http://www.http://www.irvinetimes.com//rss/rss.php Latest from the online edition en-gb Friday, 04th of July 2008 01:23:22 AM Copyright (C) 2008 Berkshire Media Group http://www.irvinetimes.com/rss/ 8 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.com/furniture/it_logo_500x75.png http://www.irvinetimes.com/ KILWINNING Big Brother favourite Mikey Hughes became the third Ayrshire representative in as many years this week. Now, the whole town is willing the 33-year-old to go on to win the coveted TV title. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/25117 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/25117 Wednesday, 11 June 2008 11:00:00 GMT News A REPLACEMENT for the ailing Magnum Leisure Centre could cost £22 million if, as expected, the 30-year-old building is scrapped. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/25116 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/25116 Wednesday, 11 June 2008 10:30:00 GMT News A KARAOKE singer was feeling the blues after being jailed for a £17,000 sickness benefit fraud. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24591 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24591 Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT News IRVINE politician Brian Donohoe is being sued by an electrician over an unpaid bill for £64. Dale McNair wants the MP to pay up for advice he gave about the electrics at the politician’s Irvine home. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24594 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24594 Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:45:00 GMT News YOUNG Kilwinning student Carli Smith won’t have to live on meagre rations in order to finish her studies after scooping a £25,000 jackpot. The 19-year-old from Brodick Avenue wasn’t the only winner in the Postcode Lottery this week, though, as 116 of her neighbours shared a £5,000 prize just for being in the same KA13 6RL postcode. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24593 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24593 Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT News THERE was double dose of deer drama in Irvine and Kilwinning on Monday morning as emergency crews and animal rescue came to the aid of not one but two trapped fawns. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24312 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/24312 Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT News IN an astonishing meeting on Tuesday all of the Irvine schools threatened with closure were saved. Tense parents arrived at Cunninghame House to await the verdict of the future of Towerlands and John Galt Primary Schools, with Springside all but secured. Many had believed that John Galt would be the one school of the three to be doomed to closure. However, in an neck-and-neck vote the Vineburgh school was saved after Provost Bobby Rae made his casting vote count. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23359 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23359 Wednesday, 30 April 2008 12:00:00 GMT News A KILWINNING woman has denied causing the death of a pedestrian through dangerous driving near James Watt College earlier this year. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23396 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23396 Wednesday, 30 April 2008 10:00:00 GMT News AN IRVINE man has admitted having sex with his aunt. However, the 52-year-old aunt has told the Times of her disgust at claims she had consented to incest with her 25-year-old nephew. Stephen Thomas Green, of Woodlands Avenue, admitted to having sex with Moira Compton at her home on February 19 last year. He pled guilty to the charge at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week and will be sentenced next month after background reports are looked at. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23076 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23076 Wednesday, 23 April 2008 11:00:00 GMT News SOCIAL SERVICES bosses will have one week to decide whether to reinstate the area’s sheltered housing wardens or face legal action after receiving a letter from top human rights lawyer Cameron Fyfe. Mr Fyfe sent the letter on behalf of one Springside resident to North Ayrshire Council last Wednesday officially asking them to reconsider their position and reinstate the service. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23075 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23075 Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:30:00 GMT News COUNCIL bosses have denied that they have been sticking their heads in the sand over equal pay. Equal Pay campaigner Mark Irvine claims that North Ayrshire Council have been using delay tactics in order to stall the process. On his website he said that NAC have been given one last chance to provide information to an employment tribunal after failing to meet previous orders to hand over details which would back up their defence. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23074 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/23074 Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:00:00 GMT News COUNCIL bosses are being taken to court AGAIN after banning a contractor from a tendering process. Lightways Contractors Ltd, who are already sueing the council for thousands of pounds worth of damages over a previous tendering process, have now taken North Ayrshire Council to the Court of Session. http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/22786 http://www.irvinetimes.com/articles/1/22786 Wednesday, 16 April 2008 09:00:00 GMT News