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The East Ayrshire Youth Awards took place this week with a glamorous theme at the Park Hotel in Kilmarnock.

Provost Claire Leitch and Councillor James Adams visited Kilmarnock couple James and Isobel Stewart recently to congratulate them on 60 years of marriage.

Grange Academy’s annual PiDay celebrations were elevated to new heights this year when a group of 22 young people from S2 climbed Loudoun Hill ready for the lunar eclipse at 6.19am.

A visit took place to the newly completed housing development on Kennedy Drive in Kilmarnock recently.

Elected members discussed the issue of road casualty trends at Cabinet this week and agreed that much more needs to be done to prevent an increasing number of casualties and fatalities on the A76.

Provost Claire Leitch and Councillor Jim McMahon visited Cumnock couple James and Annie Arthur recently to congratulate them on 60 years of marriage.

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.

East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet received an update this week on the progress being made with arrangements for the new pavement parking enforcement regulations which have been introduced by the Scottish Government.

An alternative school transport policy for academic year 2025/26 was agreed at the recent meeting of Cabinet.

At the recent meeting of Full Council, a report was presented – Building a future East Ayrshire, Capital Investment Programme update – which set out East Ayrshire Council’s investment priorities for a number of key areas including educational facilities.

Following an extended meeting of Full Council last week, East Ayrshire councillors approved a balanced budget for 2025/26, agreeing to a suite of proposals and investments totalling over £8m and a savings package of £8.75million.

A pioneering £1.5 million investment will see a second group of apprentices join Cumnock based group Emergency One, the UK’s leading manufacturer of specialist fire and rescue service appliances.