The announcement today of Culture and Sport Glasgow's new £50,000 image makeover has Green councillor for Anderston/City ward, Bailie Dr Nina Baker, seeing red. "I'm furious about this. ", she said today "They are spending fifty grand on a new logo at the same time they are closing Overnewton Community Centre for want of only £1,800 of basic repairs. This is the only council community centre in the whole ward and the only community hall not in a place of worship in the area and Culture and Sport sprung their plan to stop running it at such short notice we could do little to stop them."

The Overnewton hall is at the centre of the Yorkhill and Kelvingrove community and is home to many active sporting and therapy groups which will have to leave the area if the hall shuts. At Tuesday night's community council meeting, local people met to discuss their next moves and Councillor Baker vowed to fight to find another organisation to take on the lease so that current users could continue in the hall.

She added "Culture and Sport have their priorities all wrong if they think it is better to spend all that money on an image makeover rather than on keeping essential community centres open. They have never made any attempt to work with this community to find new users so the income could improve, they are only interested in getting rid of the hall. I am having to do their job for them. They are a disgrace: all style and no substance. It is high time this armslength organisation came back into the direct and properly accountable control of the council."