Saturday, April 18, 2026 — Edition No. 63 — The Cornmill Intelligencer

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Today’s outlook: Two rescue dogs, a flat white, and a jazz ballet — forecast: 100%25 chance of tail wags

Dogs & Animals Rescue

From Stray to Hero: Rescue Dog Rusty Saves His New Family From a Kitchen Fire

Weeks after being plucked from a storm-battered shelter, a timid stray named Rusty repaid his adopters in the most remarkable way

When Gabby Bannon drove 500 miles home from North Carolina with a nervous stray riding shotgun in her truck cab, she had no idea she was bringing home the dog who would one day save her life.

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What's On Glasgow

Glasgow Coffee Festival Returns: A Weekend of Caffeine, Culture and Community

Scotland's premier speciality coffee celebration fills The Briggait this weekend with 50+ roasters, the inaugural Best Roaster UK final, and enough espresso to power the East End

By Damien Day

If your weekend plans involve "something warm, something Glaswegian, and something that smells absolutely incredible," you are in luck.

The Glasgow Coffee Festival returns to The Briggait on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2026 — and organisers say this year is the biggest yet, with the event expanding beyond its spiritual home and into the neighbouring Clydeside Halls to accommodate a crowd of around 2,800 caffeine pilgrims.

Expect more than 50 stalls from roasters, independent cafés and industry exhibitors from across the UK, alongside free tastings, expert talks, hands-on workshops and roasting demonstrations. The programme also hosts the SCA UK Brewers Cup and, new for 2026, the inaugural Best Roaster UK competition — a blind-cupping, peer-assessed showdown with finalists including Glasgow's own Dear Green and Thomson's, Glen Lyon of Aberfeldy, and Figment of Aberdeen going up against the best from England and Wales.

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Dogs & Animals

Wiley the rescue dog wakes mum and daughter '30 seconds' before fire engulfs RV

A barking rescue dog gave a Florida mother and daughter the narrowest of escapes — and a community is now rallying behind them

By Helen Cooper

A rescue dog named Wiley is being credited with saving the lives of his Florida family, after his frantic barking woke a sleeping mother and daughter just half a minute before their motorhome was swallowed by flames.

Joi Roberts and her daughter Heather Belliveau were asleep inside their RV when it caught fire in the early hours of 23 December, local broadcaster WPTV News reported. As toxic smoke filled the cabin, Wiley refused to settle — barking until the pair stirred and stumbled to safety.

"If it would have been 30 seconds later, I don't know that we would have been able to get my mom out," Belliveau told WPTV, in comments republished by People magazine. "The place was engulfed with smoke at that point."

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What's On Glasgow

Jazz, Zeus and a whiff of Hollywood: Scottish Ballet's Starstruck dazzles Theatre Royal

Gene Kelly's 'love letter to ballet' returns enhanced and extended — catch it in Glasgow today, then follow the tour to Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh

By Damien Day

If you've ever wanted a night where Zeus flirts with a Hollywood starlet, a rehearsal pianist tries to keep the tempo from falling off a cliff, and a full live orchestra swings through Gershwin and Ravel — Scottish Ballet has you covered, and you have precisely today to catch it in Glasgow.

Starstruck, the company's glittering revival of Gene Kelly's "love letter to ballet", closes out its Theatre Royal run this Saturday before heading off on a Scottish tour. If you can possibly wangle a ticket, wangle one.

Billed as a "director's cut" of the ballet Scottish Ballet first revived in 2021, the 2026 Starstruck has been enhanced and extended into a new two-act production. CEO and Artistic Director Christopher Hampson CBE has built a love story that flips between two worlds: a Star Ballerina and a Choreographer rehearsing a new work, and their mythological counterparts Aphrodite and Zeus, who are having their own, very loud, domestic.

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