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A surge in anti-social behaviour which has seen shopkeepers complaining about street drinking and sex acts in a town centre have sparked a call for more community police patrols.

A motorist who twice used a car to attack men in a West Lothian town in assaults carried out a year apart was jailed for six years and nine months.

An urgent search has been launched for an elderly dementia sufferer who vanished from a West Lothian town.

The daughter of an elderly cyclist who was left lying on the road with broken ribs after he was struck by a car has pleaded for witnesses.

An elderly cyclist has been rushed to hospital following a crash in an East Lothian town. Emergency services were called to Dunbar High Street at around 10.14 am on Sunday April 23 following reports of a crash between a cyclist and a silver Vauxhall Astra.

Councillors in Linlithgow have agreed to keep improved footpaths and cycle lanes brought in under the Spaces for People (SfP) measures- a decision local Lib Dem councillor Sally Pattle branded “ridiculously easy.”

Police officers were seen standing guard outside a property in North Berwick on Thursday following the shocking deaths of two men in Edinburgh.

Night-time bus services at Fauldhouse are being diverted after a spate of attacks.

A woman has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy.

Police have charged a 23-year-old man with careless driving following a five-car pile-up that closed a motorway for six and a half hours - minutes after the road had re-opened following an earlier incident.

This is the heartwarming moment a kind-hearted bus driver guided a group of duckings and their mother down to a nearby river.

Police are appealing for help to find a teenager who speaks very little English after he vanished from an East Lothian town.

A teenager has been taken to hospital after being attacked outside a block of flats in a West Lothian town.

Furious residents are set to hold a rally outside the historic Black Bitch pub in Linlithgow over plans to rename the 17th century venue.

Carmondean Community Centre in Livingston.Anyone whose test comes back positive should follow the instructions provided and take immediate action to stop the spread of the virus to others by self-isolating.The Community Testing Programme (CTP) was created in December 2020 to enable local authorities with high prevalence of Covid-19 to work in partnership with the UK government, and identify asymptomatic cases through local testing and support them to isolate.Areas with high rates of infection of Covid-19 are targeted to stop the virus spreading onto other neighbourhoods.Launching the scheme, the UK Government said “community testing is an important addition to our armoury in the fight against Covid-19 over the coming months.”For more

North Berwick has been named the best place to live in Scotland, according to a new study. The Times newspaper today published details of its annual Best Places to Live in UK list - with the East Lothian town coming out on top as the regional winner.

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.An outbreak of Covid-19 in a West Lothian town has reached a local school.West Lothian Council say that there is one confirmed Covid-19 case at St Joseph’s Primary in Whitburn, with a small number of pupils also isolating, as transmission rates soar in the area.A West Lothian Council spokesperson said: “There has been a confirmed case within the school community and we are working closely with NHS Lothian Health Protection Team and following all national guidance.“Whenever there is a confirmed case within a school community, we will liaise directly with parents to make them aware and provide any necessary advice from NHS Lothian Health

The original Burgh Halls façade is being kept and restored. A new two-storey extension is being constructed to the retained East Main Street building which will provide a new easily accessible main entrance leading in to an airy reception area with seating.

Residents in a West Lothian town have created a petition claiming that the council reneged on a promise to build a partnership centre.Winchburgh Community Council organised the petition and say that West Lothian Council’s alleged broken promise means “every resident of the village will now have less access to healthcare, a local police force and community spaces.”The petition says: “As a community we ask West Lothian Council (WLC) and their partners to reverse their decision and provide Winchburgh with our owed partnership centre.“In the event that the partnership centre is not built we ask WLC, Lothian Health Board and Police Scotland to brief the community of Winchburgh on exactly how a town of 10,000+ people are to be provided with the

“In addition working with the active support and cooperation from the custodians at the Bennie Museum we have added two more names to their flyer on why Bathgate is famous, giving a very brief glimpse of the national achievements of some Bathgate bairns, as well as the fossil ‘Lizzie’, found near the town, and the significance of the town’s link with the Royal House of Stewart.“These items are briefly sketched out and illustrated in this flyer which should be available shortly for public distribution.”David said members are now looking at the installation of street maps so that visitors coming into Bathgate for the first time will be able to locate the Bennie Museum, for instance, the High Church or the nearest butcher’s shop or hair

Police have launched an investigation after a 64-year-old man was assaulted at a popular beauty spot during the coronavirus lockdown.