Nathan Noble, aged 17, is this year's winner of the Margaret Currie Fairlie Young Citizen of the Year award.

This year’s recipient received the Queen’s Badge, the highest award in the Boys Brigade. He has taken part in leadership training and he helps with younger sections in the Boys Brigade.

He is a keen musician and plays with the Largs Academy Concert and Swing Bands, and he is currently working on his Trinity of London Grade 6 music award on saxophone. He also has an interest in sailing, and for the past two years has crewed in the Clyde Cruising Club Tobermory race

This year he travelled to Malawi to spend a fortnight with Largs Academy’s partnership school there, and he gives talks about his time in Africa to local youth groups.

Former councillor Richard Wilkinson presented the Quaich to Nathan at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

In 1993 Margaret Currie was awarded the British Empire Medal for her contribution to the community – among other things, she started Fairlie Youth Club and she was the village news correspondent for the Largs and Millport Weekly News. It was decided to have an annual award in her name for a young citizen of Fairlie who either worked with or encouraged other youngsters as a leader, or who had achieved something of significance.