What a Homecoming!

Feb 6 2009

INTERESTING to view your homecoming article last week.

It does however beggar the question 'Coming home to what'? Lets look at Ayr itself;

A town empty of shops from the Wallace Tower toward the Sandgate traffic lights, that it is starting to resemble a Dystopian nightmare?

A town which not so long ago had the cheek and temerity to ask that it be recognised as a city and which now wants to do away with its only remaining theatre only a few years after letting the Civic Theatre fall to rack and ruin?

Some city it would be indeed, What will we do in the big city of Ayr tonight Dad? What indeed son, what indeed?

A town with a football club that has a stadium which can only be described as a very very sad joke, sadly its paying customers are the butt of the joke?

A town that foolishly and against all advice erects a £30,000 wall only to rip it down within months? At a further cost of £9000 I believe.

A town that sends four of its employees on a £15,000 golf trip to Dubai in order to promote its golf courses to rich Arabs?

A town that closes down its older persons care homes because they can’t afford to make the rooms en suite? (wonder where the money’s gone?)

A town that has systematically contributed to the demise of small hard working businesses forced out because of prohibitive rent and rates? Same said town leaves its shops empty rather than encouraging new businesses.

What indeed would Rabbie say were he to come home to Ayr? Not to mention what has happened in Girvan, Kilmarnock, Irvine and many other towns and villages throughout Ayrshire let down by councillors, town planners, football directors and any and all narrow minded persons that control our towns.

Barry Lane,

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