West Lothian landmark church gets £90,000 boost

Manchester City pair Erling Haaland and Nathan Ake trained with the group ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash at home to Liverpool.

Households across Great Britain are set to see monthly bills rise by five per cent from January 1 after Ofgem announced the new price cap on Thursday. The energy regulator confirmed that the price cap will increase from the current £1,834 per year to £1,928, and will be in place until the end of March.

Sir Alex Ferguson joked that his late wife Lady Cathy would have killed him for recently spending £650,000 on two horses, following his excellent win in the Bahrain International Trophy last week.

A West Lothian MP is calling for a total ban on the sale of fireworks to members of the public.

Jordan has been crowned the winner of the 2023 Big Brother civilian series, as voted for by the public. He scooped the £100,000 jackpot, with Scots star Olivia coming second, as they left the house for the final time to a chorus of cheers from the live crowd.

Humza Yousaf has insisted he has "absolute confidence" in Michael Matheson as the SNP leader faced calls to sack the Health Secretary over an £11,000 data roaming bill.

A mum who has two boys with learning and emotional issues says more needs to be done to help children in West Lothian with additional support needs.

Scotland’s Health Secretary has said parliamentary authorities have already looked at the data from the iPad on which he built up an almost £11,000 bill while on holiday, after facing calls to hand it over.

Social Security Scotland recently announced that an estimated 400,000 people will start to receive this year’s Winter Heating Payment from the middle of December, with the ‘vast majority’ of eligible households receiving the money by the end of January 2024. The payment of £55.05 will be made automatically to help people with higher energy costs during the colder months.

A couple spent £8k decorating their house in 12,000 lights - for a traffic-stopping Remembrance display.

A student made a week-long, 1,000-mile round trip to Scotland to take her driving test - because she couldn't get a slot in her local area.

Plans for a new tourist attraction in a West Lothian village were set out at a special exhibition for locals.

Holyrood bosses have been called on to investigate an £11,000 data roaming bill racked up by the Health Secretary.

Social Security Scotland have announced that one-off payments of £235.70 have started going out to around 29,000 disabled children and young people across the country. The annual Child Winter Heating Payment is unique to Scotland and designed to help families of disabled young people under the age of 19 with higher fuel costs over the colder months.

North Ayrshire Council is revamping all of its playparks with improvements, repairs and modernisation already carried out at 45 sites - with an additional 30 playparks currently scheduled for improvement work.

Brewster Brothers, a West Lothian company that recycles the by products from the construction, demolition and excavation industries, has won this year’s VIBES Circular Scotland award.

NatWest customers are being warned not to ‘take the bait’ and click on links in emails that ask them to verify or update their account details as they are phishing scams sent by criminals trying to steal personal and financial information. Action Fraud recently raised the alarm on X (formerly twitter) after it received 1,478 reports of fake emails purporting to be from NatWest in just two weeks.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging couples who are married or in a civil partnership to set aside just 30 seconds of their time to see if they can claim Marriage Allowance and boost their finances by up to £252 a year.

West Lothian yobs smashed fire engine windscreen window last night.

Members of Whitburn Rotary Club are celebrating after winning two awards thanks to their hard work transforming a West Lothian train station.