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Glasgow Times
22 minutes ago
- Glasgow Times
Glasgow residents fume at lack of action on fly-tipping site
Parkhouse locals are furious after having spent over a decade asking for a cleanup. Despite this, site owner Reigart Contracts Ltd and the council have both failed to act on the old railway site next to Claddens Street. Community council members Kenny Nisbet and Dorothy McFarland have both lived in the area for more than five decades and say inaction is unacceptable. Dorothy McFarland and Kenny Nisbet (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) Glasgow residents fume at lack of action about fly-tipping site (Image: Colin Mearns) READ NEXT: Glasgow man demands action on fly-tipping 'catastrophe' Mr Nisbet said: "It's absolutely disgusting and nothing is being done about it. "Nobody is taking responsibility. They say it's the locals who are leaving objects here. "We've never denied that residents are dumping as well but it's the landowner's duty to clean it up. "I regularly see vans pulling up, throwing stuff over the fence and driving away. "It's shocking. If we were to try and sell out homes and a potential buyer saw that, they would never want to move here." The 75-year-old spoke to the Glasgow Times two years ago about his concerns and nothing has changed since. Couches, bicycles, rubbish bags, chairs, tires and more items are left in the area. His main concern is the dumping of unidentified substances. He explained: "One of the instances I witnessed was men dumping a lot of white powder, which spilled all over a parapet and pavement. "I am not a chemist and I don't know what it was but it's definitely concerning. "I wouldn't touch it." (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) READ NEXT: Ten amazing pictures of huge cycling event across Glasgow Members of Parkhouse Community Council feel like they are "banging their head against a wall" trying to get help. After several site visits, emails, letters and meetings with council officials, politicians and representatives of Reigart, nothing has been done. Ms McFarland explained: "It's just a shame. And it's much, much worse in the autumn, when all the leaves and branches are down and you can see the extent of the problem. "I have been to a multi-agency meeting and an official from Reigart promised they would do something, weather permitting. "But every time they come out, it's springtime and they just can't see how bad it really is." The land was purchased by Reigart and was left undeveloped. Before the sale, it was in use as a railway line. It is understood that the firm planned to build housing on the land but no proposal has been submitted yet. (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) (Image: Colin Mearns) READ NEXT: Hotel near SEC to get whole new look after refurb A Glasgow City Council spokesperson said: 'Fly-tipping has unfortunately been a long-standing issue at this disused railway line in the Parkhouse area. 'It appears that a number of residents in adjoining properties dump waste from their gardens into the former railway cutting and waste is also fly-tipped at other points along this space. 'Due to the steep embankment and the thick overgrowth, removing fly-tipped waste from this site raises highly challenging health and safety risks for staff. 'However, we have previously worked with the major owner of the site to remove waste from the railway line and would do so again in future. 'We will continue to engage with residents to ensure their waste is disposed of properly. 'Where evidence is secured that identifies those responsible for any fly-tipping incident, including eye witness accounts, we will take enforcement action.' Reigart Contracts Ltd was contacted for comment.
Glasgow Times
22 minutes ago
- Glasgow Times
Mike Dailly: Prisoners in Scotland need hope not needles
The inquiry runs until late August. It will examine the effectiveness of drug detection and prevention strategies and the role of organised criminal networks in prison narcotic supply. Worryingly, the committee has heard that around 17 per cent of prisoners who weren't drug users before incarceration become substance users once in jail. Drugs enter prisons through various ways, including the use of drones to fly them onto the prison estate. Synthetic cannabinoids are prevalent along with bromazolam, benzodiazepines, cocaine and steroids. Drugs come in a range of formats, including paper, card, powder or a waxy substance. Kirsten Horsburgh, chief executive officer at the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) gave evidence to the committee on May 28. The SDF is a Scottish charity whose vision is for 'A Scotland free from drug-related health and social harm'. Its funding comes ostensibly from the Scottish Government and other statutory bodies. At the committee's May meeting, Ms Horsburgh said: 'We need to have the uncomfortable discussion about what harm reduction in prison means. Does it mean providing safer injecting equipment or safer smoking equipment? Does it mean having discussions with people about how they can use their drugs more safely?' The proposal made a stir. Are we now suggesting supplying free needles to prisoners to inject themselves with drugs? Giving out free vapes so people can smoke cannabis in jail? Annmarie Ward, chief executive officer of Faces and Voice for Recovery UK (FAVOR) believes the SDF's position is nonsensical. She said: 'Apparently, the answer to Scotland's prison drug crisis isn't less drugs in prisons, but more syringes to help the problem go smoothly. It's like solving knife crime by handing out free whetstones'. Annmarie notes that the Scottish Prison Service say violence in prisons is rising. Drugs are being flown in on drones. Inmates are vaping benzos and mixing synthetic opioids into their tea. She ridicules the SDF's answer to this problem by making drug use easier for inmates. We need to ask: Is this all we have to offer people in prison? Have we given up and now seek managerial solutions for human decline? For Annmarie Ward, the problem in Scotland is the lack of access to abstinence treatment, detox and rehabilitation services. Which is why FAVOR have backed a Right to Addiction Recovery Bill – currently being considered by the Scottish Parliament - introduced by Douglas Ross MSP. In England, some prisons offer abstinence-based recovery wings, acknowledging that going into prison might be a vital chance to break the cycle of drug use. We don't offer this in Scotland. Why not? As Annmarie Ward said: 'Prisons should be places where people are interrupted in their addiction, not supported in it. Where the chaos stops, not where it's managed more hygienically. "Needles and vape kits in Barlinnie won't restore dignity. They'll entrench dependency and signal, loud and clear, that the state has given up on these men'. If we want to achieve real harm reduction, we need to give human beings hope. We need to give people access to detox and rehabilitation.
Western Telegraph
27 minutes ago
- Western Telegraph
British photographer hit by non-lethal bullets during LA protests
Nick Stern was documenting a stand-off between anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) protesters and police outside a Home Depot in Paramount, a city in LA county and a location known as a hiring spot for day labourers, when a 14mm 'sponge bullet' tore into his thigh. He told the PA news agency: 'My initial concern was, were they firing live rounds? 'Some of the protesters came and helped me, and they ended up carrying me, and I noticed that there was blood pouring down my leg.' He was treated by a medic who urged him to go to hospital. At one point, Mr Stern says he passed out from the pain. He is now recovering at Long Beach Memorial Medical Centre following emergency surgery. Protesters throw objects to the police vehicles on a Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Centre in downtown Los Angeles (Ethan Swope/AP) Mr Stern, who emigrated to the US in 2007, said he typically makes himself 'as visible as possible' while working in hostile situations. 'That way you're less likely to get hit because they know you're media,' he said. It is the second incident of its kind for Mr Stern, who said he sustained 'substantial' bruising after being hit by another live round during the George Floyd protests in 2020. 'The communities in LA are very tight and very close-knit,' Mr Stern said. 'So an outside organisation like Ice coming in and removing – whatever you want to call it, removing, kidnapping, abducting people from the community – is not going to go down well at all.' It comes after US President Donald Trump announced plans to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to California to quell the protests, which began on Friday in downtown LA before spreading. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the move was 'essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States'. The decision drew sharp criticism from Democratic politicians, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, who called the move 'purposefully inflammatory'. Demonstrators have been protesting the Trump administration's immigration raids, which last month aimed to detain as many as 3,000 people per day. Despite his injury, Mr Stern says he is eager to return to work. 'I intend, as soon as I am well enough, to get back out there,' he said. 'This is too important and it needs documenting.'
