3 h. ago Police clear former South Ayrshire Council leader Martin Dowey of criminality in row over leaked tape

Police said there was no criminal case to answer after they looked into the recording.

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12 h. ago Call for 'respect' in Ayrshire cemeteries after spate of dog fouling

East Ayrshire Council's environmental health team are calling for dog owners to be "responsible and respectful" if they visit cemeteries.

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36 h. ago Police want to speak to this person after substation 'deliberately' set alight

Anyone with footage or information is urged to get in touch with South Wales Police

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46 h. ago Fugitive aristocrat and partner to be sentenced over death of newborn baby

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon exposed Victoria to dangerous conditions when they went into hiding to avoid her being taken into care.

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4 d. ago South Ayrshire Council challenged to condemn 'hateful' and 'blatantly racist' campaigns against asylum seekers

"Far-right groups have clearly been subverting public discourse, spreading misinformation, and exploiting economic hardship by scapegoating migrants and other marginalised communities"

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4 d. ago Press photographer wins second case against police force that keeps prosecuting him

South Wales Police has been accused of infringing news photographer Dimitris Legakis' rights

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4 d. ago Pictured: ‘Loving family man’, 27, gunned down in south London as police hunt killer

Pictured: ‘Loving family man’, 27, gunned down in south London as police hunt killer  London Evening Standard

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4 d. ago Police hunt man after woman has her jaw broken in unprovoked attack in south London

Officers are searching for a suspect described as a black man in his 30s or 40s with balding hair following the assault in East Dulwich

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6 d. ago South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody

Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the worldSouth African prosecutors will reopen an inquest into the death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died in police custody.Biko, the founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977 aged just 30, after being beaten into a coma by police who had arrested him nearly a month earlier. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Six shot dead in two days as Cape Town reels from gang violence

Minister admits there is ‘no proper plan’ to tackle violent crime in divided city that pulls in 2.4 million visitors Six people have been shot dead in two days in a crime-plagued area of Cape Town, adding to the death toll in a city already reeling from the scourge of gang-related violence.At 11.30pm on Monday, two women, aged 19 and 25, were killed and a 24-year-old woman injured in a shooting in Wallacedene, an informal settlement on Cape Town’s north-eastern edge, South African police said. About 10 minutes later, two other women in their 20s were killed by gunshots to the head in a bedroom in the same area, with police saying the deaths may be linked. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Police appeal for key witness after man left covered in blood

South Wales Police believes the victim was covered in a 'significant amount of blood due to stab wound to his arm'

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7 d. ago Disabled little girl returns to school after council axed her transport to school

Jessica McMillan, who battles life-limiting condition Hurler syndrome, had to stop going to school after East Ayrshire Council stopped her transport - and her parents were furious

Politics

8 d. ago Nicolas Jackson at centre of Bayern row after details of Chelsea transfer leaked

Nicolas Jackson's move to Bayern has been anything but plain sailing and now a war of words has emerged between his camp and Uli Hoeness after he claimed the forward's loan move from Chelsea wouldn't be made permanent

Sport

8 d. ago Councillors told not to speculate on cause of King Street blaze

Legal chief David Mitchell stepped in to remind councillors that the fire was the subject of a live criminal case during an East Ayrshire Council meeting.

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1 week ago Equal longest summer riots sentence for man who stoked fire outside hotel

Matthew Crossland, 32, was jailed for nine years after he fuelled a fire set outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

Events

1 week ago Female police officer pretended to be paedophile hunter and tried to blackmail suspected sex offender she had arrested

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Pc Marie Thompson, 29, was the officer in charge of a South Yorkshire Police investigation into the man.

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1 week ago East Ayrshire Council backs clean energy firm’s wind farm extension

Majority of planning committee members supported the plans, which would see the project have a capacity of over 100MW – enough to power around 128,000 Scottish homes

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1 week ago Green light given for latest stage in Ayrshire to Glasgow road upgrade plans

North Ayrshire Council is sending on the full business case to Government.

Politics

1 week ago East Ayrshire Council planners rubber stamp 49 new homes for Cumnock

Livingston-based firm, Rosewood Homes and Properties Ltd, have been given the green light to build new homes at the site, along with the construction of roads, footpaths, car parking and drainage.

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1 week ago Community council and local residents team up to oppose Ayr short term let proposal

South Ayrshire Council’s Regulatory Panel (Planning) will scrutinise the proposal at their meeting on Thursday, September 11.

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