{"id":76676,"date":"2026-02-17T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/bothwell-the-affluent-glasgow-town-that-has-become-uks-firebomb-capital\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:00:16","slug":"bothwell-the-affluent-glasgow-town-that-has-become-uks-firebomb-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/bothwell-the-affluent-glasgow-town-that-has-become-uks-firebomb-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK\u2019s \u2018firebomb capital\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b1bc12e543f3d76eb43bfe1d61a759efda595dab\/1_0_4998_4000\/master\/4998.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=4828014a97f28c3654f38891dabe6658\" alt=\"Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK\u2019s \u2018firebomb capital\u2019\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK\u2019s \u2018firebomb capital\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">A high street is punctuated by burned-out buildings like rotten teeth in an otherwise perfect smile \u2013 what\u2019s going on?On the banks of the River Clyde, half an hour to the south-east of Glasgow, Bothwell is one of the city\u2019s prettiest and most prosperous commuter towns, famous for its medieval castle and annual scarecrow festival. Bothwell\u2019s Victorian villas and secluded enclaves of luxury modern mansions sell into the millions to the TV personalities, professional footballers and entrepreneurs who favour its environs.Bothwell Main Street, a designated conservation area, showcases glorious floral displays in summertime and year round an array of independent boutiques, jewellers and beauticians buck the trend for high street degeneration. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/bothwell-glasgow-town-arson-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK\u2019s \u2018firebomb capital\u2019 A high street is punctuated<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}