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South Ayrshire – unless plans for a new leisure centre are revisited.Council bosses want to erect a £40 million facility in the heart of Ayr town centre.But their early proposals make no mention of diving, which currently has a home at the closure-threatened Citadel.Concern is now high among the sport's leading figures that up-and-coming stars could be forced as far afield as Edinburgh to pursue their career.Peter Smith, a former Commonwealth diver who is now president of Ayr Diving Club, told Ayrshire Live: "The current plans make no mention of diving and that's our worry."If that comes to pass, it would tear an Olympic sport away from the people of the south west of Scotland.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now.Get all the

Ayr town centre is bidding to win up to £10,000 of national funding.Narture, the contemporary project looking to boost cultural links in the local community, hopes to land the match funding from Creative Scotland.A total of 20 creative projects across the country are vying for a share of the £75,000 funding pot.Money raised by each project will be matched on a first come, first serve basis for up to £10,000 per project.Narture bosses say they are looking for support to "enliven empty shops and spaces" in Ayr.The project, co-founded by father and daughter team, Robert and Saskia Singer, was born from the creation of their experimental bakery/kitchen called 'BREAD' in the town's historic quarter."We bake real bread to earn the dough to fund

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA new kind of health kick has come to Ayr town centre after the opening of Ayrshire's first vegan cafe.Joe McGinn, 61, opened Vegan Earth, on Kyle Street, after insisting veganism transformed his wellbeing.Now, he’s hoping his Buddah bowls, pancake stacks and homemade cakes can make others aware of the environmental impact our diet has.Owner Joe said: “Veganism is really the way forward.“The cruelty to animals is absolutely horrendous and it’s all hidden.“I didn’t equate a steak wrapped in cling film to a cow.“Chickens used to take 16 weeks to get to their full weight and now they’ve got it down to about 10 weeks.“It’s not natural- and people

Date nights just got a whole lot better as Ayr get sets to be turned into the drive-in entertainment capital.That’s thanks to two jam-packed events set to kick start the business in the town.The first event ‘Country Music Drive In Show’ will roll onto Ayr Racecourse at the end of this month on Thursday July 30.Gary Gamble will perform his impressions of Daniel O’Donnell , the fiddling maestro Stephen Smyth, young sensation Owen Mac and the fabulous Keltic Storm band will take to the stage.Gates open at 6:15pm and tickets cost £21.50.The second event hopes to catapult Rozelle park into a drive-in cinema hub as The Iris get set to wheel their giant screen over two days on August 22 and 23.The Iris are throwing it back to the eighties and

Some normality has been restored in the High Street as the fruit and veg stall at Wallace Tower is back in action.