1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (148+ words) A Dunfermline church cancelled this morning’s Sunday service after a member of the congregation suffered a fatal medical emergency. Police officers and ambulance workers were called to the city’s East Port, with other attendees reportedly helping until they arrived. However,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (562+ words) This round-up of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity which works to give people access to reliable information they can trust. Fake images of Portsmouth small boats protest shared online Two images which…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (775+ words) Hundreds of thousands of passengers who have been affected by Tuesday’s air traffic control problems are “unlikely to be entitled to compensation”, the aviation regulator has said. Travellers were caught up in the disruption after hundreds of flights were cancelled…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (609+ words) The sentencing of a Bulgarian man found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl during an incident in Dundee last year has been postponed for a second time. Ilia Belov, 22, was also convicted of behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (523+ words) The death of a student who was stabbed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane was potentially preventable if he had different medical treatment at the scene of the attack, a panel of experts found. Calocane was detained under mental health laws…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (134+ words) Dunfermline Press Tag for beggar who racially abused cabbie in Dunfermline A DRUNK street beggar staggered past a taxi rank shouting racist abuse at a cabbie and dropping his trousers to expose himself. Explained: What Exercise Kukri Dawn means for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) Andrew Carnegie’s birthplace cottage, Pittencrieff Park and other historic Dunfermline sites are to be digitally preserved after a £40,620 grant from America. The Carnegie Dunfermline Trust has secured the money from the US Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (99+ words) A woman was grabbed and dragged out of her bed during a violent incident in Rosyth. The assailant was Steven Thomson, 36, of Brucefield Terrace, Lochgelly. At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, he admitted that on July 8 at Primrose Lane, Rosyth, he assaulted…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (985+ words) An apparent culture of fear within a body set up to deal with Northern Ireland’s past was found by reviewers – and concerns were mainly raised by women, it can be revealed. A review of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (586+ words) A couple have appealed a planning decision from Fife Council. (Image: DPEA Scotland) An Inverkeithing couple have appealed to Scottish Ministers after Fife Council ordered them to remove a two-metre-high fence it says was erected without planning permission. Roger Enrique…...