The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to a fire at the Ballencrieff pub in Hopetoun Street, Bathgate, at around 8.30am yesterday morning.
Four fire appliances containing around 20 firefighters attended the scene.
The fire was extinguished the blaze with water jets.
No one was injured in the incident.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue service said: “We were alerted at 8.31am on Sunday to reports of a fire at a public house in Bathgate.
“Operations control immediately mobilised four appliances to the scene at Hopetoun Street.
“Firefighters used powerful water jets to extinguish the fire located within the ground floor. There were no casualties.
“Crews remained on the scene carrying out dampening down operations until the area was made safe.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
