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Hello, its Tuesday the 6th of September, welcome to URTV news, Im Jo De Sylva
More than two hundred years after she died, the mother of Robert Burns, Scotland’s greatest poet, is gaining a new found fame of her own – among the nation’s gourmets. An original recipe of Agnes Broun, a cheesemaker from Maybole, has been resurrected by South Ayrshire dairy Barwhey’s and is fast becoming a big seller for Chisholms Delicatesen in Ayr. Agnes, who died aged 37 in seventeen ninety six, was born in Craigenton Farm, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. She married a market gardener called William Burnes from the north east of Scotland and settled in Alloway, Ayrshire to rear 7 children, but continued to make farmhouse chedder cheese to her own recipe. We spoke to Kevin Wadsworth to find out a bit more.

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And to see more on this story, just click on the link below……..West Kilbride in Ayrshire is eighth on the list of a new survey looking at which areas of the UK are you most likely to purchase a personalised numberplate. The car insurance specialist elephant.co.uk conducted the research, which found that motorists in Scotland are most likely to own a personalised numberplate than the rest of the UK, with West Kilbride coming in at a respectable 8th place, with 10.2 percent of the car owners in the KA23 postcode area owning a personalised plate, thats 6.2 percent above the national average…….A 13-year-old boy injured in an incident in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Queens Drive area of Kilmarnock has died in hospital. Jon Wilson of Gateside Place, Kilmarnock, was taken to Crosshouse Hospital but died yesterday afternoon. A 16 year-old youth has been arrested and is presently detained in police custody in connection with the incident……Thats all for today, thanks for watching.