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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 2, 2010

150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton presented to Kilwinning Bowling Club a gold medal for annual competition.

Saltcoats Fair is as popular as ever. A novel feature of the Fair was the services conducted by the Free Church ministers of the district at intervals from 2pm to 8pm.

The weather during the past week has been very cold along the Ayrshire coast. In Arran there were several showers of hail.

The UP Church, Thornhill has presented a call to Mr Wishart, a native of Millport, who lately preached at Ardrossan.

100 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1910
A meeting of Masonic Lodge Royal Arch West Kilbride No. 314 was held on Tuesday evening. After hearing a leet of six, which was later reduced to three, the congregation of Erskine UF Church, at a meeting on Monday night, decided to give a unanimous call to the Rev J M Dawson MA, assistant, Kirkcaldy. The meeting was presided over by the Rev Morris Moodie, Stevenston and was most harmonious.

The result of the golfing final at Beith was a tie of 79 between the two scratch men, James M Foster and Robert Ritchie

50 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1960
Last Sunday a party of bird-watchers from Kilmarnock were on Horse Island, a mile off Ardrossan Harbour. This Sunday another party who are interested in bird life will visit the island. All who visit Horse Island must have permission.

Found and handed in at Saltcoats police station a sum of money and a 14lb hammer. It is suspected the hammer may have fallen off a lorry.

Norman Wisdom's seventh film, Follow A Star, is showing all week at the Countess Cinema, Saltcoats. Devil's Bait, in support, stars Gordon Jackson and concerns the dramatic search for a loaf which had inadvertently been baked in a tin which formerly contained cyanide.
Jazzboat, which begins a week's run at La Scala, combines popular music, played by Ted Heath, and gangsterism.
The Lady And The Tramp at the Regal is a full- length cartoon from Walt Disney which tells of the friendship between a pedigree spaniel and a mongrel dog.

Nine trips are due at South Beach Green, Ardrossan tomorrow. The number of visitors will be approximately 1800.

Bill Lee, a native of Ardrossan who has been abroad for more than 30 years, is coming home for a holiday at the end of July.

Will the summer pass without there being any sanitary arrangements at the North Shore, Ardrossan, or a supply of fresh water? Both have been a big want for many years.

In Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston the burgh gardeners have been putting out bedding plants. They hope the public will assist in protecting them.

On Tuesday of this week and on Thursday of last week a special train arrived at Ardrossan from Newcastle and the passengers crossed over to Arran by steamer. The party was made up of women.

The Ardrossan Old People's Welfare trip this summer will be to Portobello.

A decrease of 1009 to 4637 is reported in the number of unemployed persons in Ayrshire and Bute compared to May 16.

Twenty-three Ayrshire schoolchildren were involved in road accidents during the months of April twelve pedestrians, three pedal cyclists, seven passengers and one horse-rider.
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25 YEARS AGO on June 7, 1985
Stevenston's brand-new electronic barrier level crossing is a danger, a Stevenston councillor said this week. District councillor Sam Gooding insisted that children were getting through the crossing barriers and on to the line when they were closed to pedestrians and traffic.

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:lol: From the above post.

"Found and handed in at Saltcoats police station a sum of money and a 14lb hammer. It is suspected the hammer may have fallen off a lorry"

Heard that before :roll: :lol:
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brian f wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:26 pm :lol: From the above post.

"Found and handed in at Saltcoats police station a sum of money and a 14lb hammer. It is suspected the hammer may have fallen off a lorry"

Heard that before :roll: :lol:
Reminded me of when I was a wee boy, I found a watch and a set of rosary beads outside Ardeer community center, handed them in at the police station, nobody claimed them and I got them back :lol:
Those wimin were in the nip.
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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 9, 2010

150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
The sloop George, Ardrossan, was purchased by Mr Wm Cochrane, Greenock.

Herring in the district is plentiful and is selling at from 5/- to 6/6 the hundred.

When a thunderstorm broke out over the Kilmarnock and Kilwinning district, a Saltcoats joiner, working for Mr Drape, Ardrossan, at a cottage in Kilwinning, was blown off his feet.

