FROM New Zealand to New Cumnock community groups and charities have marked Commonwealth Day.
East Ayrshire was one of more than 1,000 locations taking part in the largest ever Fly a Flag for the Commonwealth event.
Scouts in The Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Malaysia, Maldives, Republic of Malta, Mauritius, New Zealand, Samoa, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago raised the Commonwealth flag at 10am local time on March 12, joining thousands of other young people around the world to mark the 2018 Commonwealth theme, Towards a Common Future.
As it’s the Year of Young People, several young people were invited along to the East Ayrshire flag raising at council HQ in Kilmarnock.
Terri Brown, member of the Scottish Youth Parliament and Ryan Chynoweth helped Provost Jim Todd to raise the flag while Cameron Raeside read out the Commonwealth Affirmation.
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