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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
COUNCIL bosses are being taken to court AGAIN after banning a contractor from a tendering process. Lightways Contractors Ltd, who are already sueing the council for thousands of pounds worth of damages over a previous tendering process, have now taken North Ayrshire Council to the Court of Session.
Published: Wednesday, 16th April, 2008 09:00
"Devastating" Glaxo job losses
THE LATEST in a long line of hammerblows to the local economy was announced last week with pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline set to shed half of its workforce. A total of 270 jobs are likely to go over the next three years after the company revealed its plans to workers.
Published: Wednesday, 9th April, 2008 11:00
School bus pervert is locked up
A VILE school bus driver caught with sick child porn has been locked up for almost three-and-a-half years. Twisted Robert Legget, formerly of Dornoch Court, had amassed over 51,000 pictures and videos of child abuse on computers and discs, some described as “the grossest type imaginable” by a judge at the High Court in Edinburgh last week.
Published: Wednesday, 9th April, 2008 12:00
A PROMISE by council bosses to have everything in place before the warden service was taken away has been shattered. A North Ayrshire Council claim that the replacement system for the service would be in place by April 1 was this week changed, with the council telling us that the system would only begin to be implemented on that date.
Published: Friday, 4th April, 2008 12:00
IRVINE could be the new Las Vegas as pub landlords are being pestered by representatives from national poker leagues - and the odds are that that council won't object. Publicans and politicians meeting at the area's licensing forum heard how organisers of gambling events - including the Nuts Poker League from TV's Dragons Den - had been approaching premises in the area.
Published: Wednesday, 26th March, 2008 14:00
RESIDENTS of Sheltered Housing Units should have been grateful to have had wardens in their units as the job could have been done over the phone. That was the message which appears to have been given to elderly residents by North Ayrshire Council.
Published: Wednesday, 26th March, 2008 12:00
DESPITE assertions from the council that the wardens service would be scrapped on April 1 many wardens will remain in employment until the middle of June. While the decision to scrap the service was taken at the beginning of February, Social Services bosses only issued notice of termination dates at the weekend, with a notice period of 12 weeks for the longest serving wardens taking them up to the 9th June.
Published: Wednesday, 19th March, 2008 13:00
A VETERAN of the Dunkirk landings in WWII has blasted care bosses over the warden cuts he believes could be the end of him and others. War hero Lewis Belshaw told the Times about his anger at councillors he claims have betrayed him and other residents of sheltered housing. The 87-year-old, who lost his wife of 66 years just two years ago, said the loneliness caused by the loss of the wardens could have devastating effects on the elderly community. However, the Times can reveal that, while the Wardens Service will go on April 1, many wardens will be asked to keep working until the summer.
Published: Wednesday, 19th March, 2008 14:00
A BRAVE Kilwinning wife has donated more than half of her liver to her husband in Scotland’s first ever live liver transplant.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March, 2008 12:00
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