A LITTLE bundle of joy was delivered to one West Fife couple who were among five couples to have Christmas Day babies at the Victoria Hospital. Little Elijah Lloyd McDonald came into the world at lunchtime on Friday much to the delight of mum Kirsty Lloyd and dad Lewis McDonald. Weighing in at 9lb 7oz, the cute parcel was delivered by Caesarean Section at 12.40pm. Dad Lewis, 22, said he and partner Kirsty, 21, were overjoyed by the new addition – despite his very late arrival! There is no better present. He is absolutely amazing, he said. It was a very different Christmas – he was incredibly late. He was due on the 13th and we have been waiting since then. We came into get induced on the 23rd. They tried everything and he ended up coming out the sun roof. He was too comfortable.
THE Rosyth family forced to flee their burning home just days before Christmas said the support from the town had been nothing short of amazing . Mick and Maureen Kelly will spend the big day in a hotel with their two kids after their house on Hudson Road went up in flames on Friday, December 18. But their spirits have been lifted by a phenomenal community effort that s seen more than £8,000 raised for them in a matter of days. Mick, 44, told the Press: The generosity from locals, friends, businesses, people we don t even know, has been humbling and nothing short of amazing.
Work on £35m Forth Bridge Experience on track for 2021 start
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Work on a £35 million tourist attraction that will give 85,000 people a year the chance to scale the Forth Bridge is on track to start in 2021.
Plans to create a new hub at South Queensferry, which will not only allow people access to the world famous structure but will also let visitors explore its heritage, are said to be progressing well.
A DUNFERMLINE-BASED housekeeping business has enjoyed a boom with a heightened focus on hygiene due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Bright & Beautiful®, which was launched five years ago by business owner Gill Schofield, has grown year on year but she has has seen a surge in demand for their services this year, and today is delivering more than 325 home cleans every month in and around eastern Scotland. She said: “We have seen a surge in demand for our professional cleaning services during the pandemic and we attribute this to our strict hygiene protocols and trusted teams, all of whom are fully employed and trained.
Comment
In 2008, while prime minister, Gordon Brown broke the promise made in an election manifesto three years earlier IT’S got to the point where Brexit, though tedious in itself, makes us think critically about all sorts of other aspects of a disunited kingdom. In the last week two veteran politicians, Labour’s Gordon Brown and Tory Sir Malcolm Rifkind, have been lauding the referendum as the means to solve our big constitutional problems, Scotland to the fore among them. Strangely, this is not a matter on which Brown the Unionist can boast any consistency. In 2008, while prime minister, he broke the promise made in an election manifesto three years earlier that under him the British people could be sure of one referendum, a direct vote on the European Constitution then being proposed in the Treaty of Lisbon.