Leslie

4°CMist

• Today: 9° / 4° · 62% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:29Sunset 16:23

8h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Fife Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom

276 reported road collisions (2025)

127 killed or seriously injured · 395 casualties · 7.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

234 food businesses within 2 miles

• 193 passed
• 10 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Markinch (5.3 km)
• 26 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£182,463 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Fife · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 169.7p · Asda (2.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · Asda (8.5 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

19 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Riverside Park (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches19
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

373,990 residents in Fife

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Around the average in Scotland

8% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 20% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Richard Baker

Labour

Glenrothes and Mid Fife

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,330 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

28 jobs advertised · £31,673 avg

e.g. Support Worker - Glenrothes, Senior Engineering Manager (NPI), Field Sales Executive

Source: Adzuna

£763 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,257 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 56% · Nuclear 44%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Glenrothes and Mid Fife:

• Hold a referendum on abolishing the Scottish Parliament & Government215 local signatures · 17,029 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases211 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth205 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK103 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately85 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Leslie railway station · 0.3 km

  Leslie railway station served the village of Leslie, Fife, Scotland, from 1861 to 1932 on the Leslie Railway.

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  Leslie, Fife · 0.4 km

  Leslie is a large village and parish on the northern tip of the River Leven Valley, to the west of Glenrothes in Fife. According to the population estimates (2006), the village has a population of 3,092. The village w…

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  Glenwood High School, Glenrothes · 0.7 km

  Glenwood High School is a comprehensive, co-educational and non-denominational school serving the western part of the town of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland together with communities to the north and west.

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  Leslie House · 1.4 km

  Leslie House is a Category A listed historic building located in Glenrothes, Fife. It is the largest and earliest Restoration house in Fife, Scotland, and was the seat of the Earls of Rothes for over 250 years. Sir Ro…

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  River Leven Suspension Bridge · 1.5 km

  The River Leven Suspension Bridge, better know locally as The White Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Glenrothes that carries the B969 distributor road over the River Leven and the Riverside Park. The bridge was desig…

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  Glenrothes High School · 1.6 km

  Glenrothes High School is a six-year non-denominational secondary school of approximately 860 pupils located in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The school serves the western/central and northern precincts of Glenrothes dr…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)