Kirkcaldy

Site chosen for town's new pool

BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008

Kirkcaldy's new £11.7m swimming pool should be built in the town's Tolbooth Street, Fife councillors decide.

Labour Selects Glenrothes Candidate

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

Labour has tonight selected their candidate for the Glenrothes by-election. He is Lindsay Roy, Head Teacher at Kirkcaldy High School (Gordon Brown's old school). When challenged by a BBC Scotland journalist on when the by-election would take place, David Cairns MP waffled on about the constituents getting used to the death of their MP, and said that an election would take place in due course. Naturally,...

• Lindsay Roy will fight the Glenrothes by-election for Labour - Labour Matters
• Labour selects headteacher to fight Glenrothes - The Guardian
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

PM plots by-election fight from sidelines

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

GORDON Brown is preparing to lead his party into the crucial Glenrothes by-election, but only from his neighbouring seat in Kirkcaldy, Scotland on Sunday has learned.

• PM plots by-election fight from sidelines - Scotland on Sunday

Church moderator to commence Scotland tour

Christian Today (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008

The Moderator of the General Assembly the Rt Rev David Lunan is set to commence the first of a series of trips around Scotland with a visit to the Church of Scotlands Presbytery of Kirkcaldy

Fife man appears on murder charge

BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008

A Kirkcaldy man appears at the town's sheriff court on a murder charge.

Another By-election

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008

Gordon Brown faces a fresh test of Labour's fading popularity after the death John MacDougall, MP for Glenrothes in Fife who died today in hospital aged 60 after a long illness. A by-election will now be fought for what should be a safe Labour seat, bordering Brown's own Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency. As Parliament isn't sitting until October, perhaps the family will be able to bury the body...

Happy Adam Smith’s birthday

Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008

Smith was born this date, 1723, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. The unveiling of a new statue of Smith in Edinburgh is scheduled for July 4.

Adam Smith's Birth Date is Unknown

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008

Answers.com posts ‘ Adam Smith (Philosopher / Economist) ’, a short biography: "· Born: June 1723 · Birthplace: Kirkcaldy, Scotland · Died: 17 July 1790 · Best Known As: The author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is the author of the 1776 book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, a classic of modern economics...

Reader’s Almanac: 6/5

Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008

B orn today: Adam Smith, economist, philosopher, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland, 1723; John Maynard Keynes, economist, Cambridge, 1883; Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, Pinner, Middlesex, 1884; Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, Fuente Vaqueros, Spain, 1898; Alfred Kazin, critic, editor, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1915; Richard Scarry, children's author, illustrator, Boston, 1919; David Wagoner, poet, author,...

Cat Coughs In Scotland

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008

Shock news came in today from Kirkcaldy - pronounced Keerkeidlemeisterhofney - in Fife, Scotland, that a cat had coughed in a street there.

Making (Radio)waves in Fife

Connected Blog (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

Kingdom FM will be having part of its schedule planned, recorded and broadcast by school students from around Fife, after they won their regional Radiowaves Kingdom FM competition . Winners Kirkcaldy High School and Carleton Primary School form part of the Fife Radiowaves service , bringing together 121 student-run podcast stations, covering every area of school life and the life of young people today....

The Inn at Lathones - the new Bein Inn, but better

Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008

I had the privilege on Sunday to be the first performer at The Stables, part of the Inn at Lathones in Fife (near St Andrews on the Kirkcaldy road). David Mundell, formerly of the Beinn Inn at Glenfarg, is now booking acts for the Inn and he has some great people coming. Have a look at the Mundell Music website . Many thanks to David, and Pete Alexander for making the Malt and Barley Revue gigs happen...

Gods’s will: picking and choosing

Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008

This is monstrous, surely? Cardinal Keith O’Brien is due to speak out against the proposals for the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos when he addresses a public meeting in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy. The Cardinal, who has suffered poor health in recent weeks, was released from hospital after having a pacemaker fitted. A pacemaker? Isn’t that against [...]

End of the lino for Kirkcaldy factory

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008

FOR years, train passengers travelling to the Fife town of Kirkcaldy could tell they were nearly there by the peculiar smell lingering in the air.

• End of the lino for Kirkcaldy factory - Scotsman.com

Carve their name with pride.... in lard

The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008

All of Scotland will be proud to hear of a group of catering students from Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy swept the boards in a contest to carve statues out of fat. 11 students took away prizes in the competition at Hotelympia, a trade fair for the hospitality industry, in London. The gold trophy winner carved an 18in model of Mickey Mouse. While the silver medallist created a statue of two horses...