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20 Most Recent News Stories
MP CONDEMNS PROPOSED CLOSURE OF POST OFFICES
Tue 1st Jul 2008
Local MP Willie Rennie has lodged his opposition to the closure of four post offices in Dunfermline and West Fife by writing to Post Office Ltd urging them to reconsider their proposal.
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Rennie congratulates ScotAsh on another Queen's Award
Fri 20th Jun 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie has tabled a parliamentary motion congratulating ScotAsh, a company based at Longannet power station in his constituency on receiving a second Queen's Award for Enterprise in three years.
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LIB DEMS CELEBRATE NEW BUSINESS IN FIFE
Fri 20th Jun 2008
Local MP Willie Rennie and MSP Jim Tolson are "delighted" that West Fife has bucked the economic decline by recording an increased number of new business start ups. Official figures from the Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers show that in the first quarter of 2007, the number of start up businesses in Scotland was 8,356. In the first quarter of 2008, the number of start up businesses was 5,550 - a third less than the same time last year. However, Dunfermline and West Fife has managed to buck this trend by seeing 101 new business start ups for the first quarter of 2008, compared to 65 in the first quarter of 2007.
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Dunfermline HMRC office earmarked for closure
Fri 20th Jun 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie has reacted angrily to the news that the HM Revenue and Customs office in Dunfermline has been earmarked for closure. The announcement yesterday of the branches earmarked for closure will be followed by an eight week consultation period.
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Willie Rennie reports back after trip to Israel and Palestine
Tue 10th Jun 2008
Only fifteen minutes from Tel-Aviv's stunning Mediterranean beaches swarming with holidaymakers was a 500 mile long security wall - or as the Israelis anxiously assert is actually a fence. It was difficult to imagine that I was at the centre of one of the most deep rooted, complex and protracted disputes in the world that has a resonance not only throughout the Middle East but also pricks the conscience of the West caught between the responsibility they feel towards Jewish people and the shocking conditions endured by the Palestinians.
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LOCAL MP CALLS FOR "A FAIR DEAL FOR FIFERS" FROM BT
Tue 10th Jun 2008
Local MP Willie Rennie has today expressed concern over the disparity in broadband speeds between Fife and near by Edinburgh. According to data collected by thinkbroadband.com for the BBC, Edinburgh enjoys download speeds of 4,413 Kbps. In contrast, despite the short distance to Edinburgh, the average download speed in Fife is 2,926 Kbps - just over half the speed enjoyed by Edinburgh and amongst the slowest in Britain.
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Nuclear subs to leave Rosyth - but not until 2012
Tue 10th Jun 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie has expressed his concern at the news that the contract, which will see the old nuclear submarines at Rosyth removed and decommissioned, will not bear fruit until 2012 at the earliest. Mr Rennie received the news in an Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons chamber this week from the Defence Minister, Derek Twigg.
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"Miners deserve better" - Rennie calls on Government to keep promise
Wed 14th May 2008
West Fife's MP has today spoken out against the misuse of a miners' pension scheme by the Government. Willie Rennie, who represents hundreds of former miners, criticised the government for failing to share at least part of the £8billion profit it is set to make on the back of miners' pensions.
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MP praises Babcock for strong year
Wed 14th May 2008
The owners of Rosyth Dockyard have been praised for returning a 75% increase in operating profit in the last year. Dunfermline and West Fife's MP Willie Rennie welcomed the £110m operating profit announced in the company's preliminary results.
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Rennie nominated for 'Opposition Politician of the Year'
Wed 14th May 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie has been nominated as a contender for the House of Commons Magazine's Opposition Politician of the Year award along with Lib Dem Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor Vince Cable, Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne and Conservative Education spokesman Michael Gove.
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Local MP supports RNID and NDCS in call for 100% subtitling on all television channels
Wed 14th May 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie is backing a campaign run by RNID, the charity representing the UK's 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people, and the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people, urging broadcasters to subtitle 100% of their programmes on all television channels.
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Dunfermline motorcycle test centre under threat
Wed 23rd Apr 2008
Willie Rennie, MP for Dunfermline and West Fife and Jim Tolson, MSP for Dunfermline West have added their voices to the chorus of criticism after new EU regulations will see the Driving Standards Agency cut the number of motorcycle test centres in Scotland from 64 to 12. The regulations will come into force at the end of September this year and pending a review by the Driving Standards Agency could see the test centre in Dunfermline close, meaning that people may have to travel to Perth, Kirckaldy, Cupar, Edinburgh or Bathgate to complete their test.
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Willie Rennie joins Dunfermline Lions
Wed 23rd Apr 2008
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie was inducted as a member of the Dunfermline and District Lions Club last week and is encouraging others to get in contact with the Lions if they wish to join. The role of the Lions clubs is to serve the local community on projects which boost the community spirit, for example in 2006 the Dunfermline Lions supported the Women's Aid project which saw women in difficult circumstances helped to find housing solutions.
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