An angry mum has hit out at the council after they cancelled her son's school transport. Lesley Pickthall, 40, was told son Angus, five, can no longer catch the bus from Dundrennan to Auchencairn Primary as it is full and they live outside the ...
The winners were Robert Hawthorn and Jason Boyce from Whithorn and Runners-up were Scott and Trudy McCubbin of Auchencairn. Beaten semi-finalists were Willie Rice and John Jarvie of Dumfries and Andrew Broll and Stuart Kennedy of Whithorn.
In the gents' national championship district singles on Monday night, Scott McCubbin of Auchencairn beat Kirkconnel's Alastair Monteith 21-17, Billy McMinn of Dalbeattie lost 21-13 to B McDonald of the Crichton, Creetown's Alan McClymont beat Gretna's ...
Stuart Ditchburn, chairman of Auchencairn Initiative, said negotiations have been opened but are still at an early stage. He said: “We are in negotiations with the owners to buy the premises through a community share offer. “It's not confined to the ...
A community garden planted on a patch of wasteland in a Dumfries and Galloway village has won a major new award. The Auchencairn link park has been named the overall winner of the first Carnegie Prize for Design and Wellbeing. It celebrates projects ...
A community buyout might be on the cards for Auchencairn's only pub, the Smugglers Inn. Villagers should have a better idea by Christmas when the results of a feasibility study are unveiled. But the creation of a community benefit society, with ...