he found intellectually stifling.
Smith's discontent at Oxford might be in part due to the absence of his beloved teacher in Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson.
When the head of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow died the next year, Smith took over the position.
Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.
At the time of this last change the other two sides were renamed Edinburgh Gunners and Glasgow Warriors.
Many clubs in the Scottish Borders have grandstands and city sides in Edinburgh and Glasgow also have seated, covered stands.

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