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Time now for national service

AS A hard-working, honest and law abiding citizen of Ayr, I find it difficult to understand the actions of carefree yobs who plague our streets.Read

MSP gets immediate action

MY SON is in his final year at university. He applied for loan from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) at the end of August and heard nothing for two months.Read

Fly the flag again on the tower

THIS looks like being the first year I can remember when no flag has flown on one of Ayr’s best-known landmarks, the Wallace Tower.Read

Top marks for council workers

I REPORTED a broken paving slab to Riverside House on Monday, October 21 and fully expected to wait two or three weeks for them getting around to fix it.Read

Get behind the racecourse

I WRITE in connection with racing at Ayr.Read

Shock at restaurant

ON Thursday, October 2 at approximately 1.20pm I witnessed an outrageous case of disability discrimination by staff at a restaurant.Read

You miss the point

IN reply to Frank Weller’s attack on Lorna Anderson’s previous letter raising concerns over a packet of cigarettes being displayed as a prize on an amusement park slot machine.Read

Soldiers will still receive our gifts

YOU may have seen an announcement in the national press that the public will not be allowed to send Christmas parcels to our troops this year, addressed ‘To A British Soldier’.Read

Stop playing the financial markets

HOW many more millions have South Ayrshire Council got stashed away in overseas bank accounts hoping to make a fast buck on high interest, high risk deposits?Read

Thanks for all the super support

PATNA Community Council would like to take this opportunity to convey great thanks to everyone who made donations for our fun event which we held during the Doon Valley Walk of Hope.Read

Pick up your dog’s dirt

I AM writing to you because when primary 5s are walking to the Citadel for swimming lessons we can see dog’s dirt.Read

Pick up your dog’s dirt

I AM writing to you because when primary 5s are walking to the Citadel for swimming lessons we can see dog’s dirt.Read

What a sight for town’s visitors

I AM writing to you because primary 5s from Newton Primary School were going swimming and on the way back we were met by a disgusting sight – it was dog foul.Read

Korean War dead remembered

I AM acting on behalf of the authorities at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea.Read

A LETTER was published in the Ayrshire Post recently from a landlord distressed at the impact of the new Local Housing Allowance on his business. He stated that he had already lost £8000 in rental income.Read

Thanks for finding my handbag

THANKS to the good folk of Ayr who came to the rescue when I left my handbag on a bus when I was heading to sequence dancing at Kincaidston.Read

Solution to school charges

I NOTE from the story ‘School mail bill is a first class disgrace’ the councillor seems to offer nothing but bleating with no suggestion of a constructive solution to this minor problem compared to the major ones facing the dire finances of the district.Read

Walk or shop is the question

FACT: Dogs don't like being tied up outside shops while owners take their time browsing around.Read

Kids are missing out on education

ONCE again our kids are off school because of strike action. This is twice now since the schools went back in August.Read

Searching for war veterans

THE British Korean Veterans Association is trying to contact former members of HM Armed Forces who served in Korea/Japan from 1950-53 and also those servicemen and women who served in these two places at a later date with the Peace Keeping Force 1953-57.Read