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  • Foodbank's plea to people is 'keep donating'

    "KEEP donating" is the message from Dunfermline Foodbank who have already seen a rise in West and Central Fifers needing their help. The Dunfermline facility's warehouse co-ordinates supplies to the satellite operations at The Fountain Meeting Rooms

  • Egg-stra special donations after Facebook appeal

    A CROSSHILL support worker has spearheaded an egg-stra special charity appeal. Members of the Killer Queens Facebook group, which runs competitions and appeals for donation, chipped into help with the impressive donation. After providing £1300

  • Police being kitted out with protective gear

    THE roll-out of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to frontline officers in local policing divisions across Scotland is expected to get under way this week and it means local officers will be kitted out. The team co-ordinating the Police Scotland

  • Brown bins back to every four weeks

    FROM Monday bin collections in the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area for brown bins, for garden and food waste, returned to every four weeks. Over the winter it has been eight weeks but from this week it is back to every four. Said a council spokesperson

  • New range has stamp of quality

    RE-EMPLOY, the Crosshill-based social enterprise company which employs people living with multiple challenges, has just sent out an order of its new merchandise which has impressed a big local employer. The company, which is based at BRAG's Crosshill

  • Mixing it with the big boys caught in booklet

    COWDENBEATH are marking the 50th anniversary of winning promotion to the top tier of Scottish football by the production of a special booklet following the Blue Brazil mixing it with the Rangers and Celtics of this world. Following discussions

  • Ellie's Rainbow of Hope!

    THIS amazing feature was created by Cowdenbeath balloon artist Ellie Kay. Although a student nurse at the Queen Margaret Hospital, in Dunfermline, Ellie also runs a Facebook based balloon business called ERK Events and she has become pretty adept

  • Coronavirus denies old folk great groups

    THIS coronavirus situation is kind of putting a real hole in the work of the volunteers who run the tremendous groups that tackle isolation. The Benarty Companions Club is a really unbelievably good organisation and it really makes a difference