West Lothian workers who kept country running through pandemic now struggling with cost of living

A new F45 fitness gym will open on Almondvale Boulevard in Livingston in August.

Ash Dieback could cost Scotland’s local authorities millions of pounds to tackle in the coming years - with West Lothian looking at a long term cost north of £12 million.

When she was 23, Sonia Friedman was—to use her expression—thrown into a rehearsal room with Harold Pinter at London’s National Theatre. She was his deputy stage manager during production for the premiere of his one-act play Mountain Language starring theatrical royalty Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins.

Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan was stunned after Kaye Adams made a surprising comment about her weight.

Manori Ravindran International EditorForest Whitaker has shed some new plot details about Francis Ford Coppola’s mystery project “Megalopolis,” which is set to start shooting in August.The actor-producer, who is in Cannes to receive the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or, suggested he had a substantial role in the new movie, and spoke favorably of Coppola’s script, which is a long-gestating passion project that’s been in the works for 20 years. Coppola invested more than $100 million of his own resources to make the film, which is his first film since 2011’s “Twixt.”“The cast is coming together,” said Whittaker, who praised Coppola as an “amazing filmmaker” that he was excited to work with.

Illegal firearms and ammunition can be handed in to Livingston Police Station as part of a UK-wide firearms surrender campaign.

A Tory Minister has been mocked for claiming that poor people struggling with the cost of living crisis should get a better job.

Scots have been urged to consider plastering on the sun lotion this weekend as forecasters anticipate UV levels to soar.

Naman Ramachandran Emmy nominee Paapa Essiedu (“I May Destroy You”) and BAFTA winner Stephen Dillane (“Alex Rider”) have joined Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”) on the cast of “The Outrun.” The film is the feature adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir “The Outrun,” adapted by Nora Fingscheidt, the multiple award winning director of “System Crasher.” Fingscheidt has written the adaptation in collaboration with Liptrot.Ronan stars as Rona, who fresh out of rehab, returns to the wild Orkney Islands after more than a decade away. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her childhood merge with the more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery. Protagonist Pictures has sold all international territories on the film, which is currently shooting on location in the Orkney Islands.

West Lothian food security and employability charity, The Larder, has responded to the shocking statistics released by The Food Foundation that one in seven people in the UK are food insecure.

A West Lothian charity offering free mental health support for young people has been nominated for ‘Charity of the Year’ by the Scottish Charity Awards.

A dedicated team of naturalists from West Lothian are celebrating evolving from a WhatsApp group into a registered Scottish charity.

Arcade Fire look to set to claim their fourth UK Number 1 album with WE this week.

Rising bills will lead Scots to turn to the "Bank of Mum and Dad" as the cost of living crisis mounts, an expert has warned.

Pete Davidson has joked about Kanye West pulling a ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ – watch footage from his Netflix Is A Joke Festival set below.Davidson appeared at the festival last Friday (April 29) to premiere his new show, Pete Davidson And Best Friends, which was filmed for release on Netflix later in the year. To a sold-out crowd at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, he opened the set by poking fun at the claims that West tried to spread rumours about Davidson – who is currently dating West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian – having AIDS.“I had an AIDS scare this year,” he said before telling the audience that he got himself tested for the condition since West is a “genius”.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC’s genre streamer Shudder has picked up Northern Irish folk horror Mandrake, which debuted earlier this year at FrightFest Glasgow.

Obesity is contributing to hundreds of prostate cancer deaths in men, a new study suggests.

May 7 will mark a decade since a group of Dumbarton Accies players wrote their names into the history books.

A bitter spat has erupted between SNP and Labour members before this week’s election, with both parties accusing each other of attempting to deceive voters.

Book fines at libraries across Perth and Kinross have been scrapped to help residents amid the current cost of living crisis.