Cupar Arts Festival opens today (Friday) with a flag raising at Haugh Park at 6.30 p.m. and continues until October 26 with an array of art, music, theatre and workshop events for all ages.

The Centre for Stewardship (organisers of the Big Tent Festival) announce their Annual Stewardship Lecture which this year is by Satish Kumar on the subject of ‘Reconnecting with Food'.

Funds raised on 27 Sept for Macmillan Cancer Support

Industrial action affecting Fife Council's contact centre has been called off. Contact centre workers had been due to strike from Monday for a week over a national pay dispute.

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Scottish landscape artist John Houston has died, aged 78.

For the whole of October, Historic Scotland is repeating its amazingly popular Kids Go Free offer.

Results of the Fife wide competition

Members of the trades unions UNISON, Unite and GMB staged a 24-hour strike in support of their pay claim, following on from a similar protest on August 20.

Why not spend some time in your local library, polishing up your computer skills with the aid of our helpful staff?

Fife has been officially named the most beautiful council area in Scotland following the success of Cupar, St Andrews and Glenrothes at this week's Beautiful Scotland awards.

Fife Council is warning of another day of disruption to services on Wednesday, 24 September, including some school closures, due to industrial action called by trades unions UNISON, Unite and GMB.

The Secret Garden, near Letham was honoured for its ‘outstanding contribution to play' in the annual award scheme run by the Nancy Ovens Trust.

New beginners class, starting in Collessie Village Hall on Thursday 11 September is cancelled ue to lack of support

o coincide with Freuchie Cricket Club's centenary year, a new edition of a book that tells the story of the club's finest hour has just been published by Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh.

Agenda for the next Collessie Community Council meeting thatwill take place in Victory Hall at 7.30pm on 15th Sep.

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Children raised money towards new sports tops

unwanted items to the school by 31st october

Known as the 'festival for musicians and music lovers', this year's Collessie Music Festival gets underway at Fife Animal Park tomorrow (Saturday).

Although three-years worth of 'seedcorn' funding to get the event up and running has now ended, organisers have confirmed they can raise enough revenue through other funding sources to ensure the weekend-long event in the grounds of Falkland Palace remains a firm fixture on the Scottish festival scene.

Details of Door open events in east Fife on 21 Sept

Fife, including many parts of the Howe came to a stand-still yesterday as more than half of Fife Council's employees went on strike.

Council update on industrial action disruptions Wed 20 Aug

Thanks to the Howe's floral volunteers and an update on Scotland and Britain in Bloom competitions.

dance classes resume after the school holidays

Fifers are being invited to gve their views on proposed core path routes over the next 12 weeks as part of the draft core path plan public consultation process.

Due to current conditions and the prospect of further heavy rain making conditions worse, the Collessie Duck Race has been cancelled. It shall be re-scheduled for a future date.

Enjoy light classical music & song in Monimail Church on Thursday 21st August at 7:30 pm.

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Entries to the Letham and District Flower Show contact Alison McDonald, tel 01337 810250

Local anglers have welcomed a £9.3 million investment to refurbish four waste water treatment facilities near the River Eden. The projects are being undertaken by Scottish Water as part of its £62 million investment programme across Fife.

Fife Council has been officially awarded five European blue-flag awards for its clean beaches. The Leven East beach was handed the accolade for the first time, with flags also going to Aberdour, Burntisland, Elie Harbour and St Andrews west sands.

TIME IS running out for individuals or groups hoping to have their events featured in the next edition of the Events In Fife publication.

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Community groups in NE Fife are being urged to apply for new funding from the Climate Challenge Fund

On 5&6 July trains from the north and Fife will terminate at Dalgety Bay Station with Rail Replacement Bus Services providing connections to Inverkeithing, North Queensferry, Dalmeny, Haymarket and Edinburgh.

An amateur football team is heading to Poland for a friendly against one of the country's professional sides.

Competition judging details

If you're a keen photographer, why not enter the Rural Gateway website's photo competition? Following the success of their 2007 competition, this year's is bigger and better.

Letham park consultation and sponsored walk

Match Report: Cupar Hearts 1-1 SUAFC (AET Strath won 4-2 on penalties)

A TINY orphan roe deer found curled up on the Lomond Hills near Falkland is now well on the way to recovery in the tender care of the Scottish Deer Centre near Cupar

Birnie and Gaddon Loch News Update, June 08

Today Fife's First Outdoor Access Festival was given a boost with the announcement of funding from the Fife Events Strategy Group and Scottish Natural Heritage.

North Fife artists open their studios

Birnie Loch and Gaddon Loch Newsletter May 08

Excessive speed targeted near Letham crossroads 32 offenders found in one morning

Ten Fife Craftspeople Awarded Grants

Support the on-line petition to keep Scottish football on free to air tv

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New Forth bridge ‘ready by 2016’

New web portal launches officially today in Freuchie

Iain Smith, North East Fife MSP gets guided tour of SCF web portal

Get the latest from the Fife Ranger Service on bird and wildlife at the Lochs in March 08.

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Fife Council plans to withdraw free dog dirt bags

Get the latest from the Fife Ranger Service on bird and wildlife at the Lochs in February 08.

Close of the Big Conversation coming soon.

Fundraiser thanks

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Rural gateway photo competition

Grants for craft workers

Healthyliving award

Get the latest from the Fife Ranger Service on visitors to the Lochs in January 08.

FALKLAND woman Fiona Lawrenson is at the forefront of reminding older and disabled people in Fife not to miss the bus on a free Scotland-wide travel scheme.

Volunteers wanted for 'Bums off Seats' scheme

Fife Council is currently carrying out a study to identify areas of landscape which should be recognised, celebrated and protected by a local landscape designation.

JANUARY arrived with a vengeance this week as winds of up to 80mph battered north east Fife, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

Get the latest from the Fife Ranger Service on visitors the Lochs in December 07.

Proposed core paths for Strathmiglo, Ladybank, Gateside, Falkland, Auchtermuchty and the Lomond Hills have been drawn up after two years of consultation. Fife Council invites your comment re major omissions or errors prior to the formal statutory consultation stage which will probably take place from the beginning of April 2008. See web link below for more.