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  • Music venue and solicitors’ haunt goes on the market

    A well-established and popular Ayr bar is up for sale. Wellingtons Bar, which has been under the same ownership for 28 years, is on the market as owner Nan O’Brien now wishes to retire. Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has been instructed to market

  • Helping hand now saving hundreds from homelessness

    Ayr residents have spoke out about their dire straights and poverty before a local housing aid centre turned their lives around. Ayr Housing Aid has acted as a place of refuge for over 30 years and offers free independent housing information, advice

  • New look Ballantrae Primary School rises from the ashes

    It was an evening of celebration as children, parents, and the local community came together for the official opening of the newly modernised and extended Ballantrae Primary School and Early Years Centre. Some £1.9 million was spent on the project

  • BREAKING: Ayr high flats are to be demolished

    High rise council flats in Ayr will be demolished and 90 homes built in their place, councillors decided today. Tenants from the three Riverside Place blocks will be rehoused in new builds or existing council houses, a full South Ayrshire Council

  • Jockey trots off with car after auction

    LEADING jockey Nico De Boinville was a big winner at the 2019 Coral Scottish Grand National Festival at Ayr Racecourse when he successfully bid for a stunning MG Midget. And Ayrshire Cancer Support’s #Home4Cancer fundraising drive to create a new

  • Police seize £180,000 worth of cannabis

    POLICE have seized £180,000 worth of cannabis in Ayr. Officers executed a warrant at an address on High Street yesterday and a 36-year-old man was arrested and charged in conenction with drug offences. The arrest was made after the controlled

  • Man threatened to kill woman after she had found tablets

    A MAN threatened to murder his ex-partner and stick holes in her after a row over tablets found in his wallet. Christopher McCreadie, 39, of Arranview Court in Ayr was back in touch with the woman after over three years apart. She was only helping

  • Man in alleged possession of Class A drugs in Ayr

    A MAN has been reported for alleged possession of Class A drugs on Friday, June 21. The 47-year-old was seen acting suspiciously in Macadam Square in Ayr at around 2pm in the afternoon. Police were pro-actively patrolling the area before they stopped