A Rosyth woman feared for her dog’s life after an encounter with grit caused a terrifying reaction. A ROSYTH woman feared for her dog’s life after an encounter with grit caused a terrifying reaction. Helen Currie was walking Cleo near Parkgate Community Centre on Tuesday last week when her pet started to draw her paws up and shake. “I thought she was having a heart attack,” Helen told the Press. “She collapsed on to her side and was violently trembling. “I tried to clean her paws then, when she was able, she tried to lick them, after which she was coughing.
PLANS to turn former Dunfermline town-centre bar Sinkys into flats have been given the go-ahead. Michael Ranaldi, of Preston Crescent in Inverkeithing, has been granted permission with conditions by Fife Council to change the use of the premises on Pilmuir Street. The plan is turn the old bar into six apartments, each with two bedrooms, solar panels, the “latest energy-efficient installations” and cycle stores. As well as being acceptable in line with Fife planning policy, a report said: The proposal is compatible with the area in terms of land use, design and scale. Furthermore, no significant impacts would arise in regard to existing levels of residential amenity or road safety.
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The total now stands at 47,333 – up 16 per cent from 40,963 in 2019.
This is the new kitchen in a home that had lain empty and was brought back into use by YMCA Glenrothes, with support from Fife Council s empty homes officer Joanne Saurin
Fife currently has 2,264 vacant privately owned residential properties on its Empty Homes Register.
As well as identifying uninhabited houses, Ms Saurin tracks down owners to find out why no one lives there and what it would take to bring them back into use.
She offers advice and assistance tailored to each case, helping owners look at their options and work out what is realistic for them – making them aware of the costs of refurbishments and of leaving a property empty.