Local News

Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in Lasswade.

DENNIS Canavan, chairman of the Yes Scotland campaign, feels that an independent Scotland should have its own currency.

BRITISH Heart Foundation (BHF) Scotland needs collectors in Penicuik to join the fight for every heartbeat at their local Tesco.

Police in Midlothian are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident yesterday afternoon (May 1) in which a man was critically injured after his car left the road and overturned.

A Newbattle football coach is calling on people to vote for the next winner of the award he won last year.

ONE of the three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan had recorded a story for his unborn baby “so he can get used to my voice”.

Marie Curie Nurses are thanking everyone in Midlothian for helping to make the charity’s Great Daffodil Appeal a roaring success this year.

MARC, Midlothian’s Recycle Charity, is one of the first organisations in Scotland to achieve accreditation for the new Revolve re-use quality standard offered by Zero Waste Scotland.

This week sees an exciting new chapter in the history of the Advertiser. Your newspaper – which has been serving Midlothian communities since 1854 – is getting a much-deserved make-over.

A fun and friendly place is due to get even better for members of Midlothian’s special needs community.

A MIDLOTHIAN childcare group has painted itself into a corner as a birthday treat.

COUNCILLORS are being asked to throw a lifeline to a Midlothian equestrian business.

Midlothian pupils are being urged to showcase their artistic talents to the world at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

COUNCILLORS are to examine operations at a Midlothian waste collection base.

PEOPLE-POWER has rescued a Penicuik cafe facing closure, according to its owner.

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Scotland needs collectors in Dalkeith to join the fight for every heartbeat at their local Tesco.

MIDLOTHIAN MSP Christine Grahame’s portrait has appeared in a one-off unique parliamentary photographic exhibition to raise awareness of lung cancer.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a trainee surgeon, who was killed in a horrific road accident in Midlothian last week.

Scotland’s first Solar Meadow has been switched on at a college campus in Dalkeith.

Thousands of daffodils have been cut down in Bonnyrigg after locals complained that they would look “unsightly” after flowering.