East Neuk road closure chaos

Sir, – I wonder who was the brainy person in Fife Council who decided to close all of the access roads to the East Neuk from north-east Fife – at the same time!

One would have thought that road repairs (presumably the reason for closure, although we don’t know) would have been undertaken sequentially.

Currently the only way from Cupar to Elie, for example, is either through Leven or St Andrews to Anstruther proceeding east or west on the coastal “tourist trail”.

The traffic detour signs are non-informative.

The extent of individual road closure is not given – is it one mile or 10 ? – and there are no indications of minor road links to closed roads.

The situation is bad enough for us East Neuk locals, marooned on the coast, but must be hell for non-local drivers relying on sat-navs!

For such a significant road closure programme, surely the council or its contractors could have used local media to provide better information in advance of roads being closed? Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther. residential care facilities would relieve pressure on hospital beds.

If GPs were to work all hours and holidays, I doubt that it would solve all of A&E’s problems.

GPs don’t work in isolation.

They would need to be assisted by practice nurses, as well as attendant receptionists and pharmacists.

They would also need access to hospital consultants, radiology and laboratory services (backed by specimen collection), and public transport for patients.

To provide this level of service would require far more than the 800 GPs (and said services) already proposed by our politicians to ease the NHS crisis.

I shudder to think how this could be funded.

It is a worrying situation, but I don’t think that simply asking an already overworked group of medical professionals to work even harder is going to help in the long run.

Whatever the answer to this predicament is, it is not going to be an easy one. Alistair Montgomery. 8 Beechwood Terrace, Dundee.

Since when did it become the policy of the national ‘state broadcaster’ to give a fellow pillar of the establishment the airtime to redeem its damaged reputation during a public inquiry into its activities?