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Councillors have agreed to help out Ayr's Gaiety Theatre by giving them £150,000 this year - but have said that the council cannot continue to hand over money to keep it afloat.

The remainder of Ayr’s pantomime programme has been axed due to the Covid Omicron outbreak.

Ayr.The country and western star was given a send-off complete with stage lights at the town's Gaiety Theatre.Fans lined the streets to say farewell as 'Steak 'n' Kidney' made the journey to his final resting place.Sydney, who passed away this month aged 81, stopped outside the theatre one last time as a mark of respect this lunchtime.Those who had gathered burst into applause as they honoured one of the town's favourite sons.Gaiety CEO Jeremy Wyatt stood at the entrance to the theatre and led its uplifting tribute.He said: "It was great to see so many people turning out."We wanted to do something nice with the theatre and our technical manager, Fraser Emslie, came up with the idea of the lights."It was a fitting way to pay tribute to a

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThere will be no Christmas pantomime at Ayr's Gaiety Theatre this year after bosses confirmed the cancellation of their ‘Sleeping Beauty’ production.The show has been shelved for a year amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and concerns that this year's production would be rendered "not viable".Jeremy Wyatt, Chief Executive of the Gaiety, said: “Our decision to postpone Sleeping Beauty to 2021 is part of the general wave of show cancellations happening up and down the country."The current conditions and restrictions make our former plans to present the full-blown annual festive panto this year not viable at all.”Gaiety chiefs say they are

Theatre bosses admit this year’s Gaiety panto is now in “serious doubt”.The production of Sleeping Beauty is among those threatened by the ongoing coronavirus crisis.Stage chiefs had hoped to re-open on September 1 for an autumn programme.But they confess hopes of that are “dwindling fast” in light of safety measures applied to combat the virus.“We cannot do socially distanced theatre,” said Gaiety CEO, Jeremy Wyatt, this week.“We continue to make plans for a panto but are realistic at the same time.“The production is now in serious doubt and that is a huge shame.