THE George Square Christmas market has been cancelled.

Market Place Europe, which has previously run the operation, confirmed it had pulled the plug on the plans after experiencing access difficulties to the site.

The upcoming COP26 summit is reported to have thrown a spanner in the works after it was claimed Glasgow Life, who handles the festive events on behalf of Glasgow City Council, was unable to guarantee when organisers would be able to begin setting up for the beloved event.

A spokesperson for the company said: "It's 100 per cent been cancelled. The reason is following COP26 the council couldn't guarantee the accessibility to George Square because they don't know how many people will be staying behind.

"There could be activities going on that we don't know about and we need to have 100 per cent access to the site."

It's understood the decision to scrap the market was mutual between city officials and organisers.

The St Enoch market is still set to go ahead from November 21 to December 23.

Organisers now only have the St Enoch market event listed on their website.

Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter:

The George Square event is not listed

Markets at the square had been planned to run from November 25 to New Year's Eve.

This is the second year the events have been scrapped after last year's festivities had to be halted due to strict coronavirus measures.

It is not yet known what "activities" in George Square could cause problems for accessing the site.