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Feb 1, 20183 min read
Dougal Haston: From Currie to Everest
Up, always up. Currie lad Dougal Haston went from rambling around the Pentland Hills to being one of the first British climbers to...
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Dec 4, 20172 min read
Muiravonside Sculpture Trail
It’s hard to beat a woodland walk in late autumn, kicking through the leaves and taking in the spectacular colours of nature, to...
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Nov 7, 20173 min read
Edwin Lucas - Scottish Surrealist
The young man from Juniper Green who painted a mural in the scouts' “den” on Belmont Road in the early 1930s - to make it look like the...
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Nov 3, 20172 min read
Bliss: For babies born premature or sick
Having a premature baby can be a very frightening and stressful time. Last month I met with West Lothian resident Coady Dorman, whose son...
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Nov 1, 20173 min read
Craiglockhart War Poets Trail
Walks through the Craiglockhart hills were a popular way of exercising and relaxing for the shell- shocked soldiers who were treated at...
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Aug 7, 20175 min read
The Balerno Loop
There is little left for the casual observer to notice today of the picturesque branch line that ran along the Water of Leith for six...
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Jun 1, 20174 min read
Redhall Castle and House
Home to a diplomat involved in nation-shaping moments in Scottish history; seige and destruction by Oliver Cromwell's canons; gracious...
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Feb 1, 20174 min read
King Jamie's Silver Mines
When a local collier found some unusual stones at Hilderston, near Cairnpapple in the Bathgate Hills, he couldn’t have imagined the stir...
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Jan 1, 20174 min read
When Craiglockhart was "Dottyville"
How the tranquil surrounds of Craiglockhart - and a meeting at Baberton Golf Club - produced the most graphic and moving anti-war poetry...
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Dec 1, 20164 min read
West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service
“We want people to know that we’re here, and that they can contact us any time if they’re worried they have a problem with alcohol, drugs...
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Nov 6, 20163 min read
West Lothian Eagles
The West Lothian Eagles are Scotland's newest Aussie rules football team! Unlike the famous West Coast Eagles in Australia, players and...
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Aug 6, 20163 min read
West Lothian Far from Ypres
Did you know that work on Beecraigs Loch was started by German prisoners-of-war during the First World War, but due to their...
Editor
Mar 7, 20164 min read
Huly Hill and the Newbridge Chariot
Have you ever sat in the traffic by the BP garage at the bottom of Cliftonhall Road in Newbridge waiting to get onto the roundabout, and...
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Mar 1, 20164 min read
Nicola Welsh: “There are no rules for grieving”
“I want to break the taboo around discussing stillbirth and neonatal death, and make it normal to talk about it,” says Nicola Welsh. I'm...
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Mar 1, 20164 min read
Community First Responsers
When you dial 999 for an ambulance, did you know that as well as dispatching an ambulance, in some circumstances the service calls a...
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Feb 8, 20167 min read
The Bathgate Baker's Boy who Changed the World
The face of Bathgate bairn Dr James Young Simpson is painted on the “pioneering spirit” First buses. What is not painted there is a...
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Feb 1, 20163 min read
In the footsteps of RL Stevenson : a walk in Colinton Dell
This area of woodland trails covers both sides of the Water of Leith from Colinton to Slateford. Steeped in history, it's also home to a...
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Sep 1, 20156 min read
Pentland Heist
Thirty years ago, Pentland Hills Regional Park was at the centre of a police investigation when what appeared to be little more than a...
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Apr 3, 20154 min read
Balancing Act: The main feeder for the Union Canal
As you're enjoying a walk, cycle or boat trip along the Union Canal, you may not be aware that its serene surface level is maintained...
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Nov 6, 20146 min read
Letters Home - from a young Scots Guard
A nineteen year old lad writes home to his mother from the trenches in World War 1 France: “I have seen all the life I want to see.” A...
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