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Glasgow will not be ready to host next year's Commonwealth Games without "greater focus and investment", a trade union chief has warned. ‌

GMB boss Gary Smith told the Record that Scotland's biggest city had been "abandoned by the political class for a long time" and was struggling as a result. ‌

He was speaking in the Charing Cross district today to launch his union's new campaign calling for the city centre's many lanes and back streets to be cleaned up as an urgent priority. ‌

The SNP administration at Glasgow City Chambers hiked council tax by 7.5 per cent this year to fund greater investment in refuse collection and street cleaning teams. The budget included £2.3m to recruit dedicated neighbourhood clean teams for each ward in the city, which are

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