One of Scotland's largest contract publishing agencies, Connect Communications, will distribute Fife Life, a new 16-page quarterly community paper, for free to 170,000 homes in Fife, starting this summer.

The paper will include articles and advertisements from public sector bodies such as local councils, the NHS, and the police, and will not carry commercial advertising or classifieds as of yet, according to senior editor Jim Byers, formerly of the Herald and Scottish Sunday Mirror.

"It's a completely different entity [to paid-for newspapers]. It's a community newspaper, it's free and it's designed for a different market," he said.

Fife Life, had previously been published before under the same name by another publishing company, and will now be printed at Newsquest's Glasgow plant.

Source: Press Gazette