‘Your Water Your Life’ campaign urges people to refill bottles from the tap. Scottish Water have launched a new campaign, ‘Your Water Your Life’, to encourage and promote the use of refillable bottles and the benefits of topping these up with fresh, great-tasting tap water. This can also help reduce our reliance on single […]
Author: Alex Rowley
Fife Pride – 7th July
Methilhill Community Learning Garden – Open Day
Methilhill Community Children’s Initiative is a community group, dedicated to providing local children with clubs, activities, nursery education, and to providing local families with information and advice. The group has gone from strength to strength, now operating a full programme 6 days a week. Please explore their site to learn more about them. You […]
Great Get Together
I was delighted to take part in the Scottish Parliament Great Get Together in order to honour the memory of Jo Cox MP. This June should have been Jo Cox’s 44th birthday – but a person filled with hate and prejudice took her life. We must always remember, as Jo Cox herself said in […]
Marie Curie Blooming Great Garden Party
I was delighted to meet with Janet Henry and Janet Rutherford from Glenrothes at Holyrood Park to promote the “Marie Curie Blooming Great Garden Party”. The Janets and Marie Curie do amazing work and ask us for our support in recognising the hard work done in supporting people with terminal illness and their families. The […]
Strategic State Support for the Oil and Gas Industry
I have raised a motion in the Scottish Parliament calling for strategic state support for the oil and gas industry. The industry has been quick to make workers bear the brunt of recent economic downturns, and this is not in the best interest of anyone apart from companies making profit from cutting terms and […]
Gena Turgel MBE, 1923-2018
The Holocaust is an event in human history that should not be forgotten. Millions of people lost their lives in Nazi extermination camps. Gena Turgel MBE was a survivor – she survived the Kraków ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She spent much of her life afterwards sharing her testimony with hundreds of thousands of young […]
Life-prolonging Breast Cancer Drug Should Be Made Available
I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health as well as the pharmaceutical company Roche to call for a deal to be made to deliver the life-prolonging drug Perjeta in Scotland. Shockingly, women in England and Wales can currently get Perjeta on the NHS whereas in Scotland, they can’t. National charity Breast Cancer Now […]
Growth Commission Report
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Perjeta: Life-prolonging Breast Cancer Drug
Rowley Calls for Life-prolonging Breast Cancer Drug to be Made Available in Mid Scotland and Fife Alex Rowley MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the pharmaceutical company Roche to call for a deal to be made to deliver the life-prolonging drug Perjeta in Scotland. Currently […]
