Improvement work is to upgrade the areas around Glenrothes Bus Station and Kino Cinema in Fife.

Over the next year Fife Council is to invest £900,000 to:

• replace the footways on upper and lower bus station concourses, Kino cinema and surrounding businesses leading to the Kingdom Centre

• install new information boards at the bus station and Real Time Information displays in bus shelters

• create a new bus stance,

• resurface the taxi rank next to the bus station

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• upgrade the street lighting at the bus station and around the north side of the Kingdom Centre.

Cllr Altany Craik, Convener of Economy, Tourism, Strategic Planning and Transportation Committee said: "We're investing in our town centres by bringing in new and innovative uses for spaces and better public realm. These improvement works to Glenrothes Bus Station and surrounding area follows on from the redevelopment of North Street and continues Glenrothes town centre refresh."

The bus station works will be carried out in phases with works starting in the lower concourse area first. To carry out the works, several bus stances will need to close, but temporary stances and walkways will be created along with signage and timetable information boards. The bus station works will be complete by the end of the year.