Whitburn councillors have complained that they are being kept in the dark by police about serious incidents in the ward, after it emerged buses had been forced to change their routes to avoid being pelted with stones.
George Paul, a senior Labour councillor and the Executive councillor for communities, raised the issue at both the ward’s local area committee and another meeting with senior police officers a few days later.
He was backed up by SNP councillor Mary Dickson. Both told Sgt Mike Hart at the Whitburn and Blackburn Local Area Committee that they had been caught off guard by constituents who had raised issues of public disorder with them.
