For four years, more than 1,400 merchant ships under the flags of 11 states completed their journeys to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk as part of 78 allied convoys, escorted by 441 warships

Would you like to feature on West Lothian’s very own community radio station?

“The biggest barrier to people seeking help with addiction is fear of being stigmatised,” says Mark Vance, General Manager of the West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service (WLDAS) “But we’re here for everyone."

Help people without a home this winter by buying a Caring Christmas Tree from Bethany Christian Trust

On a clear day you can pick out all the features of the landscape - the three bridges striding across the Forth, the Ochils, Berwick Law and Bass Rock in the distance to the east, the pink shale bings slumbering in the fields closer home, the plain of Almond Valley with all its settlements, and Edinburgh beyond. Take a pair of binoculars and see how much you can pick out.

Despite being set up over 100 years ago our work is still relevant today as we amend records, search for missing names, build new memorials and where historical inequalities in commemoration are found, ensuring all those who fell are equally remembered.

This has been the simplest of walks, and easy out-and-back, but one which can nevertheless take you on a journey in more ways than one.

The Bathgate housing estate is named after a viewpoint deliberately incorporated into an 18th century designed landscape, likely part of the (long-since lost) Ballencrieff House estate

Long since uninhabited except by wildlife, it’s likely that the island has been used in one way or another by people for almost as long as people have been rowing across the Forth here.