Mr Andrew White, miner, Swinlees, Dalry has a hen of a common Scotch grey breed which laid an egg that measured eight inches in length by six and a half inches in circumference.

The schooner Harmony, Ardrossan, which was up for sale, has been purchased by Messrs Angus McMillan & Sons, Whitefarland, Arran.

100 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1910
Mr WW Boyd, who was recently appointed In- spector of the Poor and Rate Collector to the Dalry Parish, is a native of Kilmarnock.

Mr William Steel, Kilwinning, has been successful in passing the history examination for the MA Degree of Glasgow University.

At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan United Free Presbytery, held in St John's Church, Ardrossan on Tuesday a call from the congregation at Erskine Congregational Church, Kilwinning to Mr JM Dawson MA, assistant at Kirkcaldy, was signed by 119 members and 19 adherents. The call was sustained.

50 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1960
Mrs McDonald of Millport, who is a native of Stevenston and whose maiden name is McCulloch, has a donkey. It has given birth and its offspring are attracting much attention among visitors to the island.

At 3.30 last Friday morning Mr Hugh Robertson, Saltcoats, was wakened in his home by a young reporter from a Glasgow newspaper who asked Mr Robertson to take him in his motor-boat to Arran to cover a story. The motor-boat left Saltcoats at about 4am and the reporter got his story.

Last Sunday during the thunder storm a dog became terrified and ran into a house and bit a man.

On Sunday a bus load of members of the Sub Aqua Club in Hamilton arrived at Ardrossan and crossed over to the Horse Island in Mr Hugh Robertson's motor boat. Ten members of the club went into the mater at the north end of the island to a depth of fifty feet. Members of this club have also gone diving off Ailsa Craig.

The Ardrossan and Saltcoats beaches had their biggest crowds of the season last Saturday and Sunday. At North Shore, Ardrossan there were also many private cars.

Seventy deck chairs are to be purchased by Stevenston Town Council for delivery at the earliest possible date. Arrangements for the issues of the chairs and charges will be the subject of a report by the Burgh Surveyor.

Many windows of the old Church of the Nazarene in Bute Place, Ardrossan have been put in by stones.

25 YEARS AGO on June 14, 1985
Arran ferry operators Caledonian MacBrayne could pull out of Ardrossan in protest at expensive docking charges. A spokesman for the company conformed this week that the future of the service will be reconsidered if the charges are not cut. And local MP David Lambie launched a ferocious verbal assault on harbour overlords the Clyde Port Authority, who he accused of overcharging at Ardrossan and Hunterston subsidise their other activities. Caledonian McBrayne have already asked the port authority to cut their charges and negotiations have taken place.

Ayrshire & Arran Health Board will have to find more than £1 million to cope with the recently-announced nurses' pay awards.

The police enquiry into the shooting of the stray dog in Saltcoats last month is still being compiled.

Kilwinning residents face a journey to Irvine to register births, deaths and marriages if the proposed closure of the town's registration office goes ahead. Kilwinning community council have described the idea as madness.

A workers' co-operative from Ardrossan enjoyed a taste of success in a national newspaper competition this week. The Sangeet Restaurant, Glasgow Street, came third in a competition to discover the best curry in Scotland.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 16, 2010

150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
THE lands of Baidlands Mains in the Parish of Dalry, belonging to the trust estate of the late James Craig, of Baidlands, consisting of 55 and a half imperial acres, were exposed for sale within the White Hart Inn, Dalry and were pur- chased by Theophilus Paton, esq, of Swinelees, at the price of £3000.

Lord Montgomerie has arrived at Eglinton Castle. His Lordship is a midshipman on board the HMS Conqueror, one of the ships of the Channel Fleet presently lying in the Forth.

Ripe red currants grown by Mr Robert Henderson, Raise Street, Saltcoats were on display in his office.

Mr Jago, agent for the Ayrshire Temperance Union, delivered an address on Montgomerie Green, Ardrossan.

