Politics

Local MSP Angus MacDonald, has welcomed new analysis of Scotland’s first fully devolved employment support service, which has shown that service users feel it has improved their quality of life.

Linlithgow Constituency MSP Fiona Hyslop has highlighted the work of the Scottish Welfare Fund, which benefited more local people this year.

A crowdfunder page has been launched to raise cash for East Falkirk MP Martyn Day’s General Election campaign - and has so far collected just over £700.

Falkirk Council’s children’s services are over budget by £2.7 million.

Falkirk Council says it will change the way it consults the public on budget cuts – as more reductions in staffing and changes to services are on the horizon.

A Falkirk Council staff survey has revealed that 70 per cent of the council’s workforce think work-related stress is a risk to their health.

Lothian List MSP Jeremy Balfour (Con)lodged an amendment at Holyrood this week to a motion calling for no further delay to any devolved disability assistance benefits.

Linlithgow and East Falkirk MP Martin Day is again calling for the UK Government to end the freeze on state pensions for half a million ex-pats living abroad

Changes to class teaching time  to save  West Lothian Council almost  £3 million  will mean a 10 per cent cut in the number of teachers in West Lothian, the EIS has claimed.

West Lothian Council has prepared a draft Gaelic Language Plan and is now seeking the views of local people.

Councillors will visit a unique group of houses built in the 1930s to agree whether or not one can be demolished to make way for a large, modern home.

Martyn Day, MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk, is calling on MPs’ Pension Fund to go fossil free and remove fossil fuel investment.

Arrangements for a cross-party working group on climate change were approved by the West Lothian Council Executive on Tuesday.

Martyn Day MP has challenged the Secretary of State for International Trade to make ratification and implementation of the Paris Agreement a precondition for any country wishing to make a trade deal with the United Kingdom.

Fiona Hyslop MSP for the Linlithgow Constituency has welcomed the news that West Lothian Families are set to benefit from “transformative” child and social care pledges as set out by the First Minister.

Local Linlithgow Constituency MSP Fiona Hyslop has condemned the new Proposed Brexit Deal saying it is even worse that the deals proposed by Theresa May when she was Prime Minister.

Vital income is being lost for the district’s leisure facilities because Falkirk Council is taking too long to make any repairs.

Cash-strapped local authorities in Scotland are paying millions more for schools built under the controversial private finance initiative (PFI) than originally planned.

Martyn Day MP has signed a new proposed parliamentary code of conduct, as part of a cross-party group of MPs led by Compassion in Politics and the More United Network.