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News Round-Up: From restaurant raffle and canal plaque to latest Riverside show

Eight restaurants behind Real Food, Real Folk have come up with a cracker of an early Christmas present for eight lucky folk.

REAL FOOD, REAL FOLK LAUNCH RAFFLE

The West End's very own restaurant co-operative is raising more money for social enterprises - this time with a Christmas raffle.

Eight restaurants behind Real Food, Real Folk - the group behind this summer's Let’s Eat Glasgow! food festival at SWG3 - have come up with a cracker of an early Christmas present for eight lucky folk.

The not for profit co-operative includes Guy’s Restaurant, Mother India, Crabshakk, Stravaigin, Ubiquitous Chip, Ox and Finch, The Gannet and Cail Bruich.

It has opened an online Christmas raffle with some extra special prizes to raise funds for social enterprises tackling food inequality across Glasgow.

People buying one or more £5 raffle tickets through the Let’s Eat Glasgow Facebook page or at http://woobox.com/9qy9g5 will be in with a chance of scooping one of eight fabulous dining experiences:

The £5 raffle tickets can be purchased until 23.59 on Sunday 18th December. The draw will be made on Tuesday December 20.

WEST END ENGINEERING WONDER HONOUR

The engineering achievement of the 226-year-old Kelvin Aqueduct has been honoured with plaque unveilings by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

Designed by civil engineer Robert Whitworth and completed in 1790, the aqueduct is a major engineering structure on the Forth & Clyde Canal, and carries the main line of the waterway across the River Kelvin in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.

The impressive 122m-long aqueduct boasts four masonry arches, rising 21m above the river.

Building of the structure started in 1787, and on completion the aqueduct was recognised not only as the largest ever constructed in Britain, but also the largest in Europe.

The plaques were unveiled by ICE Glasgow and West of Scotland Chairman Graham Edmond and Scottish Canals’ Heritage Manager Chris O’Connell.

Mr Edmond said: “The Kelvin Aqueduct is an outstanding example of historic civil engineering and I’m delighted to have the opportunity to unveil this plaque commemorating its construction on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

“Most civil engineering, like the Kelvin Aqueduct, survives well beyond the lifetime of its designers.

"It’s vital that we, as the curators of that rich built heritage, do our best to celebrate these incredible structures in order to ensure they can be enjoyed by future generations.”

EXHIBITION LOOKING BACK AT LIFE ALONG THE CLYDE OPENS AT RIVERSIDE MUSEUM

Clyde Life, a stunning, nostalgic photography display capturing the ever-changing landscape of Glasgow’s River Clyde, has opened at Riverside Museum.

It tells the story of how ‘Glasgow made the Clyde and the Clyde made Glasgow’.

The exhibition presents 22 striking images from Glasgow Museums’ collection, which chronicles the transformation of the city’s main waterway across a 200-year period, up to the present day.

"Dramatic photographs are presented in four geographic sections and together convey a sense of the changes witnessed by the 109 mile-long river.

Chair of Glasgow Life, Councillor Archie Graham, said: “Clyde Life reveals many evocative aspects of the iconic River Clyde that will delight and surprise visitors.

"It begins with a beautiful watercolour by an unknown artist, showing salmon fishing in the early 1800s, and moves through the years."

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