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originally to offer locally supplied and roasted coffees in the form of beans, filter, cafetiere and espresso as well as an extensive range of coffee related equipment. The Coffee Place offer tasting sessions and all the beans have been roasted by local small speciality roasters in Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Colin told us “Our suppliers roast their beans themselves from Fair Trade Farms around the world, we order our beans, they roast them and we get delivery the next day - you cant get fresher than that!” If like me you are a worshipper of all things coffee then you are going to absolutely love The Coffee Place - for me it’s the equivalent of a kid being let loose in a sweet shop. Rows upon rows of jars containing every imaginable flavour of coffee bean, the aroma is heaven! The Coffee place has been trading since November 2014 when owner Colin Baigrie entered Dunfermline’s Venture Street Competition. In the 5 weeks leading up to Christmas 2014, Fife Council offered premises to 8 lucky finalists to trial their business ideas in the town centre. The shop was such a success that Colin decided to open full time. Based in the lovely cobbled Bruce Street in the heritage quarter, the Coffee Place was 4
Since opening the shop has gone from strength to strength, widening the choice of blends on offer and also offering delicious takeaway coffee.
Coffee and Tea Merchants The Coffee Place retails everything coffee from beans, ground coffee, cafetiere' and espresso. Also supplying specialty teas from the Wee Tea Company 28 Bruce Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7AG
01383 277 777 Colin is a keen supporter of his local market and you will also find him behind his stall at the Rosyth Community Market. Next date is Sunday 27th September followed by Sunday 25th October from 11am-3pm. Recently the shop has expanded to offer Tea enthusiasts a similar choice and Colin has teamed up with another great Dunfermline company, The Wee Tea Company, to stock their fantastic range. Keeping up the local theme the shop also hosts a diverse produce section which contains Trotters Independent Condiments from Leven, spices from The Spice of Fife in Cupar, tablet from The Scottish Tablet Pantry in Dunfermline, Chilli Jams from Loan Star Chillis as well as the fantastic Consider It Chocolate from Dunfermline - a range which includes hot chocolate spoons made from chocolate. Clearly the best idea ever!
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Ingrown Toenails How do you cut yours? You could be forgiven for thinking that all toenails are the same; it’s not something we generally pay attention to. However, during a day in the clinic, we can come across a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Toenails can tell us, about your age, whether you’ve been stressed, and also a lot about your health or more serious underlying problems.
ingrown toenail - what is it?
Ingrown toenails result in many people seeking the help and advice of a Podiatrist, and are a common problem that we often see in the clinic. An ingrown toenail occurs when the corner edge, or spicule (small spike), of the toenail grows into the skin next to the edge of the nail and pierces the skin. This in turn causes the toe to become red, swollen and tender (inflamed) and can lead to local infection. Antibiotics may be needed.
Causes
There are a variety of causes, such as poor foot hygiene, excessively sweaty feet (which can be treated easily), injury and even genetics play a part in the way the nail is shaped or the way you walk. However, the most common causes of ingrown toenails are incorrectly cut toenails and wearing tight fitting shoes or hosiery.
Symptoms
One of the early signs of an ingrown toenail is, tenderness within the skin surrounding the nail. It is best to visit a Podiatrist at this stage, for treatment, before it becomes worse. Ultimately what can happen is that, bacteria can gain entry to the skin and cause infection. This results in pain, (which can be severe), redness and a rise in temperature in the surrounding tissues, swelling and 8
possibly the formation of pus, which in turn puts more pressure on the area. If left untreated, the infection can spread to the rest of the toe (making treatment more painful).
Self-help
As soon as you notice mild symptoms, there are a few things you can do to prevent it from getting worse. Painkillers - Take Paracetamol or Ibuprofen to relieve the pain Soak your foot/feet in warm water 3-4 times a day and use a cotton bud to push the skin away at the side of the nail
Wear wide fitting shoes
treatment
If you are finding it difficult to alleviate the pain, then a visit to a Podiatrist is the answer. They will examine the area and remove the offending piece of nail that is digging into the skin. On occasion, people arrive at the clinic hobbling in pain, then leave feeling great after treatment. This has to be one of the most satisfying parts of my job and is another reason why I love my job. In some instances, the problem may recur and toenail surgery may be necessary to relieve the problem. This is a small and simple procedure where a small part of the nail is removed (on occasion, the whole nail) under local anaesthesia. A chemical called Phenol is then applied to prevent regrowth of the problem.
