River Garnock: Last News

A suspect in a car chase went to desperate lengths to avoid police – by hiding in a freezing Ayrshire river.

travel chaos across Scotland.The west coast has felt the brunt of the summer downpours with Renfrewshire and Ayrshire particularly hard hit.Phone footage by a driver near Kilmalcolm shows the Lochwinnoch Road partially underwater after the River Garnock burst its banks.The film shows the driver following a council drain clearer through the deep water and urging it to keep going and not stop.The end of the film shows the convoy passing a car with a flooded engine sitting helplessly in the water.Kilbirnie and Beith councillor Donald Reid took to Facebook to warn locals of ‘major flooding’ on the B777 at Garnock Campus.He wrote: “Just made it back having gone to Glengarnock to check on flooding issue.

North Ayrshire village are facing up to a flash-flooding nightmare they last witnessed 12 years ago. Residents of Glengarnock are preparing a huge clean up operation after Tuesday’s torrential rain.

Bomb disposal experts have been called to an Ayrshire town after an object was found in a river.

Bomb disposal experts have been called in to deal with an ongoing police incident in Kilwinning.