The first ever Provost’s Enterprise and Innovation Challenge was held at Ayr Town Hall, showcasing the very best of South Ayrshire’s entrepreneurial spirit! Young people from across South Ayrshire secondary schools participated in the challenge set by Provost Iain Campbell – to come up with an innovative new product or service and present a pitch in front of a panel of judges. The competition was tough, with all teams creating thoroughly researched proposals consisting of

A Troon woman who spent much of her life working, volunteering and supporting her local community is preparing to celebrate her 100th birthday on 29 May. Annie Longley Malcolm Macdonald, known as Anna, was born on 29 May 1926 at 44 Rannoch Street, Cathcart, Glasgow. Before her marriage, Anna worked in offices for Glasgow City Council and British Oxygen. In 1952, she married Calum Macdonald and later became a full-time mother to their two children, Alistair, born in 1959, and

South Ayrshire’s Depute Provost, Mary Kilpatrick attended a ceremony recently in Glasgow for the presentation of the Victoria Cross medal of Fusilier Dennis Donnini by his family to the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum for safekeeping and public display. The ceremony told the story of Dennis Doninni VC who was in 4/5th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers and was sadly killed in action on 18 January 1945. Donnini was the youngest recipient of the VC in World War 2. Displaying t