Bosses at Ayr's crippled Station Hotel have finally broken their silence to the Ayrshire Post.
Eng Huat Ung – who has been an absentee owner of the crumbling pile since 2010 – is now ready to "break the deadlock" at the site, according to his representatives.
His legal team this week insisted Mr Ung, a Malaysian businessman, was prepared to find a "final solution" that would see "the hotel up and running again".