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Celtic Music Radio 95FM achieved its biggest-ever audience during Celtic Connections 2015. The Glasgow-based charitable community radio station attracted more than 115,000 listeners on 95FM across Glasgow and via its website as it broadcast from the festival for the 10th consecutive year. A thirty-strong team of volunteers, with technical support from Glasgow Caledonian University Audio Technology students, broadcast live for 116 hours, including live sets from eighty musicians and groups from Scotland, other parts of the UK and overseas. The station broadcasts for twenty-fours a day, 365 days a year and averages 72,000 listeners a month.

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The International Network of Street Papers has signed up a bunch of supporters to learn the trade of selling the Big Issue this week and today regular vendors will be mentoring a posse of indie musicians on the streets of Glasgow. Look out for James Graham of Twilight Sad and Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches (pictured), who will be joined by Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and all of Twin Atlantic, a band who are clearly after the prize for selling the most copies of the magazine.

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A Scotland + Venice Exhibition, Celebrating 10 Years of Scottish Architecture, will open at Architecture and Design Scotland at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, on February 6. The exhibition presents five projects created since Scottish architecture was first shown during the Venice Biennale on Architecture in 2004.

The free exhibition - which is curated by Architecture and Design Scotland, and supported by the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland and British Council Scotland - will also be accompanied by a range of events allowing the public to delve deeper into the development in Scottish architecture over the past decade.

Since 2010 Scotland + Venice has been funded by the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland and the British Council Scotland.

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Glasgow Fair, a painting by Paisley-born artist John Knox (1776/8-1845), has gone on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It portrays the Glasgow Fair on Glasgow Green around 1819-1822. Glasgow Museums secured the ambitious art work for the city at the end of 2014 for £220,000.

The purchase was made with the support of the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, Trustees of the Hamilton Bequest, Friends of Glasgow Museums and a fundraising campaign.

glasgowlife.org.uk/museum