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Jellyfish Take Their Toll Swim Championship Hazard at Kirkcaldy

... Jellyfish Take Their Toll Swim Championship Hazard at Kirkcaldy Jellyfish shoals formed the main hazard for the nine competitors taking part in the Eastern %istrict long disiance championship swimming event at Kirkealdy on Saturday. In fact, because of ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1958
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

By PAMELA RAE

... painful stings, Jellyfish stings can be quite a disaster—they have runied more than one seaside day for me or the people 1 was with. We don't have much trouble with snakes in this country, but we do have those dreadful red jelly-fish. If you are badly ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1968
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

(by lan Strachan, Countryside Ranger)

... the Eider are a familiar sight edge, and unlike the Com- around our coast throughout mon Jellyfish can give an the year, but the males at unpleasant sting. Jellyfish this time are in ‘eclipse’ spend most of their lives plumage. This rather motcarried about ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1983
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

GARFIELD by Jim Davis TS

... GARFIELD by Jim Davis TS PORTUGUESE MAN O'WAR OFF THE STARBON MR, CHRI! PREPARE 0D RESP JELLYFISH GIVE ME “THE CREEPS ! = erond® )i ) ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1989
Newspaper: Glenrothes Gazette
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

K.A.S.C. Swimming Gala Local Team Defeat Burntisland

... Swimming Club beat a team from Burntisland A.S.C. by 76 points to 72. The programme was held up at one stage by the presence of jellyfish which had to be removed from the lanes before the races could be continued. From the first race, the speed of the Kirkcaldy ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1959
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 08 April 1983
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 156 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

PREVENT AND REPEL

... spectacle frames. so beware. They are worth taking on a picnic in the woods. or to the riverside b 2 Finally, a word about jellyfish stines and sandhopper stings. They tend to cause a generalised nettle-rash as well as a local. painful swelling. I{ this ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1970
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

I 736 NS PREVENT AND REPEL

... or spectacle frames, so beware. They are worth taking on a picnic in the woods. or to the riverside Finally, a word about jellyfish stines and sandhopper = stings. ‘They tend to cause a generalised nettle-rash as well as a local, painful swelling. If this ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1970
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

In My View by Mark Leishman

... damning. One creature almost certain to put you six feet under, or six inches if you live in Merthyr, is the Australian box jellyfish — the most venomous creature on earth. This little critter delights in sneaking up on unsuspecting swimmers splashing around ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Forget the teenage mutant kind — here are facts about real ones

... but only a few reach its safety; most are killed and eaten by crabs, gulls and other predators. LEATHERBACK turtles eat jellyfish but because of their appalling eyesight often floating plastic bags for their favourite food. Sometimes they can be heard ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1990
Newspaper: Glenrothes Gazette
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Pretty awiul in pink

... ridicule her friends would heap on her if she went out with a ‘richie’ and mainly because he has the personality of a retarded jellyfish with water on the brain. But when Blane MCDonough (Andrew McCarthy) comes along she’s all his. Although Blane's rich friends ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Antarctic fish could be key to how our muscles work

... TELEPHONE 73586 muscles in humans as well as in fish — for the fact is that basic muscle mechanisms in animals as diverse as jellyfish and man are remarkably similar. Al animals, for instance, have different types of voluntary muscle: some slow-contracting ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1979
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 4 | Tags: none