Thursday, March 26, 2026 — Edition No. 40 — The Cornmill Intelligencer

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Today’s outlook: Sunny with a 100% chance of Staffie cuddles

Dogs & Animals

Meet Asha: The Staffie Who Won Crufts' Most Heartwarming Award — and Logan's Heart Too

An eight-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier and a seventeen-year-old boy with cerebral palsy share a bond that 37,000 voters recognised as something truly special

There is a moment every morning, before the medical routines begin and the wheelchair is readied, when Logan Dagnall wakes to find Asha already watching him from the foot of his bed. She has been there all night. She will be there all day. For Logan, a seventeen-year-old who lives with cerebral palsy and mitochondrial disease, this is not a small thing. It may, in fact, be the biggest thing of all.

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Community

£1.25m and 163 Projects: Glasgow's Commonwealth Games Are Already Changing Lives

A festival fund that started at £250,000 has ballooned five-fold after 400 applications flooded in — now 163 projects across every Glasgow ward will share £1.25m in grants

The Commonwealth Games don't begin until 23 July, but across Glasgow's 23 wards, the starting gun has already fired.

This week, organisers announced that the Glasgow 2026 Festival Fund — originally a modest £250,000 grant programme launched last year — has been expanded to £1.25 million, delivering grants of up to £10,000 to 163 community projects across the city.

The reason for the five-fold expansion? Overwhelming demand. More than 400 applications poured in from community groups, artists, sports clubs and social enterprises, far exceeding what anyone had anticipated.

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News Glasgow

Govan's Second Chance: £3 Million Heritage Fund to Revive the Lyceum Cinema, Graving Docks and a Community's Pride

Glasgow City Council accepts nearly £3m from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Environment Scotland for a five-year programme to restore Govan's most cherished heritage buildings

For twenty years the Lyceum Cinema has stood silent on Govan Road, its Art Deco facade a daily reminder of what was lost. A few hundred yards away, the Pumphouse at the Graving Docks — the last original building on a site that once serviced the great ships of the Clyde — has been vacant for nearly four decades.

Today, both buildings moved a significant step closer to resurrection.

Glasgow City Council's Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability committee this morning accepted funding awards totalling nearly £3 million from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Environment Scotland, unlocking a five-year heritage programme that could transform the heart of Govan.

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Dogs & Animals

Scotland Could Be the Best Place in the World for an Animal to Live — Here's What It Would Take

The Scottish SPCA's bold election manifesto sets out a vision of a kinder nation — and Scotland is already closer than you might think

What would it look like if Scotland became the best place in the world for an animal to call home? Picture it: rescue centres with the resources to care for every creature that comes through their doors. Schools where children learn empathy and responsibility alongside their ABCs. A legal framework so robust that no animal abuser can slip through the cracks.

That's not a daydream. It's the stated ambition of the Scottish SPCA, and with a Holyrood election approaching on 7 May, the charity has laid out a roadmap for getting there.

The SSPCA's Animals Count: Make Them Matter manifesto, published ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, outlines four flagship proposals designed to deliver what the charity calls "lasting change" for animals across Scotland — domestic, farmed and wild.

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