Bert and Agnes Cant have excelled this year with even more Christmas lights and decorations at their house in Carden Avenue Cardenden making a beautiful display raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Locals in the area have been used to seeing these displays and turned out in their hundreds this week for the […]
A group of Sheltered Housing residents and their friends have called on the support of their local MSP Alex Rowley to assist them in raising money to get a new TV in their tea lounge. Residents of Calum McDonald Court in Rosyth have been holding fundraising events as they want to […]
This week saw the demolition and clearance of the former Kelty North Church which served as a community centre for the village for over two decades to make way for a new sports and community facility. The £7 million project includes an extension on to the Kelty Primary School with four classrooms, a large sports […]
A Fife MSP has accused Fife Council’s senior management of lacking ‘empathy’ towards Fife residents who have been suffering problems with flooding for over a year. Alex Rowley wrote to Fife Council Chief Executive Mr Steve Grimmond telling him he was ‘absolutely disgusted’ at the way Fife Council had both dealt with and behaved towards […]
Lumphinnans residents joined with their local MSP this week in a meeting with council officials to discuss the progress of the new care home development planned for the village and heard that the £11 million project was on schedule to start in the spring of next years. Tenants of the lockup garages who had been […]
Benarty Community Council Chairman Stephen Nardone joined with local MSP Alex Rowley and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Tricia Marwick to support the launch of the Poppy Scotland Appeal launched last week in the Parliament. Mr Nardone said; “Poppyscotland do a tremendous amount of work to support Armed Forces veterans and like so many […]
Today I signed shelter Scotland’s pledge, Making Renting Right; a new national campaign aimed at making Scotland’s growing private rented sector fit for families and fairer for all is The campaign, launched today outside the Scottish Parliament, aims to raise awareness of and build public support for reforming the outdated private tenancy regime which sees too many households forced […]
As part of my aim to meet as many constituents as possible and listen to what you have to say I have kicked of an exercise of doing street surgeries whereby I write to residents in a street advising them of a time I will be in that street and asking them to put a […]
I attended the launch of Clock Street Pastors this week where Provost Jim Leishman along with church leaders, the police and local people talked about this new initiative for Cowdenbeath, Kelty and Lochgelly. The new Street Pastor project will be up and running by the end of the year and the idea is that pastors […]
It was a great pleasure to join along with the local community the pupils and teachers of St Kenneth’s Primary School at a mass in Ballingry to celebrate 100 years of the school. The service was lead by Archbishop Cushley with readings from pupils. St Columba’s High School Pipe Band were on great form and […]