The £350,000 sculpture of a miner has been unveiled at the redeveloped square in Lochgelly, Fife.

Fife-based David Annand created the sculpture to celebrate the town's coal mining history, it is inscribed with a poem entitled "God the Miner" written by local poet William Hershaw in old Scots.

The sculpture includes new seating and open spaces.

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Fife Council leader Peter Grant who officially opened the sculpture said: "Lochgelly should be proud of its mining traditions but we also want to encourage people to be ambitious for the future.

"The high quality of work that has gone into the square, so well set off by the inspirational works of David Annand and Willie Hershaw, has given the people of Lochgelly something they can be genuinely proud of."

Sculptor David Annand said he was honoured to be asked to do the project: "It's slightly mystical but the man is meant to look as though he is made of coal but he is in fact made of bronze.

"I have tried to make him look cracked and fractured like a coal seam."

(GK/JM)