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Jenny Gilruth MSP Column

Outwith Festival brings a wide range of performers and events to Dunfermline (Pics: Matt Robertson)

Why I think Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy can learn from each other

How it used to be - 1963 and fans jubilantly hold up their tickets for a Beatles concert (Pic: Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Bands and promoters have the power to stop dynamic ticket pricing

Oasis on stage at Murrayfield on their last visit to the city. (Pic: Ian Georgeson/TSPL)

That scunnering feeling we’re being ripped off for big gigs as hotels cash in

A Scotrail 158 train at Inverkeithing Train Station

Fife Greens blast SNP peak rail fares betrayal of workers and climate

Teenagers hang on to their smartphones (Pic: Niclolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)

When the schoolbell rings it’s time for pupils to put down their mobile phones

Promfest in Leven was a huge hit at the weekend (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Fife is awash with events and festivals – why isn’t Kirkcaldy part of it?

Kirkcaldy High Street - one of many across Fife which are struggling (Pic: Submitted)

Readers' debate: what does future hold for our town centres & shopping centres?

Jenny Gilruth MSP. Pic: Wikimedia.

Jenny Gilruth MSP: Summer Recess 2024

Don't panic if your results weren't what you hoped for (Pic: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Why your exam results are not the end – they are just the beginning.

A motorist holds his credit card as he takes fuel at a petrol station (Pic: Guilllaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images)

Cash or card: from sandwich shops to stadiums, we must have the final choice

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Accessib, reliable bus services vital for rural Fife areas - Willie Rennie MSP

Mobile phones are locked into 'Yondr' pouches before people enter a phone-free zone (Pic: Angela Weiss / AFP)

Phone-free zones: we can’t put our phones down, so technology can do it for us

Jo Caulfield and Evan Henderson launch Kirkcaldy's comedy and film festivals (Pics: Fife Free Press)

Kirkcaldy: time to revive spirit that gave town its film and comedy festivals

Lindsay Thomson, Deputy Returning Officer, opens the first ballot box at the Fife election count (Pic: Andrew Beveridge)

ElElection Night: a long night before a new dawn – fuelled by sweets and coffee

Why is there a need to film, and upload, every single thing we see? (Pic: geralt/Pixabay)

If we film everything, it’s only a matter of time before we are the next subject

We film everything these days. Absolutely everything.

Allan Crow

How supermarket check outs looked in 1979 (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Bring back checkout staff and put customer service back into supermarkets

Without fail, the call comes just when you are busy or engrossed in a box set.(Pic: Alban_Gogh/Pixabay)

Giving cold calls the cold shoulder isn’t easy when they are never ending ...

Fife College Kirkcaldy campus (Pic: Scott Louden)

Threat of docking Fife College lecturers’ wages is not acceptable in pay dispute

An artist's impression of an expansion to the Mercat in 2011

Our ailing shopping centres need to become vibrant community hubs

Venues, and bands, need audiences - without them our live entertainment will wither (Pic: DanikPrihodko/Pixabay)

Why Kirkcaldy has to do much more to support its live venues

Lib Dems photo bomb the Prime Minister (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Election 2024: Placards, pledges and positive responses on the doorstep

The new train station at Cameron Bridge (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Leven Rail Link; a sense of pride as Levenmouth is finally reconnected

Were you a Blue Peter or a Magpie fan in the 1970s? (Pic: Evening Standard/Getty Images)

1970s glory days of kids’ TV: Crackerjack, Rentaghost, & The Double Deckers

Chamberlain MP speaking in the Chamber.

Chamberlain raises Access To Cash during PMQs

Ha social media had a corrosive effect on how we communicate? (Pic: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)

Words matter because words wound - the toxic social media fall-out has to stop

Claire Baker MSP attending the Inquiry in February, with members of Sheku Bayoh's family

9 Years After Death of Sheku Bayoh - Hope That Inquiry Will Deliver Answers

POLITICAL OPINION - This item has been submitted by Claire Baker MSP, Scottish Labour Party.On the ninth anniversary of the death of Sheku Bayoh, Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Claire Baker has expressed her hope that the inquiry into the circumstances around his death will finally deliver answers for his family.

