Glasgow homes have been evacuated after Storm Malik winds targeted an 'unsafe' historic building. Emergency crews swarmed the Trinity College building in Lynedoch Street, the West End of the city, yesterday over structural fears.
Officers from Police Scotland were on the scene near Park Circus and put in an 'exclusion zone' in place while shutting down roads.
Glasgow City Council say those affected are being told to seek shelter at the rest centre at Kelvin Hall, reports Glasgow Live.
They also reported eyewitnesses claiming they had to leave their properties 'for at least two days', with the emergency services having 'barricaded the area'.The former Trinity College, designed by Charles Wilson and built as the Free Church College in 1857, houses several residences and currently has scaffolding around its West Tower to facilitate emergency repair work from a previous stone collapse.
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