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People who have space in their lives and hearts to offer a child a loving home are being urged to come along to an event with Renfrewshire Council’s foster care team. The in-person drop-in event will be held on Wednesday 17 May between 10am and 12midday at Finding Your Feet Charity Hub on St James’ Street, Paisley. Foster carers and the foster care team will be there to give out […]

CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline for all submissions 31 May 2023 Open to any artist, working in any medium, free to submit up to 6 works. The Big Art Show, Paisley is one of Scotland’s largest open entry art exhibitions. Launched in 2022 it featured nearly 1000 artworks from all over the UK as well as artwork from Europe & Asia.  Work accepted includes painting, drawing, photography, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, installation […]

Paisley is getting ready for the return of its popular Food and Drink Festival with the two-day extravaganza set to take place next week. The event, which is one of Scotland’s largest outdoor food and drink festivals, takes place in the stunning backdrop of the town’s iconic Abbey on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 April. Visitors can enjoy a tasty line-up with more than 35 street food traders, artisan makers […]

Scotland’s Callum Hawkins has urged runners to get on their marks as entries open for this year’s Paisley 10k. The event, which takes place on Sunday, 20th August 2023, includes a 10k road race, as well as a fun run for adults and children it also attracts experienced club and international athletes. Callum is a double Olympics marathon runner having competed in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil and in Japan in 2021. […]

Linwood event on 18 April will prepare Renfrewshire companies to bid for public sector contracts Renfrewshire Council targeting increasing the 20% share spent on local companies, charities and social enterprises From construction materials to ICT equipment, social care services, caterers and translators, contracts big and small are available A business event in Linwood this week will give Renfrewshire companies all the top tips towards securing a public sector contract. First […]

The proposed cycle route on Causeyside Street looks on the top of it a nice simple scheme, but when you look further into the problems the public and local businesses are going to come up against, it's quite severe, and could result in businesses closing or re-evaluating their position in the town. Paisley First have started a petition that everyone should sign and they give decent arguments and an alternative […]

The largest Superdrug store in Scotland opened in Braehead shopping centre on Friday 24th March. Now shoppers have even more health and beauty products and services to choose from at the new 11,00 square feet store after Superdrug expanded into a new and larger unit from their previous shop in the centre. And the new store in the lower mall at Braehead has created ten new jobs. The bigger Superdrug […]

A group of Sight Scotland Veterans have made a commemorative bench to say thank you to the Hawkhead Bowling Club. The commemorative bench was gifted to representatives from the bowling club during a presentation at Sight Scotland Veterans’ Hawkhead Centre on Tuesday 21 March 2023. The veterans at the Hawkhead Centre have enjoyed bowling since the centre opened in 2017, and pre-covid they would visit the Bowling Club regularly and […]