{"id":467099,"date":"2026-03-10T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:43:08","slug":"business-owners-heartbroken-after-retail-units-destroyed-in-glasgow-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467099\/","title":{"rendered":"Business owners &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; after retail units destroyed in Glasgow fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The housing and homelessness charity Shelter said their shop on Union Street had been &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shelter Scotland director Alison Watson said the charity was &#8220;heartbroken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Crucially, everyone who was in our Union Street shop is safe,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The shop was evacuated as soon as the alarm was raised, and our team are now being supported by colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, the first minister said the government recognised that the fire was an &#8220;unexpected and extraordinary&#8221; incident in the city that would impact businesses that had lost their premises, or had just lost footfall since part of the city has been closed down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We do now have to think about how we support those local businesses, how we make sure there is safety on the site, it&#8217;s secured, how we can get travel back active again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The housing and homelessness charity Shelter said their shop on Union Street had been &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221;. Shelter Scotland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-467099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}