IN the third and final look back over 2011 FIONA McKAY, KANE MUMFORD, CHRIS TAYLOR and LALITA AUGUSTINE recall the death of Colonel Gaddafi, the World Pipe Band championships, anti-capitalists taking over the streets and how passengers were left terrified as their plane tried to land -
SEPTEMBER
1: Retailers in the St Enoch Centre reveal plans to remain open later to attract shoppers back to city centre as a first step in competition with out-of-city malls.
3: Glasgow taxi drivers call for a 10% fare increase to cover soaring fuel costs.
6: Glasgow's worst pothole subsides in Renfield Street – less than a week after being fixed.
7: Vermin control teams are called in to tackle giant rats in Queen's Park.
10: Glasgow City Council faces a £3.5million bill to rid streets of chewing gum, it is revealed.
12: A new £40million bus link to serve Glasgow in time for the Commonwealth Games is announced.
13: Glasgow Airport bosses say the World Pipe Band Championships in the city has helped boost passenger numbers.
16: The first of four miners trapped in a flooded Welsh coal mine is reported dead.
20: The 66-year-old son of former Rangers' player Bob McPhail is attacked with tear gas after catching an intruder ransacking his Giffnock home.
23: A dozy thief is found asleep in a former swimming pool in Govanhill during a raid to grab copper wire.
28: Tesco add security tags to mince after a spate of meat thefts in some Glasgow stores.
30: A council depot in Bellahouston Park is named as a "dream" possible site for a new Prince And Princess Of Wales Hospice.
OCTOBER
3: The Evening Times launches Crime On Your Street, a detailed investigation looking at crime in Glasgow.
4: Govanhill is revealed as the most violent neighbourhood in Glasgow.
5: Glasgow's £40million Fastlink plan along the River Clyde is given the go-ahead.
13: Thirteen Glasgow councillors have their appeals to stand in next May's city elections rejected.
14: Glasgow residents face £5000 bills to shore up old mineworkings beneath their homes.
19: BAA announces Glasgow Airport will not be sold off, but Edinburgh Airport will.
20: Deposed Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi is killed after being captured trying to flee from rebel forces.
21: Metal thieves are thought to have been behind £30,000 damage to a weather tower.
22: Rangers' owner Craig Whyte hits back after over a BBC documentary on his past business dealings.
24: Actor Gerard Butler promises support to save a children's ward at Royal Alexandra Hospital in his home town of Paisley.
25: The Evening Times launches its Opt For Life campaign to champion the switch to an 'opt out' register for organ donation.
26: A Glasgow restaurateur reveals he nearly died paying for £22,000 for a new kidney abroad, after seven years on the transplant list.
27: Glasgow firms are boosted by contracts worth £200million connected to the city hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
31: A £53m flood protection project is revealed to hold back floods on the South Side on the White Cart.
NOVEMBER
3: Water bosses promise to banish the stench from a treatment works near the 2014 Commonwealth Games site before athletes jet into Glasgow.
5: Anti-capitalist demonstrators set up a base in Kelvingrove Park following a deal with the council.
7: The Evening Times launches its Clear The Air campaign to help people to stop smoking and look towards a healthier future.
8: It is revealed Mutt Shots of dogs are to be used to catch owners who let their pets foul Glasgow's streets and open spaces.
15: A £10,000 reward is offered to catch cable thieves after a theft sparked a fire, cutting power to 50,000 Glasgow homes.
16: It is predicted Glasgow's economy will receive a £14million boost after the city is chosen to host 4500 dancers in the week-long World Irish Dancing Championships in 2016.
17: Anti-capitalism demonstrators move back into Glasgow city centre and set up a new camp in Blythswood Square.
21: Holidaymakers are left terrified when their aircraft is forced to "climb steeply" as it tries to land at Glasgow Airport after the runway was blocked.
22: A £1million fund is set up by the city council to keep 11,000 Glasgow OAPs warm this winter.
24: Finance Secretary John Swinney makes a U-turn over cutting the cash allocation for new housing, giving Glasgow £58m instead of the expected £38m.
25: Glasgow's two tallest residential tower blocks, in Whitevale Street and Bluevale Street, Dennistoun, are to be pulled down, it is announced.
29: A new £200million campus is revealed for Scotland's largest college, City Of Glasgow.
30: More than 300,000 public sector workers walk out across Scotland in protest at planned changes to their pensions.
DECEMBER
1: In just one week the new £53million White Cart flood prevention scheme stops £11million of damage to homes and businesses in the South Side.
2: Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival is named the best in Britain at the UK Event Awards at Wembley Arena, London.
3: The former Co-op Funeral Service building in Tradeston is likely to be demolished following a massive fire.
6: The cause of a seven-year flood on waste ground in Paisley is finally traced - workers had forgotten to disconnect water mains in demolished houses nearby.
8: Schools across Scotland are closed as the country is battered by winds of more than 100mph.
9: A major clean-up operation begins after the winds, which a top speed of 165mph, leave a trail of destruction.
14: Glasgow and west Scotland are hit by floods after nearly an inch of rain falls in 12 hours.
15: Thieves put school pupils at risk after leaving high-voltage wires exposed just yards from Whiteinch Primary after stealing the metal casing.
16: An emergency bus to help revellers get home is launched on what is traditionally Glasgow's busiest party night of the year.
17: A family who had smoked cigarettes for a total of more than 100 years celebrate giving up the habit as part of the Evening Times' Clear The Air campaign.
19: Campaigners win their fight to save Lightburn Hospital, in the East End, from closure.
20: It is revealed train travellers in Scotland face a 6% increase in fares from January 2.
21: Two young women are sexually attacked in the same street in the Broomielaw inside 20 minutes.
22: Police launch a hunt for a killer after a man is shot dead in Paisley.
23: Fifteen people are rescued after a 4am blaze in a tenement in Calder Street, Govanhill.
24: Cancer sufferer Tomasz Cyganiak, five, who was given less than a one-in-five chance of survival, leaves Yorkhill Hospital For Sick Children. He will have two-monthly checks to make sure the cancer has not returned.
26: The health service ombudsman upholds a family's complaints that a man was 'left to die' at Glasgow Royal Infirmary after doctors decided not to resuscitate him.
27: A nine-year-old boy was killed in an early-morning house blaze in Kilmarnock.
28: We reveal Glasgow City Parking is to get a £750,000 bail-out from the city council – so it can help pay redundancy deals.
29: Internet fraudsters are using the Strathclyde Police logo to in an attempt to con computer users into paying a £100 fee to unlock their machines.
30: Chris Green, a 43-year-old Paisley man told the Evening times of his life-saving kidney transplant earlier this year.
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