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  • Plea for people to help stricken countries

    CARDENDEN and Kinglassie MP Peter Grant is calling on Fifers who can to donate and assist Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe after the countries were hit by one of the worst natural disasters. This region was hit by a cyclone and it has been reported

  • Down Memory Lane

    THIS week's Down Memory Lane photo collection comes from exile Doreen Lyons who now lives in Ayrshire. Doreen is from Ballingry originally but moved to Ayrshire 40 years ago. She has these photos, indeed a small selection of a number her family

  • Vikings hit Beath

    A GROUP of 24 Danish high school students and their teachers visited Beath High School on Thursday March 14. The students, from Copenhagen, toured the school, participated in lessons and discussed Danish and Scottish culture with Beath’s senior

  • Image of the Week

    THIS week's Image of the Week comes from Lee Lithgow who admits to having only taken up amateur photography a few weeks ago. Said Lee: "I have been learning for some weeks now and enjoy it. I took this in Dunfermline's Pittencrieff Park." If you have

  • Netballers lose out in semis

    THE Beath senior girls netball team travelled to Dumfries Academy to play their quarter-final tie in the Scottish plate. The girls had worked hard to get themselves to this position and rose to the occasion producing their best performance of the

  • Benelux success for Melissa

    COWDENBEATH Karate Club have been very busy already this year with tournaments across the UK and finishing off with a major tournament in Amsterdam and a medal trail has led back to the town. Young fighters from the club first fought in Edinburgh

  • Delay no joke, says writer

    THE news that the Scottish Government is delaying the devolution of major social security benefits to Social Security Scotland until 2024 will have made many people smile. What a joke for a party that is always claiming to be able to better govern

  • Double-glazing salesman avoids jail after street brawl

    A DOUBLE-GLAZING salesman who made false allegations against a rival has narrowly avoided a jail sentence. Darren Reape viciously made up a tale that a man who had put him in hospital after a street fight, had breached his bail conditions by phoning