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From Monday 23 March 2026, WhatsApp users can follow East Ayrshire Latest News to access key updates, service information, community campaigns, events, and helpful resident guidance.

At a meeting of East Ayrshire Licensing Board on Tuesday 17 March 2026, the Board agreed to support extending licensed hours to those premises wishing to screen the Scotland football games during the 2026 World Cup Tournament.

Dance Fest, Ayrshire’s biggest celebration of dance, was held recently at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr.

East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet has agreed the Ayrshire Roads Alliance’s programme of investment works that will allow improvements to be carried out to carriageways, footways and street lighting, in addition to bridge strengthening and investment in transportation, traffic and road safety.

A new bin collection service will be rolled out in two phases starting in Cumnock and the surrounding area from May 2026, and Kilmarnock and the surrounding area from October.

New redeployable CCTV cameras are being installed in priority areas across East Ayrshire to tackle environmental crime and improve community safety.

East Ayrshire Council has launched a new vocation training programme as part of the Ayrshire Growth Deal’s ambitions to upskill residents in Cumnock and Doon Valley, enabling them to access employment in the emerging electric vehicle and hydrogen automotive sector.

Members of the East Ayrshire Police Fire and Rescue Committee gathered at Council Headquarters in Kilmarnock this week to see a live demonstration of the latest emergency vehicles being used.

Provost Claire Leitch and Councillor Jennifer Hogg visited Drongan couple Robert and Nancy Gebbie recently to congratulate them on 60 years of marriage.

Auchinleck Primary School and Early Childhood Centre has received the results of their recent inspection, published on Tuesday 3 March, by Education Scotland.

Over the past 15 years East Ayrshire Council has successfully delivered a £1 billion capital investment programme with a focus on education, jobs, housing, roads and regeneration.

Councillors and local community representatives with an interest in regeneration gathered in Kilmarnock’s newest green space, St Marnock Square, to unveil a new interpretation board last week.  The second board to be placed in the square, its unveiling celebrates the people who have passed through the area over the centuries while marking the dawn of a new use and purpose for the town centre venue.