🧭 Fife Distillery Saved in 3 Days

Good morning, Fifers! The Christmas events are starting to begin now, with several Christmas markets planned over the next week.

Here’s what else is coming your way today:

• Joint Talks in Support of Mossmorran Workers

• Fife Distillery Saved in Just 3 Days

• 48 Events to See This Week

Let’s jump in, there’s plenty to talk about!

— Duncan

TODAY’S TOP STORY

🤝 Joint Talks in Support of Mossmorran Workers

The Scottish and UK governments held joint talks yesterday with Fife Council and local business leaders to discuss how best to support the workers at the Mossmorran chemical plant in Fife.

There had been tension in recent days after the two governments invited each other to different meetings, with Labour’s Douglas Alexander planning a meeting on Monday and the SNP’s Kate Forbes hosting another on Tuesday. However, both parties appear to have now agreed to work together in finding the best solution for impacted workers.

Eyes are now on the budget with reports suggesting that the UK Government will commit £14.5m of investment to Grangemouth after the site's oil refinery stopped processing crude oil in April, raising hopes that, whilst seemingly unlikely, support could also be possible for Mossmorran. [BBC]

LOCAL HEADLINES YOU NEED TO KNOW

• 🚨 Police Scotland has issued a frost-jacking warning after three unattended, idling cars were stolen across Fife in under an hour, urging drivers not to leave vehicles running to defrost.

• 🏥 Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy is set for four weeks of essential wastewater pipework upgrades from November 23rd, which will affect Renal, Paediatric, and Neonatal Units, as well as part of Ward 32. Robust business continuity plans are in place.

• 🎙️ Fife College’s Kay Simpson has been crowned Best Music Presenter at the International Student Broadcasting Championship for her gaming-soundtrack show PixelPulse.

• 🤖 Fife Council says its new Magic Notes AI tool has helped staff cut admin time, avoid evening work, and focus more on frontline support as the rollout continues into January.

• 🏗️ A new £4 billion partnership between the UK and Indonesian governments will secure 1,000 jobs in Britain, with many of these likely to be at Rosyth Dockyard.

• 🏋️ Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre has officially opened following a significant upgrade. The centre now features an expanded gym, a modernised pool, improved changing areas, a sauna and steam room, and a synthetic turf pitch.

• ⚓ A new memorial honouring the 37 men lost in Fife’s worst fishing disaster has been unveiled in St Monans, marking 150 years since the 1875 tragedy.

• 🏖️ Improvement works at Aberdour’s Silver Sands begin this week, with upgrades including better parking, EV charging, accessible ramps, new stairs, toilets, and outdoor furniture, supported by £1.3m in Scottish and UK government funding.

FEATURE OF THE WEEK

🥃 Fife Distillery Saved in Just 3 Days

It's been just over a month since we reported on the opening of Eden Mill's new flagship distillery and visitor centre in Guardbridge, just outside St Andrews. As such, we were surprised to read last week that the business had entered administration on November 18th with 42 jobs at risk.

This was a result of the distillery's parent company, St Andrews Brewers Limited, collapsing following the accumulation of significant amounts of debt. While the new visitor centre cost £17.5m and experienced significant delays, a slowing in global whisky sales alongside increased costs due to inflation will also have had a significant impact on the business's ability to manage its debts.

Thankfully, it took just 3 days for the company to be rescued from administration, with Ruby Capital acquiring it for an undisclosed sum following an accelerated sale process led by administrators Begbies Traynor. It is expected that all 42 jobs will be saved as a result. This is welcome news at a time when Fife has already seen significant job loss announcements over recent weeks.

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WHAT’S ON IN FIFE?

Please remember to double-check details with venues before travelling, as events can occasionally be cancelled or rescheduled at short notice, and some will require prebooked tickets.

📅 Tuesday, 25th November

Festive Felting Santa Gonk Wreath Workshop - Create your own needle felted Santa gonks displayed in a festive themed wreath.
📁 Art | 🕢 10am | 📍 Gateside Memorial Hall | 🎟️ £45

Pickleball with Sandra - Come and give pickleball a go!
📁 Sport | 🕢 11:30am | 📍 Kinghorn Community Centre | 🎟️ Free

Art and Design Fun - Join us for engaging sessions in comics, animation, drawing, weaving crafts, photography, papier-mache, and puppetry.
📁 Art | 🕢 6pm | 📍 Lochgelly Centre | 🎟️ Free

Makers Evening: Yarn - Share your skills and ideas with others and enjoy a relaxing and creative evening.
📁 Art | 🕢 6pm | 📍 Fife Voluntary Action, Kirkcaldy | 🎟️ Free

