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  • Parking suspensions in place for 'essential' road work

    PARKING suspensions will be in place on some roads in Neilston on Friday. Motorists are being warned to expect travel disruption in the village’s Main Street and Bank Street as “essential” utility works are carried out. There will also be temporary

  • Jimmy bid farewell to his loyal customers

    BARRHEAD’S first ever private hire taxi driver retired in 2009 after almost 30 years at the wheel. In the early 1980s when Jimmy Carr began taking his saloon car out to pick up fares, the roads were littered with black hackneys. But by 2009

  • Families frozen out as show is cancelled

    FAMILIES have been left disappointed after an animatronics show that was set to transport them back to the Ice Age was scrapped. Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom had been pencilled in for Rouken Glen Park, in Giffnock, from June 22 to July 14. The

  • Expect gloomy bank holiday, forecasters warn

    THIS weekend’s bank holiday weather is set to be an anti-climax for residents as forecasters predict summer storms. The Met Office has warned that sunshine and rain will hit East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire. And although Barrhead and Johnstone