prevention
As the old adage goes, prevention is better than cure, so here are some tips to prevent ingrown toenails occurring: Cut your toenails straight across (don’t be tempted to cut the corners off ) Do not cut your toenail too short Cut your toenails after a bath or shower when they’re soft Wear loose fitting socks and tights Avoid narrow shoes Make sure you are wearing a shoe that fits (this may sound silly, but people who are, say a size 6, will pick up a size 6 in all shops regardless of whether they fit well. In some brands a size 6.5 may suit better and in others a 5.5) It is more about shoe fitting than shoe size. Find us in Dalgety Bay Business Centre, Ridge Way, Dalgety Bay KY11 9JN (Opposite Asda) Tel: 07938 534 154
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Workplace Pensions The Government has introduced auto enrolment to help more people save for their future. This means that employers will need to automatically enrol some workers into a workplace pension plan and give other workers the option to join.
will depend on the types of worker you employ.
As an employer the first thing you need to know is your staging date. The staging date is when the pension needs to be in place.
TPR will impose penalties if you don’t comply with your employer duties, for example, failing to automatically enrol eligible jobholders or failing to refund contributions to those who have opted out. Similarly, you can’t encourage jobholders to opt out of the pension scheme or encourage candidates to do so during the recruitment process. Penalties currently range from a rate of £50 to £10,000 a day depending on the number of staff you have.
You will then need to assess your workforce to determine whether they’re treated as a ‘worker’. This can also include contractors and/or agency workers. There are three different categories of worker, determined by their age and how much they earn. Eligible jobholders – must be automatically enrolled into an auto enrolment scheme Non-eligible jobholders – have the right to opt in to an auto enrolment scheme Entitled workers – have the right to join a pension scheme. Your employer duties
You must register with The Pension Regulator (TPR) that you have an auto enrolment scheme in place by at least five months after your staging date.
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Chistmas is Coming! With the summer we’ve had and the more autumnal feel of these last months we could all be forgiven for thinking that Christmas was just around the corner. For the property market and property professionals however the tinsel, carols and egg nog ( we’re a traditional bunch ) are in many ways not that far off. This is because we are always projecting forward past the point of a sale, through the conveyancing process and onto the proposed entry date. It’s a practice which foreshortens time and brings seemingly distant dates looming into view rather like viewing a faraway object through a telescope. So is there a magic date for getting to the market to be sure Santa is making this year’s deliveries to your new home and not your current one? Well yes there sort of is. Let me explain ...
twisted logic and tortuous maths one arrives at the conclusion that if you want to be sold and moved out and in this side of Christmas, say by the 18th December, then the perfect time to market your home is (drumroll )... 7th – 21st September. So no time like the present then!
As an average rule of thumb one might expect a property to be advertised for 6 weeks or so in the current market before an offer is received. This is of course only an average and it can be longer in some areas and in others (eg. Pitcorthie, Duloch, Dalgety Bay) a good bit less. In fact so far this year 37% of all homes we’ve sold have sold in less than 3 weeks. However returning to that average of 6 weeks of marketing, if one then allows for the average physical entry date being a further 6 - 8 weeks on from the date of an actual offer one is getting close to Christmas.
And given the time usually needed for those little tidy up jobs and then the whole listing process, home reports etc. we arrive at the conclusion that tomorrow is the best time to have us out for your frEE pre sale valuation!!!
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Family Success at World Championships
This summer saw the youngest ever member of the Scottish Taekwondo Squad take to the ring at the World Championships in Rimini. What makes this so amazing is that Reese Purves is only 6 and a half years old and has just started Primary 3 at Carnegie Primary School. Reese first started training and competing when she was just 3 years old and over the last 3 1/2 years she has competed both at local and National Championship level. The World Championships was the biggest tournament that Reese has competed at and after winning her sparring division she can now call herself a world champion! She now has her sights set on the European Championships in 20
Budapest next February and is already training hard for this. Clearly the talent runs in the family as she was joined at the Championships by both her parents who were also competing. All are members of local club, NP Tae Kwon Do Academy, who provided 7 members as part of the Scotland Squad.
