As part of the 6th annual Scottish Apprenticeship Week – 29th February to 4th March local MSP Alex Rowley visited Score Group Plc. in Cowdenbeath and met with staff and apprentices and discussed their experiences from moving form school into an apprenticeship in the workplace. Speaking this week Alex Rowley said: “I am a […]
Fife MSP Alex Rowley has endorsed Breast Cancer Now’s #2050Challenge which is asking MSP’s and the Scottish Government to support four key things they believe can make a difference in tackling breast cancer. Currently around 1,000 women a year die from breast cancer in Scotland, and through the measurers proposed by Breast Cancer Now […]
Cowdenbeath MSP has formally written to Fife Council and requested that safety risk assessments be carried out on both the Muir Dean opencast site in Crossgates and the St Ninian’s site at Kelty stating that whilst restoration of both sites has been carried out it is not to the specification that was agreed at the […]
A new Care Village in Lumphinnans will be constructed and open for residents by late summer of 2017. That was the message local MSP Alex Rowley got when he visited the site this week to discuss the development of the £10.3 million project with site managers. A new 60 bed care home along with […]
Benarty Young Citizen of the Year Kayla Bell was presented with a Pen from the Scottish Parliament this week from Alex Rowley MSP to recognise her achievement of raising money to support children receiving treatment for cancer. Kayla also arranged for her fellow members of St Kenneth’s School Pupil Council to then meet with the […]
As council staff put the finishing touches to the new Kelty Community Centre local MSP Alex Rowley paid a visit to see the new sport and leisure centre for himself. The former Council leader who had brought forward the proposal to build the £7.3 million Centre as part of the Labour Administrations budget in 2013 […]
Described as one of the most memorable women of the twentieth century Jennie Lee from Lochgelly Fife born in 1904 made a massive impact in politics and on social policy across the United Kingdom and certainly one of her greatest achievements, the Open University is today stronger than ever some 27 years after her death. […]
The current condition of Inverkeithing High School was highlighted by local MSP Alex Rowley when he spoke in a debate in the Scottish Parliament which was focussing on raising attainment in Scotland’s schools. Mr Rowley expressed his disappointment that Inverkeithing High School had not been included in an announcement of replacement schools brought forward by […]
MSP for the Cowdenbeath Constituency Alex Rowley has spoken out in the Scottish Parliament about the negative impact litter and dog fouling can have on local communities and has called for a review of the Scottish Governments national strategy which he said ‘does not seem to be working’. Speaking in a Parliamentary debate Mr Rowley said; […]
Intra Christian Anti-Sectarianism* Project About WEA Scotland WEA Scotland aims to contribute to “a better world – equal, democratic and just; through adult education the WEA challenges and inspires individuals, communities and society” As an adult education provider, we use a social purpose approach to enable our learners to: Develop social awareness […]