100 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1910
At the annual meeting of West Kilbride Golf Club, held in the clubhouse on Saturday, the office-bearers were re-elected.

The companions of Mr Wm Barclay, joiner, Kilwinning, presented him on Wednesday night with a Gladstone bag on the occasion of his leaving for the USA. Mr William Shaw officiated as chairman and Mr Robert Paton made the presentations and wished Mr Barclay well for the future.

Several candidates from the Ayrshire District competed at the Scottish Templars' Institute examinations held in various institutions on April 29 and 30.

50 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1960
Within the next three weeks Mr lain M Roy, of Paisley, sole nominee for the vacancy in Livingstone Parish Church, Stevenston, whose call was sustained by the Presbytery of Ardrossan at their meeting in Brodick Church on Tuesday, will be ordained, inducted and married.

Heavy rain clouds gave way to brilliant sun- shine last Saturday for Saltcoats' day of pageantry- the crowning of the Sea Queen. Through flag-bedecked streets and watched. by large crowds, this year's Queen Of The Sea Miss Sylvia Gill was driven in an open carriage which was the focus of a bigger-than-ever procession. And throughout all the drive through the town and the crowning ceremony in the beach pavilion itself, 12-year-old Sylvia remained calm and smiling and pretty and charming in her
robes and crown.

In an Ardrossan garden where there was a mavis's nest of four eggs, one of the brood turned out to be almost white. We have occasionally heard of a white black- bird but not this particular occurrence.

The storm last Sunday moved two heavy huts from their foundations at South beath in Saltcoats, and tradesmen were busy on Monday rebuilding the foundations.

R Harris, radio and electrical engineers, Saltcoats, had their annual outing to Arran on Wednesday. Employees and friends numbering about 65 had their dinner and tea and returned via Fairlie on the late steamer.

An Ardrossan farmer is complaining about people digging up potatoes which are not yet ready for lifting from a field at the junction of Kirkhall Drive and Stanley Road.

Miss Arline Anderspon, who is a TV script writer in Hollywood, is a native of Saltcoats.
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The Bishop of Galloway, the Right Rev Dr Joseph McGee, of Candida Casa, Ayr, was taken. into the county hospital following a car accident near Strathaven on Sunday having suffered two rib fractures. His condition is improving.

25 YEARS AGO on June 14, 1985
A pair of white socks caused a stink in a Saltcoats supermarket this week and resulted in a 16-year-old losing his part-time job. Billy Lynch of Saltcoats lost his job on Friday because he wore a pair of white socks to his work at Tesco's High Road store. He had been working there for eleven months and wore white socks every day, but three weeks ago the manager decreed that white socks were not to be worn. He had complimented Billy on his dress in the past but this week took the decision to sack him because of it. Billy earned £18 a week from his job at Tesco's -1 70p more than he would have got in unemployment benefit. The manager refused to comment this week but a Tesco spokesman said he did not think white socks were businesslike.

ICI is to close its hydrogen plant at Ardeer in August. But the company is confident that the five workers whose jobs will disappear will be employed elsewhere on the site. A spokesman said the plant is capable of producing far more hydrogen than the company needs.

A local company will be 'streamlined in an attempt to combat the effects of new legislation on bus services. deregulation, which is currently before Parliament, will make it easier for virtually anyone to obtain a licence and operate a bus service. But councilors say this could lead to problems for established bus companies and passengers.

Locals in Stevenston are getting sore heads from the Trust Bar - but it has nothing to do with drink. Live bands have been making such a noise when they play there that the pub's request for a regular late licence.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 23, 2010

150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
SIR Rowland Hill, to whom we are indebted for the invaluable Penny Stamp scheme, is residing at the Hotel, Ardrossan.

Mr David Grier, Stevenston, who has devoted much time to the instruction of a class in singing, was presented with a handsome Bible, a presentor's music book and a tuning fork as a mark of esteem.

100 YEARS AGO on June 24, 1910
Next Wednesday Mr ES Wilson retires from the post of headmaster of Saltcoats Public School. The staff and pupils of the school have presented him with a silver tea set.

