THIS year’s Aberdour Festival has come to an end after a “fantastic week”.

The event ran from July 26 to August 4 and featured a range of activities to get stuck into including the pet show, parade, beach day, raft race, and a village football match.

There were also some famous faces at this year’s festivities including best-selling crime author Ian Rankin, author Jenny Colgan, and comedian Larry Dean.

Helen Pearson, chairperson of the festival committee commented: “We had a really good week, it’s been a fantastic week.”

Game face on for the kids shinty taster session.Game face on for the festival's kids shinty taster session. (Image: David Wardle)

One of the events that went down really well this year was Fife’s Future Rock Stars where local guitar tutor, Nic Holson, hosted an afternoon of performances with his students.

All performers were joined by Nic’s Band, Stay For Tomorrow, to give students the chance to play live on stage with other musicians.

Helen added: “That was really good, that was much enjoyed by everybody, that was almost a surprise that went down so well.”

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This year’s Donkey Brae Day event was well attended and Billy McNeil, the first ever winner of the race back in 1984, took part once again.

This year’s committee had about ten members on it which Helen said: “It's not a huge number when you think of all the events, but as always we are really well supported by the community.

There was even a village football match.There was a keenly contested village football match. (Image: David Wardle)

“People are just willing to be called up on if we need help for whatever reason, it really is a whole community working together.”

This year marked the festival’s 40th anniversary and Helen wanted to thank all of the people who have been involved in the community and chair people over all those years.

She added that: “Our crew once again was fantastic."

She also wanted to thank Pauline Norman and David Hamilton for starting the festival all those years ago.

"Everybody is so part of it and willing to do their bit, it’s a real community effort," Helen proudly remarked.