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City artists launch campaign to protect their point of view

Garnethill, in the centre of Glasgow, has a commanding view of the conurbation around and is one of the city's most interesting neighbourhoods. These days it is mostly known as the home of the city's Chinese community, to the north, and for Glasgow School of Art and especially Charles Rennie Mackintosh's remarkable building, but its fringes also include some of the last remnants of old Charing Cross, Glasgow Film Theatre, formerly the Cosmo cinema, and the Beresford building, previously Strathclyde University halls of residence.

Tributes paid to Glasgow artist

A memorial is to be held for the Glasgow artist and sculptor Hannah Frank who died last Thursday, aged 100.

Mobile phone service first in UK for underground commuters in Glasgow

Brussels — Commuters to Glasgow's International Financial Services District (IFSD) are the UK's first City workers to be able to use their mobile phones while travelling underground.'

O2 Customers can now Make Calls in Select Glasgow Subway stations

O2 customers travelling on the Glasgow Subway will be able to use their mobile phones underground for the first time.

Mobile Phones to Work on Glasgow Underground Railway

Mobile phones will start working on the underground railway in Glasgow, UK from today following the deployment of radio network equipment by the mobile operator, O2 and transmission provider Arqiva. The service is currently limited to O2 subscribers only.

For more than 100 years, they have been the models that all arts students have followed. Now 200 of the classical sculptures of the Glasgow School of Art are being restored for a new generation of artists in training.

Students who could never afford to travel to Rome, Florence, the Louvre or Greece found the replica statues of Glasgow's world-famous art school provided an instant access to - and inspiration from - the ancient world and the Renaissance.

Glasgow tube stations get mobile reception

Muted reception in the TechRadar office to this news today, as we are not sure whether or not we should be celebrating or commiserating the unstoppable march of mobile reception into areas where we were previously spared from overhearing the (usually) inane drivel of our public transport compatriots.

Gruffalo-Inspired Fun Comes To Glasgow Museum

Visit Cranhill Beacon Play Centre and meet the fox, the owl, the snake and one clever little mouse. But who is this creature with terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws? And who does he have his eye on for lunch?

Granny, 81, fought mugger

GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Scotland said an 81-year-old woman struggled with a man who tried to steal her purse and foiled the attempted crime.

Hello?I?m on the phone

Glasgow will imminently launch the first fully Underground transport network with mobile coverage. Network operator O2 struck a deal in September this year to launch a service for its customers to allow mobile voice and data access on platforms at five selected stations.

Marque curates quilts arts project

Glasgow-based Marque is currently curating an online project A Little Piece of Mind, which has seen a number of famous names from the worlds of fashion and design get involved to raise money for homeless charities in the US and UK.

Patent attorney Murgitroyd & Company last night cited controversy surrounding the belated disclosure of Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross's pledge of shares in the mobile phone retailer to guarantee loans as the "catalyst" for an announcement yeste

The Glasgow-based patent and trademark attorney informed the stock market yesterday that Ian Murgitroyd, its executive chairman, had "through an agreement dated 26 April, 2002, pledged 1,188,274 Ordinary shares in the company to be used as security against lending obligations for which he may from time to time become responsible".

Mobile phone use goes underground

Passengers on Glasgow's Subway network will be the first in the UK to be able to use their mobile phones underground.

Two Scots - one an experimental artist, the other a hat designer - have had their work recognised in a major competition to find Britain's most creative young talents.

William Chambers, a Glasgow-based milliner, and Katie Paterson, a Glaswegian artist based in London, won the most significant prizes in the Creative 30 competition, a series of awards designed to fine 30 of the nation's best young artists, musicians, designers, dancers and illustrators.

Scottish scientists are attempting to improve digital camera technology by using the latest developments in nanotechnology to produce images that are clearer and more colourful.

A team of researchers at Glasgow University have been given nearly half a million pounds to create tiny molecular structures on the surface of light-detecting image sensors at the heart of digital cameras. These would alter how the sensors process light into digital information, potentially opening up a new front in the rapidly developing field.

Project to Help Digital Cameras Build a Bigger Picture from Tiny Particles

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have received £500,000 funding to investigate ways of improving the quality of digital camera images through the manipulation of tiny particles.

500,000 project will help digital cameras build a bigger picture from tiny particles

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have received £500,000 funding to investigate ways of improving the quality of digital camera images through the manipulation of tiny particles.

Sony Also Talk Tech At Media Roundtable

NEW YORK — Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow and consumer sales president Jay Vandenbree also spoke about products and technology, during their media roundtable at the Sony Building, here.

Art work sales to boost the Beatson Pebble Appeal

DRAWINGS which have been placed on long term loan to the University of Glasgow are to be made into prints and cards with all proceeds going towards the Beatson Pebble Appeal.

An opera based around the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly is part of a new season from Scotland's national opera company.

Tickets for Scottish Opera's second mini-opera season, Five:15, have already sold out in Glasgow and yesterday the company announced an additional date for a performance of the 15-minute works, which also tell stories by Peter Carey and Herman Melville.

The die is cast: art school set to renovate its classical statues

Students who could never afford to travel to Rome, Florence, the Louvre or Greece found the replica statues of Glasgow's world-famous art school provided an instant access to - and inspiration from - the ancient world and the Renaissance.

Cash boost for CMOS sensor research

The team over at Amateur Photographer is reporting that a cash boost awarded to scientists at the University of Glasgow could soon see breakthroughs in digital imaging.

GSA/MFA Benefit Art Auction - The Golden Fleece

Auction of art work to raise funds for the MFA programme. Artists featured include some of the leading names from Glasgow and the UK contemporary art scene, including Jim Lambie, Beagles and Ramsay, David Shrigley and Graham Fagen.

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