Tickets for Brick Wonders LEGO® exhibition at Paisley Museum on sale next week. Tickets for Brick Wonders, an exhibition of the ancient, modern and natural wonders of the world in LEGO, will go on sale from Monday 15 September at 9.15am. Tickets are priced at £4 (£3 conc) + booking fee*, family ticket at £12
Autumn 2014 tour for the Fringe First Award-winning astonishing true story. Macrobert and Utter present theatre show ‘Educating Ronnie’ Following rave reviews and a prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, macrobert and Utter’s Educating Ronnie embarks on a major Scottish tour this Autumn. Written and performed by Joe Douglas (Associate
Doors Open Days – First events take place tomorrow! Scotland’s annual festival of buildings opens up its very first doors tomorrow Saturday 6 September. Angus, Ayrshire, East Fife and St Andrews, Highlands: In and around Inverness, Moray: Lossiemouth, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders: Kelso and Stirling have hundreds of venues all waiting to welcome you in. There
Leisure bosses relax child swim rules. LEISURE bosses have relaxed the rules on how many children one adult can take into a swimming pool. Up until recently, every child under the age of five had to be accompanied by an adult. But now Renfrewshire Leisure - the management trust that runs sports and leisure centres
King Creosote, Roddy Hart and Dougie MacLean to play Paisley’s Spree festival. A host of big-name music and comedy acts are on their way to Paisley this October, as part of the annual Spree festival. The third edition of the Renfrewshire Council-run event – on between 10 and 18 October – will see the return
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
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
Popular Paisley road race on pace for personal best. Paisley’s popular 10k Road Race and Fun Run looks set to be bigger than ever this year as race organisers remain on pace for a record number of entries. The 2014 edition takes place on Sunday 31 August and more than 1,400 runners are already confirmed
Renfrewshire Council cuts CO2 emissions by almost 30%. Renfrewshire Council has been hailed as one of the greenest local authorities in the country after cutting its carbon footprint by almost 30 per cent. The council is one of only two in Scotland to meet an ambitious 25% target to reduce its CO2 emissions. A report