The Latest Breaking News from West Lothian

Broxburn's Labour councillor, well known community activist Ann Davidson died on the same day as the Queen

At their first full meeting in the chambers for two years councillors remembered the 70 years of service in tributes following the death of Queen Elizabeth

After an 18 year battle neighbours on Livingston's Deans South estate gathered to say farewell, after moving out . As the security grills went up on their old homes they remembered the battle for a new home and looked forward to moving back

Sharon Crozier yesterday said the loved ones of the victims of the serial killer, whose modus operandi was to bury his victims, should get the truth before it is too late.

Jurors heard how he applied so much pressure on their necks that they passed out.On Friday, at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Alison Stirling sent McDougal to jail.

He was also found guilty of wilfully ill-treating her children by forcing them to stand in a cold dark room for hours and of assaulting two of her sons by presenting a knife at them and hitting one of them on the face.

Foodbanks in both Edinburgh and West Lothian, as well as further afield in West Dumbartonshire, have all recorded a huge upsurge in the number of people coming to them looking for basic groceries to see them through the week

Death rates across Scotland surged in line with the pandemic and while treatment services are improving more funding needs to be put in place to boost treatment programmes

In the latest of our police columns, special constable Jamie Allan speaks about his role and hopes to inspire others to join