The Council elections in May are important for everyone who lives in Fife. They will decide the direction that Fife takes for the next five years and the type and quality of services we all receive from the Council. These will be a difficult five years, a time […]
Skills – Apprenticeships – Jobs Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP Gordon Brown joined up with Fife Council Labour leader Alex Rowley on a visit to Kirkcaldy YMCA today as they launched the Fife Labour economic manifesto. Mr Brown and Mr Rowley had met with a group of young people from the YMCA a number […]
I was in Kirkcaldy and joined with hundreds of people to welcome The Black Watch back from Helmand in Afghanistan at their Homecoming Parade. Thankfully, this latest tour did not have any fatalities but there were soldiers injured and our thoughts and prayers remain with them. As I watched the parade and applauded the […]
Rowley calls for better bus service Kelty councillor Alex Rowley is urging the bus company stagecoach to alter the route of the Kirkcaldy bus to go round by the Victoria hospital and he is also asking them to look again at running a bus on a Sunday. Mr Rowley said; […]
Fife Council Labour leader Alex Rowley has called on Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon to send a team of Scottish government health officials into NHS Fife to investigate what he calls the ‘ongoing failings’ that have followed the opening of the new Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. Mr Rowley has also urged anyone who […]
LABOUR LEADER OFFERS A PLAN FOR JOBS Fife Labour leader Alex Rowley has restated Fife Labour’s plan for jobs after new figures revealed that unemployment continues to rise in Fife. The number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance in the Kingdom rose from 10,262 in December 2011 to 10,873 in January […]
Speaking in the budget debate in Fife House Alex Rowley said; Provost In moving this amendment today I would like to thank the finance officers that have been supporting the Labour group in examining the budget options and in more general supporting us to develop the budgets around the policy ideas we are working […]
Fife Council Labour leader Alex Rowley has said that a new ‘rapid reaction’ approach is needed to support Fife businesses where they are experiencing difficulties. He also described comments being attributed to a council source about the councils dealings with Kingdom Bakers who recently went into receivership as being completely “inappropriate and damaging” to the […]
Fife Council Labour leader is urging people to report all road defects in a drive to reduce the amount of damage being done to cars and limit the risks associated with potholes. Alex Rowley has written to Fife road bosses urging that immediate action is taken to address the condition of one of the main […]
Fife Labour leader Alex Rowley is calling on the MOD to provide ‘much needed clarity’ about their intentions for the deployment of Army personnel to both Leuchars and Rosyth in Fife . As uncertainty grows around the MOD proposals following the news that the total strength of the Army will fall by a further 12,000 […]