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Renfrewshire will rise to the Fairtrade Bake Off challenge

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Renfrewshire residents are being urged to don their aprons and get baking for Fairtrade Fortnight. Renfrewshire’s Fairtrade Bake Off, which takes place on Saturday 28 February at 1.30pm, aims to encourage residents to seek out Fairtrade ingredients to use in the competition. Entrants need to sign up by Friday 20 February to take part and
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Monte Carlo Rally Organisers Expect 10 000 Crowd for Paisley Start

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Monte Carlo Rally Organisers Expect 10 000 Crowd for Paisley Start Over 10 000 spectators are expected to throng the streets of Paisley tonight (wed) to wave off competitors at the start of the 104th Monte Carlo Classic Rally. Seventy eclectic classics from the glamorous age of motoring will cross the start ramp at Paisley
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Excitement building ahead of Monte Carlo Classic Rally return

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Excitement is building as one of world motorsport’s most glamorous events returns to Paisley this week – and a group of schoolkids got a special preview of what to expect. Magnificent machines from through the decades will descend on the town centre on Wednesday for the only UK start leg of the Monte Carlo Classic
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Renfrewshire residents gather to remember suicide victims

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Bereaved relatives and friends who have lost loved ones to suicide gathered in Paisley for a special service on Tuesday 20 January. The memorial service has become an established event where people can find support and take the time to remember loved ones. The event is organised by the local support group of Survivors of
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Deadline approaches for Provost’s Awards nominations

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Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall is urging people to get their nominations in for a leading awards scheme before the deadline of Saturday 31 January. The Provost’s Community Awards honour those who devote their time to helping others in the Renfrewshire community or who are an inspiration to others. Anyone who lives or works in Renfrewshire
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Praise for Kibble’s Oskar re-cycling work

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THE work of a re-cycling organisation has been praised after it held an open day at its Paisley showroom. More than 100 people from community groups, businesses and the public visited Oskar’s, which is part of the KibbleWorks group of businesses providing jobs and employment training to young people. The organisation collects, refurbishes and sells
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CONTACT THE ELDERLY IN SCOTLAND ENJOYS BUSIEST YEAR

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A charity which relieves social isolation for older people has enjoyed its busiest year to date. Contact the Elderly has 85 groups throughout Scotland, 2 in Paisley, which support 764 people aged 75 and over through its network of 1,035 volunteers. Each group holds monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties in volunteer hosts’ homes with assigned
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Suicide victims remembered in annual memorial service

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Family and friends of those who have lost their lives to suicide in Renfrewshire have been invited to a special service of remembrance. The ceremony will take place on Tuesday 20 January outside Renfrewshire Council’s headquarters in Cotton Street, Paisley, where there is a memorial tree for victims of suicide. The event is being organised
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Solar boost for Renfrewshire as energy project heats up

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A project that will save more than £24,000 and cut up to 48 tonnes of CO2 emissions every year is being rolled out in Renfrewshire as part of a council drive to be greener and more efficient. The first phase of Renfrewshire Council’s solar panel project is now complete at five schools and is moving
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Community safety boost as warden patrol hours extended

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Renfrewshire residents received some welcome community safety news this week as Renfrewshire Council improved the operating hours of some services. Longer summer operating hours for Renfrewshire Wardens, the extension of noise enforcement services until 4am at weekends and more weekend cover for youth services have all been confirmed. Summer operating hours have been extended to
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Nominations begin to pour in for the Provost’s Community Awards

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People who live or work in Renfrewshire have begun to nominate those special people in our communities for a Provost’s Community Award. The awards, which opened to nominations on Monday 27 October, are a chance to recognise those people who devote much of their time to others for little or nothing in return. Taking the
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Council set to put trust in future of cultural services

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New plans for the management of Renfrewshire’s libraries, museums and town halls will ‘promote greater investment, increase community participation in decision-making, and support economic regeneration’ according to a new report. A meeting of Renfrewshire Council on Thursday December 18 will consider a proposal that the existing Renfrewshire Leisure trust should take over the running of