Frightened shoppers took cover in doorways and cars swerved to avoid yobs as they ran on to the road.

Sources said bottles were thrown across the street as the rival St Mirren and Hamilton casuals faced up to each other and hurled abuse.

Last night police revealed they had arrested 15 people and 13 of them were expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court today accused of mobbing and rioting.

The daylight drama erupted around 4pm on Saturday in the towns busy Causeyside Street as the second half of the St Mirren v Hamilton clash had started at St Mirren Park.

A number of Hamilton casuals were spotted with mobiles walking up and down Causeyside Street between George Street and the bottom of New Street.

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Renfrewshire Council is confident that a new service will be in place on April 1, the day after Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) pulls the plug on the existing service.

The decision to scrap the crossing was justified by the need to make £2.5 million savings next year. Withdrawing the service saves £400,000.

While trials have taken place of possible alternatives it has always been assumed the ferry would cease sailing on March 31 and there would be no immediate replacement.

Leader of SNP-controlled Renfrewshire Council Derek Mackay said he was confident that the council would be able to ensure a service will be in place.

Full details have yet to be finalised, but talks with five commercial operators are under way with a view to finding a long-term solution. Council officials believe that two or three of the firms are in a position to run a service from April.

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Paisley was left shivering in arctic conditions yesterday as heavy snow fell and the big freeze gripped the town.

But Brian Caldwell, St Mirrens general manager, has revealed the undersoil heating system at the stadium in Greenhill Road has been on since Monday to keep the pitch nice and toasty.

And he is confident tomorrows game will go ahead as planned.

Caldwell met with officers from Strathclyde Police, as well as stewards, at a pre-match safety meeting yesterday to discuss their action plan for beating the big freeze.

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Women, children and even PETS have been attacked by thugs as young as 12 outside a row of shops in Clippens Road, Linwood.

Now residents are calling on the authorities to get tough on the troublemakers.

The Paisley Daily Express has already told how the neds went on the rampage at a butcher’s shop and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage in a matter of minutes.

Just days later, the gang returned to the shop and smashed a bottle over the head of the owner, William Muir.

Families claim that part of Linwood is now a ‘no-go’ area – even during the daytime.

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Nicole Lawson, 18, was horrified to see flames shooting through the letterbox and choking smoke engulfing the hallway of her home in Paisleys West End.

Her quick-thinking partner Stephen Calderwood, 24, came to the rescue by throwing buckets of water onto the flames.

Nicole, who has a three-year-old son, told the Paisley Daily Express: I was choking and I started to panic. It was terrifying.

Luckily, Stephen was visiting me at the time and he poured basins of water on the burning door. While that was happening, I phoned the fire brigade.

Stephen kept his cool and coped really well with what was happening. He wanted to keep the inside of the front door damp in the hope the flames wouldnt burn through the panels and his idea worked but, by that time, I was in a terrible state.

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Tobin, of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was jailed for life for murdering 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, who went missing in 1991 while hitch-hiking home to Essex.

Ian McNicol said Tobin’s former house in Margate, Kent, where his daughter’s body was found, should be demolished.

He said it should be replaced with a memorial garden.

Thanet District Council said that families needed the property and that it had consulted with police who had raised no objections.

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A 10-minute journey from Foxbar was taking up to an hour as traffic tailed back for miles.

While children jumped for joy as their schools closed for the day, motorists had to abandon cars trapped in up to eight inches of snow in places.

Eleven secondary and primary schools had shut their doors by lunchtime followed by a family centre and three nurseries.

And residents living close to the Spencer Drive area of Foxbar, were wakened by a loud explosion around 2am as heavy snow brought down a power cable and blacked out around 250 homes.

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The newly organised Paisley Bus Partnership (PBS) are making the claim in the wake of Renfrewshire Council’s decision to implement UK legislation five years early.

And they say that decision will affect people living in Glenburn, Foxbar, Ferguslie and other parts of Renfrewshire.

Acceptable European emissions standards must be implemented throughout the UK by 2015 but the PBS insist this is being forced upon them now.

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Danny, 21, was serving as an infantryman with the 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) in Afghanistan when he was wounded in a fierce fire fight with the deadly Taliban.

Read the interview at the Express

Yesterday, it was revealed that thousands of pounds worth of amphetamine and diazepam had been seized.

Officers swooped on homes in neighbouring streets at the town’s Ferguslie Park area.

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