A daily newspaper has revisited one of its biggest stories of recent years by re-examining the impact of two major fires on its patch.

The Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art was badly damaged by fire ten years ago, then almost totally destroyed in a further blaze in 2018.

Although the School has put together a plan to restore the building and reopen it by 2030, little work has so far been done.

It made for an impactful front page for Glasgow daily The Herald which condemned what it called “two years of inertia” over the restoration project.

Deputy head of content Deborah Anderson said: “This year marks 10 years since the first Glasgow School of Art fire. As a title we felt the time was right to look back on both fires and re-examine the impact, the fall-out and also the emotional pull around the 2014 incident and subsequent 2018 fire.

“Through extensive interviews and weeks of investigations, we are delivering a powerful series that puts the question of rebuilding of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece library in focus.

“Our reporters, Martin Williams, Caroline Wilson, Catriona Stewart and Craig Williams have brought insight and analysis to this series. We are stimulating debate while people close to the institution ask to what’s next.”

The paper’s coverage follows an agenda-setting series in January looking at the crisis of depopulation in the Highlands and Islands, and a five-day “deep dive” into the alcohol industry in Scotland which generates billions for the country’s economy but has less positive implications for the nation’s health.