The Fife Herald has a news article on floodgate ownership this week. Liz Rougvie has done her usual outstanding job of writing a thought provoking article – see P13.

Once again we thank Liz and the team at the Fife Herald for their support in bring this important issue to the notice of the general public.

Update: Article is available online.

Both The Courier and the Fife Herald have picked up our “Oh No! Not Again!” blog post of last week.

The Fife Herald version is available here.

Our thanks again to Liz Rougvie of the Fife Herald and Gordon Berry of The Courier for running our story.

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We’ve had a busy week in the media thanks once again to the Fife Herald and The Courier: one mention in the Fife Herald and two in The Courier.

Both newspapers focused on our participation in the launch event for the Scottish Flood Forum and the meeting of Freuchie Flood Action Group committee members with Mr Mike Russell MSP, Minister for the Environment and his department officials.

They also highlighted the ministers acceptance of a visit to Freuchie in the new year. We’ll keep you informed of progress with the ministers visit as developments and plans are made.

Thanks go to Liz Rougvie of the Fife Herald and Cheryl Wood of The Courier for their continued interest in our plights and more especially their support.

References
Fife Herald, page 5, 14/11/08 – Full story here
The Courier, page 5, 11/11/08
The Courier, page 4, 14/11/08

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Once again we need to thank The Courier and Fife Herald for continuing to feature Freuchie Flood Action Group in their news content this week.

Tuesday saw us in print responding to the generous offer from Network Rail to contribute towards a full scale hydrology study for Freuchie. We look forward to hearing how the talks between Fife Council and Network Rail progress over the coming weeks and months. It was heartening to see Mr Moodie from Fife Council indicating that both Falkland and Freuchie were now in line for a full hydrology study:

The Falkland and Freuchie application will be put on a list for Fife and will be prioritised with all other areas.

It may be a year or so before we get round to Freuchie.

- Jim Moodie of Fife Council – Page 5 – The Courier – Tue 21st Oct 2008

However, it would be even more welcome to see this happening quicker than the estimated "year or so".

The call by Freuchie Flood Action Group for £1m to fund a proper flood prevention scheme, as announced by Vice Chairman Jim Mullen, got a mention here on the Fife Today website.

This time last week we blogged about the Culvert Entrance Maintenance completed by local resident Duncan Buchanan and Neil Duff, which got featured by Liz Rougvie on page 11 of the Fife Herald. The story was illustrated by a photo taken of Duncan and Neil hard at work. A wider discussion on the Fife Structure Plan was also discussed, which demonstrated a greater flood awareness by local politicians and officials in future planning considerations. The online version of the story is here.

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Liz Rougvie of the Fife Herald has written an excellent front page story on the formation of Freuchie Flood Action Group and reported on the tragedy of Kay’s story. You couldn’t ask for more than to be the biggest story in Fife this week.

Thanks Liz.

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