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Paisley Rugby Football Club is based at Anchor Playing Fields in Ross Street, Paisley. The club runs two senior teams and youth teams from P1 up to under 18. Training takes place most week nights and weekends. Currently the club has 150 members, ranging from family, player, non-player and associate/social memberships. In 2013-14, PaisleyRFC 1XV
TWO GLASGOW AUTHORS SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND’S BIGGEST CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD. Scottish Book Trust is delighted to announce today, Thursday 28 August, that Glasgow-based children’s authors E.B. Colin and Ross Collins have been shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Children’s Book Awards, celebrating the most popular children’s and young adult books by Scottish authors or illustrators.  Run by Scottish
Doors Open Day Paisley 2014. The Annual Doors Open Day Paisley (Saturday 6th September) is nearly upon us and it makes for a fantastic day out with the family, when you can access buildings and places you would never normally be able to see inside. Doors Open Day in Paisley 2014 will be popular with
Salmon fishing a great catch for Renfrew residents. 38 Renfrew residents joined Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall in an historic trip down the Clyde to preserve the town’s fishing rights on the river. The guests were invited to watch as Renfrewshire’s civic leaders carried out the historic act of casting the nets to retain the rights
Renfrewshire begins primary schools catchment reviews. Renfrewshire Council is starting a series of catchment reviews for local primary schools and pre-five centres. The phased series of reviews is expected to take two years to complete and is linked to the council's agreed £32.5million investment in the primary and pre-five sector. That investment will include: an
Photograph of Paisley Town Hall at night courtesy of Ian McDonald Photography. [vc_actionbox type="primary" title="Click for website" message="" button1="GO" link1="https://www.facebook.com/imcdimaging" style1="primary" size1="" icon1="photo" button2="" link2="" style2="primary" size2="" icon2=""]
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Council leader urges firms to back the BID. Renfrewshire Council’s Leader is urging Paisley firms to get behind business-led plans to help revitalise the town centre. Plans are well advanced in the town to set up a Business Improvement District – which would see local firms work together on projects of mutual benefit. A BID
Renfrewshire shoppers face carrier bag charge in October. New Scottish Government regulations mean Renfrewshire shoppers will have to pay at least 5p for carrier bags from October. The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Scotland) Regulations have been introduced in a bid to cut climate change and reduce the number of carrier bags used by Scottish
Poverty Commission: ‘Unacceptable attainment gap must be closed’. The attainment gap between pupils from high and low income families in Scotland is not acceptable and must be closed – that was the clear message from the Renfrewshire Tackling Poverty Commission recently. The Commission met last week to focus on ‘education, skills and attainment’ with Professor