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Robbie Armstrong

Glasgow

Writer and Broadcast Journalist at Freelance

Audio Producer at BBC Radio 4

🗞️ words and photies and such @theglasgowbell 📰 📻 radio, podcasts, broadcasts @bbcradio4🎙️

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  • 2 weeks ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

    Booze, bottlings and Bucky  |   |  “Look, someone’s smashed a bottle of tonic,” I say to Mark, my photographer. “That’s not Buckie,” he replies, “it’s blood”. I look closer at the thick droplets splattered on the otherwise pristine marble floor, mixed in with bits of broken glass. He’s right, the splashes are a muddy red, more crimson than the dark purple hue of wreck-the-hoose juice. We raise our gaze, belatedly noticing the blue curtains, paramedics and police.

  • 3 weeks ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

    Taggers say they're reclaiming walls. Locals say they're destroying a 47 year-old mural  |   |  On a balmy morning last month, I hop on my bike and set off towards the city centre. Almost immediately, I’m tailed by two police officers on off-road motorbikes who eventually stop me for questioning. After checking if my hoodie is a baseball jacket (it’s not), and asking what my bike lock is (it’s a bike lock), they let me off with a slap on the wrists for cycling in a one-way zone.

  • 1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

    Dear readers — we’ve got Mackintosh on the mind at the moment. We’re not sure if it was the pews stooshie, the recent sale of his silverware and a watercolour at auction, or the talks of the Lighthouse reopening as a climate tech hub (editor's note: or the fact Mackintosh is omnipresent in Glasgow). Either way, we’ve been debating the approach to his architectural legacy in the office, and safe to say we don’t see entirely eye to eye.

  • 1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

    At the start of April, Michael Dale, the chair of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, returned from a three week holiday in Japan to “all hell breaking loose”. The Sunday Times had published an article claiming that a pair of historic Mackintosh-designed church pews had been “sawn up and sold for £40”. And who was accused of hawking such precious artefacts as scrap? Dale, along with fellow Society director Stuart Robinson.

  • 1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

    A different sort of weekend read in your inbox today, folks. We've got some news to share tomorrow, which we’re a wee bitty excited to tell you all about. It's been one of those weeks here at Bell HQ, so in the meantime we thought we'd give you something a bit lighter for your perusal, before things heat up again soon — we promise. Last week, what with Spring truly blooming, I hopped on a late morning train out of Glasgow.

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RT @moonman1873: The scene in the Barrowlands last night after Supergrass had finished their set. A scene the phrase “only in Glesga” was…

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RT @BGallagherColl: Female Peregrine Falcon L7 in action mode at University of Glasgow Gilmorehill. https://t.co/6UwNgVF8ab