Crail Matters

The 2023-24 Common Good account details can be accessed here Crail 2024 common good.

Crail Local Place Plan – The Final Action Programme Community Consultation can be found here Final Action Programme and ‘Place Matters’.

deadline for copy Wednesday up to 6.00pm before Friday Publication

Crail Community Council airfield objection 26th August 2025

Crail Community Council – Harbour Cafe full Objection

Crail Local Place Plan.

The Crail Local Place Plan is available here and is also available from the Local Place Plan page.

Crail Matters can now offer a printing and photocopying service.

To purchase the Anthology please click here £5+£1 postage and package

Crail – the Jewel of the East Neuk

Crail Matters and Kingsbarns Eagle are the weekly newspapers of the villages of Crail and Kingsbarns located in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland; they are funded entirely by donations from advertisers and readers. Crail Matters and Kingsbarns Eagle are published by Crab Publishing, a public interest company limited by guarantee which distributes any profits to the local community. All are published in digital format: every Friday at 8.00am for Crail Matters and Kingsbarns Eagle. If you are unable to access the digital copy subsidised print copies are available – contact us if you need to receive this service. A few copies of Crail Matters are generally available from Crail Pharmacy.

You can now donate to Crail Matters using your credit card.

If you wish to receive the weekly digital edition, please subscribe using this link: Subscribe to Crail Matters. Due to GDPR we cannot subscribe for you.

Donations – a £20 donations please click this link.
Recurrent donations – the amount you might donate is entirely up to you, but we have pre-filled units £5/month for the digital edition – click on this link, and you will be able to choose how many months you want the donation to run.
Bank Transfer – Payee: Crab Publishing, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sort Code: 83-26-28, A/c No.: 15518709
Print Purse : to donate £5/month to our Print Purse fund for continuing the print issues please click here. This enables us to distribute hard copies free of charge to people in our community who for whatever reason cannot access the digital copy.

We will continue to make digital issues freely available to all those on our mailing list, and will make no charge for advertisements. We thank all those readers who have already donated. We have received queries abut making a hard copy of Crail Matters more generally available. Would you like to collect a hard copy from our office in the town Hall? We will have to charge for this, but if you are interested please let us know – we estimate an 8 week subscription to be around £12.

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The famous seagull mug!! £10 from Crail Matters.

The most recent edition of Crail Matters and Kingsbarns Eagle is available Crail Matters and Kingsbarns Eagle 12 December Issue No 433
The flip edition is here.

Pittenweem Post
The Pittenweem Post can no longer be accessed through Crail Matters. It can be contacted at Post@pittclic.org.uk.

Crail: A Pictorial Anthology now on sale £5. Available in Crail shops (Dans, Shells), the Museum, and from crailmatters@gmail.com (please add £1 for postage) and also formatted for Kindle from Amazon.co.uk here. To purchase online please click here £5+£1 postage and package
Fifers in the Spanish Civil War, our special issue is now here available formatted for Kindle from Amazon.co.uk at £3 here.

Day to day information about Crail can be found at crail.info/blog

Download the application form to join Crail Community Partnership on the Membership Form. Life membership costs £5.00.

We welcome the submission of letters, photographs, items of interest and news items. We will also publish for individuals, provided space is available, brief personal messages such as Birthday Greetings, Notices, etc.
Material for inclusion should be received by Wednesday evening before publication on Friday. We reserve the right to edit copy for length and style. Submission of copy does not guarantee inclusion.
Copy may be submitted to crailmatters@gmail.com. Phone contact: 07517964273

Complaints

We adhere to the Standards Code adopted by Impress and can only deal with complaints which relate to an alleged breach of the standards set out in this Code.

We can only deal with your complaint if you are:

personally and directly affected by an alleged breach of the Code
a representative group affected by an alleged breach of the Code, where there is public interest in your complaint
a third party seeking to ensure accuracy of published information.

We are also regulated by Impress, but initial complaints must be made to us, using the following details:

Email: crailmatters@gmail.com

We will acknowledge your complaint by e-mail or in writing within 7 calendar days and will normally respond to your complaint with a final decision letter within 21 calendar days. If we uphold your complaint, we will tell you the remedial actions we have taken.

If you are not satisfied with the final response to your complaint, or if you do not hear from us within 21 calendar days of submitting your complaint, then you can refer your complaint to our independent regulator Impress at this link or by contacting them directly using the following information:

W: impressorg.com/complaints

E: complaints@impressorg.com

T: 020 3325 4288