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Harbour Arts Centre set for Marymass comedy special

THIS month’s Sidesplitters’ Comedy Club is a Marymass special with Irvine comedian Billy Kirkwood sharing his own experiences of the town’s biggest event.Read

Marymass Folk Festival gets into full swing

THE Folk Festival season now being in full swing, it's time for the 43rd Marymass Folk Festival feast to begin.Read

New Yorker's Kilwinning trip is Hall in the name of Love

DOROTHY Love broke down as she spoke at a community centre in Kilwinning on Thursday.Read

Drop in superbug cases at Ayrshire Hospitals

AN MSP has praised hospitals in Ayrshire and Arran as the number of patients contracting killer superbugs has dropped significantly.Read

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IT’S official, I’m an advertising sponge.Read

Solution found for Glebe Primary bus crisis

AN IRVINE councillor has stepped in to help provide a school bus for pupils who attend Glebe Primary.Read

Volunteers to get training ahead of Kilwinning dig

VOLUNTEERS who are about to dig up the grounds of Kilwinning’s ancient Abbey will go through a training course on how to be an archaeologist this week.Read

Sprinklers save fire-hit Irvine factory

A SPRINKLER system saved an Irvine plastics factory from burning to the ground on Monday morning, a senior fire officer has revealed.Read

Irvine Herald hits the airwaves as Beat FM goes live

A TINY cupboard in Irvine’s Vineburgh Community Centre has been transformed into a radio station.Read

Generous Jodie gets the chop for cancer charity

LOVELY Jodie Armstrong is about to have 16 inches chopped off her blonde locks to help children with cancer.Read

Aerosol firm get green light for Simclar site

AN AEROSOL firm has been given the green light to take over the former Simclar factory in Irvine – ending a three-year hunt for an occupant and spelling jobs joy for the town.Read

Irvine restaurant through to curry final

THE Lawthorn Farm Indian Restaurant in Girdle Toll, Irvine, has won through to the regional finals of the prestigious Newby Teas Tiffin Cup contest.Read

TV soap imitates life at Irvine community centre

VOLUNTEERS at an Irvine community centre have renamed a hit BBC soap Vineburgh City because it mirrors exactly their daily goings-on.Read

Teenage firebugs burn Dreghorn house to the ground

YOBS as young as eight burned a half-built house to the ground at a Dreghorn building site on Saturday night.Read

Axe looms over Irvine schools as consultation begins

CONSULTATION on plans to close and amalgamate primary schools in Irvine will begin within weeks, education chiefs decided on Tuesday.Read

Outrage as residents private details appear on council website

BUNGLING council planners are posting private information about residents on the internet – making them sitting ducks for fraudsters.Read

Fullarton residents in talks to buy land for new community centre

AN IRVINE community association are in talks to buy land for a new purpose-built centre.Read

Top cop's fight to save police jobs

THE police will exhaust every avenue to make savings before they will slash the number of cops, an MP has been assured.Read

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Union calls for Kilwinning councillor to quit over absences

A TRADE union which called for the head of an Irvine councillor has rounded on one of his colleagues.Read

Hunt for pervert who tried to lure kids into van

POLICE are hunting a pervert who tried to entice two young boys into his van in Kilwinning on Saturday night.Read

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