Published: Wednesday, 8th October, 2008 16:44
By Fiona Simpson
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Pic by: Kevin Paterson
ARMED officers rushed to a Saltcoats road yesterday (Tuesday) after shots were fired in a street filled with schoolchildren.
Police closed off New England Road at around 3.55pm after reports of shots being fired.
A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed armed officers were dispatched to the scene as the drama unfolded.
PLOT THICKENS IN MYSTERY OF THE SEAFRONT 'GHOST'
AN attempt to take the same picture of the ghost captured on Saltcoats shorefront in November has failed- but readers still believe there is more to the image than meets the eye.
STRATHCLYDE Fire & Rescue were called out to secure a building on Tuesday, December 23.
HUNDREDS of people have turned out to pay tribute to young Beith man Lawrence McCall following his tragic death in a knife incident.
POLICE: "NO DEAD BODY WAS FOUND"
RUMOURS circulating among Stevenston residents that a dog walker had stumbled across a shallow grave containing a dead body have been quashed by police.
PARENTS of youngsters attending Ardrossan's newly-rebuilt Stanley Primary say they are shocked and alarmed at plans to site a 50-foot-high mobile phone mast around 50 metres from the school playground.
AN eagle-eyed reader has sighted another UFO flying high in the sky above the Saltcoats coastline.
SCOTTISH National Party member Anthea Dickson is the new councillor for the Kilbirnie and Beith ward after being elected on Thursday.
A KILBIRNIE soldier who expected to miss the birth of hif first child ended up being sent home from Afghanistan after suffering from an illness and just in time for the new arrival.
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