Simpson Primary Parent Council has been awarded the funding from Persimmon Homes East Scotland to help kick-start plans to turn an unused outdoor area into a space that promotes play, activity, and wellbeing for pupils.

Crews transported Aimee Hogg to St John’s Hospital, where she gave birth to her third child.

Footage shared on social media shows the car on its side in the middle of Cochrane Street in Bathgate, West Lothian.

A man has now been charged following the tragic death of Ellie Douglas last June.

Donald Stavert of Bathgate Community Council said the reissue of the petition and community survey would “ hope to influence” a final decision.

Bathgate’s Housing Manager Emma Ramsay assured councillors that her team was working hard to get the message across that scruffy overgrown and unkempt gardens were unacceptable to the council or neighbours.

Mark Wardrop made “horrifying” threats to beat up and kill the 15- and 16-year-old schoolboys in order to force them to sell cannabis for him in what police call a “county lines’ operation.

Jemma Williamson, 33, had complained of back pain, headaches and sudden weight gain but her GP dismissed her symptoms as normal and prescribed her painkillers.

"We live in the countryside and even though we've got CCTV, it's not stopping them."

Nominations have opened for the 2026 Scotland Loves Local Awards - including those for Town of the Year.

SNP councillors questioned whether any more homes should be agreed for the area given the existing pressures on the local GP surgery.

Denise Clair is seeking a private prosecution of former Dundee United and Blackburn star David Goodwillie over allegations he raped her 15 years ago

Carstairs retains an unsettling aura, 80 years after it was build to accommodate “mental defectives”

The award celebrates the Bathgate-based Clarus Networks’ international expansion and the growing global demand for its managed connectivity services.

Offord was asked about David McLennan's claim that Bill Gates was trying to cull the population.

Polls open at 7am across West Lothian and will close at 10am on Thursday. Registered voters should have received their poll card advising where to vote.

EXCLUSIVE: David McLennan has been branded a "crank conspiracy theorist" over the wild theory.

Over 80 players took part from 10 teams, with the first game starting at 8am, and the last finishing at 8pm raising close to £3000.

William Byrne is behind bars awaiting sentence after pleading guilty over a £1.6million drug ring which saw him and his associates sneaking drugs into Scotland from the Netherlands.

On Friday, April 24, a local remembrance event took place in Balbardie Park where wreaths were laid, and a minute’s silence held.

Firefighters raced to Pentland Avenue in Bathgate on April 23 after reports of shipping containers on fire.

The Linlithgow-based brewery was invited to showcase the beer in the aptly named Strangers’ Bar inside the Palace of Westminster.

Herbie’s Law would set an ambition to phase out animal experiments in medical research over the next decade.

A cross party working group is now trying to identify suitable sites which could be used by Travellers to avoid the disruption caused by camps last year.

Joyce Madden, who lives with a neurological condition that makes her unsteady on her feet, is unable to have a stairlift fitted in her home - leaving her to climb a steep flight of stairs.

The woods near Linlithgow will stay dark for a second Christmas after a marketing exercise to promote the country parks found no-one willing to light up the season .

After signing up as kit sponsor of the men’s first team back in 2023, and extending the contract for the 2025/26 campaign, the Label 5 logo will now be emblazoned across both Livingston shirts for the 2026/27 season.

Mohammed Bilal feels there has been a rise in shoplifting at his store in Bathgate over the past few years.

EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader was panned by the SNP and Scottish Greens.

Police were sent to Livery Road in Bathgate at around 12.30am on Saturday, March 28.