Comments on: The failing economy of Kirkcaldy

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:07:43 +0000

And if you think the New world Order does not exist then you’d better wake up.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:05:36 +0000

Anyone ever heard of the New World Order? Part of their plan is to centralize ALL aspects of industry and commerce, retail parks etc. Research this and you will see it unfolding before your very eyes, slow high street declines, small business closures. Eventually, they will be all phased out completely and brought under the mantle of the UN and its corporations. Within ten years, we will all be doing our shopping for everything at massive retail parks.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:16:01 +0000

The Mercat used to be a nice place to sit and chat in the open centre, but now I pass through as quickly as possible to get away from that ghastly cooking smell from the Subway eating place and can someone tell me why they were allowed to sell off the Forum up the escalators to T K Marx, losing all the wee shops and eating places where one could sit and look over the river Forth while having a cup of tea and we even had tea dances up there some afternoons, very bad planning !

By: Duncan Stephen

Duncan Stephen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0000

That’s interesting news Joanne! I’d like to hear more about it. I have some views about the trial of the hovercraft a couple of years ago — I’ll probably publish a short article about it.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:07:48 +0000

I don’t know about the ferry – But I have heard that the hovercraft will be up and running again – I know someone who has a job with it… can’t remember what date he said.. but it is within the next year… he’s counting the time down..

By: Duncan Stephen

Duncan Stephen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:47:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment Ryan. I hope you find luck in offering your services soon.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:52:19 +0000

Good piece!

I’m a recent Web Design & Development graduate and in same position. Few months ago the Mercat website was an issue in Fife Free Press stating that it was lacking…everything really! A website covering the entire town centre, blog, forum could keep a graduate like myself pretty busy but just trying emailing everyone right up to your local MP and requesting more initiative exist and see where i gets you.

Why am I being paid job seekers allowance but I’m not giving tasks to do or a work experiance position?!

I’ve spent a bit of time at MGt, almost three years so I know what they do for Kirkcaldy. They should be giving a strong mention wherever current affairs are discussed regarding The Langtoon.

You mentioned charity work which I tried myself but in terms of offering my internet skills and it was a no go! Cut a long story short after days of this and a lot of research I came to the solid conclusion that Fife is behind in terms of the internet. Kirkcaldy is worse than Dunfermline and Glenrothes from what I could tell and most companies are failing to compete properly on internet side of business. In response I decided to offer very low cost internet services because I need money, experiance and Kirkcaldy needs better websites as one part of the entire effort to come out of the recision running.

Well thats that really.

Nice blog Duncan, I’ve got my own approach to social network badges too, like yours. http://www.webtechglobal.co.uk on a very new blog.

By: sarah thomson

sarah thomson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:53:52 +0000

i heard today from a good source that morrison’s are to locate where the old B+Q building is!. also the press is reporting costa coffee too is coming to the high street. i think in the next 5 yrs thinks are definitely going change for kirkcaldy with all this re-development.

i just hope with all the new shops opening in the retail park the it doesnt have an impact on the high street.

By: Richard Shields

Richard Shields — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:09:26 +0000

You could be right about them becoming a great centre, with Fife Council essentially situated in Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline (plus 3 hospitals), It really doesnt require much in terms of private sector business to provide alot of employment and theoretically close to full employment, though not of that high a salary but nonetheless it remains a mystery how we have high unemployment here with all the public sector jobs and communter friendly positioning. I can only say that the Labour project has failed, though it never was an attempt to truly improve areas like ours.

The problem is our best and brightest will always leave for greater opportunities elsewhere, but this is obvious and should be excepted. The way to keep a number of them is to improve transport routes elsewhere.

It is a scandel that victoria road has that land wasted, the council wanted a museum as it was a linolium works and i think that this has put back many developments. I think the council has now accepted this wont happen and will accept housing.

If you want to see a very impressive, ambitious project, have a look at the Dundee Waterfront. It truly is an attempt from a local authority to transform a city. Im not convinced, but i really hope that the recession doesnt put it on the back burner.

By: Duncan Stephen

Duncan Stephen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:51:08 +0000

Hi Richard, thanks for the comment.

I hadn’t heard about a lot of those projects. A lot of them sound promising. I hadn’t heard about Victoria Road — sounds like at last that land will finally get used.

Is the ferry idea definitely on the go, or still a bit of a pipe dream?

I definitely think if people put their minds to it, Kirkcaldy / Glenrothes could be a really vibrant area. The area is fairly central to Fife, which is geographically isolated, and could pull in people from surrounding towns. To me it could be a great centre, rather than a satellite town itself.