Community Hub buys St Davids Centre
North East Fife Community Hub, which currently provides a range of support services to for residents, including a commun...
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Council Leaders ask for help in solving Fife’s health and social care crisis
Fife Council co-leaders David Ross and David Alexander have requested a meeting with the Health Secretary, Jean Freeman,...
Universal Credit causing severe hardship in Fife
At a meeting organised by local Labour MP Lesley Laird, volunteer groups, including Kirkcaldy Foodbank and Citizens Advi...
Welfare cuts could cost the Fife economy £153M a year by 2020
The report on the impact of welfare reforms submitted to the full meeting of Fife Council earlier this month predicts an...
NE Fife community councils demand return of full Out of Hours service to St Andrews
Members of ten community councils from across North East Fife yesterday met officers from the Fife Health & Social C...
St Andrews Students’ Association elects new President
Jamie Rodney has been elected Students’ Association President, defeating his two opponents, Josh Stevens and Paloma Paige, in an election using the Single Transferable Voting system (STV). Paloma Paige is the serving President.
Below is an analysis of Mr Rodney's manifesto by Seoras Lyall in Th...
Council tax avoidance may be costing Fife Council up to £900,000 a year
It has been estimated that the impact of two perfectly legal mechanisms for avoiding council tax may be costing Fife Council substantial sums in lost revenue.
The first, involving second home owners switching from council tax to non-domestic rates, has been highlighted by Fife Liberal Democrats w...
NHS Fife bids for new Orthopaedic Centre
NHS Fife announced at a board meeting last week that it intended to submit an outline business case for a state-of-the-...
Queen’s Gardens one way with contraflow – an end to this?
Queen’s Gardens is a beautiful and elegant street which is a credit to the town, with its fine houses on one side and ...
Fife Council to consult on regulating HMO numbers in St Andrews
Fife Council has announced plans to consult on proposals to limit the growth in HMOs in St Andrews [1].
Convenor of t...
Possibly the world’s oldest teaching wall chart of the Periodic Table found in St Andrews
During a clear out of the of the Chemistry Department's storage area at St Andrews University, a very old and tattered r...