Lifestyle news in East Ayrshire - Kilmarnock Standard

Young music buffs needed for Kilmarnock music quiz

THE Sports Bar at Rugby Park is the venue for a spectacular new music quiz for 16 to 24-year-olds.Read

Kilmarnock's Mr Spoons completes Great North Run

THE wee man with the big heart has done it again.Read

East Ayrshire Council staff urged to cycle to work

COUNCIL workers are being urged to think about how they travel to work.Read

Credit crunch busters: Kilmarnock's Braehead Foods

KILMARNOCK'S new £500,000 cookery school has the recipe for success.Read

Credit crunch busters: Kilmarnock's Brownings the Bakers

BROWNINGS the Bakers is beating the credit crunch with a new range of biscuits.Read

Credit crunch busters: Kilmarnock's Handling Hair

ANOTHER company that's cutting through the doom and gloom of the recession is Handling Hair, a gents hairdressers that has been a mainstay in Kilmarnock for 17 years.Read

Claire marks homecoming year by coming back to Kilmaurs

FORMER Stewarton Academy pupil Claire Pearson ran the Sydney marathon on Sunday – then packed her bags in preparation for a three-week stay back home in Kilmaurs.Read

£2.9million Newmilns ski slope plans given go-ahead

PLANS for a new £2.9million ski slope complex in Newmilns have been given the go-ahead.Read

Rail campaigners urge passengers to use Kilmarnock to Glasgow service

VICTORIOUS rail campaigners in Kilmaurs and Dunlop are this week encouraged to take advantage of the imminent half-hourly service between Kilmarnock and Glasgow.Read

Kilmarnock stunner wins cruise at Ayr Races

A KILMARNOCK lass who wowed judges with her sexy frock at Ayr Races on Friday went on to back another feisty female in the big race.Read

Charity clay pigeon shoot held at Moscow for riding for the disabled group

A CHARITY clay pigeon shoot was held at Cowan’s Law, Moscow, to raise funds for Riding for the Disabled Winton Group.Read

Kilmarnock call centre staff in line for award

THE SKILLS and professionalism of a Kilmarnock workforce have earned a short-listing for one of the country’s most prestigious industry awards.Read

Darvel family remember hero soldier

A FAMILY from the Irvine Valley made an emotional journey to France to pay tribute to a young soldier who was killed in action almost a century ago.Read