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A project to improve the look and feel of Glasgow city centre - the Glasgow City Centre Improvement Grant Fund - is bringing real benefits across the area, including a first for a Scottish charity, with more on the way.

Expansion of Glasgow\'s cycle storage scheme is underway, with 720 new spaces set to be delivered this year.

As part of wider efforts to expand Glasgow\'s tree canopy, new urban trees have been installed around the city centre.

The public realm improvement of Byres Road will next month move onto its next phase, when works begin on the northern half - between University Avenue and Great Western Road - of this famous Glasgow street, a very popular destination for shopping, bars and restaurants.

Preparations are underway for the transformation and renewal of one of Glasgow\'s main thoroughfares.

One of Scotland\'s most influential musicians, Christopher (Chris) Armstrong, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for his services to music, and particularly his extraordinary contribution to the world of piping.

A stalwart of Scotland\'s fire and rescue community, James (Jim) Burns Smith (83) has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for his outstanding service over six decades.

As part of wider plans to increase Glasgow\'s tree canopy, we have partnered with the charity Trees for Cities to make it easier for residents to sponsor new street tree planting in their neighbourhoods through the Trees for Streets scheme.

Work has begun on the £6.7m community facility which will be the new home of Scaraway Nursery, and the charity North United Communities (NUC) based in Milton.

Open spaces in Milton and Easterhouse have been earmarked for community-led energy projects that will bring benefits back into the community.

The £21.3million Avenues Plus programme, part of the biggest transformation of Glasgow city centre for 50 years, is now fully underway in Glasgow city centre, with projects taking place on the eastern, northern and southern fringes of the city centre. The programme is complementing and enabling significant regeneration in these areas by delivering more attractive streets with improved pavements and roads, new trees and cycle lanes, and rain gardens.

A consultation on proposed public realm improvements at Gordon Street - in front of Central Station - in Glasgow has now begun.

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