38 m. ago West Lothian community centres given more time to look at funding plans

In an update to councillors the head of Housing Customer and Building Services Julie Whitelaw said that the revised saving plans which were scheduled to come to the council Executive in early March would be pushed back to the April meeting.

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54 m. ago Arsenal player ratings vs West Ham: Mikel Merino reality check as Mikel Arteta gamble fails

Declan Rice and Gabriel struggle on nightmare afternoon for Gunners

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54 m. ago Van driver fled the scene after tragic Metrolink crash that killed 3

A girl, 3, died after the van crashed into a tram and mounted the pavement

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56 m. ago House builder supports West Lothian School Bank with bumper donation

Miller Homes’ donation to The School Bank West Lothian will go towards providing schools with “camp clothing packs” to ensure that every child has a chance to fully participate in school camp trips.

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57 m. ago Johnson’s early double sets Tottenham on way to emphatic win at Ipswich

Some afternoons come like a kick in the teeth. Not only did Ipswich suffer a fourth successive home defeat in a game that never felt as one-sided as the scoreline ultimately suggested but fourth-bottom Wolves inflicted on Bournemouth only their second defeat in 16. After weeks of bubbling along in touch, the gap to safety is now five points and survival is becoming an ever more distant prospect.There was no sense in which this was an undeserved win for Spurs, some sort of smash and grab to offend notions of dignity and propriety, but equally it wasn’t entirely convincing. Not for the first time this season, there was a sense that if only Ipswich had been able to seize their opportunity, it might have been very different. Continue reading...

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58 m. ago West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen delivers major blow to Arsenal’s title hopes

So it turns out Arsenal should have signed a striker. Fourteen months after they last put a major dent in Arsenal’s title aspirations, a goal from Jarrod Bowen secured West Ham’s second successive Premier League away win over their north London rivals as Mikel Arteta’s side saw their hopes of maintaining the pressure on leaders Liverpool evaporate.To compound Arteta’s misery, substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly was shown a straight red card in the second half as Arsenal – who had toiled with Mikel Merino again filling in as a makeshift attacker – struggled to find an equaliser against a defence that would have done Graham Potter’s predecessor, David Moyes, proud. Yet while this was a welcome triumph for Potter, it also laid bare the deficiencies in Arsenal’s squad caused by so many injuries to forward players that has made their task of overhauling Arne Slot’s side almost impossible. A first defeat in 15 games – a run that had stretched back to the start of November – almost leaves them n...

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60 m. ago Arsenal vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League result as Gunners dealt huge blow in title race

Arsenal 0-1 West Ham: Jarrod Bowen’s goal before half time means the Gunners miss the chance to cut Liverpool’s lead in the title race

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65 m. ago The week in audio: Facing the Music; Tara and George: Last Rights; Why Is Amy in the Bath? and more – review

The lives of Beethoven, Haydn and co enthral; Audrey Gillan updates her award-winning rough sleepers series. Plus, a choir of cicadas and bathtime fun with Amy Adams Facing the Music Radio 3/BBC SoundsTara and George: Last Rights Radio 4/BBC Sounds)Why Is Amy in the Bath? Grab Bag Collab & Because It’s True ProductionsBetween the Ears: A Symphony of Cicadas Radio 3/BBC Sounds“It’s almost midnight,” purrs Dominic West, all honey and velvet, straight after we hear the famously doomy, four-note opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The wild-eyed composer is in a cart, West tells us energetically, his latest piano sonata getting ruined by the rain, after throwing some coins at the driver and growling his preferred destination. West relishes every syllable of it: “Vi-ennnn-a!” Continue reading...

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65 m. ago My boiler has broken and I’m finding solace in a slice (or several) of toast | Rachel Cooke

There are whole chapters in cookbooks dedicated to it and now an endless variety of new things to spread on top, including butters with a waiting listMy subject today is toast, which is much on my mind right now, a buttery ticker tape that calls me constantly to the kitchen. Our boiler has packed up, the new one won’t be installed for a week, and though it’s only the central heating that’s down (the cooker’s fine), the freezing cold has turned me into a toast monster. It’s all I want, a feeling I haven’t had since I was a student and living in a house that was so badly insulated, we sometimes had to break the ice on the water in the loo. How many loaves can a person get through in a week? Come back to me in a few days for an answer. I’ll give you a tour of my chilblains at the same time.What is amazing about toast is the way it has lately become so pimped. This started a few years ago: I first noticed it in Moro Easy by Sam and Sam Clark, a cookbook that came out in 2022 and whose o...

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65 m. ago From saviour to Judas How Trump’s pivot on Russia also endangers his own country | Simon Tisdall

With a Putin-appeasing president at the helm, it is clear the transatlantic alliance is collapsing and European leaders must plot their own courseHow do I betray thee? Let me count the ways Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning for mangling her celebrated poem to reflect Donald Trump’s multiple Ukraine treacheries. This most perfidious of presidents surpassed himself last week, accusing Kyiv of invading itself three years ago . “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” he fatuously griped.Candidate Trump, touting a just peace, pledged to end the war in a day. Now he praises Vladimir Putin, claims Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is “a dictator” and backs a settlement on Moscow’s criminal, one-sided terms. This deranged collapse into craven capitulation, this transition from American saviour to American Judas, took less than a month. It’s contemptible. Continue reading...

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66 m. ago Inmates locked up in UK prison given dancing lessons and invited to 'film nights'

Female inmates at HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire have been offered line dancing lessons and can attend film nights featuring popcorn and fizzy pop as part of the prison's incentive scheme

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67 m. ago What Mikel Arteta got wrong as West Ham beat Arsenal in red card VAR nightmare

Arsenal have handed Liverpool a massive boost in the race for the Premier League title as the 10-man Gunners lost 1-0 to West Ham at the Emirates Stadium

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68 m. ago Arsenal vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League result, latest updates and reaction

Gunners bid to cut Liverpool lead to five points in title race

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70 m. ago BEL MOONEY: My grandson's death makes everything else seem so trivial

Dear Bel: I've dealt with a lot of deaths in my life but none have hit me as badly as that of my grandson aged 27 from cardiomyopathy. BEL MOONEY advises.

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79 m. ago Premier League issue statement on VAR red card for Arsenal's Myles Lewis

Arsenal star Myles Lewis-Skelly was sent off for the Gunners against West Ham and now the Premier League have issued a statement explaining why

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81 m. ago West Lothian Council claim empty building rates relief change will save them '£1m a year'

West Lothian’s Executive has agreed the changes which will see an end to rates relief on empty properties after six months, and in some cases three months.

Economics

1 hour ago Johnny Rotten 'wallowed in alcohol and sadness' after wife's death

Sex Pistols icon John Lydon has revealed his struggles since the passing of his wife Nora Foster in 2023 and the changes he's had to make

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1 hour ago Virginia police officers killed during traffic stop shooting, officials say

There is no longer an ‘active threat’ to community members, police said, after two officers were killed during a late-night traffic stop Friday

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1 hour ago Arsenal vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League latest score and updates as Bowen goal stuns Gunners

The Gunners hope to close the gap on Liverpool with win over the Hammers

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1 hour ago Violent bully killed his girlfriend's frail brother when he told him to stop punching her

Pearse Kavanagh, 46, punched Sarah McQueeney's brother Philip so hard he caused a tear to his liver and internal bleeding. He has now been jailed for nine-and-a-half years

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