General News

cancer-ribbon-outline-i12

Lochgelly Cancer Study

0
I am currently seeking funding for a study into the possibility of a cluster of cancers of various types within Lochgelly and surrounding towns. This follows three funerals this week alone of under 40 year olds who all died of cancer. This is in very early stages but I have created an email [...]
Recycle Fife logo

Recycle Staff Defiant Despite Raids

0
Two raids in January saw fuel stolen from a Lochgelly company along with electric cabling. Staff at Recycle Fife saw them lose the best part of a day’s work collecting and recycling the host of items, which has made the social enterprise a highly successful operation. Company Director at the [...]
100_1938[1]

Recycling made easy for local businesses

0
Whether you are an office, factory, club or pub it’s easy to get into the recycling habit using our commercial recycling services. We provide comprehensive recycling services to businesses throughout Fife from pubs and clubs through to offices, universities and police services. And you’ll be [...]

2 weeks ago

Author Tim Moore has visited some of the most unloved places in Britain for his new book ‘You Are Awful (But I Like You)’ and shared his experience of Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath online on The Telegraph. An outsiders view of the 2 areas provides some insights as we have all grown used to our towns, and while some of it may be offensive, it is funny at the same time. Wee gems include;

The towns lay no more than three miles apart: a five-minute drive or a 25-minute wait for a bus..

Shardy’s, a tough little cream-coloured cube with bars on the windows, looked more like a cowboy prison…

The Silver Tassie gets a mention as well as the Golden Fry. To read the full article please visit: Wish you were here? Tim Moore’s travels through unloved Britain

damejudidench

Lochgelly North School to improve the local environment

0
In celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee, the Lochgelly North Special School in partnership with the Woodland Trust have committed themselves to planting 61 trees in a bid to help regenerate and improve the local environment. Other groups committed to planting trees includes Foulford Primary [...]

3 weeks ago

If you haven’t seen the Fife Times yet, a freed sex offender (Andrew Whitelaw) has been caught with the biggest stash of Child Pornography in Lochgelly. The prosecutor stated that 204,000 child porn materials were found with more than 6000 being extreme, and a further 3001 video files were found with nearly 250 videos at the most extreme scale. For the full report visit the Fife Times website: Biggest ever child porn haul found in Lochgelly

EPAW

EU governments did not do their homework on wind energy

2
It now appears that wind farms may have no benefits at all According to the European Platform Against Wind Farms (EPAW), which represents over 500 associations from 23 countries, the National Renewable Energy Action Plans adopted by EU States in June 2010 have failed to answer two essential [...]
Lumphinnans Pond

Lumphinnans Losing a Community Resource

1
We were down at Lumphinnans Pond about a week ago and it was nice to see that the area is teeming with wild life and bird life. We have also been told that it is a good fishing spot. When visiting the area we also noticed a lot of dog walkers enjoying the area, but what surprised us, is that no one [...]

1 month ago

One of the drivers involved in the accident on the A909, near the Mossmorran entrance died at the scene of the crash. The accident happened around 7:15am. A female driver was taken to the Queen Margaret Hospital but appears to be uninjured.

1 month ago

The A909 is currently closed after a serious car collision near the main gates of Mossmorran. It has been reported that 2 cars had a head on collision with one person seriously injured. This has resulted in slow moving traffic in both directions between the B925 Junction and A92 Junction. Police are directing the traffic and will be providing an update later.

Go to Top