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The team haven't played on their home pitch for more than two years.

A NEW stand and 4G astroturf pitch are part of ambitious redevelopment plans at McKane Park in Dunfermline.

The club have acquired a site in Rosyth.

AROUND £240,000 has been paid in compensation to residents, organisations and businesses affected by Dunfermline's £35 million flood prevention scheme. Almost six years after the troubled project was finally completed, Fife Council confirmed that 29 claims had been settled and believe there are no more in the pipeline. The scheme should have been ready in 2007 but wasn't finished until 2015 and, by that time, the cost had rocketed to almost 10 times the initial £3.75m estimate for the job. A report to go before councillors today (Thursday) states: "The district valuer has advised t...

IT'S now a large, empty field in Dunfermline with no visible signs of the days when it hosted the sport of kings and squeezed in 15,000 seats for the visit of the great American showman, Buffalo Bill. A century ago, the Urquhart Racecourse, west of McKane Park, would have been full of the sound of thundering hooves and cheers as fans and jockeys urged their horse to greater efforts round the track. It's a little-known tale but after discovering the town's nags to riches past, Brian Fraser, a high school Maths and computing teacher from Cairneyhill, got the bit between his teeth and det...