The Latest Breaking News from East Lothian

East Lothian music festival approved despite complaints over noise, drugs and swearing

The summer festival sees public music events every weekend from June to September and attracts up to 150 people to Cockenzie House and Gardens

Edinburgh Live · May 26, 2023

East Lothian community fight landowner's plan to remove trees which survived Storm Arwen

The landowner describes 48 Scots pines as 'abnormally tall and spindly' and says they have a limited life span however objectors insist they could live for hundreds of years

Edinburgh Live · May 26, 2023

£8.5m Musselburgh care home at risk of being struck off improves grading to 'adequate'

Inspectors said communal facilities including a fine dining room, tearoom for relatives, enclosed gardens and minibus were 'underused' and more needed to be done to ensure residents who could get out of bed did every day

Edinburgh Live · May 25, 2023

East Lothian man loses fight to chop down neighbour's trees blocking sun from £500k home

Using calculations which taken into account the size of the garden overshadowed by the high hedge and impact, the Reporter confirmed it would have to grow to nine metres high before it had a detrimental impact in the neighbour

Edinburgh Live · May 23, 2023

East Lothian man slashed in the neck after row over a bush escalated

Prosecutor Eilidh Robertson told the High Court in Glasgow: "As they approached, they observed a female from the direction of the beach pulling branches off a bush."

Edinburgh Live · May 22, 2023

Seven dead whales wash up on UK beaches as experts speak out on 'rare' incidents

A spate of large dead whales that have washed ashore around the UK - more than half of them in Scotland - appear unrelated, say experts. But the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR_ organisation said it was a "rare occurrence" to have

Daily Mirror · May 19, 2023

East Lothian Post Office re-opens at new location following six-month closure

The vital community service has been re-instated at a different location following the closure of the previous Post Office on the High Street in October 2022 after the operator resigned

Edinburgh Live · May 19, 2023

Woman with Edinburgh links vanishes from East Lothian as police appeal for help

Peebles woman Jenny Thomson, 33, was last seen in Musselburgh, East Lothian, on Wednesday, May 17 - and police have issued an appeal for information for the missing

Edinburgh Live · May 19, 2023

Fines issued in East Lothian after overnight parking ban introduced in coastal beauty spots

East Lothian's scenic beaches have become the most visited coastline in Scotland in the wake of the pandemic with an estimated 3million tourists heading there each year

Edinburgh Live · May 19, 2023

Extending East Lothian farmworkers cottage will 'improve its environmental footprint'

The Ballencrieff cottage was originally built to house farmworkers in the 1930s and has a large garden which was provided at the time so tenants could grow their own fruit and vegetables

Edinburgh Live · May 18, 2023