http://www.http://www.eastlothiancourier.com//rss/rss.php Latest from the online edition en-gb Monday, 01st of December 2008 06:10:01 PM Copyright (C) 2008 Berkshire Media Group http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/rss/ 20 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.com/furniture/lc_logo_500x75.png http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/ A LEADING councillor has called on the local authority to take a firmer stand against members of travelling communities who flout local bylaws. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20813 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20813 Thursday, 06 March 2008 10:00:00 GMT News COUNCIL chiefs have launched a robust defence of the authority’s housing allocation policy, amid claims from would-be tenants in North Berwick that “undesirables” are getting preferential treatment. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20806 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20806 Thursday, 06 March 2008 10:00:00 GMT News AFTER three months spent learning about life on and off the football pitch, nine Tranent schoolkids are facing the future with greater confidence. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20798 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20798 Thursday, 06 March 2008 10:00:00 GMT News A YOUNG mum and her two-year-old daughter had a lucky escape when a fire gutted the flat next door to their Prestonpans home. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20795 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20795 Thursday, 06 March 2008 10:00:00 GMT News COMMUNITY leaders in Wallyford have declared their opposition to Boundary Commission plans to annexe the village from the East Lothian Holyrood constituency. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20789 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20789 Thursday, 06 March 2008 10:00:00 GMT News CLAIMS that a Dunbar hospital is to lose male beds to make room for female residents of crisis-hit Cockenzie House Nursing Home have been strongly denied by health service chiefs. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20443 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20443 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:10:00 GMT News AN elderly couple escaped with minor injuries despite being trapped in their badly-damaged car following a freak weather accident in Aberlady. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20441 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20441 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News UP to a third of town centre businesses would go bust within 18 months of Tesco relocating from Calder’s Lawn to Gateside East. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20430 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20430 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News MEMBERS of St Baldred’s Episcopal Church have dug deep to help raise awareness of the famous East Lothian saint on the 1400th anniversary of his death. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20429 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20429 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News DESPITE previous police calls for a blanket ban on public outdoor drinking in East Lothian, councillors have bowed to community pressure and allowed the practice to continue in several communities. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20428 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20428 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News FORTY-NINE nuclear power workers had to be evacuated from the reactor building at Torness after monitoring equipment showed increased levels of carbon dioxide. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20427 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20427 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News THE regeneration of Tranent should be East Lothian Council’s “top priority”, community leaders declared last week – as they described their town as the “worst” in the county. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20422 http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/articles/1/20422 Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:00:00 GMT News