Opinion

Wizzard performing on Top of the Pops in 1973. (Pic: Jack Kay/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Top Of The Pops: a magnificent musical jukebox that thrilled generations

How school meals looked in the 1970-s (Pic: Evening Standard/Getty Images)

School dinners: memories of semolina, rubbery meat and rock hard potatoes

Protesters outside the Scottish Parliament during a No to Self-ID protest (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Neale Hanvey: Equality Act must urgently be amended

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

Bring back checkout staff and put customer service back into supermarkets

Cashless has become the norm at major events and in many stores (Pic: Scott Eisen/Getty Images for Mastercard)

Cash may no longer be king, but we shouldn’t be pushed into losing it

How Guy Fawkes Night used to look (Pic: TSPLK archives)

Bonfire Night: time to take fireworks off the shelves for good

Edinburgh Eastern MSP Ash Regan. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

Neale Hanvey: with Ash Regan in the Scottish Parliament, Alba’s impact will grow

A plate of veg ... juice it and you get a nutritional meal (Pic: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

We are what we eat – but too much of that is junk food and filled with sugar

Jocky Wilson in Kirkcaldy with the Embassy Darts World Championship trophy after beating John Lowe in 1982 (Pic: Crauford Tait/TSPL)

Jocky Wilson to Jackie O – we need to celebrate our legends and landmarks

Neale Hanvey MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath (Pic: Nikki Powell)

Neale Hanvey: I expect to be arrested under new Hate Crime and Public Order Act

Photo by BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images

15-minute cities: politicians and conspiracy theories are a dangerous mix

From diesel to green - one giant leap (Pic: Michael Gillen)

From diesel to electric car – one giant leap into the unknown

The pool site has come an eyesore (Pics: Fife Free Press)

Esplanade eyesore - the ghastly gap site that blights Kirkcaldy's waterfront

Roz McCall MSP and Cllr Gavin Ellis outside the Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline (Pic: Submitted)

Dunfermline needs essential A&E and maternity services back in the city – column

Shoppers in Kirkcaldy High Street circa 2010m (Pic: Neil Doig/Fife Free Press)

Kirkcaldy: a town without a bustling town centre is as hollow as a Polo mint

British rock group Queen in concert (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

Why Queen dropping a song from an album wasn’t really ‘woke ‘n’ roll’ after all
Chuck the word ‘woke’ into any contentious argument, and social media will light up as folk howl at the moon from opposite sides of the debate.

John Otway on stage (Pic: Cath Ruane)

Rock ‘n’ roll dreams can come true – just ask John Otway

The Massed Pipes and Drums during the working rehearsal for the first full run-through of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.(Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Put down your phone and soak up the spectacle of the event with your own eyes

Kirkcaldy town centre - an ever changing landscape (Pic montage: Fife Free Press)

Ever changing landscape of our town centres as shops come and go

Matt Hancock leaves 10 Downing Street . (Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images)

I’m A Celebrity: ignoring Matt Hancock may be the best way to humiliate the MP

Taylor Swift on the first night of her "Eras Tour" (Photo by Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP)

Is six just too young to go to a stadium gig – even to see your idol?

Thistles thwarted: boiling water finally brought down this garden menace (Pic: Fife Free Press)

One man’s war against jaggy thistles and sticky willow

Rosemary Potter at top of tower at the Old Kirk in Kirkcaldy (Pic: walter neilson/Fife Photo Agency)

Kirkcaldy Guardians: Rosemary Potter’s faith and community at heart of Old Kirk

Kirkcaldy High Street in 2011 (Pic: Neil Doig/Fife Free Press)

Wilkies closure: we’re all at fault as another High Street business closes

Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

The people of Scotland will have their democratic say - Neale Hanvey MP

Going Green: Warmer waters aren’t healthy for our wildlife

Decathlon’s green ‘No tent left behind’ campaign
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Electric vehicles are here to stay

Going Green: Driving home case for more electric vehicles

Enjoy the seaside

Going Green: Make little changes before visiting the seaside

Cherie Lunghi. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney)

Going Green : Make your barbecue environment friendly

Get out into the great outdoors this Father's Day

Going Green: Go back to nature with your dad on Father’s Day

Deborah Meaden (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Going Green: How awful is climate change for gardeners?

Lewis Capaldi performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Lewis Capaldi at Glastonbury: carried in the arms of the crowd

On a packed pitch at Villa Park to see Bruce Springsteen

Some people in a crowd at a gig are harder to ignore – but worth the effort

Kirkcaldy town centre montage

Kirkcaldy High Street: we need joined-up strategy to get behind – Neale Hanvey

Robert Peston on stage at the Adam Smith Theatre with Sally McKenzie, chair of the Adam Smith Global Foundation (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Adam Smith 300: A Boris bombshell that stole the show at Kirkcaldy theatre

Pic: John Devlin

Fife fire cuts: full house for SFRS buzzword bingo card, but no clear answers

Kirkcaldy Fire Station

Fire service chiefs must scrap cuts to Fife stations and start again - comment

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield at the National Television Awards 2022 (Pic: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Phillip Schofield: his downfall from 'Queuegate' to 'unwise not illegal'

Bruce Springsteen on stage at Murrayfield

Bruce Springsteen at Murrayfield: the greatest gig I have ever seen

Pic: Lisa Ferguson

Neale Hanvey: time to unite, all under one banner

Tina Turner on stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh, March 1985.

Tina Turner: a symbol of strength under adversity. Simply the best

The family will head off on their Tuk Tuk adventure on 8 July, they are raising money for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust

A unique tour of Kirkcaldy town centre in a Tuk Tuk

The notion families should stick together for the sake of the kids is simply wrong

Family values, Tory style, and a return to demonising kids from ‘broken homes'

Brotherhood Of Man, from left to right; Nicky Stevens, Martin Lee, Lee Sheridan and Sandra Stevens (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Eurovision: all style, no substance from Sandie Shaw to The Shadows and Scooch

Royal souvenirs on a stall in central London ahead of the coronation. Pic: Susannah Ireland/AFP via Getty Images)

King Charles Coronation: ‘great cry around the nation’ may sound muffled

The Mercat and the High Street have both suffered as number of departures

Kirkcaldy: time to demolish the Mercat and put all its shops into High Street?

They way we were: The High Streets of yesteryear in Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline

Town centres: why is Dunfermline High Street bustling but Kirkcaldy struggling?

Racks of vinyl records.

Record Store Day: The thrill of rummaging for vinyl when life spun at 33rpm

Kirkcaldy Links Market opening day in 2022 (Pic: Scott Louden)

Links Market: a unique Kirkcaldy tradition that flies under the radar

Volunteers Green

Volunteers Green: act now to restore historic piece of land to its former glory

Police outside the Palace Theatre in Manchester (Pic: Tash Kenyon/Twitter/PA Wire)

Time to ban the self-entitled idiots in theatre audiences ruining shows

Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom for his arraignment proceeding at Manhattan Criminal Court (Photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Donald Trump: a wretched figure at the heart of a divided America

Simon Dugmore and Mike Lowe, have handed over the reigns to son Brandon.

Cupcake Coffee, Kirkcaldy: a personal farewell to Mike and Simon

Pothole Pete was used to measure the depth of potholes in the capital city (Pic: Lisa Ferguson)

Navigating the bone-rattling, car breaking potholes in Fife's roads