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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Eve Livingston Scotland correspondent

Fire fears as vape shop prepares to open next to 120-year-old Glasgow tearooms

Ashley Rawson stands outside the vape shop and tearoom.
The artist Ashley Rawson visited the shop last week with his ‘unexploded vape’ artwork as a protest against the plans. Photograph: Ashley Rawson

In the heart of Glasgow city centre, nestled between shops, bars, offices and hotels, sits the Mackintosh Tearooms, the last surviving tearoom designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and one of the city’s most treasured heritage sites.

But last week passersby noticed a shiny new shopfront next door to the 1903 category A-listed building: hot-pink capital letters on a white plastic sign, advertising a vape and mobile phone repair shop.

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