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Glasgow East End residents call for landlords help as they transform streets

The community group who have cleaned up their neighbourhood are appealing for more support from landlords.

Glasgow Live

'Isolated' refugees in Newcastle hotels left without fresh food and basic Covid protection during lockdown

A charity has called the use of hotels as asylum seeker accommodation “an inhumane way to treat people fleeing persecution”, after a damning council report

Chronicle Live

Mears Group buys Dundee carbon reduction company for £4.1 million

Property services group will bring data platform in-house to help with retrofitting work

Insider UK

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Glasgow Park Inn stabbing victim loses bid for independent inquiry

Badreddin Abdalla Adam stabbed six people, including a police officer, at the city centre hotel on June 26, 2020. Adam was shot dead by officers following the mass stabbing.

Glasgow Live

Airdrie hospice golf day tops fundraising leaderboard

The special event run by Mears raised £25,000 for Lanarkshire charity, St Andrew's Hospice.

Daily Record

Britain First condemned for 'accosting asylum seekers' at Scottish hotel

AN activist convicted under the Terrorism Act has been condemned after reportedly accosting asylum seekers at an East Kilbride hotel.

The National (Scotland)

Multicultural event to welcome asylum seekers showcased community spirit in East Kilbride

Men who have been housed in the Bruce Hotel since the start of the year were offered information on the type of help and support available to them at the inclusive event organised by East Kilbride community police.

Daily Record

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Glasgow hotel stabbing victim 'haunted by demons' after he's left for dead on street

The man is demanding a public inquiry into the treatment of asylum seekers during lockdown, insisting it contributed to the Park Inn Hotel tragedy the left six injured and the knifeman dead.

Glasgow Live

Park Inn stabbing victim 'can't sleep or block out' trauma of Glasgow attack as he sues UK Government for inquiry

An asylum seeker, named in court as MG, has opened up about the legal fight for an inquiry into the deadly stabbings that injured six at the Glasgow hotel in 2020.

Daily Record

Smaller FTSE firms still failing on boardroom diversity

Nearly half of small companies outside the FTSE 350 have under a third of board roles occupied by women, with three-quarters entirely white

The Guardian - UK

Falkirk asylum seeker says hotel stay 'worse than prison' with no end in sight

Around 50 asylum seekers have been waiting months in temporary accommodation in Falkirk, with no idea when their application will be processed.

Daily Record

Plans to use a West Lothian hotel to house asylum seekers scrapped

Council bosses had been told 81 refugees would be housed at the Cairn Hotel but this has been shelved

Daily Record

West Lothian plans to use hotel for asylum seekers scrapped by Home Office

The Home Office advised West Lothian Council that Bathgate's popular Cairn hotel would house asylum seekers, but the contactors running the service told the council before talking to the hotel owners.

Edinburgh Live

Children seeking asylum in Scotland miss months of school amid Home Office delays

ASYLUM seeking children in Scotland have spent months living in overcrowded B&B rooms with their families and struggled to access schooling, due…

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Daily Record

Residents in ‘millionaires' village fury over plan to house asylum seekers at plush Scots hotel

Ninety asylum seekers will arrive within days to check in at the award-winning Bothwell Bridge Hotel in South Lanarkshire.

Daily Record

Asylum seekers housed in Perth hotel to be moved following recent takeover

The Station Hotel supplied essential support to people “running from conflict and war” but will now be relocated due to extensive pre-bookings and refurbishments

Glasgow Live

Glasgow asylum seekers moved to hotels during pandemic faced soaring rates of self-harm and depression

People seeking asylum in Glasgow during the pandemic were removed from their homes and taken to hotels without any notice, not given any cash or provided with appropriate support, a report has found.

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker who stabbed six people before being shot dead made 72 calls for help before attack

Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, is understood to have contacted the Home Office and migrant support groups about his health and accommodation in the lead up to the 2020 attack

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The Guardian - UK

Sudanese refugee made 72 calls seeking help before Glasgow hotel stabbings

Badreddin Abadlla Adam, shot dead by police at scene, made repeated calls to Home Office and contractors

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker who stabbed six people made 72 phone calls before attack – report

A leaked document reportedly said Badreddin Abadlla Adam’s calls ‘should have acted as a warning’.

Daily Mirror

Rats, sewage and cockroaches - UK's 'failed asylum system is unfit for Ukraine crisis'

A Mirror investigation into asylum services run by Mears, Serco and Clearsprings on behalf of the Home Office has highlighted serious issues with accommodation

Daily Record

Lanarkshire service delivery partner to take on 20 new apprentices

Mears Group teams up with North Lanarkshire Council to provide career opportunities to youngsters

Daily Record

Politicians voice 'serious concerns' as 60 asylum seekers move into Lanarkshire hotel

Council officials have been in meetings for months over the matter, despite telling us they knew 'nothing about it'

Daily Record

The freezing, cramped squalor Scots asylum seekers forced to live in

While many asylum have run with their families from war and crime to seek shelter in the UK, they’ve been left in squalor in Glasgow.

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