Sir Billy Connolly has described the Glasgow of his childhood as "hell" - but says he's delighted it became one of the world's hippest neighbourhoods.
The Scots comedy legend revealed he thinks it "kinda strange but kind of nice" the formerly rundown Anderston area has been transformed into one of the city's swankiest postcodes over the past decade.
Born in 1942, the iconic funny man spent the first four years of his life in a tiny tenement close to Glasgow's dockyards, which was poverty-stricken and bombarded by German bombers due to its proximity to the River Clyde.
Huge chunks of Anderston have been redeveloped into a hipster's paradise over the past few years, with its slums replaced with dozens of independent shops, quirky bars and
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