Below is a downloadable version of “Housing in Crisis: Why we must build more public sector houses” a discussion paper written by Alex Rowley deputy leader of the Scottish Labour party which sets out his vision of the need to build new council houses across Scotland. Alex Rowley argues that housing is one of the biggest issues in Scotland today […]
Fife MSP Alex Rowley has endorsed Breast Cancer Now’s #2050Challenge which is asking MSP’s and the Scottish Government to support four key things they believe can make a difference in tackling breast cancer. Currently around 1,000 women a year die from breast cancer in Scotland, and through the measurers proposed by Breast Cancer Now […]
It was a great pleasure to join Soryia Siddique our candidate in Cathcart with a lot of party members, council leader Frank McAveety and my good comrade Johann Lamont to raise fund to support the campaign. Soryia is a Glasgow Councillor and in her “spare time”! Dr Soryia teaches her specialist subject which is chemistry. […]
Cowdenbeath MSP has formally written to Fife Council and requested that safety risk assessments be carried out on both the Muir Dean opencast site in Crossgates and the St Ninian’s site at Kelty stating that whilst restoration of both sites has been carried out it is not to the specification that was agreed at the […]
A new Care Village in Lumphinnans will be constructed and open for residents by late summer of 2017. That was the message local MSP Alex Rowley got when he visited the site this week to discuss the development of the £10.3 million project with site managers. A new 60 bed care home along with […]
I was delighted when in Aberdeen to meet with Council Leader Jenny Laing and Finance spokesperson Willie Young and hear from them about their on going programme of new house building providing much needed new council houses for rent in the city. The truth is, it is Labour Councils that have been to the fore […]
This week I was delighted to meet with local members from Renfrewshire North and West and take the campaign to the doorsteps with local candidate Mary Fee. Mary is highlighting the big issues in the constituency and was putting forward a real alternative to austerity which is gaining support across Scotland. www.maryfee.scot FB Mary4RenfreshireNW
Benarty Young Citizen of the Year Kayla Bell was presented with a Pen from the Scottish Parliament this week from Alex Rowley MSP to recognise her achievement of raising money to support children receiving treatment for cancer. Kayla also arranged for her fellow members of St Kenneth’s School Pupil Council to then meet with the […]
News that new proposals for the restoration and development of the former Westfield Opencast site have been welcomed by MSP Alex Rowley who is now urging the local communities to get involved and have their say on the proposals being developed by Hargreaves Services who own the site. Mr Rowley recently met with the company to […]
As council staff put the finishing touches to the new Kelty Community Centre local MSP Alex Rowley paid a visit to see the new sport and leisure centre for himself. The former Council leader who had brought forward the proposal to build the £7.3 million Centre as part of the Labour Administrations budget in 2013 […]