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Martha Lane Fox, Ed Balls & the first Jo Cox Memorial Lecture, Adam Smith Festival of Ideas

Martha Lane Fox, Ed Balls & the first Jo Cox Memorial Lecture, Adam Smith Festival of Ideas

Adam Smith Festival of Ideas, Kirkcaldy, 17-19 March Martha Lane Fox, Ed Balls and Brendan Cox, who will deliver the first Jo Cox Memorial Lecture, are just some of the high profile speakers at this weekend’s Kirkcaldy Festival of Ideas.  Also in the festival line up is the RT Hon Gordon Brown and Chris van der Kuyl, founder and owner of 4J Studios, one of the UK’s most successful videogame developers

Kirkcaldy Galleries: local heroes celebrate reopening of town’s cultural heart

Kirkcaldy Galleries: local heroes celebrate reopening of town’s cultural heart

There they sat, three people of about the same age who grew up within streets of each other in the same small town, looking for all the world like prizewinners on speech day: the cleverest boy, the girl who’s best at writing and the bad boy who happens to be brilliant at drawing. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, best selling crime writer Val McDermid and Britain’s most successful artist Jack