Stuart Sommerville
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- Aug 20, 2026
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Exam results for seniors in West Lothian high schools climb steadily since Covid (opens the original)
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Exam results for seniors in West Lothian high schools have climbed steadily since Covid. The number of students gaining five or more awards across S4, S5 and into the final year is almost 20 percentage points ahead of national results. While a teaching union welcomed the success and congratulated staff and students it issued a warning against growing reliance of a virtual campus model of teaching Advanced Highers. Local EIS rep Heather Hughes told a meeting of the Education PDSP in Livingston th
Abandoned West Lothian Council-owned building could become Asian supermarket (opens the original)
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A specialist Asian supermarket could attract more customers to Broxburn town centre. The council-owned building has been empty for several years as Property Services staff have sought to find a tenant. The council is responsible for holding costs on the empty building which is one of the few storefronts it owns in the town. These costs include the payment of non-domestic rates of over £8,500. Earlier proposals by Specsavers to open a branch at the store at 99 East Main Street fell through a meet
Number of West Lothian Council homes being let to those on waiting list jumps (opens the original)
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The number of council homes let to people on West Lothian’s waiting list has climbed again on last year’s figures. After a significant improvement on the first three months in the year councillors heard that figures from April to June were up on those for the same period last year. The improving figures are down to a faster turnaround of empty homes returned to the council from a team built to tackle a backlog in void homes. The turnover figures revealed to a meeting of the Housing Services PDSP
Plans to build retirement home in garden of Linlithgow listed building rejected (opens the original)
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Plans to build a retirement home in the garden of a listed building in Linlithgow have been rejected. Applicant Mr M.Fleming had applied to build and one and half storey home and garage at the foot of the garden at 11 Royal Terrace in the town. Councillors agreed with planning officers that development would “undermine” the historic character of the area close to the Union Canal which cuts through the town. An architect for the family agreed that the plan had been a “challenging project”. He add
Reporter to consider plans for second home on West Lothian smallholding (opens the original)
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The Scottish Government has appointed a Reporter to consider plans for a second home to be built on a West Lothian smallholding site. Broxburn man Gordon Bow appealed against a refusal of plans in July. Mr Bow, who is terminally ill, wants to build a home for his son at his smallholding to help look after him. This week the Division of Environment and Planning Appeals (DPEA) appointed Aileen Mcluckie to review the decision made last month by West Lothian Council’s Development Management Committe
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