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22 February – Argyll and Bute Council votes to raise its council tax by 10%, and rejects the Scottish Government's council tax freeze by doing so. [58] 23 February – The Scottish Government publishes draft legislation proposing a ban on the sale of disposable vapes in Scotland by 1 April 2025. [59]
Fife Council also announces an emergency polling booth at Fife House, Glenrothes that will be open on 29 June. [567] The Green Party of Northern Ireland launches its manifesto, which includes plans to take Lough Neagh into public ownership, reforms to Stormont, a tax on the richest one percent of people and protecting public services from cuts ...
Fife was one of Scotland's historic counties, with a Fife County Council existing from 1890 to 1975. In 1975 Fife became a region with three lower-tier district councils: Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, and North-East Fife. [6] Fife Regional Council and the three district councils were merged in 1996 to form a single council area, governed by Fife ...
There are 62 unitary authorities, which are single-tier local authorities.Ten of them hold whole-council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025. Due to boundary changes several authorities will see a significant reduction in the number of councillors they elect: Buckinghamshire reduces from 147 to 97, Durham goes from 126 to 98 and West Northamptonshire will elect 76 instead of 93.
The councils have ceremonial mayors elected by council members. Uniquely in the UK, vacancies are filled by co-option by whichever party won the seat at the previous election. Last update 21 May 2024. [30] Key to abbreviations below. NOC = No Overall Control, i.e. no single party has more than half the seats; Unionists: DUP = Democratic ...
The constituency is bounded by Ochil and South Perthshire to the north, Dunfermline and West Fife to the west and Glenrothes to the east.. Along with Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, the towns of Burntisland, Dalgety Bay, Inverkeithing, Dysart, Kelty, and Lochgelly and the villages of Aberdour, Auchtertool, Ballingry, Crosshill, Glencraig, Kinghorn, Lochore and Lumphinnans make up the constituency.
The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time. [2] The Holyrood constituencies cover all of three council areas, [3] the Clackmannanshire council area, the Fife council area and the Stirling council area, most of the Perth and Kinross council area and part of the Angus council area.
Prior to his election to Parliament, he was elected as Councillor for West Fife and Coastal Villages and Health Spokesperson in the Labour-led Fife Council administration. [3] He initially stood down from his role as Health Spokesperson but continued as a councillor then announced his resignation on 4 September 2024. [4] [5]