ARMED police last night dramatically ended a seven-hour siege in an Italian restaurant which brought Glasgow city centre to a standstill.
ARMED police last night dramatically ended a seven-hour siege in an Italian restaurant which brought Glasgow city centre to a standstill.
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MARTIN WILLIAMS
Scores of officers used battering rams to force their way into Amarone in Nelson Mandela Place at 11.40pm, where a man had been inside since he allegedly threatened staff with a bomb.
Royal Navy bomb disposal experts were drafted into the stand-off during which part of Scotland's busiest shopping street, Buchanan Street, was sealed off after the man made threats in a branch of Amarone in Nelson Mandela Place.
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