Children in the future will get a glimpse of what life was like in 2020 after a time capsule was buried at a city landmark.

Pupils from Sighthill Primary Community Campus locked away the items that will be unearthed decades from now.

The pupils also helped as capsule buried in 1979 was dug up and then reburied with new updated items, many chosen or created by them, from the 21st century, added to it.

The time capsule has been replanted at the Sighthill stone circle which sits overlooking the city centre in front of the biggest regeneration site in the country at the moment.

The new capsule included jotters from primary two and primary five pupils a Minecraft book and paintings by the children.

A copy of yesterday’s Glasgow Times and an edition of The Herald from June this year, reporting on regeneration work at Sighthill, was also included.

When the first capsule was buried Sighthill was different with tower blocks housing thousands of families.

Now the area is being transformed in a £250m project, with hundreds of new houses already built and hundreds more under construction.

New roads, a school and community facilities have replaced the old buildings and work is being done to connect with the canal nearby and join up the area with the surrounding neighbourhoods in the north east and to to the city centre, including a new foot and cycle bridge over the M8.

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Helping the children from Sighthill Community Schools Campus were Duncan Lunan, a science writer who was part of the team behind the original stone circle site in the 1970s and Councillor Jacqueline McLaren, Chair of the Sighthill Local Delivery Group.

Mr Lunan said: “The time capsule is a message to the present as well as the future. It tells what we know about such structures in the ancient past, about astronomy and about Sighthill in the present day, and it reminds us that if it lasts as well as the ancient sites have, the circle will still be here in thousands of years from now.

Ms McLaren said: “The burial of this new time capsule marks another connection between Sighthill’s past and the present regeneration, so it’s fitting that local schoolchildren – the future of Sighthill - will be adding their own content. It was important that some of the children from the Sighthill Community Schools Campus got the opportunity to see the new time capsule being buried, creating a memory and allowing them to tell the story of a unique part of their history.”