Mum Louise only started training as an adult and has attained a 3rd degree black belt. She won 2 bronze and a team gold as part of the Scotland ladies team. Dad Nik took home 3 golds, 1 bronze and a team bronze for Veteran male power. He also won overall veteran male at the tournament. As a family the Purves managed to amass 5 golds and 4 bronzes in addition to the further 2 silver and 5 bronzes that the rest of the local group won. That’s some achievement! The NP Tae Kwon Do Academy is based full time at Elite Martial Arts, Fitness & Wellbeing in Walmer Drive, Dunfermline and also run classes at Bannatynes Health Club for rainbow, juniors & adult levels. In addition there are both rainbow
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Microsoft Windows has always been the world’s most popular operating system. It plans to continue this trend with Windows 10, following hot on the heels of Windows 8.1. The canny reader will now be asking, what happened to Windows 9? Well as Windows 8 was such a disaster, Microsoft want to bridge the gap as far as possible by skipping 9 and going straight to Windows 10. The biggest complaint about Windows 8 was the lack of a Start Menu. Instead of this it had a Start Screen and a mysterious Charms Bar. This brought far too much shock and change to people coming from older versions of Windows. For this reason many people still run Windows 7 and went to great effort to buy their computer with Windows 7 preinstalled. Windows 10 is the most tested version of Windows ever and is designed to work across desktop PC’s, laptops, touchscreen laptops, tablets, smartphones and even the Xbox games console. Here are its top ten features:1. Start Menu This gives access to a wide range of software and settings. Compared with Windows 8 it has been shrunken down and merged with traditional Start elements. 2. Edge Browser The replacement for Internet Explorer. It is much faster, sleeker and offers a cleaner user interface with novel features like allowing you to annotate a website and to then share your notes. 24
3. Cortana A personal digital assistant. She will search the web or computer content for information, even set reminders, send emails or do metric conversions that you can either ask for by speech or typing. 4. Better all-round interface The addition of features like Virtual Desktops allows you to have a separate ‘work desktop’ and a ‘personal desktop’ to help segregate information. This should aid productivity. Accessing programs and information is much quicker. 5. Action Centre This replaces the Charms Bar and is rather useful. Much like what smartphones do, it is a depository for App notifications at the top and toggle switches at the bottom for things like WiFi, brightness and sound. It also shows recent emails, app information and updates that are available. 6. Task Switcher There is now a redesigned task switcher with bigger thumbnails and you will find a task view icon in the taskbar to help toggle between open programs. It makes splitting the screen with two programs much simpler. 7. Revamped core apps The Mail and Calendar apps that are vastly superior to their Windows 8 counterparts. They fit the screen well in windows, are speedy and responsive. The new Photos app is surprisingly robust as well.
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Paul J Duncan, MRICS, RICS Registered Valuer, Partner, Deputy Head of Valuation Services, Hardies Property & Construction Consultants in Dunfermline, answers some common questions which today’s homeowners face. never had to question: I’ve obtain a Home
Report before. I’m thinking about marketing my property and feel quite nervous about the whole thing. My friend tells me that Home Reports have stopped anyway. Is that correct?
answer:
I think your friend is confused with Home Information Packs(or HIPs) which were abolished by the former coalition national Government in England and Wales some time ago. These HIPs provided considerably less information than our own Home Reports which were introduced in Scotland on 1 December 2008 under Part 3 of The Housing(Scotland) Act 2006. Failure to produce a prospective purchaser with a Home Report could result in a fine of £500 under this Act! However, don’t worry as you’re not alone as many homeowners for the first time are entering the domain of Home Reports and the whole system with the guidance of your friendly Surveyor and Estate Agent is pretty streamlined! Hardies will be able to point you in the direction of good reputable, local Estate Agents with vast experience and exposure to online marketing websites such as ESPC and Rightmove. Word of caution though, the “cheapest” selling and marketing fees do not necessarily result in the “best” possible sale price achieved!
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carried out some time question: Iago alterations to my property and unfortunately I don’t think that I have all the necessary paperwork from Fife Council. Can I still market my property?
answer: market your property In short, you can still
and to be fair, this a common issue for many homeowners. It is in your best interests to be completely upfront with your Surveyor and Solicitor to prevent any possible delay in the sale of your property. There are 3 prescribed documents which form part of the Home Report or Pack; the Single Survey, an Energy Report and the Property Questionnaire. The latter must be completed by the Seller and question 6a makes specific reference to alterations carried out during your period of ownership. Your Surveyor will also note these alterations in the Single Survey Report and if appropriate, recommend that suitable consents and certification be obtained from the Local Authority. However, the solution may not be as complicated as you perhaps think. For instance, the works may have been carried out many years ago and a Building Warrant perhaps initially obtained but the subsequent required Completion Certificate was not, another common occurrence. Such works in terms of current Local Authority Standards and Regulations
may also now be deemed to be exempt. Hardies have a local team of qualified Building Surveyors who are able to provide professional assistance in this regard and if necessary, look at obtaining the necessary paperwork on your behalf. Your Solicitor with the possible assistance of your Surveyor will also be able to provide advice. thinking about question: I’m buying a new
property in the Dunfermline area but the Builder tells me that I won’t get a Home Report for the purchase? I thought this was a legal requirement in Scotland? Can you please clarify?
