Kilwinning
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
ONE of Britain’s top architecture and design critics has blasted Irvine as a “droopy port” which had its heyday hundreds of years ago.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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