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  • Charity donates £500 to teen karate champ Aria

    Marion’s Still Smiling donated £500 to help a Saltcoats karate champion reach a world championship. Kirstin Callaghan and Maureen Ritchie Callaghan presented Aria Pascual with a cheque to help her on her way to the World Karate Federation Under

  • Families enjoy another excellent Whitlees Gala

    A Celtic Youth football player kicked off events at this year’s Ardrossan Whitlees Gala. Liam Morrison cut the red ribbon to open the parade at Ardrossan’s annual fete on Sunday, June 23. Following the colourful procession with its spectacular

  • Afton Court hostel rumours quashed by council bosses

    RUMOURS that North Ayrshire Council were planning to move the the hostel currently in Saltcoats town centre to an empty site in Stevenston have been dismissed as ‘unfounded speculation’. And in answering the claims, they have revealed that there

  • Man admits stealing two drills from Ardrossan flat

    A MAN has admitted to stealing two drills. Steven Cherry, of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, pled guilty to stealing the drills, as well as a pair of trainers and a washer spray from an address in Nursery Place. The 36-year-old was made subject

  • Woman admits stealing a turtle in Ardrossan

    A WOMAN has admitted breaking into a flat and stealing a turtle. Samantha Tracey Nicholson pled guilty to breaking in to a flat in Winton Place in Ardrossan on July 5 last year. The 24-year-old appeared at at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week

  • Police looking in to fire at derelict building in Saltcoats

    POLICE confirmed this morning that they are working to find out what caused the blaze at the derelict building in Saltcoats last night (Wednesday).  Around 8.20pm, emergency services were contacted in regards to the fire which caught hold in the

  • Ardrossan Castle to become key site

    Last week two castle prominent experts visited Ardrossan Castle. David Caldwell the retired Keeper of Scotland and Europe, and Archaeology at the National Museums of Scotland and Geoffrey Stell a renowned buildings historian were in town as part