Glasgow City Council will hold a public consultation over introducing a 5% visitor levy on overnight stays in the city.The tourist tax would apply to hotels, hostels, guest houses, B&Bs and self-catering accommodation.

The Sauchiehall Street venue was forced to temporarily close in December due to financial concerns.

Glasgow must listen to accommodation businesses like hotels and B&Bs if it is to avoid rolling out a tourist tax which does “more harm than good”, trade bodies have said. City treasurer Ricky Bell, SNP, will present councillors on Thursday with plans for a 5% visitor levy on accommodation spending in the city.

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts is set to reopen after securing muli-year funding from Creative Scotland. The arts venue has said it would be fully open on April 1 after having to close in December last year. It previously said the pandemic and fires at the Glasgow School of Art had affected the business.

A man has died after he was hit by an HGV on the Clydeside Expressway in Glasgow. Police Scotland said the incident happened near the point where traffic joins the road from the Kingston Bridge at about 13:30 on Wednesday.

Copita Mezcal and Tequila Festival is bringing “a celebration of exceptional spirit” back to the Briggait on May 10 with over 80 different agave-based spirits from Mexico’s top producers.

A tourist tax will be rolled out in Glasgow “as fast as we possibly can without tripping ourselves up”, the city treasurer has said.

Bordeaux lock Gray, 30, has not featured for the national team since the last time Italy visited Murrayfield on Six Nations duty two years ago.

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CAA) has announced that they will be re-opening after being awarded multi-year funding. The centre has said that they will be opened April 1 after closing last December. They have received funding from Creative Scotland, which is Scotland's development body for the arts and creative industries.

Theatres securing significant boosts include Dundee Rep, which will see its funding rise from £1.9m to £2.6m then £2.8m and the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, which will see an increase from £1.2m to £1.5m to £1.7m.

Scotland's Stafford McDowall will earn a ninth cap at inside centre in place of injured captain Sione Tuipulotu in an otherwise experienced backline to face Italy in their Six Nations opener at Murrayfield on Saturday.

Full Contact focused on certain players - Russell, Wales' Louis Rees-Zammit, England's Owen Farrell and Ellis Genge, and Ireland's Johnny Sexton and Andrew Porter - but as with many documentary of that type, it only told part of the story.