Irvine
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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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.
A CHANGE in EU laws for ice rinks could sound the death knell for the troubled Magnum centre. Environmental regulations will force ice rinks to stop using the refrigerant R22 - a freezing gas used at the Magnum - and the cost could cripple the ailing venue.
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.
YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE - BUT YOU BLEW IT
COUNCILLORS were blasted as a “disgrace” by onlookers as they dismissed a last chance to reconsider the controversial decision to scrap sheltered housing wardens. Council Chambers were packed to the gunnels last Wednesday as SNP Group Leader Alan Hill put forward a motion calling on the council to re-open the plan for discussion. However, those who had backed the decision at last month’s budget meeting stuck to their position, voting 15-13 in favour of not re-examining the issue - sparking shouts of “disgrace” and “shame” from watching sheltered housing residents.
A BRAVE Kilwinning wife has donated more than half of her liver to her husband in Scotland’s first ever live liver transplant.
A KILWINNING dad has hit out at an Irvine Shopping Centre after his daughter was left in agony following an incident on a mall escalator. However, bosses at the Rivergate Shopping Centre have responsibility, placing the blame firmly on four-year-old Jamie-Leigh Kirkham's father.
Laptops Rot As Wardens Chopped
CASH strapped council bosses have been slammed by a local politician after admitting to spending over £100,000 on hi-tech computers which have been left in a warehouse untouched for over a year. North Ayrshire Council bought 50 Toughbook laptops - designed to operate in harsh conditions - for workers employed out in the field. However, since they were purchased towards the end on 2006 they have sat in a warehouse in Stevenston, with only a few set to be used in the coming weeks.
Beast drove our kids to school
A SCHOOL bus driver found with a vile stash of sickening child porn confessed that he enjoyed watching torture videos, a court heard.
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