We delved into the Gazette archives from Wednesday, December 4, 2013, to seek out and share some photographs from that week’s version of the paper.
Do you recognise anybody or keep in mind these tales?
1. Real cops performed the a part of cops in a movie drama made by young folks in care. The biopic, known as Please Listen, was about rising up in care and the frustrations young folks expertise being moved from one residential home to a different. It was written and filmed by youngsters from Renfrewshire’s Kibble Education and Care Centre and was considered one of a number of productions accomplished following the launch of KTV (Kibble Television).
2. A proficient schoolgirl sprinkled some festive pleasure throughout TV screens in Renfrewshire. Seven-year-old Emma Kearney, of Renfrew, bagged a task in a tv advert for grocery store Aldi. Emma Kearney, together with five-year-olds Layla Hamilton and Hollie Lyons, mentioned their love of the shop’s chocolate reindeer within the advert.
3. A much-loved moggy returned home to his household — years after he disappeared. Mischievous Murphy, a 10-year-old black cat from Johnstone, had been holidaying along with his household within the Lochgoilhead space again in 2009 when he escaped from his cat service. In 2013 his astonished household celebrated an emotional reunion as he turned up on the similar vacation park, three and a half years after going lacking.
4. Children at Linwood Community Nursery had been a part of a nationwide marketing campaign for Road Safety Week. Beep Beep! Day was an initiative by the charity Brake and Churchill Car Insurance involving nurseries, colleges and playgroups selling street security to folks and native folks, and interesting tots by enjoyable actions.
5. Big-hearted pupils from Lochwinnoch Primary put their wheels in movement to vary the lifetime of a mum who needed to have her fingers and legs amputated. More than 350 college and nursery youngsters ventured out on a sponsored cycle occasion in support of former pupil Corinne Hutton’s Finding Your Feet fund. The caring youngsters jumped to tackle the wheelathon journey after listening to a few £250,000 fundraising drive launched by Corinne’s family and friends.
6. Johnstone residents flocked to the city’s Houston sq. in droves to kick off 2013’s Christmas celebrations. Hundreds of individuals descended in town centre for a day of festive enjoyable — main as much as the Christmas Light Switch-on. Boyband Rewind wowed the group on the fashionable annual occasion, earlier than teaming up with Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall to get Johnstone glowing for Christmas.
