FUNDING SUCCESS FOR NEW COUNCIL HOUSING
East Ayrshire Council has been given the green light by the Scottish Government to build six new council houses at Newlands Drive, Kilmarnock and four new council houses at Rosebank, Kilmarnock.
In 2008 the Scottish Government announced a programme of £25m of funding to encourage a new generation of Council house building. The Council has already been successful with two funding bids and work is already underway on ten new affordable houses at MacDonald Drive, Kilmarnock.
Councillor Douglas Reid, Leader of ..read more Read more
KILMARNOCK TRADER FINED FOR SELLING FAKES
A Kilmarnock trader has been fined at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to selling counterfeit clothing after an investigation by East Ayrshire Council’s Trading Standards Service.
On Friday 2 July 2010, Robert Chisholm was fined a total of £3500 after admitting offences under the Trade Marks Act 1994. Chisholm, a tattoo artist, was selling clothes from the ground floor of his tattoo studio, ‘Living Art’ in the town’s Foregate before Trading Standards Officers swooped to seize more than 400 counterfeit ..read more Read more
THE CHEF’S APPRENTICE
Young people from across East Ayrshire competed in a Chef’s Apprentice competition at The Cook School Scotland recently and took the opportunity to wow the chefs with their skills.
The nine young people who applied to take part in the competition spent three days in the state of the art cook school under the direction of some of the top chefs in the country. Day one saw the young people cooking their signature dish for the chefs and received some ..read more Read more
