The Latest Breaking News from East Lothian

East Lothian Council has also agreed to mothball some offices, turn down the heat in those in use to 18 degrees and shelve plans to refurbish Musselburgh's The Brunton Hall

Part of the A1 in East Lothian was restricted on Sunday morning after the two-car collision which resulted in a woman being rushed by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Communities living next to renewable energy installations receive voluntary payments from the owners but new plans would see the funds split with some remaining in the community and the rest put into an East Lothian fund to support county-wide projects.

Plans to rename the remaining East Lothian constituency as East Lothian Coastal have come under fire from the local authority who point out most of the remaining communities are inland with no coastal links

Heavy rain last months saw gardens near the new housing estate flooded after water spilled over from a pond on the site causing alarm among councillors

Hamilton Waste and Recycling is Scotland's first carbon neutral waste centre and empoys more than 120 people at its centre outside Musselburgh in East Lothian

Met Office has warned of potential disruption due to icy surfaces in the East Lothian area of the country from tomorrow, December 7, until Thursday, December 8.

The local authority announced plans to review 46 trusts it oversees with assets of more than £3.5million in 2018 but four years on Audit Scotland is calling on the council to make more progress

Both beach sites have had work carried out to make their toilet facilities more accessible to everyone with £412,000 in funding invested into them

Enjoy has seen its membership return to 93 per cent of its pre-pandemic numbers despite dropping by a third in the first year of lockdown and says the cost of living crisis is making private gym users come to their facilities instead.

The New Plough Inn, Tranent, shut its doors over 18 months ago during the Covid pandemi and attempts to contact the premises licence holder have drawn a blank, the licensing board was told