The Rev JP Glass, who has most acceptably discharged the pastoral duties in connection with the West Parish Church, Dalry, for about 13 years, took his farewell of the congregation this week.

50 YEARS AGO on June 24, 1960
A helicopter flew low over Saltcoats and Ardrossan on Wednesday afternoon and touched down for a few minutes at Laighdykes Playing Field and provided some excitement for Ardrossan Academy pupils who were playing in the Memorial Field. The helicopter was being used by the Electricity Authority for the inspection of pylons on the Nation- al Grid and after pausing at Laighdykes the pilot flew off again in an inland direction.

Twenty-year-old Alexander Hill of Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan is a keen aero model enthusiast and recently Won first prize In the Scottish Championship Class B team racing at Kirkcaldy. Another prizewinner was a young Saltcoats man, Archie McAlpine. Both lads are members of the Auchenharvie Model Flying Club.

Saltcoats Town Council have extended their lavatories at Melbourne Park. The extension is most up-to-date and will be much-appreciated by the visitors.

Mr and Mrs James Paton are due here from America on their first holiday to their native Saltcoats for 39 years. They are travelling to America from Saltcoats on July 14 with a large number of Ayrshire people. Mr and Mrs Paton will reside with Mrs Paton's sister, Mrs Young who lives in Guthrie Road.

The Ardrossan to Belfast daylight service starts for the summer season tomorrow (Saturday). A large number of passengers and pressmen will make the first trip.

25 YEARS AGO on June 28, 1985
A young Saltcoats man is being driven to the brink of suicide because of the Goverment's new legislation on social security benefits. The 22-year- old says he will take his own life if he is not allowed

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Penny Tray wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:03 pm
Hughie wrote: Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:53 am From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on April 7, 2010

100 YEARS AGO on April 8, 1910

Mr Robert Shanks, a 29-year-old Saltcoats labourer, set out on Tuesday morning from Kilwinning intending to break the record of 37 days to wheel a barrow to London and back.
The 6 April, 1910, edition of the Glasgow Herald included the following additional information in two separate items: -

"A Kilwinning labourer, Robert Shanks, left Kilwinning yesterday with a specially constructed barrow, 20lb. in weight, in an attempt to break the walking record to London and back, which is at present held by a Dalry man named Ewing, the time occupied being 35 days. Shanks, who left the local Post Office at 10 a.m. was accorded a hearty send-off from many hundreds of townspeople who lined both sides of Main Street."

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"It seems years since long-distance barrow-wheeling was a form of athletics in which the public took a casual and amused interest. Yesterday a Kilwinning man set out to break the record to London and back, which stands now at 35 days, or roughly 21 miles per day. This is a fair pace for walking, either with or without 'a Kilwinning Rangers Scottish Cup jersey,' a waterproof worn round the body in a military fashion, and a small parcel carried in the specifically constructed 20lb. wheelbarrow. Whether a 20 lb. wheelbarrow adds to the ordinary physical tax of a 750 mile walk, or is of actual assistance, is one of the secrets of the profession of wheelbarrow walking."

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It will be noted that the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald claims Robert as a "Saltcoats labourer," while the Glasgow Herald reports him to be a "Kilwinning labourer." Maybe he lived in one town and worked in the other. I don't suppose anyone will know for sure now :? .
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9 MAY 1910

A WHEELBARROW FEAT

Robert Shanks, Kilwinning, who set out to break the “wheelbarrow” record of 35 days to London and back, arrived home on Saturday. He is reported to have broken the record, his time being 33 days.

