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KILWINNING Big Brother favourite Mikey Hughes became the third Ayrshire representative in as many years this week. Now, the whole town is willing the 33-year-old to go on to win the coveted TV title.
Published: Wednesday, 11th June, 2008 11:00
A REPLACEMENT for the ailing Magnum Leisure Centre could cost £22 million if, as expected, the 30-year-old building is scrapped.
Published: Wednesday, 11th June, 2008 10:30
It's NOT a fair cop, says Mr Donohoe
IRVINE politician Brian Donohoe is being sued by an electrician over an unpaid bill for £64. Dale McNair wants the MP to pay up for advice he gave about the electrics at the politician’s Irvine home.
Published: Wednesday, 28th May, 2008 10:45
Lotto Luck for Kilwinning teen
YOUNG Kilwinning student Carli Smith won’t have to live on meagre rations in order to finish her studies after scooping a £25,000 jackpot. The 19-year-old from Brodick Avenue wasn’t the only winner in the Postcode Lottery this week, though, as 116 of her neighbours shared a £5,000 prize just for being in the same KA13 6RL postcode.
Published: Wednesday, 28th May, 2008 09:00
Karaoke benefit scammer feels the blues
A KARAOKE singer was feeling the blues after being jailed for a £17,000 sickness benefit fraud.
Published: Wednesday, 28th May, 2008 11:00
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
Kilwinning woman denies dangerous driving death
A KILWINNING woman has denied causing the death of a pedestrian through dangerous driving near James Watt College earlier this year.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April, 2008 10:00
EXCLUSIVE - IRVINE SCHOOLS SAVED
IN an astonishing meeting on Tuesday all of the Irvine schools threatened with closure were saved. Tense parents arrived at Cunninghame House to await the verdict of the future of Towerlands and John Galt Primary Schools, with Springside all but secured. Many had believed that John Galt would be the one school of the three to be doomed to closure. However, in an neck-and-neck vote the Vineburgh school was saved after Provost Bobby Rae made his casting vote count.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April, 2008 12:00
AN IRVINE man has admitted having sex with his aunt. However, the 52-year-old aunt has told the Times of her disgust at claims she had consented to incest with her 25-year-old nephew. Stephen Thomas Green, of Woodlands Avenue, admitted to having sex with Moira Compton at her home on February 19 last year. He pled guilty to the charge at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week and will be sentenced next month after background reports are looked at.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008 11:00
Council given a week to hand back wardens
SOCIAL SERVICES bosses will have one week to decide whether to reinstate the area’s sheltered housing wardens or face legal action after receiving a letter from top human rights lawyer Cameron Fyfe. Mr Fyfe sent the letter on behalf of one Springside resident to North Ayrshire Council last Wednesday officially asking them to reconsider their position and reinstate the service.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008 10:30
NAC deny Equal Pay delay tactics
COUNCIL bosses have denied that they have been sticking their heads in the sand over equal pay. Equal Pay campaigner Mark Irvine claims that North Ayrshire Council have been using delay tactics in order to stall the process. On his website he said that NAC have been given one last chance to provide information to an employment tribunal after failing to meet previous orders to hand over details which would back up their defence.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008 10:00
