They Serve Us: Ayrshire's MPs (2) Alan Brown, SNP
"Best no tae smile, Al." Alan Brown is a 47-year-old ex-civil engineer and father of two who has been the Westminster MP for...
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It's funny how much SNP politicians like to "keep it in the family." SNP leader Nicola "Wee Nippy" Sturgeon is ... -
The British victim of a missile strike on a US-British base in Iraq was apparently a young woman from Ayr. As reported by the Dai... -
Lanfine House is a large Georgian Neoclassical property located on the South side of the upper River Irvine valley about 2 miles from Darvel... -
Eight years ago today the body of a young Swedish woman was recovered from an Ayrshire beach. A few days later, on 7 December 2005, a lo... -
Recently the Guardian newspaper sent one of its "big city" reporters to the village of Dreghorn in our humble shire to dig u... -
Old Monkton Kirk, where Wallace had his inspiring dream. Photo by Roger Griffith. I have made this point before that the evidence of W... -
From the Ayr Advertiser : AYR tops the list for the highest number of sex criminals in Ayrshire – with 74 offenders recorded as res... -
Jewish refugees Lore Zimmerman and Susanne Schaeffer in 1939. Because the Scots share some of the characteristics from which the Jews ... -
Ayrshire is graced by some beautiful manor houses and impressive stately homes, but more often than not few people actually know who own... -
Annick Lodge is a late 18th-century manor house in the Neo-Classical style then in vogue, built on the site of the earlier 15th-century Pe...
Ayrshire Sites
AYR - A TIMELINE
1197 A castle is built by the River Ayr 1205 King William the Lion creates a burgh at Ayr. The town has weekly markets. 1230 Dominic...
MAP OF AYR IN 1775
Click to enlarge The 1775 Armstrong map shows the town of Ayr as a developing market town with a military past and a few budding indus...
AN ODE TO THE IMMORTAL BARD OF AYR
William McGonagall, the Dundonian poet is famous for his "bathetic" poetry, which although hilarious, is also occasionally m...
AYR'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish refugees Lore Zimmerman and Susanne Schaeffer in 1939. Because the Scots share some of the characteristics from which the Jews ...
LABOUR'S PUBLIC-PRIVATE FUNDING DISASTER IN NORTH AYRSHIRE
Every month, North Ayrshire Council pays over £1 million to service debts to a private contractor, as part of some extremely bad deals...
IRVINE WINS FIRST PRIZE FOR WORST XMAS DECORATIONS OF 2017
Irvine is a town in North Ayrshire with a population of 33,698 or 39,527 (according to two conflicting entries on Wikipedia). The ...
HOW AYRSHIRE VOTED 2017 (WESTMINSTER)
In the 2017 general election to the Westminster Parliament, the four Ayrshire constituencies voted as follows:
They Serve Us: Ayrshire's MPs (1) Dr. Philippa Whitford, SNP
Dr. Philippa Whitford is a 59-year-old Palestinian-supporting, overweight, Catholic Irish woman who has been the Westminster MP for the...
PLAN DO TO AWAY WITH PURELY AYRSHIRE CONSTITUENCIES
Ayrshire is set to lose its clear identity at Westminster after proposed boundary changes to the electoral districts for parliamentary ...
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