Last minute talks held to avoid strike and rubbish piling up in streets of West Lothian

The Prime Minister and politicians' have expressed their concern over news that the Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral.

A Scottish Green Minister has raised the prospect of extending a planned rent freeze beyond March for private landlords only.

Priti Patel has resigned as Home Secretary and will be returning to the backbenches from Tuesday as Liz Truss begins to change the guard in the Tory cabinet.

Council chiefs have made a revised pay offer to staff in a bid to avert strikes that are set to close schools

Pay rises for better-off council staff would be capped under plans discussed to end waves of strikes by local authority workers.

Police in West Lothian recorded the fifth highest number of domestic abuse cases in Scotland during lockdown.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will personally intervene today in a bid to stop waves of strike action among council workers.

EXCLUSIVE: Pact and Bectu have agreed a last minute extension to the UK TV Drama Agreement negotiations, resurrecting the possibility of a deal being struck over the next month.

Lynks has announced that they will play a special secret set at Reading Festival 2022 this afternoon (August 28) – get all the details below.The 2022 edition of the festival concludes today with headline sets from The 1975 and Halsey, while secret sets from Pendulum, Don Broco and more have peppered the weekend.Taking to Twitter to confirm their appearance, Lynks confirmed that they will perform on the BBC Introducing Stage in Reading at 2.45pm this afternoon.Get all the details below.

Coleen Rooney will tell her side of the Wagatha Christie court case in an explosive documentary, as rival Rebekah Vardy plots her TV revenge. Streaming giant Disney+ confirmed yesterday that it had won the exclusive rights to work with Coleen, 36, and has given its three-part project the working title of Wagatha Christie. Rebekah is said to be considering two offers to make her own documentary.

Joe Leydon Film Critic Despite some ambitious efforts by director Jessica M. Thompson and screenwriter Blair Butler to revitalize hoary horror movie tropes with allegorical commentary on race, class and male privilege, “The Invitation” is too wearyingly hackneyed for too much of its running time, and too often laugh-out-loud funny as its plot relies on the age-old convention of a smart yet naive heroine who makes one bad decision after another. It would not be at all surprising if, at some screenings, exasperated members of the audience shout rude things at the screen each time the endangered protagonist fails to act in her own self-interest. Evelyn (Nathalie Emmanuel of “Game of Thrones”) is a free-spirited twentysomething New Yorker who insists that everyone, even total strangers, call her Evie — and she insists quite frequently, just so we don’t miss the fact that she is indeed a free spirit — and scrapes by as wait staff at catered affairs while trying to fulfill her artistic ambitions creating ceramics. When she helps herself to a swag bag at a swanky affair for Find Yourself (evidently an upscale version of Ancestry.com), she finds a DNA test among the goodies and opts to investigate her family tree. This, of course, is the first of many mistakes.

A West Lothian social worker has been left scared to leave the house after she was knocked unconscious and beaten black and blue by strangers at an event at the Edinburgh Fringe.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed a new multi-million pound fund to help over 750 West Lothian families during the cost of living crisis - despite facing criticism for scrapping free school meals for all P6 and P7 pupils this summer.

A leading charity is urging people to follow the example of a West Lothian woman and become one of its volunteers.