Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
Glasgow, Scotland · Reporter, The Bell
Calum Grewar is a reporter at The Bell, an independent digital news publication covering Glasgow, Scotland. He joined The Bell full-time in April 2025. His work spans investigative reporting, political coverage, features, and personal essay — with a range that moves between business investigations, housing, far-right protest, municipal politics, and cultural reporting on the city. His Bell bio describes the scope of his work in three lines: he has mapped the city's fires, investigated dodgy businesses, and tracked the collapse of the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts).
His reporting has covered the theft of an 18-carat gold cup worth £490,000 from the Riverside Museum — a story he broke as an exclusive — the liquidation of Fernhill private school and its failure to pay staff, a business rates avoidance scheme involving shell companies on the M8, and the city's rent crisis. He has also covered Glasgow's 2026 far-right protests, writing both news coverage and a personal essay about what it is like to report on far-right demonstrations. A feature on Glasgow's twin city Mykolaiv, in Ukraine, placed the war's front line in the context of Glasgow's twinning relationship. His political reporting has covered the 2026 Holyrood election in Glasgow constituencies including the newly created Kelvin and Maryhill seat.
Exclusive: Heist at the Riverside Museum as tea magnate's historic gold trophy stolen
The Bell · April 30, 2026 · Broke the story of an 18-carat gold Lipton Cup worth £490,000 stolen from the Riverside Museum — and why the theft had not been publicly reported
glasgowbell.co.uk/lipton-cup-stolen-glasgow-riverside-museum-heist/
Empty offices and child 'directors': How to augment reality and avoid tax in the process
The Bell · February 2026 · Investigation into a business rates avoidance scheme centred on an M8 office block, involving shell companies with child directors
glasgowbell.co.uk/humanitarian-operations-charity-rates-avoidance-darren-adler/
Fernhill's wealthy parents tried to save the school, so why did it still close?
The Bell · June 25, 2026 · Investigation into the collapse of Fernhill private school; followed up with breaking news on its liquidation and failure to pay staff (with Beth Templeton, June 18, 2026)
glasgowbell.co.uk/fernhill-private-school-parent-bailout-sep-marini/
How to lose friends and house people
The Bell · November 2025 · Investigation into Homeless Project Scotland and its relationship with Glasgow City Council — the charity claims to be solving the city's homelessness crisis; the council says it is making it worse
glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-project-scotland-legal-threats-glasgow/
What it's like reporting on Glasgow's far-right summer
The Bell · July 16, 2026 · Personal essay on covering Glasgow's 2026 far-right protests and the online abuse that followed
glasgowbell.co.uk/online-abuse-glasgow-migrant-protests/
Five hours to defend Glasgow's twin city
The Bell · June 20, 2026 · Feature on Mykolaiv, Ukraine — Glasgow's twin city — and its experience of the war
glasgowbell.co.uk/mykolaiv-glasgow-twin-cities-ukraine-war/
Neo-Nazi flags over St Enoch Square: how Tuesday's protest took Glasgow by surprise
The Bell · June 11, 2026 · With Beth Templeton · News coverage of a far-right protest in Glasgow city centre
glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-protest-far-right/
Katy-Anne's rent jumped 80% in 18 months: is Glasgow getting out of control?
The Bell · July 2, 2026 · With Beth Templeton · Analysis of Glasgow's rent crisis
glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-rent-prices/
'He called my mother a prostitute': How Glasgow's tour guides sell our city
The Bell · August 19, 2026 · Feature on Glasgow's tour guide industry amid declining visitor numbers and Commonwealth Games disruption
glasgowbell.co.uk/visit-glasgow-commonwealth-games-tours/
Calum Grewar · Reporter, The Bell · Glasgow, Scotland
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