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Remembering ‘Big Rachel’: The hardest woman in Glasgow who smoked a pipe, laboured in shipyards, and was called in to end a riot
Big Rachel was well known for her towering stature and sheer physical strength - and the shipyard worker was specifically ...
BBC5mon
Why Scotland may have avoided far-right unrest
in the wake of the riots. Getty Images Protesters blocked an immigration van from leaving Kenmure Street, Glasgow, in May 2021 Unsurprisingly, the police shy away from being too specific about why ...
The UK2d
Manchester braced for invasion of Rangers fans
Manchester city centre is braced for the arrival today of 50,000 ticketless Glasgow Rangers fans as their club faces ...
BBC5y
The Battle of George Square: How a strike led to fears of a workers' revolt
The revolution in Russia was just over a year old and Germany had recently undergone an uprising that saw the monarchy overthrown, so the cabinet in London was rattled by the unrest in Glasgow.
Rangers and the 2008 Manchester riots: ‘The worst night of violence since the Blitz’
An industrial-estate complex will not be most Rangers supporters’ first choice of a fan zone at a European away game. But ...
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Trump issues pardons for January 6 Capitol riot participants
The pardons are a culmination of Mr Trump’s yearslong campaign to rewrite the history of the January 6 attack that left more than 100 police officers injured as rioters — some armed with poles, bats ...