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- Tea Party Raises £2,789 to Support the Warrior PrincessOn 20th April the Bridge of Weir and Houston community came together to support Grace-Louse the Warrior Princess and raised a huge £2,789.31 for specialist therapies and equipment. Grace-Louise Darroch is 4 years old. She suffers from an unusual genetic condition called CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder affecting 1 in 60,000 people.… Read more: Tea Party Raises £2,789 to Support the Warrior Princess
- Local History: The Renfrew Ferry
A ferry between Renfrew and Glasgow has operated from ‘Ferry Green’ in Renfrew for over 200 years. - Not All Heroes Wear Capes… (some of them wear gardening gloves!)
Gangs of green fingered ladies and gents are silently, tirelessly and often without much in the way of recognition, brightening our villages with colourful displays of spring flowers. We thought it was time to give some credit to these galloping gardeners… - Woodland Creation at The Knapps, Kilmacolm
The Knapps, a well-used area of countryside in Kilmacolm, is to be given a new green lung through a woodland creation project over about 16 hectares by Milton Farm Partnership. - The Lee Jeans Factory Sit-In
From February to August 1981, the textile workers at the Lee Jeans Factory in Greenock staged a ‘Sit-In’ to defy management intentions to close the plant. Led by shop steward Helen Monaghan, this dispute was to go down in history as one of greatest worker rebellions ever staged in the… Read more: The Lee Jeans Factory Sit-In
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