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Incidents of aggression and violence are causing major concerns to North Ayrshire Council staff.

Meet the Junior Prizewinners for 2023 at Kilwinning Academy

THE number of North Ayrshire Council officers who earn over £100,000 for their work with the local authority has been revealed.

Ham is off the menu in North Ayrshire schools - due to its high sodium content.

Laguna Beach High School had 240 seniors graduate in its commencement ceremony Thursday night on campus at Guyer Field.

Council chiefs have appointed their new community boss in the latest internal staff member selection. Rhona Arthur was appointed the council’s new Connected Communities head of service having served as interim boss for the department and information and culture senior manager. The latest internal appointment was made at a meeting of North Ayrshire Council’s Staffing and Recruitment Committee late last month. Meetings papers state four candidates were up for interview for the post...

Choices Community Shop on Fullarton Street is open from 10am to 1pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Irvine residents can now access low-cost produce as part of North Ayrshire Council’s community food network. Choices Community Shop on Fullarton Street is the latest North Ayrshire Fairer Food project and is available to those with a KA12 postcode. The project is part of the council’s dignified approach to food insecurity and aims to help people access high quality food whilst making ...

Arran Banner Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will stil...

The initial rollout for the hours was paused last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three models of delivery have been devised to meet the needs of families and provide the full hours to all eligible children.  The models aim to ensure a range of choice, particularly for working parents, and provide the option for families to use more than one childcare provider. Work is underway to refurbish and extend the council’s ELC estate, with plans to create additional capacity at 41 facilit...