Farmfoods has been given the go ahead to open a new store in Penicuik despite claims some workers at its previous store learned they had lost their jobs on social media.
The food chain was this week granted permission to build a store on a former car showroom on Edinburgh Road which it said would create up to 20 jobs.
However Midlothian ward councillor Debbi McCall expressed her regret at the way some workers at its previous store in the town's St Kentigern's Road, discovered plans to relocate.