His reception home was most cordial, large crowds greeting him in Main Street.
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Hi Penny,
Seems the only Robert Shanks born in Ayrshire between 1875 and 1885 was the following:

SHANKS ROBERT born 1882 Dalmellington - mother's maiden name Martin.
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Hughie wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:02 am Hi Penny,
Seems the only Robert Shanks born in Ayrshire between 1875 and 1885 was the following:

SHANKS ROBERT born 1882 Dalmellington - mother's maiden name Martin.
Hughie,

hahaya2004 previously posted: -

"Robert Shanks was born at Raise Street, Saltcoats in 1881. At some point the family moved to Kilwinning, where another child was born in 1886."
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Oops! Must have missed that. :roll:
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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 30, 2010

100 YEARS AGO on July 1910
The ordination and induction of the Rev James Mcintosh Dawson MA, late assistant at St Brycedale United Free Church, Kirkcaldy to the pastorate of the Erskine United Free Church, Kilwinning took place on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr William Blair, headmaster of Kilwinning Higher Grade School, retires on 16th August, and to mark the occasion the staff and pupils of the school and members of the board last Monday presented him with a silver tea and coffee service.

50 YEARS AGO on July 5, 1960
His many friends in the neighbourhood and in shipping circles will be pleased to learn that Mr Ewing, manager of the Ardrossan Drydock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., has been appointed managing director of both the Troon and Ayr Yards of the Ailsa Shipping Company Limited.

The official opening on the west side of North Crescent Road, Ardrossan on Monday morning by Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bt, CBE, MP for Bute & North Ayrshire marked the completion of the major portion of a scheme of modernisation and extension at the Ardrossan plant of Shell refining Co., Ltd.

Undertaken in various phases over recent years in order to avoid interrupting production, the improvements and extensions have been designed to increase output besides affecting speedier and more efficient handling to deal with the constantly-expand- ing demand for the products of the only oil refinery on the west coast of Scotland.

An X-certificated thriller, Plan 9 From outer Space, starring Bela Lugosi, makes up part of Mondays programme at La Scala, Saltcoats, and concerns an alien attempt to destroy the earth.

The famous pianist Liberace visited Irvine in the early hours of Thursday morning. He was due to arrive at 11.30 on Wednesday night but a crowd of enthusiastic fans, estimated to number about 2000 in the town centre, prevented his car from reaching the Eglinton Arms Hotel until an hour later. After a struggle, Liberace managed to enter the hotel where he was entertained to supper in the presence of the provost and magistrates.

A proposal to remove all the buildings and caravans from the site known as The Chalet on the east side of the coast road between Ardrossan and Seamill, to erect a first-class restaurant on the site, provide an organised car park and eventually establish a petrol filling station is being considered by Ayr County Council's planning committee.

For throwing a paper bag containing chips at a Kilwinning girl, for striking her male companion on the face with his fist and for committing a breach of the peace, in Winton Street, Saltcoats last Friday, a Glasgow man has been jailed.

25 YEARS AGO on June 28, 1985
Local doctors and Health Board officials have made an impassioned plea to parents in a desperate bit to avoid a whooping cough epidemic. The move comes after the deaths of baby brothers in five just hours after receiving booster vaccinations against the disease.

The Reverend lan Roy of Livingstone Parish Church was taken back in time last Saturday evening when he became the subject of a special This Is Your Life. Mr Roy's surprise came during a celebratory evening to commemorate 25 years as a minister at the Stevenston church.

The Scottish National Mod will not be coming to Ardrossan in 1987. A decision was taken by the Mod committee to stage the Mod in Stirling for that year.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 7, 2010

100 YEARS AGO on July 8, 1910
Lieutenant John M Allan has been promoted to Captain and will now be in command of Ardrossan battery of the Territorials. He first came in touch with the local Artillery through his connection with the Cadet Corps.

Mr Murdoch Mcleod, one of the Continuation Class teachers at Ardrossan Academy, has been success- ful in gaining a First Class Certificate (advanced Stage) in Bookkeeping and an Advanced Certificate in Accountancy and Banking from the Royal Society of Arts, London.

On Wednesday evening a Sports Night was held at Saltcoats Roller-Skating Rink. Mr J Pollock of Saltcoats won the gents' Sack Race and Mrs Beaton from Saltcoats won the Thread The Needle Race. The manager, Mr F Coulson Robertson, gave a display of steeple-chasing over chairs.

