Gordon Brown MP has pressed the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the health authorities on the impact of flaring and pollution from ExxonMobil’s Mossmorran plant. Concerned by complaints from local residents following recent incidents, Mr Brown has now received explanations from SEPA and the NHS. ExxonMobil’s Mossmorran plant is required by SEPA …
Gordon Brown will speak at a fundraising reception for the Fife Society for the Blind on in the Old Parish Church tonight. Mr. Brown, who is Honorary President of the Fife Society, will speak of the Society’s remarkable 150 year history. Nearly two thousand people across Fife benefit from the society’s work. And now, in …
Local MP Gordon Brown was present at the launch of the plaque at Burntisland Railway Station. The plaque will commemorate the £850,000 project opened in February 2012, which is now home to a community of seven designers, craft workers and artists. This is the second station restoration after in 2011. The Trust restored and converted the …
Professor Alvin Jackson spoke on Scotland’s past, present and future in a lecture held in the Philp Hall in Kirkcaldy on Saturday. This was the fourth in the ‘Fife Talks’ series on Scotland’s future which was attended by over 200 people early on a Saturday morning. The first talk, given by Gordon Brown, attracted 300 …
The three bidders for the Lochgelly Post Office are being interviewed to determine their suitability to take over the post office work. But local MP Gordon Brown is complaining about the absence of a temporary service for hundreds of elderly residents in Lochgelly. He says that while the long term future is sorted out a short …
Gordon Brown MP has sent the Ministry of Defence more new evidence which he says confirms the culpability of the Ministry for dumping radioactive materials at Dalgety Bay. For months now the Ministry has refused to admit its responsibility for the pollution and has yet to accept it will fund the clean up. Instead the …
Kirkcaldy renovation was on the agenda of a meeting between Council Leader Alex Rowley, Deputy Leader David Ross and Kirkcaldy Area Chairman Neil Crooks with Gordon Brown MP. The meeting heard of ambitious plans from Kirkcaldy: ambitions to celebrate new developments in Kirkcaldy and to take urban redevelopment a stage further. In May the reopening …
The people of Fife have been asked to sign a petition against the hated ‘bedroom tax’. Gordon Brown MP, who promoted the petition in the shopping centres of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath on Saturday morning, has urged all local people to fight the unfair tax and to demand changes. According to the new rules, benefits will be reduced …
Gordon Brown congratulated the ‘Media Network’ at Inverkeithing High School on being the best of its kind in the country. The ‘Media Network’ is a pioneering collaborative project which teaches pupils important skills in Digital Media, whilst also providing an invaluable resource for pupils, teachers and the wider community. Lewis Phillips, the student who heads …
Professor Alvin Jackson will speak on Scotland’s past, present and future in a lecture to be held in the Philp Hall in Kirkcaldy on Saturday the 13th of April. This is the fourth in the ‘Fife Talks’ series on Scotland’s future. The first talk, given by Gordon Brown, attracted 300 people to Templehall Community Centre. …
Action to secure new jobs at Hillend and Donibristle Industrial Estates is being sought by local MP Gordon Brown. He welcomes the idea of an action plan to regenerate the Estates and says it is a vital part of reducing unemployment in the area and employing young people. Mr Brown’s initiative follows up on a …
Three possible companies are interested in running the Post Office services in Lochgelly as pressure is mounting for the return of Lochgelly postal services. This is stated by local MP Gordon Brown who has expressed dismay and disappointment at the loss of the service and asked for urgent action to secure temporary facilities. Now in …
Congratulations for their service to the community were given this week to St Patrick’s Church in Lochgelly to commemorate and celebrate 60 years of service to the Fife community. Local MP Gordon Brown sent a letter of congratulations to the Parish Priest Rev Nicholas Hodgson. He spoke of the comfort, support and fellowship given by …
Gordon Brown has hailed a report by Fife Housing Association on the ‘Bedroom Tax’ – due to come out on April 1st – as a devastating indictment of the damage being done to family life in Fife. The report by the housing association estimates that one in five (20%) of its tenants will be affected …
A new orchard beside Dalgety Bay Library was inaugurated this week by local resident Peter Collins. Gordon Brown MP and the Chairman of the Community Council Colin McPhail attended alongside local school children from Donibristle Primary School. The plan, approved by Fife Council, is to create an orchard behind the Dalgety Bay library. Each day this …
