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  • Backing local businesses is so very vital at this time

    SHOPPING 'local' and supporting local businesses will help local economies to come through the Covid crisis. That is the message from Fife MSP Alex Rowley who is warning that the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis is going to be ‘severe

  • Stay away from Magic Mushrooms

    IF you come across a Psychedelic shroom don't touch it. That is the warning from a local councillor after being alerted to the dangers of the plants, better known as Magic Mushrooms, which have been growing on the playpark near Cardenden Primary

  • The night Lindsay pipped the Burgoynes

    DO you remember the 1997 Scottish Championship at the Cowdenbeath Racewall? It turned out to be a cliff hanger with Fifer Lindsay Wilson earning the right to race with the saltire on the car’s roof!, writes our Racewall scribe Jim Turner Do you

  • Drugs element tends to be there

    WHENEVER there is an horrific spree killing of apparent strangers, as there was in Reading last weekend, people are very quick to ask whether it was ‘terrorism’. They are far slower to ask what contribution the abuse of cannabis and other illegal

  • The challenge of helping families during lockdown

    FAMILY charity Fife Gingerbread is normally busy making sure children and parents can engage in a huge variety of groups to avoid social isolation but their work has been turned upside down by the coronavirus crisis. Gone are the times of toddler