Glasgow apologises for role in slave trade, saying its ‘tentacles’ are in every corner of city

Report commissioned by city council says blood of enslaved people is built into the very bones' of the metropolis

Glasgow authorities have apologised for the city's role in the Atlantic slave trade, saying the tentacles" of money from the practice reached every corner of Scotland's biggest metropolis.

The apology comes as Britain increasingly reckons with the legacy of its colonial past in the wake of global Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests.