Record numbers of visitors attended the Glasgow River Festival this year with over 87,000 people enjoying a vast array of entertainment and activities on land and on water.

The Glasgow News is celebrating its second birthday this month!
Here, we take a look back at some of the stories we’ve featured in previous issues.

Glasgow Works, the organisation formed to tackle worklessness issues in the city, has announced that up to £3m of funding will be awarded to help people in the west of Glasgow off benefits and on their way to a job.

We’re celebrating our second birthday this month and our centre pages look back on some of the stories and events which we’ve highlighted over the last couple of years.

We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

The Chinese Employment Project attended the Chinese Healthy Living Centre’s AGM on 10 June in Maryhill Community Hall.

Attacks on Strathclyde firefighters have fallen for the first time in six years.

In one of the biggest moves of its kind in Scotland, Glasgow Community Planning Partnership (GCPP) and its ten Local Community Planning Partnership (LCPP) Boards have teamed-up with Strathclyde Police to fund 100 new community police officers throughout Glasgow.

On Friday 20 June, children from Antonine Primary and Drumchapel Early Years Centre put on a fantastic performance as part of the official opening ceremony of their new building.

COPE were delighted to launch their new website on Wednesday 10 July at an event in the Community Centre in Drumchapel.

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Glasgow’s Merchant City Festival returns for its 7th year in 2008, running from Thursday 25 September to Sunday 28 September.

Strathclyde Fire & Rescue has recently launched a campaign to combat fire hydrant vandalism in Glasgow.

Community Planning is a way of planning and delivering better services across an area.

As a mark of respect and an acknowledgement of all the work carried out by him over many years, Drumchapel Law & Money Advice Centre have unveiled a commemorative bench and plaque in memory of their former convener, Mr Wallace Carpenter, who sadly passed away two years ago.

As you may be aware from reading about Neighbourhood Management in previous issues of the Glasgow News, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd along with local communities and service providers are working together to improve and join up local services.

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In August 2007, West Glasgow CHCP launched a new healthier kind of ‘take-away’ for local residents:

On Monday 9 June, Glasgow Green Football Centre hosted a football challenge match between Anderston (over 16s) and Dalmarnock Youth Project.

Local and national fire statistics provide us with evidence that the majority of fire deaths and serious injury from fire occurs to residents within the domestic environment.

The Annexe Cafe, based at the Annexe HLC in Stewartville Street, Partick, has been awarded the Healthy Living Award for serving up healthy eating choices on their menu.

Get Cooking classes were keenly received throughout the month of June, where a pilot project took place in the Anderston Annexe (78 St. Vincent Terrace).

As part of The Annexe Healthy Living Centre (Partick), the satellite premises situated in the Anderston community organise monthly walks on the first Saturday of the month to various idyllic locations.

West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) has announced that The Annexe Healthy Living Centre will run the area’s Healthy Living Initiative for the next two years.

The Volunteer Centre’s Breaking Down Barriers project held another volunteer information and fun day on 4 July at Drumchapel Community Centre.

Glasgow YWCA is delighted to announce their success in gaining support from Glasgow City Council Childcare strategy fund to open afterschool care in the Anderston area. This service will be available to children attending both Anderston and Saint Patrick’s primary schools.

A unique partnership between the GHA, Glasgow West Regeneration Agency, the West CHCP and the Robertson Trust has resulted in new services being provided for vulnerable young women living in the west and central area of Glasgow.

Strathclyde Police held a Youth Engagement Forum for Minority Ethnic communities on 26 June this year in a bid to give young people from those communities a say in what is happening in their areas.

Local and national fire statistics provide us with evidence that the majority of fire deaths and serious injury from fire occurs to residents within the domestic environment.

The Kingslink Carnival International Festival is now in its sixth successive year.

Six pupils from Drumchapel High School in Glasgow have taken part in the Tall Ships’ Race 2008 from Liverpool to Norway with the help of Scottish Water.

Stow College has taken the first steps in a collaboration with the University of the West Of Scotland (UWS) to provide students with new routes of access to further and higher education.

The Learning Disability Alliance Scotland is campaigning for the National Concessionary Travel Scheme to be extended to include everyone who receives the lower rates of the Disability Living Allowance.

In a bid to stop tragedies on roads in Scotland, 14,478 children recently marched for road safety as part of the nationwide Record Breaking Buckle My Shoe Walking Bus organised by Brake, the road safety charity with the support of children’s shoe company Buckle My Shoe.

Whiteinch dog owners and their four legged friends gathered in Jordon St Park to compete in the city’s answer to Crufts, and to raise awareness amongst pet owners that they have a responsibility to clean up after their dogs.

Glasgow Wood Recycling, the city’s only wood recycling social enterprise, have just launched their new eco catalogue.

Several local clean-ups have taken place recently as part of Glasgow City Council’s Clean Glasgow Campaign.