50 YEARS AGO on July 8, 1960
Patrick O'Hagan, the popular Irish TV entertainer, came to Ardrossan last Saturday to open the annual fete organised by St Peter-in-chains RC Church he soon found he was among friends. Some of the parishioners, in fact, knew his parents and relatives because they were bought up in his home town of Londonderry.

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Baronet, MP for Bute and North Ayrshire, revealed to an amused and possibly slightly startled company after being conducted around the Shell Oil Refinery at Ardrossan, whose new administration building he had just opened last week: "I have, unfortunately, no financial interest in Shell. But I have a technical interest in refineries. I know how to destroy them. I am a very highly-trained blower-upper of refineries. I went round the Ardrossan refinery today and I was thinking where I could properly place high explosives in order to make a proper mess of it and to ensure that it wouldn't be used for several years. But I'd like to assure you at once that I didn't leave any small mementos behind me." Sir Fitzroy was, of course, a prominent member of the Special Air Service during the War, was dropped behind enemy lines in the Western Desert and commanded, as Brigadier, Britain's military mission to the Yugoslav Partisans where he became a personal friend of Marshal Tito.

The Rev lan M Roy M.A who was assistant at Sherwood Church, Paisley, was ordained and inducted to the charge of Livingstone Church, Stevenston on Tuesday night.

'Alias Jesse James', showing this weekend at the Kingsway Cinema, Kilwinning, tells the amusing story of an insurance agent's attempts to recover a policy he innocently sold to a notorious outlaw. On Monday and Tuesday, Bernard Bresslaw and Alfie Bass head the cast in 'I Only Arsked', a delightful comedy.

With a score of 145, Mr WG Cunningham, assistant at Royal Wimbledon qualified in the centenary Open Golf championship at St Andrews. He is a former pupil of Ardrossan Academy and his father is a well-known local businessman.

Stevenston's new paddling paddling pool will be officially opened next Thursday evening by Provost James Forde. An invitation to be present at the ceremony is extended to ratepayers.

At a pleasant little ceremony in the Kilmeny Hotel, South Beach on Thursday afternoon of last week, the staff of Eglinton-Winton JS School, Ardrossan, gathered to pay tribute to one of the infant teachers, Miss Mrs Rae, on the occasion of her retirement after about 16 years' service. Miss Glass, the infant mistress, spoke in appreciation of Mrs Rae's hard work in the department and said how much she would be missed by both pupils and staff. In presenting Miss Rae with a wireless set as a token of the staff's esteem, Miss Glass wished her a long and happy retirement.

25 YEARS AGO on July 12, 1985
A former Ardrossan priest has quit the Catholic priesthood and married a social worker. Declan Kelly, formerly the Rev Fr Kelly of St Peter-in-chains, Ardrossan. left the priesthood to wed Margaret Robson, a social worker based in Ardrossan. Mr Kelly was given permission to leave the priesthood last month, only days before he married Miss Robson in an Edinburgh register office.

A 'For Sale' sign on the Regal Cinema in Saltcoats will herald the end of an era. The shock announcement that the Regal, once ranked among among the top cinemas in Scotland, was made on Monday. Eleven part-time employees will be out of a job. Guy Penny, director of Harry Kemp Holdings who own the Regal and La Scala cinemas in Hamilton Street, explained: "There is no longer the need for three cinemas. The number of people going through the doors is well down". (see image)

Saltcoats police have been blitzed by bomb hoax threats by an anonymous caller with an Irish accent. The telephone calls have caused headaches for pub and supermarket managers as every time a threat is made they have to evacuate everyone from the area. Over the last week more than half a dozen calls have ben made to Saltcoats police concerning imaginary bombs planted throughout Saltcoats, Stevenston and Ardrossan.

West Kilbride's part-time registrar's office should be operative soon. According to Strathclyde Regional Councillor Richard Wilkinson the office- which received a reprieve from the Region last year - will have a registrar in the near future.

Oil giants BP have been told to stop stalling and start drilling in a plea from MP David Lambie. The Cunninghame South MP hit out at the company's lack of action after the Government allowed it a restricted production license to determine the feasibility of drilling for oil or gas south- west of Arran.

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