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Dorothy Bruce

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Reads, writes. Follows politics – endlessly fascinating and frustrating. Scottish independence, of course!

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Building at Glasgow Central Station collapses in huge inferno The fire is understood to have started in a vape shop on Union Street on Sunday afternoon, with the B-listed Forsyth building collapsing several hours later as flames spread.

Amazing there were nae casualties. Building at Glasgow Central Station collapses in huge inferno www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

08.03.2026 22:23 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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That fire near Glasgow Central is getting worse.

Hope no-one's been hurt.

08.03.2026 20:38 👍 70 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 16
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Follow LIVE updates as more than 60 firefighters work to tackle a huge, spreading building fire on Union Street in Glasgow

www.heraldscotland.com/news...

08.03.2026 22:32 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Major fire collapses building in Glasgow's Union Street as crews tackle blaze A huge fire broke out in Forsyth House on Union Street in Glasgow city centre this afternoon.

Huge fire in Glasgow's Union Street causes building to collapse and indefinitely closes Central Station, Scotland's busiest railway station.

08.03.2026 22:30 👍 19 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 3
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Glasgow Central Station tonight 😕

08.03.2026 21:43 👍 108 🔁 64 💬 17 📌 26

Another beautiful building gone 😢😢

08.03.2026 22:54 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Sexy Coffee at Glasgow Central station in flames

MORE PICTURES: www.heraldscotland.com/news...

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

@gabymckay.bsky.social

08.03.2026 22:46 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Started in a Vape Shop apparently.

08.03.2026 21:41 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.

📷 Vyro Media

08.03.2026 21:26 👍 344 🔁 207 💬 27 📌 115
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Pictures from across Glasgow as devastating fire rips through Central Station Dramatic pictures from across the city show the extent of the devastating fire at Glasgow Central station.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/subscri...

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I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.

08.03.2026 21:43 👍 777 🔁 302 💬 35 📌 9
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Scottish Labour told to come clean on Tony Blair's 'secret' NHS privatisation plans

Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair

08.03.2026 17:26 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”

Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”

Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”

#bbclaurak

08.03.2026 10:37 👍 965 🔁 316 💬 30 📌 12
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Labour’s dangerous plans for NHS Scotland The Holyrood elections are just eight weeks away. This will be a critical election for Scotland’s future and it is more important than ever that Scotland returns a pro-independence majority, …

Labour has dangerous plans for NHS Scotland & would introduce privatisation by the back door. Meanwhile Reform UK is hostile to the very concept of free universal healthcare. Only an SNP led Scottish Govt will protect NHS Scotland from the private sector.

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08.03.2026 16:47 👍 89 🔁 62 💬 2 📌 2

It's always about the money.

08.03.2026 15:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING: The Alba Party is set to wind-up and de-register as a party, leader Kenny MacAskill has said

It comes after a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee on Sunday

08.03.2026 14:21 👍 69 🔁 27 💬 16 📌 75
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John Swinney issues 'explicit warning' over UK's involvement in Middle East war

NEW: John Swinney has issued a 'very explicit warning' as he expressed concern the UK risks being dragged into an 'offensive' war against Iran

08.03.2026 11:56 👍 40 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 2
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Oil market braces for $100 a barrel as Middle East producers cut output Further attacks on energy infrastructure over weekend also pose new threat

Oil market braces for $100 a barrel as Middle East producers cut output ft.trib.al/I6cbMMP

08.03.2026 16:16 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 8
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Do you remember the 2024 General Election pledge that they would create 70,000 jobs for Scotland and secure Scotland's energy future?

Labour has slashed 95% of its GB Energy plan, abandoning the clean-energy targets and promised bill cuts.

A huge U-turn that risks Scotland’s energy future.

08.03.2026 12:24 👍 31 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1

"They didn't want this sitting as a Scottish asset, they wanted it as a UK asset,” he said, pointing to a quote from former chancellor Denis Healey, who in 2013 told Holyrood magazine: “I think we did underplay the value of the oil to the country because of the threat of nationalism.”
#WMThieves

08.03.2026 14:40 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

This, exactly this.👇

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Anger as 'cynical' Labour cut multi-billion GB Energy pledge by 95 per cent LABOUR have been accused of a “cynical attempt to mislead voters” after they cut back a multi-billion-pound energy pledge by as much as 95

www.thenational.scot/news/2591503...
Anger as 'cynical' Labour cut key GB Energy pledge by 95 per cent

08.03.2026 07:48 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

08.03.2026 01:10 👍 9349 🔁 5638 💬 957 📌 1034
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Thought this was worth posting again

07.03.2026 20:48 👍 66 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 1
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Malcolm Offord: The Peer Who Keeps Failing Up Malcolm Offord has failed upwards for years. Unelected, unwanted, yet always rewarded with more power. Now he’s reinvented himself again as Reform UK’s Scottish leader.

Malcolm Offord: The Peer Who Keeps Failing Up.

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08.03.2026 11:30 👍 17 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1

Blair sleekitly brought in more and more privatisation to the then UK NHS starting back in 1997, it continued in successive govts, don't ever let Labour anywhere near our SNHS or it will go the same way as England's.
#LabourLiars
#ProtectSNHS💙💙💙

08.03.2026 11:31 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Despite all the screeching and Trump-grovelling of the British right, support for the US action against Iran has *dropped* to 22%

08.03.2026 01:10 👍 161 🔁 53 💬 9 📌 0

Reform is a Scam

If, God forbid, they get elected the NHS is finished

650 000 people made bankrupt every year in the US by healthcare providers

More lose homes, pensions & life savings

Privatisation of Power & Water has failed

Privatisation of Healthcare will be a disaster

08.03.2026 10:50 👍 32 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0