FIFE: NEWS IN BRIEF

PITTENWEEM TALKS Tickets are still available for the final three autumn evening talks hosted by Pittenweem Community Library.

The subject for the talk on October 25 is ‘Human Impact on Marine Mammals in the North Sea’ with Dr Kelly Macleod, senior marine species adviser.

This will be followed on November 8 with ‘The Magic World of Nano Self-Assembly: Why Geometry Matters’ with Dr Louis Theran, lecturer in mathematics.

The last talk in the series, on November 22, will be ‘The Milestones and Waymarkers of Fife’ with local archaeologist and historian Dr Paula Martin.

All talks are on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm at the Coastline Community Church Café, 21 Session Street.

Tickets £5 at the door, or from Pittenweem Community Library & Information Centre, Cove Wynd.

CIVIC SOCIETY Kirkcaldy Civic Society begins its autumn talk series on Thursday with “Sir Ernest Shackleton in Scotland” delivered by Jo Woolf.

The free event is being held at Kirkcaldy Old Kirk in Kirk Wynd and will begin at 7.30pm. Non-members welcome.

FOLK CLUB

Irish singer Fil Campbell and her percussionist husband Tom McFarlane will be the guest artists at the next get-together of Dunfermline Folk Club.

It starts at 8pm tomorrow in the Glen Tavern, Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline.

HISTORY GROUP Dunfermline Historical Society will meet on Thursday, at 7.30pm, in Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Church Place.

The subject will be the moat pit of Culross, with the speaker Donald Adamson.

COMMUNITY COUNCIL Townhill Community Council meets at 7pm on Thursday in the village community centre.

Minutes and agendas are available at www. townhillcommunity.co.uk

BLANKET TESTING

Free electric blanket testing will take place in Dunfermline on Thursday November 1.

Trading Standards and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will be in Baldridgeburn Community Centre from 11am until 2pm.