A few weeks ago I met with representatives of CHAS when they were at the Scottish Parliament raising awareness of the work that children’s hospices do. I signed up to hold an event during Children’s Hospice Week which is the only awareness raising and fundraising week for children with Life-Limiting conditions and services, like children’s […]
Cowdenbeath constituency MSP Alex Rowley joined with Cllr Bob Young Fife Councils representative on the Scottish Coal Taskforce on a visit to St Ninians opencast mine near Kelty this week to meet with representatives of Hargreaves Surface Mining to discuss progress on the restoration of the St Ninians Mine and the Muirdean Mine at Crossgates. […]
Gordon Brown MP puts his passionate, simple, evidence based, argument for why Scotland should lead Britain and not leave Britain to an audience of local people in Lochgelly Town Hall.
Kelty and Blairadam Pipe Band is growing in numbers and is now one of the top Novice Juvenile Pipe Band in the country. The young band has been built up in only a few years and is travelling to Belfast in order to compete in the UK Championships. The Band recently gained a first […]
Today I joined with Cllr Linda Erskine and the legendary Willie Johnston at Moorside Park Dundonald to watch a brilliant afternoon of football in the Willie Johnston Village Competition organised by the Cardenden Events Group. Over 70 people took part representing local bars in the area and the winning team for the second year was […]
MSP for the Cowdenbeath Constituency Alex Rowley met up this week with apprentices at Bridgeforth Engineering Inverkeithing and heard first hand their experiences of leaving school, getting an apprenticeship, attending college and progressing with their careers. Bridgeforth Engineering is a business which has been at the cutting edge of precision engineering for the oil and […]
Alex Rowley MSP has pledged to help ensure that all people living with MS in Scotland have better access to treatments, regardless of where they live. This comes as the MS Society revealed that people with MS often face significant barriers in accessing licensed treatments, the information to decide what is right for them and […]
The Rosyth Garden City Dockyard and Great War Exhibition being hosted at the church halls in Queensferry Road is open all week and finishes on Saturday. The project received £5,100 from the heritage lottery fund and has involved all four local primary schools who have entered a number of pieces of work into the exhibition […]
Cardenden and District Local History Group have teamed up with the Forestry Commission and the Coal Fields Regeneration Trust to preserve and promote local walks in the Cardenden area and this week joined with the local community, the local MSP and councillors to launch new guide leaflets setting out the routes, history and nature of […]
Plans for a new care village to be built in Lumphinnans were on public display this week at Lumphinnans Primary School. The proposal is to build a 60 bed care home that will offer permanent and respite care in 5 x 12 bedded self-contained units. There is also the potential to include intermediate care places […]