Shielded residents

South Ayrshire Council has announced that they are supporting the next- day delivery of medicines from all 29 community pharmacies across the area.

Employee volunteers at the local authority have been drafted in to aid the distribution of supplies to shielding and vulnerable groups.

And for those who are currently without means of collecting medication, the council will be on hand to support them too.

A spokesperson said: “Our Community Response Teams have been working with NHS Pharmacy Advisors to put in place procedures to allow employee volunteers to support the delivery of medicines to shielding and vulnerable groups from community pharmacies and hospitals.”

If you are shielding and need assistance, contact 01292 616101.

For the latest information on service changes visit the website.

Fly tipping is continuing to spread across South Ayrshire as “desperate idiots” dump their unwanted hordes of junk, it’s been claimed.

The Post was one of the first newspapers in Scotland to highlight the problem back on April 8, in the wake of South Ayrshire Council’s decision to close all their civic amenity sites in Ayr, Girvan, Maybole and Troon.

We warned in our two- page feature how the closures could lead to scores of irresponsible people taking advantage of the lockdown and discarding their junk illegally. Since then we’ve been inundated with messages from the public who are furious that their neighbourhoods and countryside is being ruined by the actions of mindless and selfish individuals.

One reader, Bryan Clark, of Maybole, told us how he’s seen “lots of fly tipping” in nearby woods and that he’s “disgusted” the local authority cannot open