Polling review

A SIX-week consultation to review Fife’s polling districts and places i s under way.

Fife Council wants to hear from people as part of the review, which aims to ensure everyone has access to voting facilities, taking into account accessibility issues.

Morag Ferguson, head of legal and democratic services, said: “We always try to make sure polling places are easy to find, accessible t o everyone and within a reasonable distance from the majority of electors’ homes.

“It’s not always easy finding suitable premises in every area, so any suggestions for alternative premises are welcomed.”

Details are available at fifedirect.org.uk/ pollingplaces. A PROSTITUTE and her boyfriend who lured a man to a flat before robbing him at knifepoint while he was naked have been jailed.

Donna Houston and Allan Blues were sent to prison for more than four and a half years each for ambushing former Morgan Academy employee Chris Ellington.

Mr Ellington went to a flat on Baldovan Terrace last year after agreeing to pay 36-year-old Houston £50 to have sex.

Blues, 42, burst into a room where Mr Ellington was sitting on a couch naked before thrusting two large knives towards his neck and threatening to cut his genitals off.

He then took Mr Ellington to a nearby ATM and forced him to hand over £150 in cash.

Mr Ellington previously told jurors he thought he was going to die when the kitchen knife was held to his neck.

Jailing the pair for four years and six months, Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “You Donna Houston used the offer of sex to lure to the flat someone upon whom you