9 h. ago Migrants arriving in UK via small boats are to be returned to France

Starmer hopes plan will end 'vile' people-smuggling trade

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10 h. ago Starmer and Macron pin hopes on one in, one out deal to deter Channel migrants

Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a ‘real breakthrough in the way we tackle the vile trade of people smuggling’.

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42 h. ago East Ayrshire pupils come up with winning name for newly proposed wind farm

An entry from primary five pupils at Netherthird Primary School stood out to OnPath Energy team.

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8 d. ago East Ayrshire school pupils attend safety briefing at dangerous loch

Children and young people received essential lifesaving skills training including CPR awareness and defib training.

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9 d. ago Parents furious at council decision to remove school transport from vulnerable Ayrshire kids

A petition was launched by one of the parents after East Ayrshire Council removed school transport for vulnerable children with ASN.

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1 week ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? | Rokhaya Diallo

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pavement parking enforcement in East Ayrshire starts next week with 900 warning dished out to locals

More than 900 warning notices were issued to motorists in East Ayrshire ahead of the enforcement of the new pavement parking rules.

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1 week ago Tory calls for flags to be put up and taken down every day at East Ayrshire HQ

He described it as “a very British way of expressing joy and pride”.

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2 w. ago Ayrshire volunteers treated to Dumfries House tea dance as special thanks for their dedication to communities

East Ayrshire Leisure hosted the event.

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2 w. ago Dog walker missing after pets discovered wandering alone at Scots estate

Darren Noble, 47, has been reported missing from Cumnock area in East Ayrshire.

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2 w. ago East Ayrshire has highest record of collisions caused by faulty tyres

Experts have warned that drivers face fines of up to £2,500 and three penalty points per tyre if found to be below legal standards.

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2 w. ago Older windfarms won't increase East Ayrshire community benefit cash says council

East Ayrshire Council said that other benefits, such as job training support were getting developer support

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2 w. ago Rejected taxi fare hike would have made East Ayrshire one of most expensive for passengers

The decision was made to keep existing fares after concerns over the impact on those reliant on taxis.

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3 w. ago Taxi boss says East Ayrshire Council red tape is driving people away from trade

Thistle Cabs' Ross Gilmour says the requirements around 'street knowledge' and health checks are too onerous.

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3 w. ago Councillors to decide on £100m East Ayrshire school investment

The programme of refurbishment, extensions and rebuilds would cover more than a dozen East Ayrshire schools.

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3 w. ago Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them | Alberto Alemanno

Public opinion is clamouring for closer EU cooperation. The last thing we need is Ursula von der Leyen pandering to the far rightDonald Trump’s “America First” policies are undermining decades of transatlantic cooperation just as Putin’s Russia destabilises Europe with direct military aggression. But these twin shocks have unintentionally accomplished something the EU institutions never could. They have made European integration feel not just important, but existential – a matter of democratic survival – for ordinary citizens.From Helsinki to Lisbon, people are suddenly experiencing the same existential unease. Trade wars, defence threats and military aggression don’t respect borders. More and more Europeans now recognise that their small, individual nations cannot withstand simultaneous pressure from both Washington and Moscow. They find themselves caught between economic coercion and military intimidation.Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris and the...

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4 w. ago Lanarkshire care workers to take protest to Holyrood as row over pay intensifies

The action is part of the first national care strike in Scotland in over a decade, which has already seen walkouts in East Renfrewshire, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire.

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4 w. ago New tourism offering could feature shepherd's hut and 'sitootery' on Cumnock farm

Owners at Blackstone Clydesdales, based at Blackstone Farm, Rigg Road, Cumnock, have lodged proposals with East Ayrshire Council for consideration.

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