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East Ayrshire Council’s Housing Asset Services (HAS) has recently won two major awards – the APSE award for Most Improved Performer: Building Maintenance in the UK and the APSE Margo Blair Award for innovation and excellence within service delivery and performance.

Galston’s Maxwood Hotel has earned an Eat Safe Award for their high standards of hygiene, cleanliness and food safety.

Illegal dumping and fly tipping is a crime and is a scourge on our communities; that is the message from Councillor Jim McMahon, Cabinet Member for Older People, Outdoor Services, the Corporate Enforcement Unit (CEU) and Police Scotland.

Bowman Garden Machinery has generously donated equipment to Gatehead Community Council to help them keep East Ayrshire clean and green.

Galston’s built landscape is set for another boost to its regeneration plans with a newly announced £3.5m project which will open up the landscape, provide a brand new commercial unit and  create more accessible facilities within the  former Burgh Chambers which will be restored to its former glory.

Young pupils at Crosshouse Primary School have recently been jumping for joy, thanks to Auchinleck Talbot FC star Stephen Wilson – who is also a classroom assistant for Additional Support Needs at the school.

Pupils from schools across South Ayrshire took part in a competition recently to name some of the Ayrshire Roads Alliance’s gritters.

Future economic growth in Ayrshire is set for a big boost with the formation of a new Ayrshire Regional Economic Partnership which brings together local authorities and their partner organisations, education and business to stimulate the local economy and build inclusive growth.

Work will start on Monday 18 February on the final stage of the £1.2 Flood Prevention Scheme at the Leggate in New Cumnock.