Darren Gibson

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“The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it.” - Val McDermid

Photos by french photographer Raymond Depardon, who visited Glasgow in the 1980's.

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The main stage acts for the 2024 Pavilion Festival on Ayr's Low Green have just been announced:

@ewanmcvicar_
#pavilionfestival #streetrave #ayr

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Imagine this was your gaff.

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He laid the blame for the problems at the feet of Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer. Last week Mr Greer shared a newspaper article about landlords being forced to sell up accompanied with a “tiny violin” emoji, sparking an angry reaction from property owners.

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There is a robot in Krakow International Airport that serves pizza. I know it's 2023 and it's probably quite a simple machine but I am sitting here in awe.

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A yellow weather warning for rain across parts of Ayrshire has been issued.

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A now legendary photograph shows Pele walking out on to the Portland Park turf, surrounded by adoring fans waiting to catch a glimpse of their footballing hero. @Troon_FC

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New plans to build one of the UK's most popular chicken restaurants at an Ayr holiday park have been lodged with South Ayrshire Council.

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South Ayrshire Council has announced new "assistant director" roles as redundancy cuts elsewhere are yet to be ruled out.

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[Simpsons England @EnglandSimpsons]

Got to get your fix somewhere...

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@AyrUnitedFC has confirmed this weekend's match against @dundeeunitedfc has been cancelled

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NHS Ayrshire and Arran confirmed the cases today in a statement.

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Mangata Networks, a satellite-enabled cloud services company, has chosen Prestwick as the location for its research and development activities, as well as satellite manufacturing, space systems and core network operations.

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ALMOST 600 new jobs are to be created in Prestwick as a result of an American satellite company establishing itself in the area.

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The chef, who works out of The Rabbit restaurant at Troon's Marine Hotel, delighted the BBC's judges in the quarter finals and semi finals of the hit TV cooking show. 👇

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Organisers are working on "surprises" for the Ayr event.

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BREAKING: The festival is set to bring thousands of people to the Ayr area, and has long been a dream of Ayr's very own @ewanmcvicar_

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[The Upshot podcast @UpshotTowers]

The 1930 World Cup was absolutely mental.

The refs wore suits, the Bolivians played in berets, and the Romanian team was selected by the King... and that's the tame stuff.

From premature funerals to managers knocked out with chloroform, here's a short history of the madness...

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The couple's daughter still suffers emotionally from the tirade, and according to her father, has to phone him when she's walking home in the dark so that she feels safe.

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A husband and wife who were subjected to a lengthy extortion campaign by two men from Ayr have described the "years of torture" they went through after being threatened with rape, child abduction and more.

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As part of the intimidation campaign, the now-jailed pair also obtained photographs of the couple's children and contacted a funeral director to seek to falsely arrange the collection of a child’s body from the family’s home.