A BUNCH of outlaws rode in to Maybole last week — and astonishingly gave money away! The In-step Outlaws Line Dancing Club organised a special night out, hiring award-winning group The Deans. John Dean and John Pettifer are well known on the line dancing circuit, and sacrificed a week in Tenerife to be in Maybole! For they could have been soaking up the sun for a fortnight, but cut their island engagements to a week, because of the big bash in Maybole.  The duo are from Harrogate and John’s brother Jim was formerly in the group when it was known as the Dean Brothers. More than 140 line dancers from all over the south-west of Scotland gathered in Maybole Town Hall — from the Isle of Whithorn, Newton Stewart, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Ayr and of course Maybole and district, Rae Collins, dance instructor with the In-step outlaws, said the night was a brilliant success and thanked the club members for their help. She presented cheques for £1,000 to Barbara McAndrew, Breast Cancer, and Anne McGill, of Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. And Rae announced that £100 would go towards a local appeal to buy special apparatus for severely disabled Maybole tot Ellie Robinson. ( From the Ayrshire Post September 13th 2002)