Author: gryffe

Volunteers praised as hundreds turn out for winter clean ups

By gryffe

In March 2020

On 10 March 2020

Cllr Cathy McEwan Volunteers are being praised after more than 70 Team Up to Clean Up litter picks took place across the winter period in Renfrewshire. The award-winning campaign saw 278 volunteers take part from October to January with more than 300 bags of rubbish...

March 2020

Budget for Renfrewshire builds on long-term commitments

By gryffe

On 10 March 2020

A budget building on long-term commitments and investing in Renfrewshire communities has been agreed by councillors today (Monday 9 March 2020). The £440million budget includes a new fund to help.

March 2020

Lochwinnoch Arts Festival

By gryffe

On 26 February 2020

Morag Thow, Co-Founder Image credit Di Finn I caught up with Morag to ask her about the festival, how it started, her favourite moments and other village projects. The Lochwinnoch.

An Interview with Christine Bovill

By gryffe

In March 2020

On 26 February 2020

Christine answers the phone with a wonderfully husky voice. One that would not be out of place, you’d imagine, in the jazz music halls of 1920s Paris. An era to which she is inexorably drawn… Her show ‘Christine Bovill’s Piaf’ garnered a swathe of five...

March 2020

This Month – March 2020

By gryffe

On 26 February 2020

This month, we catch up with Christine Bovill whose show ‘Christine Bovill’s Piaf’ garnered a swathe of five star reviews. In 2017 she picked up ‘The Spirit of the Fringe.

February 2020

This Month – February 2020

By gryffe

On 29 January 2020

I am certainly feeling my age this month. It was 25 years ago in February 1995 that I first started publishing The Advertizer, then just a black and white four.

Paisley’s textile heritage gets major boost with £3.8million National Lottery funding

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In February 2020 , January 2020

On 23 January 2020

Our Museum re-imagined L-R: Jules O’Brien (Kairos volunteer) Cllr Lisa Marie Hughes, Victoria Hollows (Chief Executive, Renfrewshire Leisure); Katy Wilson-Scott (Kairos Manager); Cath Gibson (Kairos volunteer), Martyn Wade Kairos Women’s Space are working with Paisley Museum to ensure that the museum is inclusive and recognises...

February 2020 , January 2020

Innovative Renfrewshire ‘retrofit’ housing project could slash heating bills by 90%

By gryffe

On 23 January 2020

An innovative housing project in Renfrewshire will help to tackle climate change and could slash tenant’s annual heating bills to £150. Renfrewshire Council’s housing investment team has been given the.

February 2020 , January 2020

First images revealed of new Paisley High Street Learning and Cultural Hub

By gryffe

On 23 January 2020

Interior Reception The first images showing how a vacant former retail unit at the heart of Paisley’s High Street will be turned into a 21st-century community facility housing library services.

This Month – January 2020

By gryffe

In January 2020

On 14 January 2020

Santa and his elves were very busy doing the rounds of the Santa Sleigh before Christmas. The weather went against them in the first week, but they soldiered on through the wind and rain with only one rescheduled event. Then one wee boy in Quarriers...

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