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Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the Government’s proposed pay offer.

A BURNS supper with a twist can be enjoyed at Newhailes House and Gardens in Musselburgh. The National Trust for Scotland visitor attraction is holding a Burns supper ‘drive thru’ on Saturday, January ...

The Chewin’ the Fat and The Karen Dunbar Show star is taking on a national tour, which will see her stop off in Dunbar this summer. The 53-year-old has trod the boards in everything from Glasgow Panto ...

Four of East Lothian’s secondary schools are home to more than 1,000 pupils: Tranent's Ross High School (1,226), Dunbar Grammar School (1,116), Preston Lodge High School in Prestonpans (1,068) and ...

Kris Drever, a folk singer from Orkney, landed himself a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award after the release of his third album, If Wishes Were Horses, in 2016. Jonnie Williams, event organiser for Live At The ...

FEARS have been raised that people visiting a proposed holiday accommodation could be struck by golf balls at “a world-renowned historic ...

DUNBAR United are on the lookout for a new manager after Kevin Haynes returned to Berwick Rangers. Haynes, who had been the longest-serving manager at East Lothian’s senior football clubs, previously ...

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says winning the FA Cup is one of his side’s targets this season. Villa are seven-times winners of the famous cup competition but have not lifted the trophy since 1957.

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

A CHANCE to find out what goes on at Dunbar Day Centre is offered next Saturday (January 18). The day centre, on the town’s Westgate, was established nearly 50 years ago. Now, between 10am and noon, ...