Claire Baker MSP

RAF Leuchars

Chamberlain urges Government to ensure safe military accommodation

A gap site and an eyesore ...the empty site that was once home to Kitty's nightclub (Pic: Fife Free Press)

First impressions count –  let’s tackle Kirkcaldy's gap sites and drab vennels

A disability campaigner from "Dignity in Dying" holds a placard as she demonstrates outside Westminster (Pic: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images)

Assisted Dying: not as simple as pro-life or pro-choice – Neale Hanvey MP

Chamberlain and FCA Representatives

Chamberlain discusses Access to Cash

David met with the team at Rose Marketing recently. (Pic: submitted)

Small businesses from cafes to pet shops are beating heart of our community

The caravan park says it needs the extra pitches to cater for growing demand (Pic: Google Maps)

St Andrews caravan park unveils plans for 68 more pitches to meet growing demand

The boards which celebrate the history of the Glenrothes Gazette (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Closing the door on office life and a way of working that has gone forever

The Ghost Train on stage at the Kings in Kirkcaldy - a key venue for music (Pic: Cath Ruane)

£1 ticket levy could small venues at heart of our live music scene

Women from Scottish Feminist Network outside the Court of Session in September 2023' (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Cass Report ‘vindicated my position but can’t fix damage inflicted’

Links Market, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Fife Photo Agency)

April may be cold but we still have ‘Links Market weather’ to come

Clubbing in the afternoon is the latest buzz (Picx: Pixabay/ericbarns)

Afternoon clubbing- a great idea, just pitched at the wrong age group

The story made the front page of this weekend's Fife Free Press

Kirkcaldy parking ticket row will only hit town centre evening economy

Just four EV chargers at a major service station in a Bank Holiday (Pix: Pixabay)

EV drivers together in electric dreams waiting for a free charger

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This Easter save enough energy to bake hundreds of hot cross buns

Claire Baker MSP with Malcolm Dick, Director GS Brown Precision Engineers

Claire Baker MSP visits GS Brown Precision Engineering in Ladybank, Fife on empl...

From Twitter to X (Pic: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

Why X now marks the spot with bile, spambots and conspiracy theories

Comic Cons have become huge events (Pic: Lisa Ferguson)

Comic con success is way ahead for Kirkcaldy town centre to bring people back

Claire Baker MSP supporting ASH Scotland's campaign

Local MSP Urges Smokers to Quit for No Smoking Day

Claire Baker MSP, Neil Davie, Graham Robertson, Graham, Rennie, Ramsay, Sandra Knight (SDS)

Claire Baker MSP visits CTDI Glenrothes in Apprenticeship Week

The photo - and the flak: Pics: Kensington Palace/Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Tumbling down a rabbit hole into a Katespiracy on manipulated Royal photo row

Andy Murray after losing his round one singles match at he 2024 Australian Open (Photo by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)

Sharing with Andy Murray the gnawing doubts over the right time to retire

Groundhog Day and Kylie were among the references made during exchanges in the council chamber (Pics: Cameron Smith/Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Fife budget: Kylie, Cohen & Groundhog Day ‘chuntering from a sedentary position’

Helen Stevenson , venue manager at Kirkcaldy Galleries (Pic: Fife Photo Agency)

My heart and soul are in Kirkcaldy Galleries says venue manager

The Beautiful Trainwreck Show on stage at the Kings, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Cath Ruane)

Waiting on the shout from the crowd – the joys of live music

Save Burntisland Harbour march in 2021 (Pic: Fife Photo Agency)

Burntisland port campaign underlines power of the community – David Torrance MSP

Ineos Grangemouth Refinery (Pic: TSPL)

Ineos fight is about preserving our nation’s industrial capacity

Rishi Sunak's bet with Piers Morgan was arguably another new low for politics (Pic Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Sunak’s TV bet on Rwandan plans was cruel, cheap, childish and utterly callous

Claudia Winkleman presents The Traitors (Pic: BBC)

The Traitors: a game that keeps us hooked, and guessing