A YOB who caused mayhem in a hospital ward and hurled abuse at nurses trying to treat him has been spared jail.

Mark Revie dodged a prison term after a sheriff heard the former junkie had been on his best behaviour since he was arrested for threatening medical staff at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital.

The 33-year-old had gone on trial at Paisley Sheriff Court last year after he was charged with abusing nurses who were trying to treat him for a head injury sustained in a serious a...

BOXING Buddie Gary Adam is taking on his most deadly opponent ever in his latest fight . . .by squaring up to ruthless Taliban warriors.

The 23-year-old soldier is in the Afghan warzone on his second tour of the crisis-hit country.

The Gallowhill lad is a corporal with the Argyll and Sutherland highlanders but for the last few years he has been winning praise for his punches rather than his soldiering skills.

Ranked as one of the Army’s up-and-coming boxing talents, the lightweight scr...

POLICE were yesterday investigating five vicious attacks which took place in the Paisley area within hours of the New Year Bells ringing in the start of 2011.

It is thought that all of the incidents, which are being treated as serious assaults, were drink-related.

Four attacks took place in Paisley and the other happened in Renfrew. Police are not linking any of them.

The first assault took place at around 3am on Saturday, January 1, when a 24-year-old man suffered injuries to his face fo...

A FORMER soldier who attacked his long-suffering wife with a chair after she forget to leave him a slice of PIZZA has been ordered to undergo anger management after admitting the offence in court.

Paisley Sheriff Court heard that Robert Jackson grabbed his wife Harriet by the throat but, as she put her hands up to defend herself, she accidentally hit his nose, causing it to bleed.

His terrified victim then fled to a bedroom but Jackson chased after her, picked up a chair and struck her...

A FATHER and son combo have set up Paisley’s first ‘Ghostbusters’ HQ.

Door steward Andrew Park, 30, and his dad David, 56, head up the Paisley Paranormal Investigation Team (PPIT) and have opened an office in Causeyside Street.

The full-time base will allow them to plan spooky stake-outs and investigate some of the country’s most haunted buildings – just like the heroes from the 1984 Ghostbusters film.

And David revealed Buddies are proving they ain’t afraid of no ghost.

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Steven Smith

TEARS flowed yesterday for gentle giant Steven Smith who died outside a town centre nightclub in the early hours of Boxing Day.

The 18-year-old whose pals described him as a “gem of a man” was discovered yards from Fury’s in Shuttle Street, Paisley, just before 1am shortly after a row with stewards.

His death is the second tragedy to hit the Smith family in four years – Steven’s older brother Darren, 20, died when he got caught up in a fight in a Gallowhill flat.

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