The site, in Ayr Road, was the headquarters of the Chronicle which were the paper’s home prior to our relocation earlier this year.

East Ayrshire Council bought the site and will be building houses there, with a completion date of Spring 2016 expected.

Meanwhile the transformation of a little corner is final, a previous health facility being bulldozed, also for housing, on land next to the Chronicle.

It was a quick end to the paper’s former office as it was reduced to a shell, more than a week ago, before being razed to the ground.