A racist who told a sweeper at Ayr bus station to "go back to where you came from" has been given unpaid work hours as punishment.

A deliberate blaze closed Ayr railway station in September ... Mr Lynch has also been critical of the replacement bus service, after closures on the A77 have seen it suffer 20-mile diversions ...

Rail services have been disrupted after a fire broke out at the former Ayr Station Hotel for the second time in four months. Emergency services are dealing with the blaze and ScotRail said it did ...