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  • Crossford teenager found safe and well

    A CROSSFORD teenager reported missing yesterday (Tuesday) has been traced safe and well. Police Scotland had issued an appeal last night after Louis Hubbard, 14, had not been seen since leaving an address in Ellaleen Grove at about 2pm on Tuesday

  • Man headbutted by drunk after night out in Dunfermline

    A LATE-NIGHT street argument in Dunfermline ended in a man being headbutted. Kenneth Solway carried out the assault at around 2am when he was drunk, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard. Solway, 21, of Dundonald Park, Cardenden, appeared from custody

  • Woman struck on head in domestic assault

    A DUNFERMLINE man has admitted assaulting his former partner. Andrew Wilson, 41, of Cleish Place, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. He admitted that on June 4, at Provost Mill Way, Kelty, he assaulted his ex by striking her on the head.

  • Community delight with defib power donation

    A DEFIBRILLATOR has been installed in a West Fife village in memory of a popular resident. Betty McLean, who lived in Long Row – the cottages between Kingseat and Halbeath – died after suffering a cardiac arrest. Following her death, residents

  • Winter deaths in Fife 'the highest for 11 years'

    THE winter of 2017/18 saw the highest number of deaths in Fife in the last 11 years. And the director of public health, NHS Fife's Dona Milne, said it had more to do with a "poor vaccine match" for flu than the freezing cold weather brought to the

  • Culross to become TV set once again!

    CULROSS is to become a television set again this week as it hosts the second series of a BBC show. The village – and its Palace – were used for some of the first series of Rise of the Clans and restrictions will be in place for the second round

  • Water taxi plans for the Forth are scuppered

    HOPES of running a river taxi service on the Forth appear to be sinking fast. Fife Council commissioned a study to look at the feasibility of taking passengers from West Fife along the coast and across the river. The idea was it would help

  • Fifers dying for a drink is the highest number for 18 years

    THE number of Fifers who died from an alcohol-specific illness is the highest in 18 years. An alarming annual health report said there were "significant levels" of booze-related harm with more than 70,000 adults in the Kingdom drinking more than