The Latest Breaking News from Midlothian

Covid funding could be used to provide free 'wash and dry' sessions and meals to residents after councillors argued it was still being used to support wellbeing and could be diverted to the winter projects

Depression, isolation and loneliness are just some of the mental health issues which have seen an increase in calls for help since the pandemic

Naloxone can reverse the effects of an opiate overdose giving victims valuable time for paramedics to reach them in an emergency and doses are already given to friends and family of known drug users at risk of an overdose

The spring Covid booster campaign saw more than 85% of those eligible take up the jab but the weekday clinic at Midlothian Community Hospital has moved to Rosewell ahead of the winter campaign getting underway

Shops on one side of the Penicuik street were in a Conservation area while those on the other side were not, a situation one councillor described as "bamboozling"

Lothian MSP Miles Briggs described the 'deep emotion' the Queen's death triggered as it 'severed a link' to his own grandparents who he lost a few years ago as he paid a personal tribute

The community library was demolished after new facilities were included in a £16.7m new primary school in Danderhall

The Scottish Government Reporter said house building targets set out in a 15 year plan in 2009 were no longer reliable and could not be used to argue the case for building on unallocated land describing the lack of a current target list as a 'failure of the plan-led system"

A 'tornado' has been spotted swirling furiously through a number of towns in Midlothian as a yellow warning thunderstorm hits the capital and Lothians nearby

Major John Errington was born in 1918 in Beeslack, just east of Penicuik, and had served a lengthy career in the Royal Scots Regiment, as well as fighting in Dunkirk and becoming a prisoner of war.

Transport Scotland has said it cannot support any further expansion of the University of Edinburgh's Easter Bush campus or Midlothian's Science Zone unless new road is built to ease congestion on the trunk roads network