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THE Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has begun construction on Edinburgh's first new fire station in more than 30 years. It is the first...

The Local Democracy Reporting Service has revealed that Edinburgh Council has spent nearly £9m paying temporary staff and recruitment agencies in the first three months of...

An appeal to re-develop a historic corner of a West Lothian town has been rejected by Holyrood, leaving plans deadlocked. The Scottish Government refused to consent...

A NEW CCTV camera has been installed in Morningside after a “concerning rise” in retail crime and shoplifting was noted by retailers and the local MSP. The...

A new phase of housing has been lined up by The City of Edinburgh Council as part of its Granton Waterfront Masterplan, which aims to...

Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace 27-year-old Jamie Sharp-Hunter, reported missing from Bankfoot.  He was seen in the Bankfoot area around 12pm on Friday, 10 July, 2026.   Enquiries...

AN NHS radiographer who was arrested at the hospital he worked at after being caught possessing a horror haul of child abuse images has...

A woman from Peebles has been sentenced after starving two ponies and a horse to such a degree that vets had no choice but...

West Lothian Council will consider plans to build a solar farm on the fringe of the Pentland Hills Regional Park in September.  Almost 200 acres of...

Nesting gulls on the roof of a Co-op store have attacked staff during routine maintenance.  The supermarket chain applied to East Lothian Council to put...

The Bonnie Badger, in Gullane is set to expand its bedrooms after it was taken over by a hospitality firm.  The former restaurant and hotel owned...

Aisling Thomas has combined academic excellence with an unwavering commitment to advancing inclusive education. She has graduated from Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh with a Master of Nursing with Distinction as well as a trio of...

Police are appealing for the help of the public to trace Robert Miller, 59, who has been reported missing from Aberdeen and who may...

Protect the Wild continues to protest about the ongoing Guga Hunt on the Isle of Ness, and today they demonstrated outside the NatureScot conference...

The Returning Officer for the City of Edinburgh Council, Paul Lawrence, has published a Notice of by-elections to fill vacancies in the Southside/Newington and...

OUTLANDER, a popular fantasy show, has been partly credited for a surge in the number of visitors to West Lothian, with tourism in the...

The financial squeeze West Lothian faces is being increasingly felt in the charity sector, with the council’s voluntary organisations budget remaining static at around £944,000...

The road closures on Princes Street, with bus diversions and the cancellation of any trams past the West End stop will continue until next...

Planning applications lodged with the council’s planning department this week are detailed in the list below. 275 homes planned for Granton Waterfront Plans have been lodged for...

Pepe’s Piri Piri, a national chicken restaurant chain, is to open its first Midlothian store in a former pub. The restaurant and takeaway franchise has been...

The Council has announced that Princes Street is expected to be closed until August after last week's fire. Work is continuing to make the building...

Plans for two shops in a new housing estate have been rejected as ‘overdevelopment’ because they included flats upstairs with no gardens. Midlothian planners refused...

Tenants and owners in the Breadalbane Street flats have been advised to move out while remedial work is carried out on the building. This...

The former offices of a Scottish charity are to be turned into a five bedroom house after they moved to new headquarters. ELCAP, which provides...

Complaints about property factors have more than doubled in six years, fuelling calls for a crackdown on rogue operators. Figures show a sharp increase in...

Tenants and residents in the Bond Building in Breadalbane Street have been advised to move out two years after a major fire, and in...

More than 58,000 counterfeit football shirts have been seized in Edinburgh alone throughout the World Cup. The City of Edinburgh Council’s Trading Standards Team intercepted...

Two people have been taken to hospital in Edinburgh after a car crash on Monday evening. Police confirmed that the Barnton Avenue collision involved a...

The City of Edinburgh Council is locked in negotiations with Network Rail over the purchase of the former Meadowbank-Powderhall railway line, as the government pledge support for the project. Campaigners...

A brother and sister design duo have launched a new interactive Fringe Map to make the festival more manageable for tourists and locals alike. Unlike...