Share your local News & Views

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Web News

LOSW site updates and general internet news section.

Site Upgraded

4 months ago

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We have been updating the site to the latest version of WordPress and while we were at it, we decided to upgrade to the latest theme version of Mystique by DigitalNature. Since we have upgraded the theme, we lost all our previous customisations, as the updated version of Mystique using the Atom [...]

Site Issues

4 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 181

For some reason no-one can post an article at the moment, other than from Administrator accounts. Anyone who tries to access the dashboard area or create a new article currently receives the message ‘you do not have sufficient permission‘. We have a lot of security plugins that were recently [...]

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Free Scottish A4 Calendar (2012)

4 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 606

Every year we like to create a printable A4 Calendar and give it away for free. We have been delayed this year as we have been supporting the Lochgelly Community Christmas Lights by advertising their calendar. This years calendar showcases the scenery and historical monuments from around the [...]

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Hack Attempt

8 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 570

Last night around 7:58pm – 8:01pm the site experienced some difficulties as it was under repeated attack from a hacker in the North Street area who also tried to hack our free internet access point. The multiple attacks on the site and network was blocked each time. The computer initiating the [...]

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Free Internet with OpenDNS

8 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 254

Since the New Year. three volunteers have been testing out an initiative to provide free broadband to anyone located near one of our access points with a Wi-Fi enabled device. We were hoping to test this out and roll it out so other individuals can take part and turn Lochgelly into an open Wi-Fi [...]

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Scottish Parliament tables motion about LoSW

11 months ago

by James | Views 400

We recently received a Google Alert notifying us that a motion has been tabled by MSP Murdo Fraser for the parliament to congratulate the volunteers of the Loch of Shining Waters, we have published the motion below *S4M-00058 Murdo Fraser*: Lochgelly – Loch of Shining Waters Community Website—That [...]

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New website launched – promotion offers

1 year ago

by Lochgelly | Views 600

Over the past week we have been building a new website that will hopefully generate money for the community magazine. Ideally, if the website makes enough money, we can remove all advertising from the magazine, keeping the magazine ad free with more content about the local area. For those of us [...]

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Back Online – Site Changes

1 year ago

by Lochgelly | Views 576

Sorry to our regular members and visitors for taking the site offline over the weekend. The site was unavailable from Friday the 23rd April until the early hours of Monday morning and went back live roughly around 1:45 am. There was a couple of reasons for taking the site offline, the main reason [...]

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Lochgelly Albert JFC – Site Review

1 year ago

by James | Views 1822

As some of you may already know, Lochgelly Albert have relaunched a new website for the fans and local community to connect with the club. The site is available at: www.lochgellyalbertjfc.co.uk The new site is much larger than their previous site and is packed with new features and a wide variety [...]

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Recycle Fife – Supporting Earth Hour

1 year ago

by Lochgelly | Views 1974

We have been notified by the local non-profit Recycling Facility; Recycle Fife, that they will be supporting this years Earth Hour initiative. At first we weren’t sure what Earth Hour was but after a quick look at their site and the official Earth Hour site, we feel it is a worthy cause to promote [...]

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