Mohammed Saddiq, 39, who owns newsagent in Calton believes that the area has improved dramatically years he has been there. "The previous owner told had experienced a lot of problems but it's quiet now.

The film is a quasi-remake of Hammer's 1959 film The Stranglers of Bombay. The setting is changed to Hong Kong in 1910 from India in the 19th century but the basic plot of a middle-aged, yet youthful hero attempting to uncover the crimes of a secret sect in a British colony, being captured by the sect, and later released, having a personal stake in the outcome, finding that there is an inside villain, and losing friends or family are all there. The policy was even praised by then Prime Minister David Cameron who gave it as an example of a way to fight gang violence in London after the riots that took place there that year. The Calton Tongs, who caused mayhem for more than 60 years in the east end of Glasgow, have virtually ceased to exist thanks to Strathclyde's Community Initiative to reduce Violence (CIRV).There is a well-executed, pardon the pun, killing at an ice-rink, but I was otherwise unconvinced by the dialogue and thought there was an over-dilution of the way things really were (for instance, I didn't see one razor-slashing) and I can guarantee that the language and actual violence of the times was much stronger than we see here, although I can understand this may have been done for certification purposes. Ya bass" is generally taken as Glasgow slang for "you bastard", though it has been proposed it could be the Gaelic war cry aigh bas meaning "battle and die". [7] Another Glasgow gang slogan was "Spur ya Bass" (this was the name of one of the two rival gangs from the Barrowfield area). [8] "Tongs Ya Bass" arguably became Glasgow's unofficial motto in the 1960s and 1970s. [9]

SMALL FACES is a Scottish film set in Glasgow during the late 1960s and follows the lives of three brothers from the Maclean family : Bobby a member of the Glen Gang , Alan who has ambitions of going to art school and Lex a thirteen year old boy and like the character of Taylor in PLATOON where the main character finds himself being split between the violent pragmatism of Barnes and the humanity of Elias young Lex is split between what brother makes the better role model A saying, a war cry, a slogan that at one point seemed to appear on walls in every corner of the city. Over the years it has become universally linked to the city of Glasgow and the gangs that have lurked within. Read More Related Articles In nearby Bridgeton, locals are enthusiastic about the regeneration and the dwindling presence of gangs. Allan Kelly, 49, was born in the area and believes that it has improved dramatically. The Calton Tongs adopted the title 'Tongs' after some of the local Calton youths attended a movie called 'Terror of the Tongs' in a picture hall near Fielden Street in the East End of Glasgow during the 1960s. The first person to shout 'Tongs ya Bas' was 'Terror McCabe' who had been in attendance at the movie 'Terror of the Tongs , he also adopted the name 'Terror ' from the movie......... During the late 1970s ,early 1980s the prefix 'Real' was added to the 'Calton Tongs' title...as a sort of registered trademark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongland,_(Gang_Area)

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This area was mainly Protestant and they'd fight with the Calton, which was Catholic. If there's less gang fighting, the religious divide isn't as obvious."