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Feb 15, 20193 min read

Model Flying

When I mention to people that I fly model planes the first thing that happens is that their eyes glaze over and the shutters come down....

Oct 22, 20184 min read

Calders Soldiers

In 1914 the majority of the Hearts first team, then sitting at the top of the league and favourites to win the Scottish Cup, received a...

Nov 2, 20133 min read

Benefits cuts: How West Calder reacted

Benefits cuts, austerity measures, local authority budgets stretched to the limit, households struggling to make ends meet, social unease...

Jul 2, 20124 min read

He founded the world’s oil economy, became a billionnaire and saved the whales

Just off the A71 through Polbeth there is a bucolic nook which seems worlds away from the hustle and bustle of the main road. In the...

May 3, 20105 min read

Drew McAdam - Master Mind Reader

Usually described as Scotland’s foremost mind reader, he lives in Polbeth and is in great demand all over the country as an entertainer,...

Mar 1, 20102 min read

Do you know where this local mansion is?

Its rooms, which once echoed to the sounds of family and socialising, began to echo to the sound of shale dumped on the advancing bings