Gallowhill-Paisley

CARING kids and coaches from a youth football club teamed up with a group of Rotarians to kick litter into touch.

Around 20 lads and two coaches from Renfrew Victoria Boys Club were joined by members of The Rotary Club of Renfrew, as well as Renfrew South and Gallowhill councillor Cathy McEwan, as they rolled up their sleeves to stage a clean-up of land near high-rise flats in Paisley.

The litter pick-up was organised by Rotarian Peter O’Keefe – who owns two McDonald’s franchises at Braeh...

TEARS and tributes flowed at a Paisley church yesterday as hundreds of mourners said their final farewell to tragic teenager Steven Smith.

The young football fan's life was cut short in the early hours of Boxing Day last year when he died following an altercation with security staff as he tried to enter Fury's nightclub in Paisley town centre.

For five long months, his loved ones were unable to lay him to rest as a police investigation into the incident took place.

However, the family of 18-year...

TENANTS in two blocks of Paisley flats are to be asked if they want their balconies enclosed as part of a £2million refurbishment.

Families living in Gallowhill Court and Glencairn Court will have the balconies sealed off with glass if Renfrewshire Council approve proposals for overcladding.

The flats will also receive new kitchens and bathrooms – and will be rewired.

In addition, Glencairn Court will have its own area in which tenants can meet and mix.

The improvements scheme is extra work wh...

A PENSIONER has died after she was seriously injured in a horror accident in the car park at a popular garden centre.

Margaret Byres, 80, was rushed to hospital after she crashed her car into a tree outside the Dobbies Garden Centre, in Hawkhead Road, Paisley.

She suffered a serious leg injury and underwent surgery at the town’s Royal Alexandra Hospital but her condition deteriorated and she lost her fight for life.

In a double tragedy, police confirmed last night that a Paisley man who was se...

FIVE bouncers – one of them a woman – have been questioned in connection with the alleged murder of a tragic Paisley teenager.

Steven Smith, 18, died in the early hours of Boxing Day last year following an altercation with security staff as he tried to enter Fury Murrys nightclub in Shuttle Street, Paisley.

Cops immediately said they were treating the death as “suspicious” and appealed for information on where Steven had been before arriving at the club.

Detectives and medical experts ha...

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...