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Founding editor, Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council ISSN 1757-4781 Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 426 www.kinrossnewsletter.org www.facebook.com/kinrossnewsletter February 2015 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the March Issue From the Editor ..................................................................2 5.00 pm, Friday Letters ................................................................................2 13 February 2015 News and Articles ...............................................................4 for publication on Police Box ........................................................................13 Saturday 28 February 2015 Community Councils ........................................................14 Club & Community Group News .....................................26 Contributions for inclusion in the Sport .................................................................................41 Newsletter News from the Rurals .......................................................47 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Out & About. ....................................................................48 organisations and individuals for publication. This Congratulations & Thanks ................................................51 is free of charge (we only charge for business advertising – see below right). All items may be Church Information ..........................................................52 subject to editing and we reserve the right not Obituaries and Acknowledgements ..................................54 to publish an item. Please also see our Letters Playgroups and Toddlers ..................................................55 Policy and Notes on page 2. 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Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Ann Harley Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Letters Editorial Thanks from Colliar Taxis David and Willis Colliar have retired from their private hire Welcome to the first Newsletter of 2015 and a Happy New taxi business and would like to take this opportunity to thank Year to all our readers. all their clients and friends for their loyal support over the Thank you to those who contacted me with comments on past 33 years. We will miss you all and wish you all the best whether they preferred the RSPB column to be in English for the future. or in Scots, which has been Colin’s usual way of writing. The business has been acquired by Bruce McLaren of A2B I received ten comments, mainly by email, and eight of these Taxis, mobile 07743332237. We wish him all the best. expressed a preference for Standard English. Not that it is Many thanks, about the numbers, but the points put forward by readers. David & Willis Several say that they do not understand the column in Scots 10 Rannoch Place, Kinross and do not read it when written that way, which somewhat defeats the purpose of the column and the Newsletter. I have The Land Reform Act and Rights of Way asked Colin to write principally in Standard English with In many housing estates there are recreational open spaces. the occasional Scottish phrase or word. Often in these spaces there are to be found signs indicating We are using new software to produce the Newsletter this that there are to be no ball games or similar statements. Under month, so you may see some differences. the Land Reform Act (2003) these signs have no legal status Note to Contributors and should be removed by the Council who erected them. A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local Perth and Kinross Council have confirmed with me the non- clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good legal status of such signs. The Act states that anyone using faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate these recreational areas must act responsibly (e.g. by not and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings kicking a ball against a householder’s wall or fence) and to be taken against the Newsletter. that the owner of the land must also act responsibly (e.g. by Letters Policy removing restrictive signs as ‘no ball games allowed’). Senders must supply their name and address, which will be Also in the Newsletter I read from time to time about lane/path published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not closures undertaken by the owner of the lane/path. Nearly all contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken of the thousands of rights of way in Scotland are on private against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree with any of the views expressed on the Letters pages. In special land – over a hill, across farmland, between two streets in circumstances addresses may be withheld from publication on an urban area etc. A right of way is deemed to exist when it request (but must still be supplied to the editor). goes from a public place to a public place (e.g. from a road Note to Readers: Advertising to a road) and has been used openly and continuously for a Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any minimum of 20 years. There are three types of rights of way: particular endorsement or recommendation of services or compa- (1) Vindicated, routes declared as rights of way by the court; nies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. (2) Asserted, routes where the land owner has accepted the Abbreviations route as a right of way or where the route has been accepted PKC: Perth & Kinross Council as a right of way by the Council and (3) Claimed, routes CC: Community Council that meet the criteria to be rights of way but have not been Cllr: Councillor vindicated or asserted. Only the Council, Emergency Services CCllr: Community Councillor or the Scottish Government may close rights of way. Think of rights of way as being similar to public roads. GARDEN STEPS & MORE… After 2003 no new rights of way may be established in some areas such as across school grounds, through farm yards, Steps, paths, walls, patios, paving, within the curtilage of a private dwelling etc, but rights of driveways, repairs, pointing and all types way which existed in such areas prior to 2003 continue to of general building work. exist as legal rights of way. The full catalogue of rights of way (CROW) in Scotland are held by the Scottish Rights of Way Specialist in stone work and Access Society in Edinburgh (0131 558 1222) where I worked for the past nine years. for advice and a free estimate call David S Payne 99 Lathro Park, Kinross William Morris 01577 531145 HIGH STREET SEWING 07866 961685 (mobile) [email protected] ALTERATIONS – REPAIRS – MAKE UP All Ladies, Gents and Children’s