Councillors Alex Rowley and Willie Clarke put a motion to the Cowdenbeath Area Committee two years ago to agree to put money into a pilot project that would see tuition for Piping being put into local primary schools served by Beath High School . The committee have now been told that the project has proved […]
New Centre Open Local MP Gordon Brown joined up with Area Chair Willie Clarke to do the official opening of the new £3.8 million Benarty Centre with over 150 local people present for the celebration. In his speech Willie Clarke talked about the first group that had come together 60 years earlier to get the first […]
Scottish Youth Parliament members take their campaign for a Fair Wage to Fife Council Fife Labour has proposed in its draft budget to introduce the ‘Living Wage’ for all Council employees. This will result in 2,000 workers receiving an increase in their wage bringing them up to £7.50 an hour. We do so because […]
In May this year Fife Labour set out a key pledge to support and help create more apprenticeship and training places for Fife’s young people. Now some seven months on since taking control of the Fife Council administration at that election, Fife Labour has brought forward and agreed through Fife Council a £5m […]
Fife Council leader Alex Rowley has used a derelict building in Kelty to highlight the need for Fife Council to review the powers it has to address ‘such dereliction’ in local communities and has pledged to take a campaign to the Scottish Parliament for more powers. Mr Rowley said; “I have asked officials from property, […]
Painting work begins on Kelty Main Street Work begun this weekend on freshening up a number of buildings on Kelty Main as part of on-going improvement works to the village centre. The Cowdenbeath Area Committee recently agreed to pay £10,000 towards the £17,000 project. Local councillor Alex Rowley welcomed the start of […]
NEW HOUSES WELCOMED A housing development which will bring 31 new houses into the rented market has been hailed as ‘innovative’ and ‘much welcomed’ by Fife Council leader Alex Rowley and Cowdenbeath Area chair Willie Clarke. Both councillors met with Kevin Sharp, director of Sharp Homes, who, in partnership with Ore Valley Housing Association, […]
Call for action on fence. Alex Rowley highlights the problem of the motorway fence in Kelty. Lochs councillor Alex Rowley is stepping up his campaign to get a motorway fence which he says is ‘dangerous’ and ‘an accident waiting to happen’ repaired. Mr Rowley told the Times that he has been making representations over many […]
Massive profits but not for communities! As the numbers of land based wind turbine applications continues to grow across Fife, Fife Council has now put in place a review of the current guidelines and landscape capacity assessment for land based turbines that will see a far reaching consultation take place across Fife and […]
I would like to take this chance to thank everyone involved with Kelty Children’s Gala for all the work they put into organising Saturdays event. Despite the weather the streets were packed and there was lots to do in the park and people had a […]