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.

Falkland & Newton of Falkland Community Council are circulating a questionnaire to residents in the area known to have been affected by August's flooding.

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'.

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.

The Falkland Society is hosting the launch of the book, "My Scotland in the 50's; a love story and what led up to it".

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.

land has yet again swept the boards at the prestigious Britain in Bloom awards. As well as being awarded gold in the large village category, the Falkland in Bloom committee also scooped the Royal Horticultural Society's 'Local Roots' award.

Dysart-based film production company New Age Film Ltd. has just purchased the region's first full size digital movie camera with support from agencies such as Creativefife, a group of people representing the wide spectrum of creative industries in the Kingdom, and Fife Council which has also expressed an interest in developing the industry.

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

Call police if you have info.

£2074 was raised which will go to Maggies Centre and Children's Liver Research charities

Cupar rocked to the sounds of some of Scotland's top bands on Saturday when the first-ever 'Elmwoodstock' music festival was held in the grounds of Elmwood College.

If you haven't got your tickets for the Freuchie Cricket Club Dinner Dance yet - now's your chance.

Volunteers are being asked to come forward to help restore Maspie Den, one of north east Fife's most scenic and well-used landscapes.

At Falkland Community Council's monthly meeting on Tuesday September 9th, at 7.15 in the Village Hall, the problems caused by the recent flooding will be raised with Fife Councillors present.

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

Britain in Bloom judges visit Falkland after the floods

Council update on industrial action disruptions Wed 20 Aug

Church calendar news

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) warned yesterday that the weather forecast for the next few days indicated more rain and possible outbreaks of thunder and lightning on the east coast, with the risk of further flooding.

The third Big Tent festival of stewardship, Scotland’s largest eco-gathering, came to an end last night at Falkland after two days of activity.

Falkland festival 5-aside winners and Lomond United's trip to Poland.

Grassroots Zimbabwe will be bringing its Zimbabwean experiences to share with the audience and participants this weekend at the Big Tent Festival in Falkland.

This year's festival runs from the 1st to 10th August and, as always it's jam packed with community and traditional music events.

MEMORIES of 'T in the Park' are set to be revived soon as Cupar gears up for its very own music festival. Some 5000 fans are expected to descend on the grounds of Elmwood College on September 6 for 'Elmwoodstock', an ambitious one-day event headlined by some of Scotland's most popular bands.

The reading for Dick Whittington will be in the Upper Town Hall on Wednesday 13th August 7pm

Come along to our introductory night to Slow Food in Fife on Tuesday 5th of August at 7pm at the Fisher and Donaldson's bakery and restaurant at 1 Ceres Road, Cupar, KT15 5JT. Reserve your place asap.

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

Check out the extensive summer programme of fun stuff for Teens organised by Fife Council community services

Auchtermuchty festival news and contacts

Get to know bell baxter and joinin new opportunities

Visitors and residents in Falkland enjoyed all the fun of the fair on Saturday as the village's annual festival drew to a close.

Fife Council Community Services are reviewing Library and Museum Services. To assist they are seeking the views of as many users of the services as possible. An online questionnaire is available ... to get more information and to access the questionnaire go to .... www.fifedirect.org.uk/mandlconsultation Please also pass this information to any friends or colleagues who are regular users of the service. A printed questionnaire is also being prepared and will be available soon.

PROVIDING real solutions to real world problems is one of the key aims of the Big Tent. Scotland's Festival of Stewardship takes place at Falkland Estate on July 26 and 27.

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.

Complimetary Health expert to visit Falkland in July - tickets available

Football fun for the under 16s and over 16s

Four more bands have been added to the line up of the Falkland Traditional Music Festival.

Italophiles delight now open in Falkland!

A FALKLAND girl has enjoyed a memorable week that included encounters with stars, moving house and riding on a unicorn! Laura Moore (8), who has neuroblastoma and leukaemia, took part in a sponsored walk through Falkland Estate on Sunday to raise money for CHAS, the Children's Hospice Association Scotland.

Any live performance of James and the Giant Peach needs certain ingredients to be a success - great sets, outlandish costumes and over-the-top performances - and the Falkland Youth Theatre Group didn't disappoint during their take on the fantasy adventure.

Big Tent seeks old curtains and sofas!

Ocome report reveals the number of rural homes with broadband now outnumber urban homes

Fife Show success

Auchtermuchty Youth Theatre Group perform the Twits on 13 and 14 June

Falkland safety measure has created lorry 'danger'

Thousands of people are expected to arrive at Fife's biggest agricultural show, organisers have said.

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.

Falkland Village Hall AGM - Urgent appeal for new committee members

FifeSINg gets great performers

North Fife artists open their studios

Youth music opportunities for under 25s in Fife

Event details for Ladybank Festive week

Eco campsite at Big Tent

A Right Guid Read is a monthly online reader reviews newsletter compiled by Fife Council Libraries and Museums. This is the May edition.

Falkland’s Big Book formally handed to Stewards

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

Falkland local history exhibition open and free

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

Lottry results

St Patrick's Day celebrations

Headline acts of King Creosote and the Fence Collective and the Peatbog Faeries have just been announced

Lottery results

Falkland fights to save village loo

Close of the Big Conversation coming soon.

Bedtime stories wanted

lottery results

Big Tent Festival 08 shaping up to be bigger and better.

lottery results

Rural gateway photo competition

results

update

FALKLAND man Keith Jackson has been appointed chairman of the Beautiful Scotland campaign group.

Pedestrian dies in collision - police call for witnesses

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.

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.