Holiday help for families

back to the community at Turnberry and these people have spent all their hard earned money saving up for a holiday. They were snapped up straight away and everyone who is coming was meant to leave on Monday or Tuesday, but now they will stay here until Friday evening free of charge with free passes for entertainment and all that.”

On Facebook the holiday park wrote: “We know it’s not the holiday abroad you were expecting but holidays are a time for family and we hope this will help some families still create those amazing memories as planned.”

Around 150,000 British holidaymakers have been stranded abroad after Thomas Cook ceased trading.

All its 600 shops closed meaning job losses for staff in its Ayr, Troon, Girvan and Cumnock stores.