Tony Boyle: Last News

A new Lidl store in Craigshill has been granted a provisional licence to sell alcohol. West Lothian Licensing Board heard this week that the new store is expected to be open for business by the end of October next year. Lawyers for the supermarket said the new supermarket would create the equivalent of 40 full time jobs. The Board heard that the site of the new supermarket- 1 Almond Road- was formerly a car showroom. It has now been cleared and preparatory building work is under way. Clerk to the Board Gary McMullen told the meeting there had been no objections or adverse comments to the application for a provisional licence. An agent for the chain which has premises on Alderstone Road in the town close to the Livingston FC stadium, told the Board: "You may have seen that work has started. The initial stages are now under way. Al being well, the projected opening date is the end of October next year and the expectation is that the supermarket will create the equivalent of 40 full time jobs.

West Lothian Council will see its third by-election since August come the New Year after a senior SNP councillor announced her decision to retire.

Cillian Murphy has booked his next movie role!

EXCLUSIVE: Two nights before Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for the Universal Pictures blockbuster Oppenheimer, the studio completed a preemptive acquisition for the Mark A. Bradley book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. It’s an epic story of a corrupt union leader who murders a rival and is taken down by the lawyer son of the slain coal miner. It will be scripted as a starring and producing vehicle for Murphy.

Labour has held its seat in the Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh by-election as councillor Tony Boyle secured his return to the council chambers in the poll.

Three former councillors are bidding for a return to the chamber in December’s by-election in the Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh ward.