11 h. ago Cops seize £190k worth of drugs and weapons during raids on homes

One raid took place at around 9.30am yesterday morning - Friday, April 25, 2025 - in the West Lothian village of East Whitburn.

Events

55 h. ago West Lothian village to get 48 new homes despite pressure on health services

West Lothian Council’s Development Management Committee heard that the site is part of a larger area that first won permission for development in 2021.

Society

3 d. ago West Lothian villages get welfare help as demand soars through cost of living crisis

Almost 800 vouchers were issued in the ward, which covers villages in the area stretching from Fauldhouse to the western fringe of Livingston including Stoneyburn and Addiewell.

Economics

3 d. ago Documentary charts rise of boy from West Lothian village to terrific Hollywood movie director

Michael Caton-Jones directed a number of big screen movies such as Memphis Belle, Rob Roy, and The Jackal

Culture

9 d. ago Housebuilder unveils host of community support initiatives in West Lothian village

'We’re currently preparing for our much-anticipated Easter event'

Politics

2 w. ago West Lothian village pub closes suddenly as bosses issue 'deeply sad' statement

The Tally Ho, in Winchburgh, has ceased trading immediately after the owner issued a short statement on Facebook on Friday, April 4.

Politics

3 w. ago Ezra Klein on Trump, Vance and free speech: ‘It feels like we are in one of the darkest imaginable timelines’

The influential US commentator has written a book about how politics can change people’s lives for the better. But first, there are more pressing challenges to address ...Ezra Klein, the New York Times podcast host and progressive media’s undisputed nerd king, starts his new book with something of a palate cleanser for our troubled times. For a few paragraphs, he and his co-author, the Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson, whisk us out of the grim reality of contemporary politics to a world of Abundance (the word they picked as their title).“You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets,” they purr, before conjuring a near-future utopia where the cost of living crisis is a distant memory. “You live in a cocoon of energy so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace and so cheap you can scarcely find it on your monthly bill.” The fridge is full of fresh fruit and vegetables from skyscraper farms that sit amid rewilded landscapes. This is what we can look forward to, they say, if...

Politics