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Edinburgh Live
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Stuart Sommerville

West Lothian closes most automated public toilets in budget cuts

Only four automated public toilets will remain open in West Lothian while seven more are to shut after councillors learned the most expensive to operate was costing £16 a flush.

The still far from 'flush' West Lothian Council decided in its budget on Tuesday that those automated public conveniences which will stay include Livingston South railway station, Engine Lane in Bathgate, Broxburn and Linlithgow.

Two have already been retired, from Whitburn and East Calder. They are currently in storage.

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