Fife Council leader Alex Rowley met with NHS Fife bosses on Friday and set out his concerns around the new hospital in Kirkcaldy. The Labour leader also confirmed to NHS Chairman Professor James McGoldrick and Chief Executive John Wilson that the new administration in Fife Council will put health and social care at […]
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Transport Scotland must renew motorway fencing
The motorway fence running along the back gardens from Clentry Crescent down Keltyhill Avenue and Dullomure Drive in Kelty is in a real state and I am demanding action be taken to renew this fence. I have written to Transport Scotland and await a detailed reply from […]
Labour form administration in Fife Council
It was a great honour for me to be re-elected for the Lochs ward to serve on Fife Council. The ward starts from the west in Kingseat and takes in the villages of Kelty, Ballingry, Lochore, Crosshill and Glencraig as well as a large rural area around Loch Fitty, Loch Glow, Gask and […]
Asking you to vote Labour in the council elections
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 […]
Fife Labour announce apprenticeships and jobs programme
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 […]
Video: Fife recognises the courage and bravery of our soldiers
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 […]
Kelty Community Council report
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 […]
Call for improved bus service between Kelty and Victoria
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; […]
New housing for Benarty
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 […]
Rowley calls for answers on NHS Fife performance
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 […]