The Dalgety Bay polluter will be named in May, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has told local MP Gordon Brown. The move – to name the party responsible for dumping radiation materials in the bay beach area – follows the announcement of the completion of the investigation into Dalgety Bay radiation and will lead to …
Professor Alvin Jackson, History Head at Edinburgh University and author of the ‘Two Unions’, will become the third major speaker in the Fife Talks series on Scotland’s future when he speaks in the Philip Hall in Kirkcaldy on April 13th. This follows last Saturday’s Lochgelly session when 200 people turned out to hear Scotland’s leading …
The immediate restoration of Post Office services for Lochgelly has been demanded today by local MP Gordon Brown. Mr Brown, alongside Fife Council, is protesting to the Post Office about the loss of services which is particularly affecting the elderly population of Lochgelly. Mr Brown has written to the Chief Executive of the Post Office …
The successful ‘Fife Talks’ series on the future of Scotland will welcome Professor Lindsay Paterson, the well known education expert, to speak in Lochgelly later this week. This is to take place in the Lochgelly Town Hall on Saturday the 9th of March at 10.00am. The series has been established by local MP Gordon Brown …
A hard hitting Fife report calling for the postponement of the so called ‘Bedroom Tax’, which will hit Central Fife hard, has been sent by MP Gordon Brown to Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. Mr Brown, who has also taken up the matter personally at a meeting with Mr Duncan Smith, said that more than …
As schools break up, school leavers face big choices. At the Lochgelly High school prize giving I met ambitious young men and women who are going to university and college-and many are about to attend Adam Smith College where I am proud to be Chancellor. But for many families this is a time of anxiety. …
A group of blind and partially sighted people came together in Kirkcaldy for a meeting with Gordon Brown MP. Mr Brown, Honorary President of Fife Society for the Blind, visited Fife Sensory Impairment Centre to chat with some of his constituents, worried about the affect the proposed change from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence …
Speaking after attending a Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Dunfermline Abbey, Gordon Brown said: “The Queens long standing association with Fife is well known. I remember 1964 when my brother was present when the queen opened the Forth Road Bridge and I also remember being present myself twenty …
Gordon Brown was in Lochgelly this week and met up with local councillor Linda Erskine and Scott MacDonald from the Lochgelly Celtic Supporters Club. The local MP accepted a check as Patron of the John Thomson Memorial Charity from Scott who along with other club members walked from Celtic Park in Glasgow to Bowhill to …
Gordon Brown met up with new Kirkcaldy Area Chair Neil Crooks this weekend at the Farmers Market to help promote the market and to discuss the issues facing Kirkcaldy Town Centre. The Towns MP said; “A lot of good work has been going on to tackle some of the issues in the town centre but …
Local MP Gordon Brown congratulated Cowdenbeath football club on its tremendous achievement in securing promotion to the first division. He praised manager Colin Cameron, the team and the board of Directors. In his letter to Colin Cameron the manager he says that he had an extraordinary success in gaining promotion in his first season as …
Brown puts case for Remploy Cowdenbeath Fears about the future of Cowdenbeath Remploy jobs have been expressed by local MP Gordon Brown as he has written to Remploy management and to the Department of Work and Pensions. Mr. Brown is arguing the case for the work done by Remploy in Cowdenbeath and said; “Whilst Cowdenbeath …
Gordon Brown MP praised a development of 13 new homes when he visited Lochgelly yesterday. The homes at Hugh Place are being provided by PACT Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dunfermline based Fife Housing Association. The development comprises a mix of 2 and 3 bedroomed semi-detached and a small terrace of three studio villas. …
Kirkcaldy’s Beveridge Park played host to the Boys’ Brigade Scottish Cross-Country Championships at the weekend where teams from across Scotland competed with over 200 competitors taking part in a host of races within the park. Local MP and former member of the Kirkcaldy Boys brigade Gordon Brown joined with the competitors at the park to …
Local MP Gordon Brown has asked the University of Dundee to reconsider its proposals to cut back on nursing courses at its Kirkcaldy campus. On Monday Dr Brown met the university principal Professor Downes in Dundee to ask him to consider closer cooperation between Dundee University Abertay University and Adam Smith college to avert cuts. …
