Fife County, Scotland News

Pirate attacks on shipping lanes around the Horn of Africa have shown no sign of relenting, and the nations policing the seas are struggling to find solutions in a mission that seems to be covering a growing area and time frame.

The student jury is sworn in. DOZENS of sixth year school pupils appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court last week.

As pirate attacks on shipping lanes around the Horn of Africa show no sign of relenting, the nations that are policing the seas are struggling to find solutions to what is becoming an increasingly long-term mission.

Millions of pounds of funding is in place for a hovercraft service across the Forth.

GLENROTHES will not receive any money from the Scottish Government's Town Centre Regeneration Fund.

Plans for a new passenger ferry service across the Forth have been drawn up and are to be considered by councillors in Edinburgh next week.

ACORN Pet Centres, the animal food retailer that slipped into administration in September, was yesterday bought by its former managing director, securing 153 jobs at 24 stores throughout Scotland.

THE girlfriend of a father-of-two allegedly stabbed to death wept yesterday in court as she described the night he died.

SUBS 2nd graf to CORRECT to this year. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland Tom Watson's place in the next five British Opens is safe after the Royal & Ancient's decision to change one of its exemption rules.

STAY CALM: This investor looks like he could have done with a tranquilliser when Chinese stocks went on a roller-coaster ride.

THE two men who stood up and called on Fife Council to rethink its plans for Kirkcaldy's new swimming pool have been overwhelmed by support.

THE impressively large majority stacked up by Labour in the Glasgow North East by-election looks inexplicable given that the Labour government is at the nadir of unpopularity.

An English man who racially abused his Scottish neighbour by yelling 'Go home before you die' has been jailed for harassment.

THE family and friends of a 'lovely lady' killed in Auchtermuchty last year are waiting to hear the fate of the two men involved in what a senior police officer has described as 'not a road accident, but a brutal criminal act'. Grant Whyte , of North Park, Auchtermuchty, and Alan Duffus , of Main Street, Kinnesswood, are due to be sentenced on ...

LABOUR hit out today at the "lack of transparency" among health chiefs over a hospital bug outbreak in which five patients died.

A mother-of-two killed her partner with a single stab through the heart after a row about music, a court has heard.

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YOUNG people have been rolling along to a new skate park in Burntisland which was officially opened on Saturday.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is to make a statement to parliament on the outbreak of the Clostridium Difficile infection at a Dundee hospital.

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