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It's Barcelona or bust - in our £200 banger!
An ADVENTUROUS Kilwinning roadster is driving a three-day rally over the French Alps and Riviera - in a car that cost under £200. Brian Lambert, 26, is hitting the road with three chums to take part in this year’s Barcelona Bangers Rally, where cars must be scrapheap-ready to compete.
Published: Wednesday, 21st May, 2008 09:30
THERE was double dose of deer drama in Irvine and Kilwinning on Monday morning as emergency crews and animal rescue came to the aid of not one but two trapped fawns.
Published: Wednesday, 21st May, 2008 10:00
CHILD ABUSE ACCUSED'S CELL SUICIDE
A PRISONER accused of child sex abuse hanged himself with cable given to him by staff, a court heard this week. Stewart McBlain, 67, was on voluntary “double protection” and only left his cell when other inmates at Kilmarnock Prison were locked up in theirs. Two days after being remanded in custody he was found hanged with a ligature made from shoe laces and cable supplied for his TV aerial.
Published: Wednesday, 21st May, 2008 11:00
A SICK gang of five youths horrendously attacked a vulnerable young man with learning difficulties as he waited alone for a taxi and put him in hospital, say police. Now officers are hunting the teenage thugs who surrounded and battered the lad outside Irvine train station in the broad daylight - and they say there must be witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 11:00
'Impotent' Irvine man's relationship with internet teen
A TEENAGER posted her photo on an internet website and found herself bombarded with sex invitations from older men - including an Irvine man, a court heard.
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 09:30
A SICK gang of five youths horrendously attacked a vulnerable young man with learning difficulties as he waited alone for a taxi and put him in hospital, say police. Now officers are hunting the teenage thugs who surrounded and battered the lad outside Irvine train station in the broad daylight - and they say there must be witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 09:00
I WAS NOT INDECENT WITH THAT CAR
A TEENAGER from Kilwinning has been charged with trying to have sex with a car.
Published: Wednesday, 14th May, 2008 10:00
SYMPATHETIC skaters in Irvine are being called upon to raise charity cash - by joining a record-breaking conga line! And organisers at Evolution Skate Park need to get over 280 in-line skaters involved to roll their their way into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Published: Wednesday, 7th May, 2008 11:00
THE LEADER of the council shocked the room when he openly claimed the man who chairs council meetings is “not impartial.” Labour’s David O’Niell made the slur in the middle of a heated row that erupted when a member of his party tried to buck accepted conventions of democracy by questioning the opposition.
Published: Wednesday, 7th May, 2008 11:30
COUNCIL chiefs are hunting missing descendants of a local landowner who may be entitled to thousands of pounds - could it be you? So far, they have been unable to trace relatives of a landowner who died in 1931 leaving behind the titles to his property. But now the council needs to buy the land if it is to allow its tenants to buy houses which are built there.
Published: Wednesday, 7th May, 2008 12:00
A SHIVERING Irvine teen and members of his Boys’ Brigade were airlifted to safety when their hill-walking holiday turned near-disaster. 18-year-old Jonathan Aitken was rescued by helicopter when he began shuddering with cold and could not heat up - despite piling on extra layers of clothes.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April, 2008 11:45
ONE of Britain’s top architecture and design critics has blasted Irvine as a “droopy port” which had its heyday hundreds of years ago.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April, 2008 12:00
