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Glasgow Live
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David McLean

Glasgow's outdoor drinking ban and why Edinburgh doesn't observe same byelaw

A petition has been launched calling for the powers that be to end Glasgow's "anti-working class" ban on outdoor drinking.

Created last week by Glasgow Caledonian University PhD student Gavin Brewis, the Change.org petition is calling on Glasgow to ditch the byelaw and allow locals the freedom to enjoy alcohol out in the open for the first time in decades.

In the petition, Brewis brands the byelaw as "anti-working class" and argues that it only serves to benefit pub, bar and restaurant owners "at the expense of the poor who simply wish to enjoy their local parks with a small beverage in the same way our neighbours in Edinburgh do".

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