All about the United Kingdom’s national, regional and local press

Kilmarnock Standard

The Kilmarnock Standard (“incorporating the Ayrshire Weekly News and the Irvine Valley News“) is a weekly tabloid newspaper sold in the town of Kilmarnock and the council area of East Ayrshire, taking in the towns of Stewarton and Kilmaurs as well as Galston, Newmilns and Darvel in the Irvine Valley.

It was founded in 1863. As the title suggests, it’s incorporated two other newspapers since then. The first was the Ayrshire Weekly News and Galloway Press, which merged with the Standard shortly before the First World War. Then in 1966 it absorbed the Irvine Valley News and Galston Supplement (which itself was the result of the amalgamation of two newspapers, The Weekly Supplement and Advertiser, for Galston, Newmilns, Darvel and Hurlford and The Irvine Valley News and District Advertiser).

It’s published by Media Scotland (Scottish & Universal Newspapers Ltd until December 2011), a branch of the nationwide publishing group Trinity Mirror. The editorial offices are in Kilmarnock.

As with Media Scotland’s other local and regional titles, it lost its own independent website in 2013 in favour of piggybacking on the relevant local pages of the Daily Record‘s site. The old kilmarnockstandard.co.uk URL now redirects there.

It comes out on Wednesday evenings.

  • Address:
  • Kilmarnock Standard
    25 Portland Gate
    KILMARNOCK
    KA7 1JN
  • Tel:
  • 01563 545218
  • Fax:
  • 01563 571527