A food takeaway owner who was named a Local Hero by business leaders was refused permission to open his first snack van despite receiving more than 100 letters of support.
William Kivlin, who runs The Old School Takeaway from his home in Dalkeith, wanted to open a mobile cafe in a shipping container on the edge of Mayfield Park, in the town.
But Midlothian Council planners ruled it was too close to local schools breaching their 400 metre ban on takeaways warning it would attract pupils.
