Kirkcaldy MP calls for clean water action
Melanie Ward, MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, has been pushing Scottish Water to take action to clean up Kinghorn’s bathing water before it is too late and the beach is de-designated.
Ms Ward first raised the issue with the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy Gillian Martin in July 2025, after beach closures in Burntisland and Kinghorn last year.
Ms Ward’s Clean Up Our Coasts petition has received over 750 signatures from Kinghorn residents and, in July of this year, she brought Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to a public meeting in Kinghorn, attended by over 100 Kinghorn residents to call for rapid and radical action to stop sewage entering bathing waters.