Politics

West Lothian Council will spend over £100 million over the next three years to increase and improve its existing housing stock.

Linlithgow MSP Fiona Hyslop (SNP) has welcomed the Scottish Government announcement which would commit £645 million to expand early learning and childcare provision across Scotland and save families in West Lothian £4,500 per child a year.

West Lothian’s Anti-Poverty Task Force is set to look at ways of reducing the impact of a reduction of automated cash machines across the area.

Local authorities have been told they will receive total funding from the Scottish Government of £11.3 billion in 2020-21.

A new service to help current and former Armed Forces personnel locally is up and running.

West Lothian Leisure, a charitable trust delivering sport, physical activity and cultural services from 20 sites across the region has for the second year running achieved a Gold Award in the UK Member Experience Awards – the only community leisure trust in Scotland to do so.

West Lothian Council has become only the third local authority in Scotland to adopt an international definition  of anti-semitism

Falkirk Council has promised to look at how pupils who split their time between two parents’ homes could be given bus passes to travel to school from both houses.

The EU flag was lowered outside West Lothian Council’s HQ at close of business Friday as the country prepared for Brexit.

A huge investment in Falkirk Council’s housing stock has been agreed, which will mean improving thousands of council houses and building hundreds of new ones.

Planning approval has been granted for the construction of two new secondary schools and one primary school on the one site in Winchburgh.

Grange Care Home in Bo’ness will be extended by an additional 32 beds for dementia patients.

Councillors have agreed that 64 houses will be built on land to the north of 44 Drum Farm Lane, Bo’ness, despite neighbours’ concerns that their homes would be overlooked.

Falkirk Council has agreed to a three per cent rise in rents for its 16,000 tenants this year.

Local MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton and local councillor Kevin Lang have raised concerns about further delays to the Queensferry Crossing one year review.

Edinburgh City Council wrote off £960,000 worth of fines in the 2018/19 financial year – around 16 per cent of the £6m issued in total for parking and bus lane fines.

Falkirk councillors have pledged to tackle climate change by getting the council’s emissions to net-zero by 2030 – 15 years earlier than the Scottish government target.

West Lothian faces a potential future crisis in care costs as the gap between the old and young widens.

Lothian List MSP Miles Briggs has welcome the successful recruitment of 21 new clinical mental health staff to help deal with the mental health crisis for children and young People in Edinburgh and the Lothians.