“Welfare reform should not be about an attack on the old and disabled” Alex Rowley Fifers could lose up to £40 million following the UK Government’s welfare reforms, according to a report prepared for the council’s Executive Committee. With around 40,000 people receiving welfare benefits in Fife, individuals, families, communities and the […]
Craige Paterson, Lesley Hay, Michelle Sutter, Paddy Feenie Fifes new provost Jim Leishman and Fife Council leader Alex Rowley met up with charity shop workers Craig Paterson, Lesley Hay, Michelle Sutter and Paddy Feenie of DEBRA in Dunfermline to promote the national campaign to generate charity […]
I took up Willie Clarkes invitation and visited the new build Benarty Centre in Lochore this morning. The new centre is looking good and will be completed by August with activities starting soon afterwards. Willie has been working for this new centre for many many years and I was delighted to work with […]
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 […]
Councillors Report Busses between Kelty and the Victoria Hospital I have been contacted by a number of people in the last few weeks telling me about the problems getting to and from theVictoriaHospital. People have asked me if there is any way the […]
News that Benarty is to have a further 28 new flats built for sale and rent has been welcomed this week by Lochs councillors Alex Rowley and Willie Clarke. Sharp Construction Scotland Ltd have signed an agreement with Ore valley Housing Association that will see the eight blocks of 28 derelict flats demolished and […]
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 […]
I am always pushing the benefits of being a member of a credit union. I have done so since joining the local credit union in Kelty that was set up a number of years ago and during that time I have managed to save money as well as borrowing money to get my bathroom […]
Oil giant ExxonMobil failed to comply with the reporting regulations for emissions of carbon dioxide from its Mossmorran Plant at Cowdenbeath resulting in the biggest fine for an environmental offence in British history. Alex Rowley says he wants ExxonMobil to explain the errors which led to the failure to report 33,000 tonnes of carbon […]