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Good Friday was omitted from one of the holiday schedules in the next three-year plan | Pic: Michael Gillen

Warning of furore as Good Friday missed off Fife school holiday schedule

Fife Council leader David Ross (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Council continues with commitment to community wealth building

The appeal aims to give a gift to every patient in hospital on Christmas Day | Pic NHS Fife

Appeal to give gifts to Fifers in hospital on Christmas Day

Keith Duffy and Brian McFadden have teamed up for Boyzlife who are at the Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline | Pic Contributed

Fife gigs: Boyzlife, Jason Byrne, Tidelines and more head to Fife venues

In rehearsal for the Hunchback of Notre Dame | Pic Alastair More Photography

Curtain up as KAOS brings Hunchback of Notre Dame to Fife stage for first time

Cardenden flooded after the torrential rainstorm of 2020 | Pic: George Zielinski

Grants scheme opens to help Fife businesses and residents on flood prevention

Fife residents can give festive boost to local care home in SPAR Scotland giveaway. (Pic. Contributed.)

Fife residents can win festive boost for local care homes in SPAR giveaway

Sandie Peggie

Sandie Peggie to appeal against employment tribunal ruling on case against union

The Cedar Inn is set to be changed into a family home and two holiday lets.

New plans approved for former Aberdour pub which has sat empty for a decade

Traffic and Travel

Flixbus adds Glenrothes to its routes this month | Pic Contributed

Flixbus adds Fife town to its network – this is what tickets will cost

The Queensferry Crossing will close in the early hours of November 1

Queensferry Crossing to close for work on automated system

The lower 20mph speed limit will apply to a number of roads | Pic Contributed

Kirkcaldy 20mph: the streets facing lower speed limits after council decision

20mph sign on a residential street. | Pic Emily Dalton/LDRS

Kirkcaldy councillors back 20mph speed limits in town - with some exceptions

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A Ryanair flight from Madrid was caught up in Thursday’s disruption (photo by Jaime REINA / AFP via Getty Images)

Plane bomb threats: all flights and airports affected

Amazon driver tosses parcel out of van window - before 'taking snap of damaged package as proof of delivery'

Amazon driver ‘lobs’ Christmas parcel from van window

Four couples who are still together from all 10 MAFS UK series

Photo by MAFS.

Married At First Sight UK axed by Channel 4

Crime

James Suttie

Police name 80-year man who died in Glenrothes incident

Robert Haggart

Rapist is jailed for five years

A total of 287 deliberate fires took place in the Kirkcaldy area last year.

Almost 300 deliberate fires recorded across Kirkcaldy last year

Chief Inspector Chris Mill

Five shoplifters linked to 331 crimes as Kirkcaldy sees rise in retail theft

The cold callers are claiming to be working with Falkirk Council. Pic: John Devlin

Fife couple lose £4000 in roof repair scam as new warning issued

Steven Muir appeared for sentence at Falkirk Sheriff Court | Pic Central Scotland News Agency

Kirkcaldy police officer jailed after helping to forge a will for a friend

Weather

Storms Austen and Boelo to hit within 24 hours. | Pic. Met Office

Storm Austen & Storm Boelo: weather warning as delays and disruption expected

Anna Forster looks out the window at ivy on her wall in North Queensferry which has turned red as autumn comes early to Fife.

Autumn arrives early in Fife as ivy displays red and golden hues

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Fife weather: Met Office issues yellow warning for thunderstorms

Opinion

After Kirkcaldy endured a noisy adhoc firework display, is it time to ban them?

Councils have had the power to introduce firework control zones for a couple of years now. Do any actually exist?

Allan Crow

Christmas movies follow the same format, but are easy viewing | Pic geralt/pixabay

Why Christmas movies are so addictive they cause an outbreak of tinsel-itis

Lorraine Brown and Lorna Cairns with David Torrance at the annual Ranch Dance Pink Party in Kirkcaldy | Pic Contributed

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: we need to keep conversation going

Budget: breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future

Melanie Ward MP, Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy

Melanie Ward on Kirkcaldy High Street | Pic Contributed

How defence skills training can help fill our empty High Street shops

Passengers board a bus in Edinburgh in 1967 | Pic TSPL

The wheels on the bus go round and round once more after you turn 60

The Veterans Here & Now project - Bill Mason, Cath Ruane and Lisa May Young (Pic: Submitted)

Appeal for memorabilia to be part of new Kirkcaldy exhibition on veterans

Politics

The landmark former JG Innes bookstore \ Pic Fife Free Press

New plans revealed for landmark St Andrews bookshop building

The front and rear of the premises | Pics Fine Designs Architecture

Premises which have been a pub, pet shop and clothes shop set for new role

St Monans Kirk

Funding for future of Fife church

The former ABC cinema is set for demolition (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Information event for former Fife cinema

Business

John Swinney speaks to workers at the yard | Pic Raymond Davies

First Minister: 'Navantia Methil yard's opportunities for next generation’

Kirkcaldy coffee shop announces Cash for Kids Christmas team up. (Pic. Contributed.)

