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The man behind Elderslie’s annual celebrations of their greatest son William Wallace has been fondly remembered after he passed away. Historian David Ross, 51, suffered a heart attack at his home earlier this month.

Families who have lost a loved one to suicide are to be given the chance of placing a poignant purple ribbon of remembrance on a special tree.

The heartbroken sister of a hero soldier who was stabbed to death has launched a campaign to tackle knife crime. Brave Kelly McGee is determined to make sure her brother Paul who was fatally wounded outside his family home in October last year did not die in vain.

Thousands of families across Renfrewshire will benefit from a council tax freeze – for the third year in a row. But council house tenants will be hit hard as their rent is to rise by 4.5 per cent – more than double the current 1.9 per cent rate of inflation – each year until 2015. [...]