The Benarty Heritage Preservation Group held an open evening in the Benarty Centre this week where they were able to showcase many of the projects they are currently working on. A packed centre was able to see a number of slide shows of past and […]
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Investment for Lochore Meadows
Lochore Meadows is to receive an annual increase in its running budget of £120,000 as part of the proposals contained within the Fife Council Labour Administration draft budget published last week. The proposal states; “Lochore Meadows Country Park is due to transfer from the Council […]
Briefing Note Welfare Reform in Fife
Fife’s Elected Representatives Briefing Note Welfare Reform in Fife Background This paper sets out the current position of the major reforms in welfare benefits and gives an up to date position with regard to the implications for the Fife area. To date only around 20% of […]
Health and wellbeing key driver of Labour budget
Fife Labour’s draft budget has focussed on getting more resources into sport and leisure and the Council leader says this is part of a strategy to drive up the numbers participating in sport and leisure across the Kingdom. Earlier this week Mr Rowley met up with Gordon Brown […]
Gearing up for Christmas in Kelty
Local councillors have agreed to provide £4,960 for the Kelty Winter Festival which is a range of events including a Christmas feyer, Santa’s grotto, torchlight procession and other events involving the community centre, nursery, schools and local groups in the lead up to Christmas […]
“We will remember them”
In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place, and in the sky The larks still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, […]
Death of Helen Eadie MSP
Fife Council Leader Alex Rowley has paid Tribute to Helen Eadie MSP for Cowdenbeath who died today. He said; “Helen Eadie will be mourned in every community of Fife grateful for her 30 years of faithful and dedicated service first as a community worker then as […]
Tenants ‘Welcomed back” to Sheltered Housing in Graham Court
The tenants of Graham Court Sheltered Housing in Lochore are celebrating the reopening of the complex following extensive refurbishments. Over the last year, Fife Council has made a significant investment to convert outdated bedsits into 20 units of modern flatted accommodation, along with replacing the roof and updating the fire […]
Making progress with opencast restoration
ST NINIAN’S opencast mine near Kelty has a new start, with news that coaling and restoration operations will resume. Hargreaves Services PLC has reached an agreement with Fife Council and the other regulatory bodies to win the remaining coal and fully restore the site which […]
Fife building care villages
As part of a programme to replace the councils existing care homes in Fife the council executive has agreed to proceed with a Cowdenbeath area care village and the site chosen is at Cedar Crescent, Lumphinnans. The proposal is the replace the current Jenny Gray in […]