Fife

Glenrothes: Candidate profiles

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

BBC Scotland's news website looks at the main candidates contesting the Glenrothes by-election.

Jewel in the crown of a kingdom

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The BBC Scotland news website profiles the Westminster constituency of Glenrothes.

Reshuffle fever abates

David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Iain Dale reports that the reason Gordon Brown didn't merge the Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland jobs was because he would need to legislate to do so. A similar problem befell Tony Blair when he tried to abolish the Welsh post some years ago. Only after the Wales Office was placed into what was then the new Department for Constitutional Affairs did No 10 discover numerous statutory references to...

Robert Karlsson maintains winning habit

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

It was appropriate after the Arctic conditions that prevailed in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Fife on Friday that the man who has a house in Lapland and, as a result, probably spends more time nearer to the North Pole than anyone else should have won the event at St Andrews yesterday. Robert Karlsson's powerful and elegant swing has worked well all season and although the Swede had to endure...

World Spoilt

www.bishopdavid.net (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

We met today with the congregations of our St Andrews West Area Council - in a Leisure Centre in Glenrothes. These are the congregations which have probably seen the greatest social change - the end of mining in Southern Fife and the gradual development of a culture of commuting across ...

Really Early Telly Sought

The Genealogue (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

The grandson of the television inventor John Logie Baird has launched a search for Scotland's oldest working television. The oldest box will receive a free digital makeover to prove that viewers don't need a plasma television to receive the new high-quality images and increased choice of programmes. John Logie Baird did not restrict his inventive talent to television. In his twenties, he tried to create...

• TV inventor’s grandson launches search for oldest working set - The Herald

Flooding

Grumbling Tummy (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

You’ve probably noticed the lack of posts of late. Well on the 13th August my life was devastated by a flood that wrecked the bottom floor of my home and wrote off the Scooby (Subaru Impreza)! Many other people were also badly affected here in Freuchie, Fife. In the meantime, a number of the flood [...]

Links sneaks up to bite Ernie

IOL (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

The weatherman got it wrong at St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland and so, unfortunately, did Ernie Els.

Harrington on track for hat-trick

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

PADRAIG Harrington has put himself on track for a hat-trick of Dunhill Links Championship triumphs with a strong finish to his first round at Kingsbarns, Scotland.

Padraig on hat-trick trail

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

PADRAIG Harrington has put himself on track for a hat-trick of Dunhill Links Championship triumphs with a strong finish to his first round at Kingsbarns, Scotland.

Strong on the Union, strong on 'progressive conservatism'.

Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

“I believe in the Union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and I will never do anything to put it at risk.” Working my way through the coverage of David Cameron’s Leader’s Speech at the Conservative party conference yesterday, then examining the text of the speech itself, I cannot help but conclude that some of the criticism which it has attracted, actually reflects its strength rather...

• Tory party conference David Cameron says I'm the man with a plan - The Telegraph

Number crunching Cameron's speech

The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

First, head to head with Broon: GB - ' you know ' - 9 DC - 4 GB - ' Fair / fairness / unfair etc' - 41 DC - 0 GB - ' Britain /British ' - 36 DC - 12 GB - 'United Kingdom' - 1 DC - 0 GB - ' England ' - 2 (inc Bank of England), Scotland, Wales, NI - 1 apiece DC - England - 7 (but six as Bank of England), Wales, Scotland, NI - 1 apiece GB - ' Change/d ' - 24 DC - 30 GB - ' Labour '- 21, of which ' new...

Cameron&Co 'will take five years to win over Scotland'

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

SCOTLAND will not vote Conservative in substantial numbers until David Cameron has won an election and banished the legacy of Thatcherism, the party's Scottish leaders adm

• Cameron & Co 'will take five years to win over Scotland' - News Scotsman
• Cameron&Co 'will take five years to win over Scotland' - Scotsman.com
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Co-op Insurance Cup Quarter Final Ties

The Arm Chair Blogger (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

Fourth Round Dates and Kick-offs confirmed. Tuesday 28th October 2008 Falkirk -v- Inverness Cal. Thistle 7.45 p.m. Rangers -v- Hamilton Academical 7.45 p.m. Dundee United -v- Dunfermline Athletic 7.45 p.m. Wednesday 29th October 2008 Kilmarnock -v- Celtic 7.45 p.m. (Televised Live on BBC Scotland) In the event of a draw after normal time, extra time of 30 minutes (i.e. 15 minutes each way) will take...

Scottish artist John Houston dies

BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

Scottish landscape artist John Houston of Buckhaven, Fife, dies aged 78.