An unexploded bomb has been removed from a street in Glasgow following an incident this afternoon.
'Lack of transparency' around Glasgow School of Art devastating fire blasted
04.04.2023 - 18:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A 'lack of transparency' around the devastating fire that destroyed the Mackintosh Building was blasted as it emerged the security company was replaced prior to the blaze.
Efforts to rebuild the iconic Glasgow School of Art building were also slammed as "regional prejudice", amid speculation that if the building was in Edinburgh more effort would have been made on the project.
The fire occurred in 2018 as the major restoration project at the A-listed building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh was nearing completion following a blaze in May 2014.
Apollo Security Services were contracted by Kier Construction, who were appointed in June 2016 as main contractor to deliver the works for the £35 million restoration project.
The firm, which was registered in Essex and had an office in Stirling, had its approved contractor status with the Security Industry Authority (SIA) withdrawn in October 2017.
The contract to secure and guard the Mackintosh Building then passed on to Fortel Services, who held it until the second fire took place on June 15, 2018 in Glasgow.
An investigation report into the 2018 fire by the Scottish Fire And Rescue Service (SFRS), which finished in September 2021, determined that the blaze was so fierce and all-consuming that the cause can never be known conclusively.
The investigation, which SFRS said "represented the most complex and resource-intensive ever undertaken and led by the national service", recorded the cause of the fire as 'undetermined' due to the extent of the damage sustained at the site and physical evidence being destroyed in the fire.
The report into the fire, which was published in January last year, said that accidental ignition by something like a cigarette could not be fully ruled
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