Saltcoats
OLYMPIC CHAMP COMES TO SALTCOATS 
ONE of Scotland’s most successful athletes was in Saltcoats yesterday to take pupils through their paces.
Commonwealth Games medalist Lee McConnell popped into St Matthew’s Academy to take 33 lucky schoolkids through a special training routine. The 400 metre sprinter and hurdler was there after third year pupil Racheal Slater, of West Kilbride, won a Scotland-wide competition for the Olympian to take the class at her school.
EXTRA police will be patrolling North Ayrshire town centres over the Christmas period in the hope of deterring shoplifters and vandals.
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