Fife waste facility fire continues for over a week as smoke warnings issued for residents Firefighters have been tackling the fire at a Landfill near Ladybank since 12 May The Independent UK · May 20
Landfill site behind huge Fife blaze was rated ‘major non-compliant’ by watchdog THE landfill site behind a huge Fife blaze was found to be “major non‑compliant” at its last inspection by Scotland’s environment watchdog,… The National (Scotland) · May 20
Defence firm Babcock faces £140m hit over Royal Navy warship design changes The company is set to deliver five frigates that are being built at its manufacturing site in Rosyth in Fife. The Independent UK · May 13
Babcock takes £140m hit from reworks to new Royal Navy warships The company is set to deliver five frigates that are being built at its manufacturing site in Rosyth in Fife. Evening Standard · May 13
Scottish man jailed in Ukraine after admitting spying for Russia Ross David Cutmore, from Dunfermline, initially worked as a military instructor after travelling to Ukraine in 2024. Evening Standard · May 12
Sentencing of rapist delayed after experts disagree on level of risk he poses Ian Hendry, 54, subjected women to ‘sustained’ physical and sexual abuse in Fife and Perthshire between 1987 and 2022. Evening Standard · May 12
HMS Queen Elizabeth sails under Forth Bridge for post-maintenance sea trials The aircraft carrier has been docked at Rosyth in Fife since July. Evening Standard · Apr 23
‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported audiences from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew The Guardian - UK · Apr 8
Cold weather health alert issued for large parts of UK as temperatures plunge as low as -4C Weather to pose a risk to vulnerable people with freezing conditions forecast in several major cities The Independent UK · Feb 11
Nurse fears losing job after speaking out in patient pronoun row Jennifer Melle is supported by Darlington nurses Bethany Hutchison and Lisa Lockey, along with Fife nurse Sandie Peggie. Evening Standard · Jan 19
Fife nurse to appeal against ‘hugely problematic’ trans changing room ruling Sandie Peggie won harassment claim but tribunal dismissed claims of discrimination and victimisation The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2025
Tories demand sacking of NHS Fife chief executive after Sandie Peggie tribunal The Scottish Conservatives challenged Holyrood Health Secretary Neil Gray to dismiss NHS Fife chief executive Carol Potter. Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2025
Aspects of Peggie tribunal findings ‘hugely problematic for women’ – solicitor An employment tribunal upheld Sandie Peggie’s claims she was harassed by NHS Fife but other claims were dismissed. Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2025
NHS Fife faces new discrimination claim from gender critical nurse Sandie Peggie In November, additional claims were raised against chief executive of NHS Fife Carol Potter and director of people and culture David Miller. Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2025
Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2025 Kate Forbes: I have no interest in spat with the UK Government over Mossmorran The Deputy First Minister said reports of a conflict with Labour are a ‘dis-service’ to at-risk workers.
The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025 Forbes to hold summit on future of under-threat Fife chemical plant ExxonMobil has announced that its ethylene plant at Mossmorran, Fife, will close in February.
Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2025 Mossmorran staff going through a ‘difficult time’, says PM More than 400 jobs have been put at risk following the announcement a plant in Fife is due to close in February.
Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2025 ExxonMobil boss says ‘deliberate’ UK Government policies ‘undermining’ business Chairman Paul Greenhouse spoke out after the petrochemical firm announced plans to close the Mossmorran ethylene plant in Fife.
Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2025 Westminster ‘sleepwalking into’ Scottish deindustrialisation – Stephen Flynn Stephen Flynn criticised the Government’s decision not to step in, as the Fife Ethylene Plant winds down.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025 ExxonMobil to shut chemicals plant in Fife with loss of up to 450 jobs US oil firm blames UK government policy and supply costs for closure of site near Cowdenbeath
The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025 SNP urges UK Government to intervene to save jobs at Fife plant Stephen Flynn claimed oil and gas jobs are being ‘pushed off a cliff’ in Scotland.
The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025 ExxonMobil plans closure of Fife manufacturing site The Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran is expected to shut in February.
Evening Standard · Nov 5, 2025 Part of me died on day of Sheku Bayoh incident, says ex-police officer Nicole Short has spoken publicly for the first time since the death of the father-of-two in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May 2015.
Evening Standard · Oct 28, 2025 ExxonMobil fined £176,000 over flaring at petrochemical plant The flaring at a facility in Fife happened in 2019.
Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025 Students let loose with shaving foam for Raisin Monday in St Andrews Hundreds of students took to St Salvator’s Quad to throw foam at each other for the ancient tradition at the Fife university.