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We are making a call to members of the local community who would like to create and share their local news and views about Lochgelly and the surrounding areas. There are many local issues within the Lochgelly area, and many positive and negative developments and news, but due to time [...]

Corporate Hospitality from Mossmorran

It emerged at the Lochgelly Community Council meeting for March, that Mossmorran has been offering and providing gifts and events, to community representatives that serve on the Mossmorran Community Liaison Group. This may also extend to local representatives that serve on other Mossmorran [...]

Blue alert! Bluebells on their way – and earlier than last year…

The Woodland Trust is calling for the public to find their nearest wood and record the first appearance of native bluebells, as it tracks the arrival: http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/map/current.htm?rsid=164&reid=3&ry=2012&rs=S of the flowers across the country this spring. The conservation [...]

Homemade Dandelion Cordial

If your looking at trying something new and cheap this week why not make the most of the abundance of Dandelions growing about us in Lochgelly. Here is a really easy recipe to try and it makes for an amazing alternative to squash. Ingredients: As many Dandelion heads as you can get, [...]

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Help Hedgehogs

1 week ago

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Listening to a radio programme last week, there was an appeal to help hedgehogs and to make our gardens more hedgehog friendly. Here are the links provided from the radio programme. Welcome to Hedgehog Street Hedgehogs are declining and urgently need your help. Please become a Hedgehog Champion [...]

Bonnie Scotland

3 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 214

Bonnie Scotland by McKintosh Welcome tae bonnie Scotland, land o the wind Tur-bin, Ower by yon bonnie banks an by yon bonny braes, Please jist ignore thon bird-kill, it disnae mean a thing. Ye cannae see the hills fer aw the giant wind-mills, Bit ye’ll no hae tae walk ‘cos they’ve built aw they [...]

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Auld Lang Syne

4 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 468

Auld Lang Syne by Rabbie Burns, 1759 – 1796 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought tae mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, For auld lang syne! Chorus: For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet For auld lang syne. And surely you’ll be your [...]

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Doric Ode Tae Wind-Farms

5 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 316

by McKintosh Move aside, get oot the way Progress is comin’ tae oor hills an’ braes Giant machinery strides across oor land Neither beauty nor beast can stop the demand. Wi’ diggers and lorries rippin’ an’ tearin’ The countryside noo looks sich a blight Wi’ churned-up earth piled oh so [...]

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National Wind Watch

7 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 620

Whilst I personally dislike the current proliferation of Wind Farms in my area, I feel it is up to the local community officials to speak on behalf of the public and to negotiate on our behalf. Although I reserve the right to voice my opinion, it is only an opinion, each of us should make up our [...]

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Environmentally Friendly?

8 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 550

Despoiled Land I live at the top end of Lochgelly and face towards Mossmorran. I am against the industrial wind turbines being built between the dual-carriageway and the cracker plant. The evidence is growing that they don’t work, cause health problems and are detrimental to the land they are built [...]

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Kingdom of Fife

1 year ago

by McKintosh | Views 8009

Blog-by McKintosh The Kingdom of Fife Fife (Gaelic: Fìobha) was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife. One of the first ‘recorded’ mentions of the Picts comes from a Roman poem written in the late 3rd century AD, mentioning the [...]

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