New planning bill gives local authorities powers control holiday lets
The new Planning Bill which the Scottish Parliament passed on June 20 includes “new powers for local authorities to in...
Category: Community
Work begins on the new Madras site
Last week, Fife councillors finally agreed to purchase a site for the long-awaited new new Madras College to begin const...
St Andrews GP out of hours service to be retained
The St Andrews Out of Hours campaign team (L-R): Cllr. Linda Holt, Penelope Fraser, Dr Angela Anderson, Paloma Paige...
Proposal to dispose of day care centre causes alarm
Relatives and carers of elderly people attending the St David's Resource Centre in St Andrews have reacted with concern ...
Fife A&E service struggling to meet target
Fife’s Accident and Emergency Department is struggling to deal with record numbers of patients.
Although NHS Fife c...
Concern at increase in prostate cancer waiting times
With around 50,000 new cases every year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males in the UK - accounting for a...
£25,000 raised for children from Tayside and NE Fife with cancer and Leukaemia
To mark its 25th anniversary, the charity Tayside and North East Fife Children with Cancer and Leukaemia (TCCL) has gift...
CSARA welcomes Abbey Park decision
Statement by David Middleton, Confederation of St Andrews Residents' Associations (CSARA) Chair:
The North East Planning Committee's decision is remarkable, not only because it was passed with no dissenting voices, but because it strongly asserted the need for development to respect the existin...
“Scandalous” levels of child poverty in North East Fife
Data released last month by the End Child Poverty Coalition revealed that 27 per cent of children in the St Andrews ward...
Planning Committee rejects plans for Abbey Park
Plans for a new budget hotel and student accommodation (picture) in an upmarket estate built over the last few years on ...
St Andrews West expansion given outline planning consent
By a margin of 9:3, Fife Council’s North East Panning Committee voted to grant outline approval for the western ex...