Kirkcaldy coffee shop announces Cash for Kids Christmas team up

The new advert aims to attract more visitors to Fife | Pic Fife Council

Mission: Impossible star Dougray Scott voices new TV advert promoting Fife

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Data revealed that the quality of toilet facilities affects how much people are willing to spend

UK hospitality industry risks losing £500m because of poor toilets

Over half of parents saying their child avoids creativity due to fear of getting it wrong

Parents say screen time and homework hold back children's creativity

Fern Brady reveals UK's biggest housemate icks

Brits biggest houseshare 'icks' revealed

1 in 3 are choosing to spend their weekends cooking

Brits ditch nights out for home cooking

Brits spend nearly four days a year handling ‘life admin’ for others on their phones

Brits spend nearly four days a year on phone life admin

Miniature billboards, shop signs and railway adverts were installed throughout Bekonscot Model Village and Railway

Bekonscot Model Village goes big on itsu Jumbo Spring Rolls

Environment

The plans for the land after finally securing ownership | Pic Poets' Neuk

Decade-long fight for land gifted to St Andrews by Mary Queen of Scots pays off

Kinghorn beach (Pic: Cath Ruane)

Kinghorn water pollution: Scottish Water CEO action pledge after town visit

Chancefield Woodland.(Pic: Fife Council planning papers)

Outdoor learning venture for Fife woodland approved

Greens MSP Mark Ruskell (Pic: Cath Ruane)

Data centre halt must see action, say Greens

People

One year old Autumn Roger helped launch this year's Cottage Centre Christmas appeal | Pic Fife Free Press

Cottage Centre Christmas appeal: help raise £60,000 and make a difference
It’s a Christmas appeal which gives much more than just gifts - it gives hope, dignity, and love.
Allan Crow

Huge crowds flocked to Lang Toun Lights last year | Pic ADHD Media UK

Lang Toun Lights: call to get involved in Kirkcaldy’s festive switch-on

Cameron Gimour

Fundraiser launched for Cammy after building work row with council

Fiona Forsyth, with Alice Wilson, Fundraising Manager for Fife Health Charity. (Pic. Contributed.)

Fife Health Charity reveals name of new mascot after public vote

Rob Duff | Pic Contributed

Fife lifesaving fundraiser adds published author to his list of achievements

Education

Katie Thomson with daughter Annie

New nurse celebrates with baby daughter

Fintan Bonner, Theresa Rothkeppel, Sheila Walker, and Simon Brian

Theresa makes history with golfing award

Dr Arthur Bernhoff (inset) defeated candidates including MSP Dr Q Manivannan | Pic Mitchell/Getty Images

Graduate defeats sitcom star and MSP to become new rector

Carole-Anne McCann, Group Recruitment Manager at Arnold Clark, Iona Worgan, James Millar, Adam Mohammed and Sarah-Jane Linton, Fife College Vice Principal are pictured at the Arnold Clark Scholarship 2026 presentation at Fife College’s Dunfermline City Campus. (Pic. Contributed.)

Fife students receive Adam Smith Scholarships

John Cleese has criticised MSP Q Manivannan in the election for rector | Pics: Joshua Sammer, Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images)

Rector row: students vote as Python star criticises MSP in St Andrews election

The Lib Dems published the figures on violence in Fife schools | Pic: Michael Gillen

Fife school violence figures branded ‘extremely disturbing’

Health

Alice Wilson (Fundraising Manager), Kerry-Ann Corstorphine (Nurse), Heather Campbell and Emma Saunders

Money raised for Fife hospice for Victoria Hospice after ‘above and beyond’ care

Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy Maree Todd watches nurse specialists Iricka King (left) and Angela Morton (centre) demonstrate a fibro scanner, which checks liver health, during a visit to Whytemans Brae Hospital in Kirkcaldy | Pix Jane Barlow/PA Media

Alcohol death figures ‘tip of iceberg’ says Drugs Minister on Fife visit

Nurosym's earpiece has helped people relieve various symptoms

This unusual earpiece claims to help with anxiety, fatigue and pain

Courtney Fleming with Nicola Adams, and (right) before her weight loss | Pics Contributed

Kirkcaldy woman’s new lease of life after losing almost 8-stones in weight

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