Dunfermline Children’s Gala: Christmas Concert - Come join us for school performances starring pupils from: Calaiswood, Canmore, Carnegie, Duloch, and more.
📁 Stage | 🕢 6:30pm | 📍 Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £8+

Andrew Carnegie: The Unsung Heroes and Faces Behind the Man - Local Studies Supervisor Sharron McColl will delivers a lecture.
📁 Talk | 🕢 6:30pm | 📍 Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries | 🎟️ £5

Dreel Crafters - All skill levels welcome for knitting, crochet, scrapbooking, embroidery and more.
📁 Art | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Dreel Halls, Anstruther | 🎟️ £3

Mindful Art Pour & Sip: Christmas Special - Festive and creative evening at the Pour & Sip Christmas Special.
📁 Art | 🕢 7pm | 📍 No56 Wine & Tapas, Leven | 🎟️ £30

Our Marvellous Universe: Prof. Martin Hendry MBE - Delve into the science behind your favourite MARVEL films.
📁 Talk | 🕢 7pm | 📍 The Kabin, Dalgety Bay | 🎟️ £2

📅 Wednesday, 26th November

Bookbug - Sing, rhyme, and share stories with your little ones.
📁 Family | 🕢 10:30am | 📍 Rosyth Library | 🎟️ Free

Christmas Craft Fayre - Christmas gifts, woolens for sale, and stocking fillers for 50p. The Coffee Shop will be serving its baking and light lunches.
📁 Markets | 🕢 10:30am | 📍 Fife Folk Museum | 🎟️ Free

Late Night Christmas Market - With our usual high standard of local makers and artists, this will be a Christmas shopping event not to be missed.
📁 Markets | 🕢 2pm | 📍 Cupar Corn Exchange | 🎟️ Free

Wednesday Night Slides - 1/10th scale Electric RWD Drift cars only, and must be running Buzz Break or DS Racing LF4 tyres.
📁 Entertainment | 🕢 6:30pm | 📍 Parkgate Community Centre, Rosyth | 🎟️ £5+

Osteria: Festive Glass Painting Workshop - Get into the festive mood and paint a beautiful design on glassware whilst enjoying some fizz and a taste of our festive menu.
📁 Art | 🕢 6:30pm | 📍 Osteria, Cupar | 🎟️ £70

Christmas Wreath Making - Fun-filled evening of crafting your very own beautiful Christmas wreath to decorate your home!
📁 Art | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Falkland Community Hall | 🎟️ £27.80

The Shoregate Session - Everything from traditional tunes through to songs ancient and modern.
📁 Music | 🕢 8:00pm | 📍 The Shoregate, Crail | 🎟️ Free

📅 Thursday, 27th November

Dreel Crafters - All skill levels welcome for knitting, crochet, scrapbooking, embroidery and more.
📁 Art | 🕢 2pm | 📍 Dreel Halls, Anstruther | 🎟️ £3

Game ON - Casual gaming club with a huge range of board games.
📁 Entertainment | 🕢 5pm | 📍 Kirkcaldy Galleries | 🎟️ Free

MCCI Christmas Fayre - Variety of stalls to get your Christmas shopping started. There will be refreshments, raffle and the chance to meet Santa.
📁 Markets | 🕢 6pm | 📍 Methilhill Community Children's Initiative | 🎟️ Free

Christmas Sparkle and Pour Candle Workshop - Get ready to add some sparkle to your holiday season.
📁 Art | 🕢 6pm | 📍 Eloise Jewellery, Kirkcaldy | 🎟️ £35

Warner E Hodges - Each musician is a master craftsman in their own right and Warner is still a showman that few can match.
📁 Music | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Backstage at the Green, Kinross | 🎟️ £27.50

Kilts & Cartwheels - Let our gymnasts aged 3 to 17 entertain you as they perform along to Scottish Artists in a mix of dance and gymnastics.
📁 Stage | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Rothes Halls, Glenrothes | 🎟️ £13+

Wreath Making Evening - Cosy wreath making evening.
📁 Art | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Old Course Hotel, St Andrews | 🎟️ £75

Reverend And The Makers - Since their formation in early 2005, the group have amassed a cult like following throughout the UK.
📁 Music | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Royal British Legion Dunfermline | 🎟️ £22

Christmas with Anton 2025 - Strictly’s one and only Anton Du Beke brightens up your Christmas with his beautiful show.
📁 Stage | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £39+

Football Comedy Night - Fife’s very own football legends Dick Campbell and Jim Leishman will be joined by the star of Off the Ball Tam Cowan.
📁 Comedy | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Lochgelly Centre | 🎟️ £22

