App concept beats 46 other competitors to take it on to competition in Texas

A team of Strathclyde University students will soon head to Texas to take part in a competition after bagging a university prize with the creation of an app aiming to combat loneliness in older people.

The second year entrepreneurship undergraduates were challenged to develop an app that could help to solve a prevalent social issue. They then pitched their idea - an app named 'BeFriend' - to academics from the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde.

Over 42,000 people attended the Glasgow Film Festival

THE 11th GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL has closed after its most well attended gala of international and local film ever.

The festival, which has run every year since 2005 and is based at the Glasgow Film Theatre in the city centre, saw 42,000 admissions between 17-28 February. The Film Theatre saw its largest recorded foot-fall in a week from Friday 19 to Thursday 25 February.

As part of our coverage of the 2016 Glasgow Film Festival, CommonSpace speaks to Lou McLoughlan, the award-winning Scots documentary film maker about her new production and the difficulties faced in bringing it to a Scottish audience

"You paid for this, you should be able to see it," Scots documentary film maker Lou McLoughlan tells CommonSpace.

As part of our coverage of the 2016 Glasgow Film Festival, CommonSpace speaks to Lou McGloughlan, the award-winning Scots documentary film maker about her new production and the difficulties faced in bringing it to a Scottish audience

"You paid for this, you should be able to see it," Scots documentary film maker Lou McGloughlan tells CommonSpace.

The dreary weather couldn't prevent resilient gig-goers from packing out shows in January. Jonathan Rimmer reviews a few of the month's Scottish performers

Trongate Rum Riots
23 January 2016, Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow

Scottish Greens South of Scotland list candidate Sarah Beattie-Smith for the 2016 Scottish elections takes a look at one community's bid to take control of their land

IN WANLOCKHEAD, just inside the north eastern end of Dumfries and Galloway, a small community is trying to grasp the power and means to survive and thrive into the future.

Paul Climie takes a look at the history of Glasgow's poorhouses

AS Christmas approaches and we dust off Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for another read, I was left reflecting on what the arrangements in Glasgow were with regards to the workhouse, or as they were more commonly called in Scotland, the poorhouse or poor's houses.