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Labour have said that Conservative claims that events like September’s airshow will generate the money needed to protect services are ‘pie in the sky’.

A councillor has called on South Ayrshire Council to learn from its failed bids for levelling up cash to ensure success in the next round.

“Time hasn’t run out, but is fast running out” for Ayr’s Station Hotel as South Ayrshire Council set the clock ticking on its demolition.

South Ayrshire’s Labour leader Brian McGinley has warned that the cost of running Ayr’s airshow could end up hitting council services.

South Ayrshire Council Leader Martin Dowey hasn’t ruled out compulsory redundancies as the local authority faces a potential shortfall of £14m next year.

South Ayrshire Council leader Martin Dowey has laid out the plans for the future of the Citadel if councillors vote to scrap the proposed town centre leisure centre.

A bid by the Conservative administration to revisit the demolition of Ayr’s high flats was resoundingly beaten at the last meeting of South Ayrshire Council before recess.

Labour have insisted that they did not abstain from voting in order to allow the Conservatives to take control of South Ayrshire Council.

The SNP will form a minority administration — without support from Labour — who have made claims of a ‘political stitch up’.

South Ayrshire Labour’s leader has reiterated the reasons for demolishing Ayr’s high flats after the Conservatives vowed to retain them.

A proposed Ayrshire windfarm has been described as a ‘rape of the landscape’, an act of ‘environmental vandalism’, and ‘a disaster for the local community’, should it get the go ahead.

Ayr leisure centre to back up their opinions with hard evidence.There has been vocal opposition to the leisure centre and the broader regeneration plans in recent weeks.The focus has largely been on the location of the centre, the removal of a sports hall from the proposals, the recently approved plan for the former Woolworths site and parking in the town.Now Councillor Brian McGinley has challenged those critics to provide evidence, while citing a range of national studies he says backs up the Ayr regeneration plan.This includes evidence provided to the UK Government's housing, community and local government committee and the independent Centre for Cities group.Cllr McGinley said: “I would like to challenge the critics of the council’s

Labour councillor has been caught in a Twitter storm after suggesting his party did not want certain people's votes.Brian McGinley was met with an online backlash over his response to the vote of no confidence in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon – which his party bosses failed to support.A Twitter user contacted Mr McGinley to say they could no longer consider voting Labour as a result.And the depute leader of South Ayrshire Council replied: "That's fine because we want voters who understand what we are about."If your vote is dependent on a single issue like this then that's too unstable."If you cannot see the bigger picture, Labour's vision, values and commitments, then you would be better staying on the other side."His post was slammed as

South Ayrshire carers should be tested for Covid-19, the council’s depute leader has said.