Former Haddington hospital site has been earmarked for housing for the elderly but local families have been fighting to save ...

A cross party budget includes the 10% increase despite an uplift in the funding coming from Scottish Government with a third ...

A Scots town hall is set to defy First Minister John Swinney by jacking up council tax bills by 10.6 per cent. Labour-run East Lothian council is also planning rent rises of 6.5 per cent during a ...

East Lothian is one of Scotland’s 32 unitary council areas. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Midlothian, and has Haddington as its administrative centre. The council area ...

West Lothian’s budget overspend for this financial year has been cut by £2.3 million following emergency intervention last November. The Council Executive heard the 2024/25 figure has dropped ...

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East Riding councillors have approved its annual budget which sees a council tax hike whilst the authority aims to become a "smaller, leaner organisation." The Conservative and Independent ...

West Lothian council ‘s property manager told this month’s meeting of the executive that the bill was being tallied up and would be made public. The community centre closed in 2021 after RAAC ...

An interim chief executive has been selected to run East Lothian Council for the next two months. It was announced this week that Laurence Rockey would succeed Monica Patterson, who retires next ...

The men, aged 29, 35 and 54, were arrested along with a 54-year-old woman after warrants were executed across West Lothian on Thursday. Officers recovered 21.5kg of cocaine, with an estimated ...

A council leader has warned it will take years to restore public services as residents face a 10% council tax hike and tenants could see rent rise up to £6 a week. A report to East Lothian councillors ...

This means that council tenants who are illegally subletting their homes can return their keys without facing legal action. The goal of this initiative is to recover council homes that are being ...