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In support of this year’s Suicide Prevention Week (9 – 15 September 2019), the Council held a Here to Listen suicide prevention awareness event attended by employees and members of the local community.

Kilmarnock Town Centre has undergone many positive changes in the last few years, with the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) Funding, Town Centre Regeneration Fund and East Ayrshire Council funding to improve the built environment and restore many of its historic buildings using sympathetic materials and methods and make them fit for modern use.

Kilmarnock’s B-listed Viaduct is set to be upgraded with a new lighting system that will cast the historic structure in beautiful new light.

The Trading Standards Service is running a free electric blanket testing programme, which will run from Monday 9 September to Thursday 19 September 2019.

Children’s Hearings Scotland have launched a national campaign to recruit over 500 new volunteer Children’s Panel Members to play a crucial role in supporting infants, children and young people across Scotland. In Ayrshire, Children’s Hearings Scotland are looking to recruit 45 new Panel Members.

NHS Health Scotland Campaign supports Suicide Prevention Week in 2019