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www.crabpublishing.co.uk CRAIL MATTERS incorporating About Crail W/C 29 May No 16 Free - Donation welcome Annual Beach Clean More than 30 volunteer joined in with the Annual Crail Beach clean. The volunteers came literally from all over the world - Alaska, Australia, the US, Germany and UK, with an age range between 10 to 75+. The weather was superb, and with enthusiasm people cov - ered the coastal area from Sauchope to beyond West Braes. Over 30 plastic bags were distributed, and it was calculated that over 20 were returned at least half full. Unlike last year, there were many fewer Creels aban - doned or damaged, but a lot of plastic and rope. Re - freshments (including some delicious cakes) were provided for the volunteers as they finished at the Le - gion Hall - especial thanks are due to Julie Middleton for her efforts, and to Victor Reynolds for organ - ising the event. Cleaner Wanted Crail Kirk The Crail Parish is in need of a cleaner for the Church. 12 hours a month. Please contact: Joan Forrest : [email protected] 1 History Society The History Society Talk scheduled for Tuesday 30th May has been cancelled ‘Bee and Bunting’ seed mix sown at Bow Butts Waid Academy From Monday 29th May – Thursday 1st June Waid Academy are holding open evenings for anybody to go along and look at Archives of old photographs, school magazines and Memory books of Waid through the years from 5pm– 7pm in the old building, before the New Waid Academy is opening to all pupils on Monday 12 Footbridge damaged by vandalism on the coastal path th June. between Crail and Roome Bay - now repaired. Temporary Road Closure Tol - Karail booth Wynd, Crail – Entire If anyone would like to receive the Karail electroni - cally in the future please send Heather an email Length ([email protected]) to indicate this and she Monday 05/06/17 at 07.00hrs until Friday 09/06/17 at will add you to the list. 18.00hrs. The alternative route for vehicular traffic is via Nethergate, Rumford, Castle Street, Shoregate, West - gate, High Street and Marketgate. Access for emergency services and residents will be maintained. Access for pedestrians is unaffected. This is to allow installation of BT cabling to be carried out in safety. FRIENDS Current "Friends of the Festival" have already been men - tioned in the Programme Brochure, recently distributed to all Crail and Kingsbarns addresses and more widely. For further information on the continuing opportunity to become a Friend, please go to the “Friends” page at www.crailfestival.com where the final complete list of Friends will appear in due course. The Crail Festival Committee (The Royal Burgh of Crail Festival Society Trust (known as Crail Festival Society) is a Charity; Charity No SC020929) 2 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, A few months previous an elderly dear using a Zimmer My name is Darron, I moved to this lovely, quaint vil - going to the Co-op walked down the entry which chil - lage Crail 4 years ago from Liverpool with my wife and dren call 'poo lane' and walked straight through some children for a better life. I am at present the only scouser and it was all over the poor dear’s feet, ankles and Zim - in the village lol. mer!! I contacted the Fife Council and they came to my But on a very serious note. I love living here but I am house and informed me that the more complaints they disgusted by the locals who continually allow their dogs receive the better - anonymously or not, the time the to foul in and around Crail, and especially the MUGA owners walk their dog, if possible so they can come and where children from Crail primary do their physical ed - catch them, persons ID, name, address, etc.. Or at best, ucation once a week. Every week parents go around the a description of the owner and the type of dog. MUGA before the school children commence their P.E This is a serious problem in Crail. And it's about time and have to pick up dog excrement that has been pur - people began to do something about it, and not accept posely left by disgusting, thoughtless dog owners - such disgraceful actions and behaviour from dog own - sometimes picking up 20 lots each time - otherwise ers, especially where children are concerned. Dog ex - children would be covered in it !! Why should parents crement/faeces are dangerous. Toxicariasis is a parasite do this to ensure the safety of their children??!! For the present in dog poo that can, and has causes partial vile dog owners who clearly have zero consideration blindness in up to 100 children per year. With this in for anyone and even worse, children? The other day in mind, I am trying my best to do something about this the play area directly next to the school a 3-year-old in this lovely village which I live. Especially for my and child had it all over her hands. I went and picked up 3 other’s children, as it's an awful problem that needs ad - from the play area and 1 from the skate park. What's dressing. wrong with these people??!! Darron Tetlow Rising Land Values What has the development of 18th century Edinburgh got to do with the recently agreed Fife Development Plan, which will result in a huge increase of house construction in Crail? And here’s an even bigger puzzle - what can the building of the North Bridge in Edinburgh tell us about future development in Crail? Building the North Bridge in 18th century Edinburgh opened up what until then had been agricultural land north of the city, and made possible the urban development we now know as The New Town. The bridge enabled access to what was an unattractive and relatively inaccessible area - rather in the way the Fife Development Plan opens up the possibility of developing the area to the north of Crail. The difference between then and now, however, is that King James (VII and II) awarded the city a grant stating that when Edinburgh should have the occasion to enlarge the city, the proprietors of lands benefiting from the enlargement would be obliged to part with the land on reasonable terms. As a consequence, 18th Century Edinburgh land owners weren’t able to benefit from huge windfall profits just by owning land made accessible by the North Bridge, and such profit that was available fell instead to the municipality. And of course that is the difference between then and now - landowners now do pocket obscene profit simply by virtue of ownership through the capacity to sell land on to developers for building made possible by granting planning permissions. All of which poses an interesting issue for our legislators - who should benefit from the kind of windfall profits that granting planning permission can give rise to - the landowner, or the municipality (and by extension the residents) of the area in which the development takes place? For all its failings, would you prefer to see Fife Council (or perhaps preferably some other local entity such as the Common Good fund) gain the benefit, or a private landowner? The capacity to implement legislative changes to do this may well lie within the devolved powers at Holyrood, so a reasonable question to ask of our local MSP’s is what is their view on this? More generally, there has not been a debate in the Scottish Parliament about whether landowners or the municipality (however conceived) should enjoy the uplift in land values as a result of the productive activity of firms and workers. Why not? And perhaps the question behind this is have our representatives the courage to address issues like this? Crail of course is not alone in having to deal with issues like this, which might perhaps put this on both the Scottish and National Agenda. It doesn’t seem to have become an issue in the current General Election campaign, but perhaps it should. SP 3 Crail Matters Editorial Team Volunteers ROYAL BURGH OF CRAIL AND Would you like to help our Editorial Team DISTRICT produce Crail Matters? COMMUNITY COUNCIL NOTES Terrorist Attack Manchester We would like to invite anyone who might have an At the time of writing, the interest in working with us, particularly from the news is dominated by the East Neuk villages, to contact us at: atrocity in Manchester, and [email protected]. the death of so many young people. Modest and Crail Matters is growing. We currently distribute ineffectual as it may seem, around 750 copies of each issue, of which 120 or so the least Crail Community are hard copy, and the rest digital. That is of course Council can do on behalf very small by national journalism standards, but in of the Crail Community is terms of a local weekly newsletter, it is not a bad to offer its deepest condo - achievement. And we can see it growing further, as we lences to the families and are keen to engage with other East Neuk communities, friends of those killed, and and as we develop other publishing initiatives, includ - to wish well all those ing ebook and other production. maimed and injured. It serves no purpose to spec - We especially would like to encourage anyone who ulate on the reasons for this would like to act as correspondent for their commu - attack, and indeed finding nity to contact us. reasons to explain the be - haviour of the suicide bomber does not take away from Funding Crail Matters the evil of his actions, nor of those who support this kind The Editorial Team wish to thank those readers and ad - of behaviour.