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Marie Sharp

East Lothian cruise port plans set to be dropped amid 'significant challenges'

A vision of a cruise terminal at the site of a former East Lothian power station looks dead in the water as councillors are being asked to stop any further investigation into it.

A report on the future of the former Cockenzie Power Station land, which East Lothian Council bought in 2018 says it is time to drop the port option for the coastal site which faces 'significant challenges'.

And it says an alternative project to create a national climate change centre on the land does not currently have the funding to go ahead.

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