238 Results for author: Douglas Haddow
"The hill roads of South Carrick make up the ultimate road cyclist’s playground. Popularly referred to as ‘the Ayrshire Alps’, the landscape offers fantastic scenery, cycle friendly roads, and a tough cycling challenge.
This exciting new sportive launched with great success in 2022, with a choice of the long 80 ...
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Brian Hignett was recently inducted as the newest member of the Rotary Club of Ayr. Brian is a retired veterinary surgeon, who spent most of his working life doing farm work in Devon. Brian was born in Kent, but his family moved to Glasgow when he was four years old, he went to school at Hillhead High School in ...
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Lesslie joined Epilepsy Scotland’s training department in 2006 and was appointed Chief Executive in January 2009. Her passion for improving the life of people with epilepsy comes from personal experience. She has a daughter who has epilepsy and learning disabilities so she knows how a diagnosis of epilepsy impacts the ...
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The return of our guest speaker George Ballinger, to present his talk on the Design and Construction of the Kelpies, a sequel to his previous talk in February on the Millennium link canals and the Falkirk wheel.
George is a Chartered Structural Engineer, having graduated from Strathclyde University in Structural ...
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Our guest speaker on Tuesday evening was Don Panama accompanied by his wife Catherine, who delivered a brief presentation of his latest book ‘An Immaculate Illusion’, a historical fiction based very much on fact, in relation to a group involved in the creation, actions and fall of the Third Reich.
Don was born in ...
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For the second year, Ayr Rotary Club organised the amazing Careers Fair on the 16th of May in Ayr Town Hall for P7 children. 7 schools, and over 220 pupils attended, visiting 32 different careers.
The whole day was an endless buzz of excitement, curiosity and wonder for all attending pupils, evidenced by the supporting ...
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Scott Prentice’s visit and presentation at Ayr Collage Westerly Restaurant on Tuesday 30th April surrounding the ‘History and Future of Scotrail’ was well received and enjoyed by all attending.
Scott is Scotrail’s current Director of Strategic Planning, responsible for delivering:
Timetables for Scotrailâ...
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Lucy, Sophie and Emma from Kyle Academy, barely 15, were chosen to represent Scotland in the National final of Youth Speaks which took place in Norwich on Sunday 21st April 2024 at the John Innes Conference Centre. They had already beaten all other teams in Scotland.
Their topic was "This house believes AI should be ...
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On Tuesday evening at the weekly meeting, Ayr Rotary Club members were mesmerized by three very talented young ladies with their very professional re-run delivery of their chosen topic. On Saturday the Kyle Academy team going forward to the ‘Youth Speaks - A Debate’ National Final in Norwich on 21 April is Emma Kay ...
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The Age without Limits Action Day, which took place on March 20th, was an event celebrated across the UK, its purpose was to contest the often adverse and stereotyped depiction of older individuals prevalent in our society. The theme for this year? SEE and BE ...
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