a very common answer: This question. There a
number of exceptions where a Home Report is not required. These include seasonal and holiday accommodation (holiday park homes for instance), properties of mixed use (a flat above Fast Food premises sold as a single lot is a common example) and
also new build properties which are being sold by the builder or developer for the first time. If you require a mortgage for the purchase of the property, a basic Scheme One type inspection and valuation will however be undertaken as part of the lending process and your Lender will advise you in this regard. Hardies employ RICS registered valuers and are panel members of all UK based major Lenders but please speak first to your Lender before instructing a valuation. We can also provide you with names of reputable, registered Independant Financial Advisors who can assist in the matter. Paul can be contacted at Hardies Property & Construction Consultants on T: 01383 731 841 or M: 07740 027 414. Check out the website for more details on how Hardies could help you www.hardies.co.uk The company has 14 offices across Scotland and is a name you can trust for all property related issues.
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Fife Friends of Alzheimer Scotland are holding their main fundraising event of 2015 AT BAXTERS, KELTY on 30th and 31st October and 1st November TOMBOLA ● RAFFLE ALZHEIMER CHRISTMAS CARDS & LOGO GOODS CRAFTS AND GIFTS ● INFORMATION TABLE PLEASE come along and shop early for Christmas while supporting this very worthy charity The Memory Bus will be at Baxters on Sunday 1st November
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Look No Further For All Your Property Maintenance Needs now is the time of year to make sure your property repairs and maintenance are up to date before the winter arrives. Window Shine, a local Dalgety Bay based company, was first established in 2011. They quickly became the preferred window cleaning team in the are. Over the years John and the team have built the business to offer a full exterior property maintenance service. Taking care of the exterior of your house is something that people often put off - something that could end up costing and often insurance companies will not help out as they see these jobs as wear and tear and essential maintenance.
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INDEX Accountant Christies
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Arts & Gifts Art Room 59 IM Arts & Crafts
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Beauty Aesthetic Spirit Forth Country
40 7
Blinds Audyan Blinds Val U Blinds
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Building Supplies Beatsons
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Carpets & Flooring Warner Harress Carpets
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Children’s Activities/Education Akela’s Den 10 Doodle & Splat 6 Geilda’s School of Dance 10 Gary Lee Martial Arts 17 JKA Karate 10 NP Tae Kwon Do Acadamy 20 Coffee Retaiiler The Coffee Place
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Computer Computer 2 Computer
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Decorating Forth Decorating Stuart Richardson
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Decking & Fencing Forth Decking
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Estate Agency Cailean Property Solutions Maloco & Associates Morgans Estate Agency
15 18 22
Footcare Mercury Footcare
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Sole to Soul
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Finance Kingdom Insurance Tony Rosenbaum
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Fires & Stoves Living Fires Garages Broomhead Garage C&A Auto Centre Express Garage Doors
Stuart Richardson Taylor Joinery Val U Blinds Warner Harress Carpets Windowshine
30 14 36 31 34
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Hotel Pitbauchlie House Hotel
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Joiner Graeme Brown Joinery Paton Joinery Taylor Joinery
30 23 14
Locksmith Lockfast
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Office Supplies DOS
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Property Cailean Property Solutions Hardies Property Consultants Maloco & Associates Morgans Estate Agency
15 28 18 22
Taxi SK Taxis
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Valet Last Minute Valeting
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Windows Ritchie Windows/ Conservatory Repair Windowshine
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Gardens Forth Decking 37 Rod Morrison Garden Services 32 SGM 37 Hairdresser Dare Hairdressing
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Health, Fitness & Wellbeing Dalgety Bay Chiropractic Clinic 11 Dalgety Bay Therapies 11 Forth Country 7 Gary Lee Martial Arts 17 Geilda’s School of Dance 17 JKA Karate 10 Mary Western Sport Massage 9 Mercury Footcare 11 NP Tae Kwon Do Acadamy 20 Sole to Soul 9 Home Improvements Audyan Blinds Beatsons Express Garage Doors Forth Decorating Gain-A-Room Graeme Brown Joinery Living Fires Paton Joinery Ritchie Window & Conservatory Repair
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