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'If the school closes, there would be no reason to live here'

News Focus: East Ayrshire parents are taking on the local council over rural school closure plans, as Cate Devine discovers.

Deep in the heart of Burns country tonight, songs will be sung. But laments will also be heard in Mauchline, the erstwhile home of the bard and his wife Jean Armour, from parents unhappy about the opening this evening by Adam Ingram MSP of a new £8.8m primary school.