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THE MYSTERY heir to a piece of land could be entitled to a sum of council cash – if only they could find them.
Now council chiefs set to take the built up Kilwinning area cannot pay out for it because they can’t trace descendants of the owner who died in 1911.
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.
ONE of Britain’s top architecture and design critics has blasted Irvine as a “droopy port” which had its heyday hundreds of years ago.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
AN Irvine man who contracted MRSA said he was left in agony for six weeks by doctors - wondering if his leg would have to be cut off. Robert Reid, 56, eventually had to have a large chunk of his thigh removed in an operation to stop the superbug.
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.
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.
THE HORRIFIED parents of gang-fighting teens have been visited as part of a police crackdown on youth disorder. And large numbers of officers on bikes and foot patrols have helped officers gleam information about the gang culture in Kilwinning. Now police say the problem of gang fighting in the area has been almost eliminated. And their new-found knowledge means they are ready to stop any new trouble before it escalates. As one officer said: “If it kicks off again we know where to go.”
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