Conference it is good to see so many members and supporters here today and all the organisations that have joined us in the exhibition area. It was also good this morning to hear from the Leader of Glasgow City Council Frank McAveety, and listening to Frank, it reminded me that across Scotland it is Labour […]
Youth Work changes lives: that was the message members of the Cowdenbeath Area Youth Form gave to local MSP Alex Rowley when he met them this week at the Corrie Centre in Cardenden. The group are planning a launch of a new initiative ‘Cowdenbeath Youth Bank’ funded by the area committee and the Coalfields Regeneration […]
I enjoyed a campaigning day and visit to a new build primary school in Glasgow with the Chair of Education Liz Cameron and Glasgow MSP candidate Bill Butler. Under Labour Glasgow has transformed its school estate and developed it building works into a very successful business building new schools, sports facilities as well as housing […]
I once again had a great catch up with members in the Borders as they launched their campaign for candidate Barrie Cunning to be elected as a local MSP for the area. Although this rural constituency is spread across a large geographical area it does not stop the team from getting out and about in […]
I joined with our candidate Craig Miller on a visit to Clackmannan where we took time out from campaigning to congratulate former councillor and lifelong party member Tom Adam and his wife Jeanette on their Diamond Wedding.
“Having access to a safe, secure and damp free home is surely a very basic requirement of every human being in Scotland in the 21st century. It is a tragedy that so many men, women and children living in our country in 2016 do not have that basic right and it is a failure […]
“Having access to a safe, secure and damp free home is surely a very basic requirement of every human being in Scotland in the 21st century. It is a tragedy that so many men, women and children living in our country in 2016 do not have that basic right and it is a failure that […]
The progress in finding a long term solution for the area covered by the abandoned Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing is far too slow and needs a fresh look and review of all the options the local MSP Alex Rowley has said this week. In a letter to Fife Council Chief Executive Steve Grimmond Mr Rowley […]
As part of the 6th annual Scottish Apprenticeship Week – 29th February to 4th March local MSP Alex Rowley visited Score Group Plc. in Cowdenbeath and met with staff and apprentices and discussed their experiences from moving form school into an apprenticeship in the workplace. Speaking this week Alex Rowley said: “I am a […]
What struck me most when in Barrhead was just how thriving a community it is with a new sports centre and the central council offices setting off a major regeneration of the area and being delivered by Labour East Renfrewshire Council. Paul O’Kane is a member of that council and is driven by his desire […]