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Nearly 240 local young people have now benefitted from training and support, enabling and equipping them with the skills required to access full time jobs across the local area thanks to East Ayrshire Council’s Jobs and Training Fund – exceeding all expectations at the outset of the programme.

East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet agreed this week to approve a 10-year lease of Fenwick’s King George V playing field to Fenwick Community Initiatives under the Community Asset Transfer framework.

Local pupils helped to remember those who were involved in all aspects of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides as part of an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet recently agreed proposals to repurpose existing housing stock at Clinchyard Place in Galston, to help meet the increasing demand for accommodation for disabled people and to support Ukrainian refugees looking to settle in East Ayrshire.

The Chief Financial Officer, Joe McLachlan provided an update on the latest financial position at a meeting of Cabinet on Wednesday 15 January 2025.

Elizabeth Kirkpatrick and family have been celebrating her centenary in Fenwick.

The Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Partnership is starting 2025 with a fresh call for applications to its pioneering tree-planting programme, which focuses on small areas of publicly accessible land with potential to support wildlife and wellbeing.

Bus travel in Kilmarnock is getting easier and more comfortable, thanks to a £4.4m refurbishment of the town’s bus station – the culmination of years of work by East Ayrshire Council and its partners.

Planning Permission in Principle has been granted for a major expansion of the Moorfield industrial park in Kilmarnock as part of the Ayrshire Growth Deal.

Depute Provost John McGhee visited Kilmaurs couple John and Frances Scott recently to congratulate them on 60 years of marriage.

The Kilmarnock FC East Ayrshire Primary Supporters Club and Killie Trust ran a successful Killie Trust Festive Futsal Cup at Annanhill Primary this week. 

Crosshouse Primary School recently received life-saving equipment donated by Lynne and John Paton from Mobityres.