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Rioting soccer casuals armed with bottles caused mayhem when up to 40 of them clashed in a busy Paisley town centre street.

A teenage mum yesterday told how she feared for her life when firebugs torched the front door of her flat and left her trapped inside.

Six people were quizzed by cops after a series of daylight drug raids on homes in a Paisley housing scheme.

Hundreds of angry parents and pupils have signed an online petition to protest against plans to axe school transport.
Mums and dads across Renfrewshire are up in arms about the council’s cost-cutting plans to stop the school bus for all secondary school pupil who live more than two miles from their school.

A nurse who attacked elderly women in a care home was yesterday branded “a disgrace to her profession”.

A hillwalker’s body has been found in the back of his van in a lay-by in Perthshire, police have said.

Kevan McDonald was only caught because his twin brother’s DNA was on the national police database.

A callous motorist who fled the scene of a horror accident leaving a pensioner lying dying on the road told witnesses: I have to go and pick up my bird.

A would-be assassin and his getaway driver were yesterday handed lengthy prison sentences for trying to murder a businessman.

TWO twinkle-toed dancers – one from Paisley and another from Renfrew – have waltzed their way into the national finals of a top television competition.