Home owners must take responsibility for ensuring ripped out kitchens and bathrooms are not dumped illegally, a councillor warned this week.
East Lothian Councillor Colin...
Plans to introduce parking charges in an East Lothian seaside town have been approved despite hundreds of objections from local residents.
East Lothian councillors backed the...
Hundreds of school children had to be evacuated today after emergency gas repairs had to be carried out on the street outside their school.
Children...
Plans to convert an ex-serviceman’s cottage into a new sustainable home have been backed on appeal after one councillor described the design as ‘beautiful’.
East...
Councillors in East Lothian have declared an ‘affordable housing emergency’ amid claims they are just ‘days away’ from losing promised land on new developments.
A...
An East Lothian councillor has claimed trucks full of sewage from a new housing estate are being emptied into a village’s main drains system.
Bellway Homes, who...
An East Lothian theatre will ‘rise out of the ashes’ if plans to demolish it go ahead, councillors today promised campaigners.
The Brunton Theatre, in...
Nearly 700 people have signed a petition to save a town’s much-loved theatre within 24 hours of it being launched.
The Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, is...
An East Lothian distillery faced the ‘vexing’ question of whether yoga is a sport as it faced demand for classes at its visitors centre.
Glenkinchie...
Pubs in East Lothian have been given some early festive cheers after licensing chiefs announced extra drinking hours over the holidays.
The council has said...