The Light Beneath the Stone - Haunting evening inspired by the story of Lilias Adie!
📁 Music | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Abbot House, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £11.55

📅 Friday, 28th November

Artisan Fridays Market - A lively weekly food market offering hot & cold food on Kirkcaldy High Street.
📁 Markets | 🕢 9am | 📍 Kirkcaldy High Street | 🎟️ Free

Creative Craft Club For Adults - Come and enjoy a regular Friday morning of creativity.
📁 Art | 🕢 10am | 📍 Letham Village Hall | 🎟️ £13.50

Sunshine on Leith - Fresh from military service, two friends return home to Edinburgh, hoping to find normalcy, love, and a new life.
📁 Movie | 🕢 11am | 📍 Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy | 🎟️ £5

Paint and Sip: Winter Scenes - Reflect on the seasons and relax with a glass of wine while we paint winter scenes.
📁 Art | 🕢 5:30pm | 📍 The R&A World Golf Museum, St Andrews | 🎟️ £20

Christmas Light Switch On - The Atrium will come alive with twinkling lights and sounds of the St Andrews Musical Choir.
📁 Entertainment | 🕢 5:30pm | 📍 Fairmont St Andrews | 🎟️ £5

CIC Community Ceilidh - Come and join in the celebrations at our Annual Community Ceilidh.
📁 Entertainment | 🕢 6pm | 📍 Old Parish Centre, Cupar | 🎟️ £3

Life Drawing - Artists of all levels welcome, from those established to those just curious to try life drawing or starting out.
📁 Art | 🕢 6:45pm | 📍 Dreel Halls, Anstruther | 🎟️ £7

Soul Station - Resident DJ Martin Duffy keeps us entertained, so bring your dancing shoes.
📁 Music | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline | 🎟️ 9.38

Psychic Night - Come along for a night of mediumship with Anne Clark, International Psychic Medium.
📁 Entertainment | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Auchtertool Village Hall | 🎟️ £10

Kingdom Of Madness - One of the UK’s finest exponents of melodic rock music.
📁 Music | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Backstage at the Green, Kinross | 🎟️ £35.20

Stevie McCrorie - Local singer-songwriter who won The Voice in 2015.
📁 Music | 🕢 7pm | 📍 PJ Molloys, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £17.60

Aladdin - Join Aladdin as he sets off on a bonkers Highland adventure in this Scottish take on the classic tale.
📁 Theatre | 🕢 7pm | 📍 Byre Theatre, St Andrews | 🎟️ £14.50

Gary Meikle: Neurospicy - Come join me in a show where I'll give you a 1st hand insight from my delusional eyes to what goes on in my ever-expanding mind.
📁 Comedy | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £27.50

Absolute Elvis - World-renowned Elvis Tribute Artist Johnny Lee Memphis brings the magic of The King to life.
📁 Music | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Rothes Halls, Glenrothes | 🎟️ £26

Heart and Art Sip and Paint Party - The perfect way to unwind, have fun and get creative, no experience is needed.
📁 Art | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 The Lomond Centre, Glenrothes | 🎟️ £33.22

🎉 Multi-Day Events & Exhibitions

Santa’s Grotto - Santa's Grotto is always one of our most popular experiences at Dobbies Dunfermline, and this year it's even more magical!
📅 Sun, 23rd November - Wed, 24th December | 🕢 Varies | 📍 Dobbies, Dunfermline | 🎟️ £14+

Collecting the Contemporary: Scottish Art at Kirkcaldy Galleries - This display features works by modern and contemporary painters who were inspired by Scotland.
📅 Fri, 31st January - Wed, 31st December | 🕢 10am | 📍 Kirkcaldy Galleries | 🎟️ Free

Jack Vettriano Exhibition 2025 - Collection of Jack Vettriano prints, including rare and sold-out pieces.
📅 Tue, 4th March - Thu, 15th January 2026 | 🕢 10am | 📍 Affordable Arts, Methil | 🎟️ Free

From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity - Special preview evening filled with live music, drinks, and creative activities.
📅 Sat, 18th October - Sun, 15th February 2026 | 🕢 10am | 📍 Wardlaw Museum | 🎟️ Free

Unveiling the Madonna - Discover the story behind the Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, the oldest painting in our art collection.
📅 Sat, 8th November - Sat, 7th March 2026 | 🕢 10:30am | 📍 St Andrews Museum | 🎟️ Free

Bunker Shots: Stories of Golf and Conflict - Surprising connections between golf and conflict, including the impact on golfers and their equipment.
📅 Fri, 18th April - Tue, 31st March 2026 | 🕢 9:15am | 📍 The R&A World Golf Museum, St Andrews | 🎟️ £17.50

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