Glasgow wins 'smart city' government cash

Glasgow has won a £24m government grant intended to make it one of the UK's first smart cities.

It will use the money on projects to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.

They will include better services for Glaswegians, with real-time information about traffic and apps to check that buses and trains are on time.

The council will also create an app for reporting issues such as potholes and missing bin collections.

Glasgow will not be the UK's only smart city. Others including Birmingham, Sunderland and London are beginning to roll out technologies to make services work more smartly.

Glasgow was among 30 cities in the UK bidding for the money, with the shortlist including London, Peterborough and Bristol.