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Cafe carbuncle

I FIND it quite incredible that Craufurdland estate went ahead and built the eco cafe without planning permission.Read

Woolies thanks

I WOULD like to take this opportunity on behalf of the staff and management, to say thank you to the customers who have supported the Woolworth Kids First fundraising within the Kilmarnock store.Read

Poor service

KILMARNOCK is poorly served by its politicians.Read

Thriving town

I WAS very annoyed to see that Newmilns has been shortlisted for the national ‘Plook on the Plinth’ award as the worst town to live in.Read

Rail service

WITH regard to the new ‘improved’ rail service between Kilmarnock and Glasgow, SNP MSP Willie Coffey claims that Labour councillor, John McGhee, is just turning a positive story into a whinge.Read

Let there be light

LAST year about November time, the roads department started work on the Moorfield Industrial Estate junction, to make turning into and turning out of the estate much safer.Read

Road gritting

I WOULD like to respond to Mr McLaughlin's letter on the 18/12/08, who in turn responded to my letter the previous week regarding the lack of road gritting.Read

They've bin great

IN answer to the letter in last week’s Standard (December 19) – well done lads.Read

Christmas tree

WILL East Ayrshire Council be providing a Christmas tree in Stewarton this year?Read

Holiday workers

IN reply to the binman looking for credit (Kilmarnock Standard, December 19), you weren’t the only people out working in treacherous conditions.Read

What cut next?

LAST week’s (December 12) letter by Raymond Dullick rightly highlighted the lack action from our council in relation to the state of our frozen roads and pavements.Read

Well done lads

I FEEL a little praise for the council binmen and drivers would be deserving. After all, these men were out in extreme weather driving large vehicles through heavy traffic and parked cars on much publicised ungritted roads.Read

Icy dangers

I WOULD like to know if any other readers from this area have been in touch with East Ayrshire Council about the lack of maintenance on the roads and pavements of late.Read

Timetable woes

WHEN the timetable for the Kilmarnock to Glasgow rail link was announced, SNP councillors hailed the news as ‘a major boost to the area.’Read

Pleas ignored

ON Friday morning I picked my way carefully along our ungritted pavements to the council buildings to hand in a letter from over 50 residents requesting answers as to why our repeated requests for gritting on the busy Wilson Avenue/Holehouse Road area had been ignored.Read

Offensive song

SO, the courts are cracking down on those who sing the so-called ‘Famine Song’.Read

Nitty gritty

WHERE is the grit for our roads and pavements?Read

What future for line at Mauchline?

WHILE it is encouraging to see the ongoing work on the dynamic loop system between Kilmarnock and Glasgow, rail passengers are still being left in the dark about the proposed reopening of the Mauchline station and plans for an improved rail services to Auchinleck.Read

Swift action by local council

I WOULD just like to thank the council for their prompt reaction in cutting back a tree on the path between the edge of Crookedholm village and the railway bridge.Read

Trying to find Bobby’s relatives

I AM trying to trace any living relatives or descendants of a Sergeant Robert (Bobby) Orr, MM and Bar of the 6/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.Read

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