From the archives of the Ayrshire Post

25 YEARS AGO

Dog bins and poop scoops are now planned to ease the sadly widespread dog fouling problem in Kyle and Carrick.

Council officials are admitting defeat with a plan to ban dogs from parks and recreation areas in Ayr.

The prohibition simply didn’t work, as the public largely ignored the ban.

Sadly, many of them also allowed their dogs to continue fouling, says a council report.

50 YEARS AGO

Building work on Ayr’s first multi- storey car park is due to start on March 1. It is not only a pioneer project for Ayr but will be the first of its kind in the west of Scotland, outside of Glasgow. The building, between High Street and Dalblair Road, will be of five storeys, but with six operational, as there will be parking on the roof. There will be space for 480 cars. Work on a nearby £ 1 million, 130- bedroom hotel will start simultaneously, and it will also have its own parking spaces.

100 YEARS AGO

The new librarian at the McKechnie Institute in Girvan is a former sergeant in the Scots Guards who fought against Osman Digna in the Sudan.

Alexander Carle was later sergeant major, for 15 years, at the regiment’s recruiting office in Glasgow, and he was seven years president of the city’s Scots Guards Association. He is also a past master of Glasgow’s Thistle Lodge of Freemasons, having been a member for 19 years, and having held all the principal offices.