Dunfermline Weekly 🥵 13 July 2025
More Outwith news, airport liquid revolution, cycle speedway repairs, Cowdenbeath centre fire, and more
🛍️ Artisan Market is back in St Catherine’s Wynd between 11-15.
🪦 There’s a talk about the three graveyards of the Abbey this Thursday 17th at DCLG at 18:30. Tickets are £5. (OnFife)
🎸 Outwith 2025 has added Arab Strap as a major headline act alongside adding numerous other bands and artists for the all-day music event, and announced a Carnegie Hall takeover for much of the week. (Outwith)
💰 Bruce Fest has brought an estimated £400,000 in additional visitor spending according to event’s organisers, Visit Dunfermline. (Dunfermline Press)
🩺 NHS Fife is the first new University Health Board in 50 years thanks to a partnership with University of St Andrews. This will allow for St Andrews to award medical qualifications, which the university has not been able to do. (STV)
🔥 A large fire near Cowdenbeath station disrupted trains and forced residents out of houses on Wednesday. A garage at a house off Station Road went on fire around 1630, disrupting many afternoon return commutes. It contained car AC specialist’s tools and supplies, all of which was lost in the blaze. (Courier, CFT)
💩 St Ninian’s operators had to apologise for unpleasant smell linked to the site. The ongoing soil reconditioning operation involves use of “animal slurry and wastewater biosolids”. (CFT)
🚲 Fife Cycle Speedway has now been repaired after it was vandalised shortly after hosting the first Scottish National Cycle Speedway Championships last year. CR Smith have funded repairs to the purpose-built track and has also committed to ongoing sponsorship of the Fife Revolutions cycle speedway team. (DP)
✈️ Edinburgh Airport has scrapped the 100ml limit on liquids. You already did not have to remove liquids from luggage at security when departing from the airport, but now the limit is also dramatically increased to two litres. (Edinburgh Airport)