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📣 A huge fire next to Glasgow Central Station has closed Scotland’s busiest station and destroyed one of the city’s landmarks, a B-listed Victorian building.

The fire - thought to have started in a disused vape shop on Union Street - appeared innocuous at first. But, hours later, it had spread to engulf the building: there are suggestions that batteries stored in the building fuelled the dramatic escalation of the blaze.

At 6am this morning it was still smouldering, and firefighters were continuing to pour water into the wreckage: people are being urged to avoid the area. (BBC)

📣 Arrests have been made after Rangers and Celtic fans clashed on the pitch at Ibrox after yesterday’s Old Firm match. Wider recriminations - and implications - will undoubtedly follow. Masked, black-clad “ultras” from both sides fought and launched flares at each other before police restored order. The stadium had been “stormed” by visiting fans before the game: social media also showed disorder outside the stadium after the match.

📣 The economic fallout from the US/Israeli strikes on Iran may start to bite today: oil prices have surged after Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, was named as his successor. (Guardian)

Bahrain’s state oil company declared force majeure on Monday for its shipments after an Iranian attack set its refinery ablaze - a legal move which releases it from its legal obligations. (AP)

The price of crude oil has jumped more than 25%, to surge beyond $100 a barrel, news which is expected to send stocks tumbling around the world. (Reuters)

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📣 The father of Dunblane victim Sophie North says he misses his daughter every day. As the 30th anniversary of the horrific shooting spree approaches this Friday, Mick North - now an anti-gun campaigner - says he misses his daughter every day. (Daily Record)

📣 Families of people involved in the Glasgow hospital infection scandal have disputed claims by John Swinney that he offered them an apology last week. (Times)

📣 Humza Yousaf said internal polling, revealing his low personal ratings, convinced him to quit as First Minister. (STV)

📣 Workers are drifting back to offices, with occupancy now at 40% for the week, but that number isn’t going up and varies widely by city. Glasgow is bottom of the pile with only 31.6% occupancy: Bristol tops the list with 69.2%. And workers forced to return to the office full-time are still objecting. (Guardian)

📣 Ukraine is proposing Patriot missiles in exchange for its expertise in shooting down drones. (Independent)

📣 Sweden is investigating a cargo ship that allegedly carried stolen grain, with a Russian crew, under a false flag. (AP)

⚽️ To the extent any football was played in yesterday’s Old Firm game, Celtic won it with a smash-and-grab over Rangers - a metaphorical one, that is, before the literal one committed by some of the fans of both sides - winning on penalties to advance to the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

🏉 Scotland’s outstanding victory over France was a far more cheering, high-skill event: the brilliant Finn Russell can now glimpse the Six Nations, and says it would be the “peak” of his career. (Scotsman)

🏎️ What has Formula 1 become? George Russell won the first race of the season in Australia, which most of us would have missed because of the early hour it ran. But the post-race inquest runs deeper than simply looking at lap times and strategy: radically new engines and car designs have changed the sport, and it’s not clear what’s been left.

🗣️ A persistent mystery is how the world’s biggest drug lords manage to not only evade the law but also enjoy any sort of normal life. Where do they hide out? An impressive bit of AI-assisted journalism in the Sunday Times has offered some answers.

The story of their discovery is almost as interesting as hearing more about the Kinahan’s extrordinary business, which extends from importing much of Europe’s cocaine to even, it is alleged, helping Moscow move oil around the world. (Sunday Times - gift link)

🗣️ Former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote on Iran in the Observer: his essay has won praise for its deep look at the country’s psyche, drawing on the roots of its majority religious belief and its impact on the nation’s character. A strong sense of victimhood gives the nation strength, he says.

“I’m far from sure whether the US president, Donald Trump, or his advisers understand this,” he says. And that will have implications for whatever comes next in the country, and the many years it will take to emerge. (Observer)

🗣️While Straw’s deep thoughts were being published in the Observer, the current US President was taking to social media to diss the UK’s mooted involvement in the war.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. "That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer - But we will remember.

"We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!"

Starmer and Trump have since spoken by phone; the contents of that call have yet to be revealed, and the UK government has made no public comment on Trump’s outburst.

🗣️Sandie Peggie - billed as “the most famous nurse in the country” - talked to Celia Walden in the Sunday Telegraph, talking about how the NHS “weaponised” her gay daughter in an attempt to paint her as a homophobe.

The story here is familiar, but well-told by Walden: the details of how the case arose, her friends’ abandonment of her. The new detail of how her daughter was used in the case, and her daughter’s wholehearted support for her mother, have been less discussed, however. (Telegraph £)

🗣️The tabloids led with the news that Soham killer Ian Huntley, brutally attacked in prison a little under two weeks ago, died from his injuries.

Huntley murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the pretty, quiet Cambridgeshire village in August 2002: in the Guardian, Nick Hopkins - then the title’s crime correspondent - recalls his time covering that sad story, and the desperate hunt for any clues as to where the two girls had gone.

Huntley had family, too, and in the Sun they disowned him. “Funerals are supposed to be about celebrating someone’s life and there’s nothing about him to celebrate,” says his daughter, Samantha Bryan. “There’s no point having a funeral as he’ll burn in hell.

“There is no place for him in heaven. The devil is waiting.” (The Sun)

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