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Fife Today
  • 09/08/2023
The stories making the headlines this week ...
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00:00 Welcome to this week's bulletin featuring some of the stories making the headlines in
00:09 this week's 5th Wee Press. The paper is on sale from Thursday morning so please do pick
00:13 up a copy when you're out and about. School terms are about to start very shortly this
00:19 month but the pupils go back with a warning of possible strike action ahead as janitors
00:24 and classroom assistants have voted for industrial action as part of a pay dispute. It may take
00:29 some weeks before there's any impact on primary schools and secondaries but we have the full
00:33 story on what's happening behind the scenes as the pay dispute rumbles on. We also look
00:38 at Birn Island's links with its twin town of Lichford as the latest locals head off
00:43 to Norway on an exchange trip. Some of them even set sail across to the Scandinavian country.
00:49 Full details and we'll look back on this historic link, one of the oldest around in this week's
00:53 paper. Closer at home we have the Rockcore music festival. The Rockcore's about to take
00:57 centre stage. It happens next weekend. We spoke to the organisers about how they've
01:02 managed to succeed where so many festivals in Scotland have failed this year. Not only
01:06 has it sold out, it's sold out in record time and with a cracking line-up. Read all about
01:11 it in the press this week. If you haven't got a ticket, well we'll be there and we'll
01:14 tell you all about what happens. We also report on a big public meeting in Lochgelly this
01:19 week and plans to protest when Scottish Office Minister Michael Matheson comes to town to
01:24 see for himself the state of the health centre. That's the health centre that was due to be
01:28 replaced several years ago but the funding was kicked into the long grass. Over 130 folk
01:33 turned up at the meeting this week that was called by Alec Rowley, MSP. Our reporter Daniel
01:37 Van Rieden was there as well and shares the full story on how the community plans to make
01:41 sure the Minister gets the message when he comes across here next month. And we also
01:45 tell the amazing story of a Kirkcaldy man who's undertaking the Kilt Walk and he's doing
01:50 it to raise funds for the charity air ambulance that saved his life three years ago. It's
01:54 an amazing story, read all about it in this week's press together with all the stories
01:58 from the news desk and the sports team making the headlines this week. As always, pick up
02:03 your copy when you're out and about and our thanks for supporting local journalism.
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