Roz McCall MSP

Thanks to all members of St Andrews University Conservative and Unionist Association for welcoming myself and Robin Lawson for St Andrews Councillor to an interesting evening of political debate.

Out and about in Comrie this morning supporting Luke Graham for Perth and Kinross-shire alongside MSP colleagues Liz Smith CBE MSP and Alexander Stewart MSP.

Great to see so many local businesses shortlisted. The quality of food & drink in Fife is fantastic. Good luck to them all.
Keys Bar The Kingsbarns Company of Distillers Futtle Kin Bees - Award Winning Honey Shipwreck Seafood
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-drink/4887644/courier-food-and-drink-awards-2024-finalists/

🥶 An excellent evening with JogCowdenbeath despite sub-zero temperatures!

💙 Huge praise and thanks to our group leaders for inspiring and encouraging us throughout.

💛 And a massive well done to everyone who braved the elements, came out tonight, and gave it their all.

🔴 Townhill - Please don't sit at home alone in the cold. Our Cosy Townhill Warm Welcome for this winter is here to welcome you into Townhill Community Centre offering shelter in this cost of living storm. The centre will reopen on Monday 8th December after the festive break.
Enjoy free hot drinks, toast, cup-a-soups and a snack.
This is a safe, cosy space where you can be assured of a warm welcome and can relax and enjoy a blether and some company, read a book in our cosy book room, play board games, and find out what other help is available.
Please note that under 16's must be accompanied by an adult.
Our fortnightly hot lunches will be available from Monday 15th January.
Thank you Fife Council for funding this for us once again. 😊🙏👍
https://our.fife.scot/gethelp

🏢 I was delighted to be back at Fife House earlier today for a group meeting.

📧 As I am sure you'll appreciate, I have been inundated with casework over the last week and it will take a few days to fully respond.

🙏 I sincerely thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

Free foodies festival on next week!

Come and find out all about your local community food projects, taste yummy home made food, get creative with various activities for all ages, and chance your luck in our free raffle!

There will be stalls from various community food projects Food For Your Future - Community Pantry Link Church, Dunfermline Gillespie Church Dunfermline Foodbank and other supporting organisations

See what’s cooking on:

FRIDAY 19th JANUARY
3-5pm
At the Dell Farquharson Community Centre, Nethertown Broad Street

Please email [email protected] for any further info!

See you there!

Three male youths, aged 16, 15 and 14 have been arrested and charged in connection with the assault of a 17-year-old man in Dunfermline.

The incident happened around 5.30pm on Tuesday, 2 January, 2024, following the Dunfermline Athletic and Raith Rovers football match.

Three males aged 17, 15 and 20, were previously arrested and charged in connection.

They have been released on an undertaking to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court at a later date.

Enquiries are ongoing.

Today, I wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to relay my serious concerns regarding last nights attack on a local teenager👇

Local residents deserve to feel safe both inside and outside of their homes, the epidemic of anti-social behaviour must stop.

I am concerned at the various reports that yesterday, a boy with disabilities was badly beaten at a bus stop in Dunfermline.

This kind of behaviour is totally unacceptable and has no place in our communities.

I will be looking into this further.

If anyone wishes to contact me about this, please email [email protected]

I want to thank all of the NHS and emergency services workers in Mid-Scotland and Fife and across Scotland, who are working hard during the festive period to keep us safe.

I hope everyone has a peaceful and merry Christmas 🎄

Christmas treat for Cowdenbeath OAPs ELDERLY residents in Cowdenbeath enjoyed some festive fun at a special Christmas party put on by the town's community council.

We're really sorry to say we will have to close some of our recycling centres this weekend due to some operational issues.
We understand this can be inconvenient but hopefully you can still get to one of our other centres nearby. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The affected centres are below.
Closed Saturday:
Pittenweem Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is St Andrews)
Kirkcaldy Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is Glenrothes)
Dalgety Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is Dunfermline)

Closed Sunday:
St Andrews Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is Cupar)
Methil Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is Kirkcaldy)
Glenrothes Recycling Centre – (nearest recycling centre open is Kirkcaldy)

It was great to meet with the Scottish Grocers' Federation (SGF) today at Holyrood 🛍️

We discussed the ways they are working to reduce smoking and alcohol harm and support local business throughout the cost-of-living situation.

The SNP have slashed college and university funding in their latest budget.

This will negatively impact young people and their futures. It is totally unacceptable.

Scottish Budget: Colleges and universities face fresh cuts as their budgets are slashed by more than £100m Sector leader warns of ‘inescapably hard choices’ ahead under SNP-Green spending plans

As a result of SNP budget cuts, police buildings are under threat.🚔

Including both Oakley and Burntisland Police Station. This is unacceptable and would only lead to more incidents of criminality.

Today, I wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to voice my concern over the potential closure of Oakley and Burntisland Police Stations🚔

Local constituents want their police stations to remain open, and they will always have my full support.

Recycling Point - Foulford Place, Cowdenbeath.

Following 34 instances of contaminated glass bins since the end of January, Cireco (who manage recycling points and centres on behalf of FC) have replaced the bins with a large enclosed mixed glass skip.

Any colour of glass can simply be placed into the skip at the slots on the side.

However, although this is a positive move, I am not naive enough to think this will address the issue of dumping and contamination of the other bins, as clearly shown in my photo from this morning.

I will never accept any excuse for flytipping, dumping or contaminating bins with the wrong type of waste, however, more needs to be done to tackle this scourge and discourage those from doing so in the first place.

It is simply not fair on those of us who to recycle our excess waste and want to do so locally, efficiently, and responsibly.

It is obvious the current approach is not working as it should and I will consult my fellow local Councillors and Council Officers after the new year with a view of reviewing the policies and challenges, and to establish what we can do better to manage and support the service and local residents.

🎅🎄Nicola and her staff brought the Townhill Out of School Club children for a visit with Santa and Gavin the magical elf last night. Lots of fun and laughter ensued. Lovely, well-behaved children with great questions for Santa and Gavin. Each child told Santa how kind and how good they had been this year. 😁🎅✨🙌
Merry Christmas to you all! 😁🎉🎅️
Community Use Dunfermline and South West Fife Fife Council Our Dunfermline

It is deeply troubling that drug deaths are on the rise in Scotland.

I would urge the SNP Scottish Government to back the Scottish Conservatives ‘Right to Recovery’ bill immediately.

Santa and his magical Christmas elf with Leza, Brian and Marie at the Townhill Together Christmas Cafe this morning. Great job folks! 😁🎅✨️🙌
Community Use Dunfermline and South West Fife Cllr Gavin for Dunfermline North

I hadn't been to the Museum Car Park for a few weeks, but was surprised to see that seaweed which had blown on during Storm Babet is still there. I'll be contacting Fife Council Officers on Monday to try and get this mess cleared