WITH spring almost here the group which works hard to make Cowdenbeath Community Woodland an attractive place for visitors to go to are becoming increasingly frustrated with the activities of people who seem determined to ruin the town's beauty spot.

During 2018 more than 60 wheelie bins were destroyed in the Community Woodland and Cowdenbeath Environment Group hoped that the desire to steal and destroy the bins would lessen in 2019.

Alas no with Enviro Group members finding at the the weekend that the new year tally is up to seven already.

And to further cause concern there is evidence that intrusion into the woods by motorcycle riders and drivers of quadbikes has started.

Said one of the Environment Group members this week: "We were across at the Woodland over the weekend and discovered another seven wheelie bins destroyed by fire.

"These people are continuing to steal them from outside people's homes and from outside businesses and then roll them a considerable distance to get them to the woodland before destroying them by putting a light to them.

"Also there are clear signs that motorbikes and quads are also back in the woods, which can pose a danger to the people using the walkways.

"It is all so needless so we we ask, does anybody care?"

The Enviro Group are just coming up to a busy time of year for them when they tidy up the Woodland, along with other green spots in the town, such as the Millennium Garden in Perth Road, ready for the spring and summer.

However, the continued needless vandalism, which the setting on fire of wheelie bins is, is a big frustration for them.

But Cowdenbeath is not the only place where there are problems with quadbikes and Andy Sedgely contacted our website to highlight a problem being experienced on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy.

He said: "In the field off Fair Isle Road, in Kirkcaldy, every evening youths on motorbikes, which are not legal for road use, tear up and down, between children innocently playing, and dog walkers trying to exercise their pooches. "They should not be in the field, nor should they ride their bikes on the streets illegally on their way to and from their "amusement". The police need only to position a car on one of the surrounding roads and they could put a stop to this antisocial behaviour".