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  • Brooke outlines Commonwealth ambition

    DUNFERMLINE badminton starlet Brooke Stalker admits she's love to emulate her late uncle and take to the Commonwealth Games court. But, while the 13-year-old says she's "got expectations" of what she'd like to achieve in the sport, she's not looking

  • Abbie lands knockout world title!

    A TRIO of West Fife teenagers are celebrating after landing knockout global medals – with one of them reaching the top of the world. Abbie Fairclough, Sebastian Rae and James Gibson, who are members of the Dunfermline-based Fife Kickboxing and Self

  • Gifts of roses handed to Dunfermline shoppers

    SHOPPERS in Dunfermline were greeted with roses this weekend to mark a special date in the Muslim calendar. Dunfermline Central Mosque took part in the national Mawlid in the City project which was aimed to engage with the wider public by talking

  • Half of gravestones have failed safety review

    AROUND half of the gravestones that have been checked so far in a safety review of Fife cemeteries have failed. Fife Council's Bereavement Services team have been given the mammoth task of assessing 100,000 graves across the Kingdom and the majority

  • Missing teenager traced

    A TEENAGER who was reported missing from Inverkeithing has been traced safe and well. Police launched an appeal to help locate the whereabouts of Olivia Leake, 13, last night following growing concerns for her welfare. She had last been seen

  • Tributes paid to well-known funeral director who dies at 81

    TRIBUTES have been paid to funeral director John 'Mev' Stoddart, who died suddenly earlier this month. Mev was well-known in Dunfermline for being at the helm of John Stoddart & Sons which has been a family business for generations. He passed

  • Worker rapped after slapping toddler at Dunfermline nursery

    A DUNFERMLINE nursery worker who slapped a toddler has been given a warning. Syeeda Ramzan was working at the Appin Nursery and Creche on August 23 last year when she struck the child twice on the hand. She also threw a sensory ball which hit