Sainsbury’s Kirkcaldy opened its doors again to customers after a brief closure to finalise the extension works. The ribbon was officially cut to mark the re opening after the five million pound refurbishment by Kath Ketterick, who this year celebrates 25 years working at Sainsbury’s and Gordon Brown, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. Colleagues who …
Fife Society for the Blind has announced that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to take up the role as the Honorary President. Chief Executive Alan Suttie announcing Mr Brown’s appointment said: “We are delighted that Gordon Brown accepted our invitation to become Honorary President. This reflects not only a continuation of his parents involvement, …
Gordon Brown was delighted to officially open the Skiffington Cottage and sensory garden at Elmwood College. He was invited in his capacity of honorary President of Fife Society for the Blind. Elmwood College and FSB having been working in partnership for a number of years to provide a unique link between college and community for …
As further radioactive sources are found on a beach in Dalgety Bay, the town’s MP has joined forces with the Chairman of the Community Council to propose concrete steps to remedy local pollution.
For years now Gordon Brown has been working alongside the Community Council and with MSP Helen Eadie to ensure that the site is being properly monitored and reports are produced on the radiation threat posed from the breakup of old wartime planes from Donibristle.
Tthe Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP said; “A further 33 sources have been recovered from Dalgety Bay intertidal area on Saturday 22nd October which brings the total sources recovered by SEPA to 326 since September 2011”.
SEPA has said that due to continuing high number of finds, monitoring of the affected area remains incomplete and will resume later this week.
Mr Brown said; “Given this large increase in the number of sources being found over such a short period and the fact that the levels of a recent find of metal were ten times higher than anything ever found before, I have asked SEPA to bring forward the meeting of the Dalgety Bay Radiation Forum from the 22nd November I do this because I feel there is an urgent need for this forum to come together and discuss these recent finding. Second, I have written to NHS Fife to seek assurance that every precaution has been taken and to reassure local residents that there is no cancer threat in the area as a result of these latest development, and third, I have already written to the MOD raising my concern at these latest findings and specifically asking them to bring forward proposals for a remediation plan as recommended by SEPA”.
Dalgety Bay Community Council Chairman Colin McPhail said; “We have worked alongside Gordon on this issue over many years and we are backing his calls for action to be taken and a remediation plan to be brought forward. We will continue to work with all members of the Radiation Forum but we feel the MOD must increase its participation and look to a solution”.
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October 28, 2011
Gordon Brown was in Cardenden to welcome back over 50 people who had walked from Celtic Park in Glasgow over two days to raise money for the John Thomson memorial committee as part of the activities to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of John Thomson’s death. Local councillor Mr Hood was one of those who did …
Local MP Gordon Brown was in Kelty to meet with members of Kelty Boxing Club and congratulate them on what has been an ‘amazing season’ for club members. The former Prime Minister met with 16 year-old Frazer Gordon and Conner Law (18) who both competed and achieved success in the World Championships in 2011. In …
As new and returning students are just beginning their academic term, Adam Smith College celebrated the achievement of the previous academic year’s higher education students with their annual Graduation event on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 October 2011. Graduation at Adam Smith College recognises the achievements of students studying HNC, HND, degrees and professional awards …
Since leaving No. 10 Downing Street, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been at work in his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, continuing the tasks he started long ago: serving the people and causes of Fife. Fife is Gordon’s home and he is determined to repay the people of Fife for their long-term support. As …
On the day Gordon Brown left Downing Street, he made clear in his speech that he was leaving London and returning to Scotland – to again make his permanent home in Fife, where his constituency is and where he grew up. Speaking in Kirkcaldy two days later at Adam Smith College he explained that, in …
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