HERE is what is making the headlines in this week's Barrhead News.
OUTRAGED police and council bosses have blasted mindless vandals for torching a children's playpark causing more than �20,000 worth of damage. Carlibar Park was targeted by fire raising louts early last Monday, (June 4) in an attack that has been labelled "outrageous" and "sickening" by police.
The blaze has reduced parts of the park - renovated just last summer at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds - to blackened lumps of molten plastic.
COMMUNITY groups have appealed for calm amid fears that a controversial march in the town could descend into violence. The Apprentice Boys of Derry will parade through Barrhead this Saturday (June 16), despite fears the event could cause spark trouble.
Some believe the fact the march coincides with the inaugural meeting of the new Barrhead branch of the group means could be a flash point.
VETERAN Neilston pipe major Iain MacDonald stole the show when the Olympic Torch came to town this week. It took one 62-year-old expert piper and a dazzling medley of immortal famous tunes to put the Olympic Flame's UK-wide tour firmly in one very local perspective - cheered on by scores of Barrhead and Neilston well-wishers in a crowd reckoned to be around 15,000 strong.
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