A gift card scheme which encourages people to shop in East Lothian has seen the amount spent on it treble in two years.
East Lothian Council's gift card scheme was launched as a year-round extension of a Christmas shopping project which let people spend vouchers in local businesses who signed up to it.
A meeting of the council's audit and governance committee heard the scheme, which is run by East Lothian Investments on behalf of the local authority is going from strength to strength.
