Lochgelly Centre – Official Reopening (images)

The Lochgelly Centre was officially reopened on the 14th February 2012. As part of the celebration Lochgelly High School Brass Band and Choir were on hand to provide music throughout the ceremony. Councillor Brian Goodall cut the ribbon to mark the opening, and then an acrobatic performance was [...]

Local group under threat of closure

With the ongoing ‘austerity’ measures enforced on local authorities we have seen reduction in public services and quality of service as the local authorities try to juggle services to fit into tight budget limitations. The austerity measures have also had an impact on many local charity groups as [...]

Industrial Wind Farm for Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly

Attending the Lochgelly Community Council meeting, last night (08/02/12), we heard a presentation from Banks Renewables who are seeking to build 6 x 125 metre turbines in close proximity to the Lochore Meadows, Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly communities. The developers stated that [...]

Questions concerning Little Raith Wind Farm

We had a meeting with the developer of Little Raith Wind Farm (Kennedy Renewables) and their PR/Political Lobbying group (Invicta PA) back in October. Unfortunately, most of our questions couldn’t be answered at the time, but the developer took note of the issues and concerns raised, and notified [...]

Mossmorran, will the incident on June 2011 be repeated?

On the 11th June 2011 at 3:10am, Mossmorran suffered an incident which resulted in excessive noise pollution, vibration and light pollution which caused one local to write a darkly comic doric poem, titled; ‘Dawn Chorus O Mossmorran‘. This article was the most commented article to ever appear on [...]

Lochgelly Galleries

Lochgelly (Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It is located between Lochs Ore and Gelly [1] to the north-west and south-east respectively. It is separated from Cowdenbeath by the village of Lumphinnans. According to the 2007 population estimate, the town has a population of [...]

Stop ACTA

The biggest tech news in America recently was the possible passing of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) which has currently been put on hold due to large scale online protests from groups, individuals and other corporations concerned that the act, which on the surface, is aimed at stopping File Sharing [...]

Lochgelly North School to improve the local environment

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 [...]

Community Council

Community Council knew possible health risks of Little Raith

1 month ago

by Lochgelly | Views 433

We recently requested the Lochgelly Community Council minutes dating back from 2007 from Fife Council, through a Freedom of Information request. Unfortunately the earlier minutes are very brief with lengthy discussions summed up in a very short space, so it is hard to determine the activities of [...]

Community Council – December Meeting

1 month ago

by Lochgelly | Views 207

The Community Council held their monthly meeting on the 14th December at 7:00pm, after the Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year ceremony. None of the local councillors were present and apologies were received from Community Councillor James Haddow, in attendance was a Community Police Officer from [...]

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Citizen & Young Citizen of the Year 2011

2 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 182

Last night the Lochgelly Community Council held a special ceremony to recognise and award two individuals from the Lochgelly area with the title of Citizen of the Year, and the Young Citizen of the Year. The award ceremony started at 6pm at the Royal Oak Community Club and was well attended by [...]

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Community Council Meeting – 14th December

2 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 147

The next Community Council meeting is to be held tomorrow at the Royal Oak Community Club. The meeting will start at 6:00pm to officially recognise and award the Citizen of the Year and the Young Citizen of the Year for 2011. After the Citizen of the Year ceremony, it will be business as usual with [...]

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Disclosure Scotland Act

2 months ago

by aws6gr | Views 227

Disclosure Scotland! Are all the community councillors checked by the Disclosure Scotland Act? Is this information available for inspection or should it be obtained by the freedom of information act

Mossmorran – Time Bomb?

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 196

The Community council raised concern over the recent flaring events at Mossmorran which has been mostly non-stop for the past 2 weeks. Community Councillors have made the call again that a representative from Mossmorran should be attending the Community Council. It emerged that the Community [...]

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Community Council – Little Raith Wind Farm

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 333

After raising issues of concern over Little Raith Wind Farm, and a member of the public raising their own issues over the wind farm at previous meetings, Community Councillor Steven Murray asked for an update from the Community Council regarding the Health & Safety of Little Raith Wind Farm [...]

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Community Council AGM

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 298

The Lochgelly Community Council held their AGM on the 9th November and selected new office bearers and then continued with their normal meeting. A lot of issues were raised and discussed so we will be breaking the coverage down into a couple of articles. This article will cover the AGM part of the [...]

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Community Council AGM – Little Raith

3 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 113

The Lochgelly Community Council are holding their Annual General Meeting tonight (9th November 2011) which will select new positions for the role of Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer. After the positions are selected the meeting will resume as normal. Whilst we do not know the exact agenda for [...]

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Community Council (Oct 11)

4 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 244

One of the site coordinators; James, attended the latest Community Council meeting (12th October) to raise the issue of Little Raith Wind Farm. At the same time, this has given us an opportunity to provide an update on the Lochgelly Community Council. Note: The report below may contain errors as [...]

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