Kilwinning
Council feels the crunch as £25m axe falls 
THE CREDIT crunch bit hard in Norh Ayrshire this week as it emerged council chiefs have been forced to scrap half of their building programme.
The "rephasing" of £25m worth of capital plans includes postponing £1m of funding for the renovation of Irvine's Town House, £6.334m for the devlopment of Montgomerie Park, the £200,000 extension of Knadgerhill Cemetery and £1.3m for regeneration projects across the area.
Bookie worker placed her bets AFTER the race
A KILWINNING bookie scammed almost £2,000 by placing bets after she knew the winners. Michelle Hughs, of Ninian's Terrace, had been working at Coral bookmakers in Dalry as assistant manger for around six months when she was caught embezzling £1, 937.20 in December.
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Secret archive to pay Service to poet
A WORLD-FAMOUS poet who penned the most expensive verse in history and starred in Hollywood alongside John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich is to be commemorated with a plaque - on the Kilwinning building where he was brought up.
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A 13-YEAR-OLD boy wielding a fake gun put a grandmother and members of her family through a nightmare ordeal at an Irvine community centre.
'Destroy brute who mauled Toby'
A KILWINNING woman said she was shocked when no-one was charged after her small dog was attacked and killed by a large bulldog.
A BLIND pensioner from Irvine has hit-out after a Subway store in Kilmarnock refused to let her in.
A PREGNANT woman and her boyfriend originally from Irvine were sent to the cells for kissing in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.
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