THIS week we look back at the North Ayrshire pics and headlines from autumn 2009.

Can you spot anyone you know in these pics from 15 years ago?

(Image: Newsquest) Pupils at James Reid School in Saltcoats were developing their cycling skills in autumn 2009. And a £2,000 donation from the team at Magnox North at Hunterston allowed them to purchase new bikes and helmets.

(Image: Newsquest) The Three Towns’ very own souvenir mugs were launched in November 2009 by Kent Crawford, proprietor of Crawford’s Cards in Dockhead Street, Saltcoats. The mugs featured Saltcoats Town Hall, Ardrossan’s Cannon Hill and Stevenston High Kirk.

(Image: Newsquest) Ardrossan teenager Rosie O’Donoghue would be skating off to California after she beat off stiff competition at an in-line skating qualifier. The 15-year-old wowed the judges at a 2009 UK qualifier for the World In-line Skating Championships and walked away a winner.

(Image: Newsquest) There was fantastic news for West Kilbride in 2009 as it was announced that the village’s Community Initiative had been awarded the superb sum of £870,000 in Lotto cash to carry out major development there. The team are pictured celebrating the award.

(Image: Newsquest) Alexander Wilson from Beith was named the Best Student on the second year SVQ2 course in Agricultural Engineering at Oatridge College in West Lothian in 2009. He is pictured with George Anderson, the President of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society.

(Image: Newsquest) Staff at the Seamill Hydro raised funds for Breast Cancer Care in October 2009. They dressed in pink and made some delicious pink cakes too.