Emergency services attended the scene in Sunderland where the boy had sustained serious injuries consistent with being caused by a bladed article.

A RESIDENT complained about “cursing” and “swearing” at Cockenzie’s school playing field, reported The Haddingtonshire Courier on June 5, 1925. A letter was read out at East Lothian Education ...

PUPILS and staff from Musselburgh Grammar School have raised more than £600 for Midlothian Young People’s Advice Service.

Russian attacks targeting the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others, officials said. The first wave on Ukraine’s second-largest city ...

Comedian Dawn French has apologised after posting a video online about the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying she “clumsily used a mocking tone” and it “appeared one-sided”. The Vicar Of Dibley actress ...

Thunderstorms are on the cards for many parts of England on Saturday, forecasters say. Plenty of showers may arrive as “a particularly intense” band of rain charges east through the South and West – “ ...

EAST Lothian Council has announced the appointment of two new heads of service. Keith Dingwall and Eamon John will take on the roles of head of development and head of communities respectively.

The animal will live out its life at Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk after being safely corralled by council street cleaning staff.

International rules allow countries to count first-year costs of supporting refugees as overseas development assistance.

Proposals for solar panels and replacement windows at New Winton’s community hall have been given the green light by East Lothian Council’s planning department. The project will see 20 solar panels on ...

An 11-year-old boy has become the second child to die after a minibus overturned on a motorway slip road. Othniel Adoma, from Bracknell, Berkshire, died on Thursday, more than three weeks after the ...

One of the key tasks for MSPs is raising questions and issues in parliament to help hold the government to account.