Visitors who have arrived in Glasgow or are heading to the city in the coming days for the COP26 climate summit have been warned that it is forbidden to drink on the streets here.
Unlike in our sister city Edinburgh, a byelaw introduced in 1996 (and amended in 2008) made it an offence to drink alcohol or carry an open can or bottle in public places in Glasgow - except on Hogmanay between the hours of 6pm and 6am.
And it's a law that won't be removed any time soon, as Glasgow Live learned in June 2020 when when Glasgow City Council confirmed to us the difficulty and timescales involved in relaxing the bylaw.
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Scottish Community & Activist Legal Project (SCALP), a collective of social and environmental justice activists, took to Twitter to advise visitors to Glasgow to avoid drinking in public, or else face a hefty fine.
They tweeted: "Visitors to COP in Glasgow - be aware that drinking in public, or carrying an open container of alcohol, is forbidden by byelaw almost everywhere in the Glasgow city boundary. The penalty is a £500 fine!"
