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  • Flu vaccination time

    THE Meadows Practice at Lochgelly Health Centre is holding flu vaccination sessions in Lochgelly Town Hall on Friday October 25. The sessions are from 9am to noon and from 2pm to 4pm. Said a spokesperson for the Health Centre: "You should have

  • Frigate contract will be of huge benefit to local economy

    THE announcement on Thursday that Babcock has been awarded the contract to build frigates for the Royal Navy has been welcomed by local politicians as ensuring hundreds of jobs and massively benefitting the economy of West and Central Fife. Hundreds

  • Yvonne is Spot on

    YOU can win the chance to visit one of Fife’s finest restaurants by entering our Spot the Dog competition. Find our wandering hound in this week’s issue and you could win a £25 meal voucher for Wee Jimmies, in Cowdenbeath. The winner this week

  • Down Memory Lane

    THIS week's Down Memory Lane photographs come from exile Harry Ferguson, who is a Lochgelly man who lives in Warwickshire and found these which are all about The Cross. The pictures cover about 90 years of how the historic area of the town has looked

  • Gracie seeks a Second Chance

    THIS week we re-start our feature which sees the Times try to re-home dogs along with Thornton based Second Chance Kennels. Said Second Chance's Ena Conyon: "This is wee Gracie who will be 7 years-old in November. "She hasn't had a home life

  • Store set to re-open after major refurb

    ALDI will reveal a fresh new look for its Cowdenbeath store, when it re-opens to customers this week after a major refurbishment. Standing at 1,140sqm, in Stenhouse Street, a more customer-focused layout with wider aisles allows for the products

  • Image of the Week

    THIS week's Image of the Week comes from John Auld who said: "A lovely scene I caught when down at Pettycur." If you have taken a photograph you would like to see in our Image of the Week feature send it to editorial@centralfifetimes.co.uk or take

  • Making a difference to a child's life

    WITH 1,400 hearings being dealt with in Fife each year the Children's Panel is an important tool in helping young people change the direction of their lives. But to help make the Panel system work fully effectively more new members are needed, Cowdenbeath

  • Blue Brazil win Coalfields British title

    A COWDENBEATH team was celebrating success at the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) Home Internationals Football Tournament which saw the Blue Brazil Boys Club defend Scotland’s title. A total of 12 football teams made up of girls and boys from

  • Title for Glen in Aberdeen

    CONGRATULATIONS went to Glen Livingston, from Cowdenbeath BC, who retained the open men’s singles title for physically disabled bowlers at the Scottish Disability Sport national championships held at Westburn Park, in Aberdeen, on Saturday. Glen

  • Council decision is welcomed by unhappy reader

    I WAS very pleased to hear that a plan for another takeaway in Lochgelly's East Main Street was turned down by Fife Council. That part of Main Street already has takeaway facilities in place and indeed, when you look at the whole of Main Street