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  • Beith family will auction artworks to help CHAS

    An EXTRAORDINARILY talented North Ayrshire family of artists are auctioning original works to help children with life-shortening illnesses across Scotland. James and Doreen Davis, together with their children Jason and Emma, who all come from Beith

  • The Ardrossan Man: Dr Birley’s incredible Flat Earth theory

    A COUPLE of weeks ago, I told you about a wonderful find I had in the former Barony St John’s Church in Ardrossan where my charity, The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety, is based. Some plaster had fallen down revealing a pamphlet which had slipped

  • People of Ayrshire: 'It's not your grief, it's their grief'

    "I was 23 when I started at the ambulance service on August 8, 1977. I’d always had a notion for it, I don’t know why. I was working as an electrician in Kilbirnie and I had a friend who was in it. I’d got married and we were just back from

  • Dalry girl is a dab hand at the shot put

    A DALRY 12-year-old came top in the UK in a virtual international shot put competition. Jessie Caig, who is a member of Victoria Park City of Glasgow Athletics Club, threw a personal best of 11m 10cm to claim the first place among under-13 British