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Paolo Nutini is to play at Paisley Town hall, but it may not be easy to get a ticket. You can apply for tickets here for the BBC Radio 2 show on the BBC Shows website. Here is part of a story from yesterdays Paisley Express: Thousands of Buddies will be hoping to snap up [...]

Supermarket giant Tesco has been given approval to exhume 19th Century human remains found in Linwood — leaving the site ready for development. A judge granted Tesco an order allowing the firm to open a burial vault at the former parish church and remove the corpses, which would then be cremated and reintered. The bodies [...]

A popular Indian restaurant and take-away could face a hefty fine after immigration police swooped on the building. Officers from the UK Border Agency stormed the Ajuba on Friday afternoon — arresting two men aged 25 and 34.

Paton’s Mill in the town is on fire again, this time there is no going back as the roof and walls have already came down and this evening is just a smoking shell with 70  firefighters working on putting the fire out all afternoon. I work in Elderslie and most of the afternoon all you heard [...]

A Paisley man who has been caught up in the civil unrest which has brought death to the streets of Bangkok has told how he has been shocked to see the city he loves going up in flames.

Fears were growing last night that the body of a man found in a Glasgow park is that of a 24-year-old missing Renfrewshire man.

A petition has been created online in an attempt to stop the clouser of the West Johnstone Youth Service (or Drop in Centre as it is known locally). The Drop in Centre is home to the Johnstone Groupwork Service and is situated in the heart of the Howwood Road community where it has been for almost [...]

Bus service highlights Buses at least every 10 minutes to Paisley and Glasgow on service 36, Monday to Saturday daytimes, and every 30 minutes during the evening on services 36/36E Additionally buses every 20 minutes to Paisley on service 17, Monday to Saturday daytimes Buses from North Road to Johnstone Centre every 20 minutes on new services [...]

Bus users in Renfrewshire will wake to an updated bus service from Monday 10th May 2010. The Arriva Scotland West number 39 to Spateston will be  axed and withdrawn from service as well as the number 18 and 1.

A man was fighting for life yesterday after he was brutally attacked in a Paisley housing scheme.