I THINK it is hight time someone in high office honours Andrew Caulfield for his remarkable progress as a boxing referee.

Now maybe he is now living in Blairforge but he is a Lochore man through and through and most of his family live in Benarty.

I doubt we have ever had a sportsman who has done as much as Andrew, certainly not in modern times. He boxed in one Commonwealth Games in 1990 for Scotland and then refereed at the Delhi Games four years ago, and has been chosen to do so again in Glasgow.

Sandwiched in between that he has refereed at the Olympic Games, it really is an amazing record.

I would have thought that the Cowdenbeath Area Committee might have taken an interest in Andrew’s progress, even although I suppose Blairforge would be seen as being in Kinross-shire although it is only yards from Kelty.

Andrew, as I have stated, is very much a Benarty man and is proud of coming from Lochore so it would be right that something is done by our Area Committee.

No doubt Councillor Willie Clarke is very aware of the Andrew Caulfield story which has developed over the past quarter of a century and maybe he will bring it to the committee’s attention.

I know that you cannot have a Citizen of the Year type award for the Cowdenbeath Area but this, I think, is a special case which needs to treated as something out of the ordinary.

As I said before, I cannot think of anyone who has promoted the area better over the past 25 years than this man.

From what I have read in your columns he is highly thought of by the boxing authorities and maybe has even more honours coming his way in boxing refereeing.

Surely with the Commonwealth Games coming up this month something could be done locally to honour him this autumn.

BOXER, Lochgelly.