Labour MSP hits out at Glasgow city council fitness campaign as sports and leisure facilities remain closed
It's as only 90 of 171 Glasgow Life venues have been given the green light to reopen.
A Glasgow Labour MSP is hitting out at Glasgow city council, after launching a fitness campaign - despite many sports and leisure facilities in the area remaining closed.
The 'Get Active Glasgow' campaign is encouraging locals to walk, run and cycle more often until the end of September.
But Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy is hitting out at the campaign, as several Glasgow Life sports and leisure facilities across the area remain closed.
It comes a week after we told you around 500 jobs within Glasgow Life are set to be cut.
Pam said: "The fact that they've still got these venues closed but they're asking people to go out and get active is so inconsistent with the way things are going.
"Where are they expecting people to go to get active? What are they expecting people to do?
"A number of people across this city don't have access to green space, don't have access to be able to go out and about and be active.
"They rely on these essential community venues to be able to meet people and be active with others in the local community.
"The council needs to decide whether or not they're in support of people being active and going out and getting active and if they are, they need to fund it properly and that will mean asking the Scottish Government for extra funding."
A Glasgow city council spokesman said: "The scheme is an active travel campaign - designed to encourage people to walk and cycle in their day-to-day journeys, rather than drive.
"It has absolutely nothing to do with any venues."