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Police in East Lothian are appealing for the public’s help to trace 11-year-old Lucas March, reported missing from Musselburgh.  Lucas was last seen in the...

On Saturday at Lost Shore Surf Resort at Ratho, two world champions held coaching sessions all day long. This is the latest in a...

The Genesis Scottish Open attracted record crowds 12 months ago to The Renaissance Club near North Berwick with nearly 90,000 golf fans packing the...

At Bonhams Edinburgh an exhibition will be held in the autumn to raise funds for the charity Firefly International. The charity helps children...

West Lothian MP Gregor Poynton has made an urgent appeal to Holyrood ministers to intervene in a housing dispute that has left blind military veterans...

The Portobello Fringe Festival, a new festival which will take place at the same time as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will begin this year in...

Tenants and protesters stormed a recently built apartment block in Leith on Friday (JUL 3) over an alleged rent increase of almost 25%.  The protest,...

Police have arrested and charged a teenager after two women were robbed in Edinburgh.  Around 2.10pm on Sunday, 14 June, a 93-year-old woman was approached...

Edinburgh couple Pat Sharp and her husband Nigel have won an eight-year battle to turn a former bank in North Berwick into a home.  The...

Edinburgh councillors claim that work on a development in Haymarket is causing loud and sometimes disgusting side effects for residents of a city neighbourhood.  The...

A public consultation in East Lothian has been launched on plans to introduce an additional five per cent tax on the price of overnight stays.  The proposed...

Edinburgh scientists have challenged the widespread belief that climate-friendly diets are more expensive, proving that simple food swaps can cut household carbon footprints without raising...

We’ve just had our “Royal Week” in Scotland when the King and the royal household spend a special time with the people of their...

A new city centre policing unit fully funded by Edinburgh’s incoming visitor levy was wheeled out at the City Chambers on Thursday. After the announcement...

A new City Centre Policing Unit supported by funding from the Visitor Levy launched today in Edinburgh. .  In January 2025, the City of Edinburgh Council...

A dad has been granted a licence to sell alcohol, despite having driven  on the Edinburgh City Bypass while more than three times over the drink-drive limit and...

On Thursday the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide was marked with a solemn commemoration at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The ceremony honoured...

Work is underway to end Stoneyburn’s isolation as West Lothian’s Island Village.   Footpaths campaigner Sandy Edgar welcomed the start of a contract to improve the existing path from the...

Licensing bosses have given a village shop which once lost its drinks licence over Christmas a fresh start as it was the ‘heartbeat’ of its community.  Gifford’s local...

Elderly residents of a sheltered housing block in Edinburgh say they are being cut off from their communities by a cobbled access lane, which...

Edinburgh Council has set out a tender for an estimated £2.75m remake for the roads around St Andrew Square.  In a contract tender published Wednesday...

Just as the 2026 race prepares to set off from Barcelona on Saturday, an event in Edinburgh Waverley on Thursday was staged to remind...

Plans to extend a nursery in Livingston have been backed by councillors.  The proposals stalled in April over a dispute in paperwork related to flooding risks.   And, while planners...

Edinburgh's new trauma-informed support hub has been officially opened by the Princess Royal to provide local crime victims with remote evidence suites. The Princess Royal, who...

As part of Police Scotland's efforts to tackle shoplifting, the Retail Crime Task Force, and local officers carried out an operation in the Gorgie...

Following an article which we wrote in 2025, we and everyone else in Edinburgh had expected the scaffolding to be removed from outside the...

Midlothian Council has rejected as ‘excessive’ plans to install 11 storage containers on land behind a shop in Penicuik.  The operator of the shop applied...

Cameron Toll roundabout will be partially closed for three days this weekend. Scottish Power is undertaking essential ducting work underneath the section of the roundabout...

Covid and digital technology have impacted decisions by families resulting in the number of pupils who are being home schooled in East Lothian has quadrupling over the last decade.   East...

Health Secretary Angela Constance will be invited to meet a local health board to discuss the crisis in social care.  West Lothian’s Integration Joint Board needed an extra £2m from...