The Latest Breaking News from West Lothian

Dean Haddow was already serving a sentence for strangling two former girlfriends when he hurt Mark Murphy during a melee at HMP Addiewell, West Lothian.

SNP MSP claims that an additional £5m has only seen 29 teachers hired instead of 100, but senior council officials and the Labour administration insisted the money had been used properly and defended their record in education

Public saved £106,000 as a result of drop in calls to emergency services

Jacob Varey was given six penalty points and a £600 fine after leaving Gordon Alexander unable to walk again

Aonghas Morrison, from Livingston, West Lothian, suffered a cardiac arrest last March after thinking he had food poisoning.

An apparent assurance from Scotland's education minister that teacher numbers would not be cut was described as 'press reports', leading to confusion and uncertainty over already unpalatable plans for schools

Father-of-two Gordon Alexander suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of the smash in April 2022 and will never walk again.

“This was out of character for him, he doesn’t usually wander. Then, we had horrible weather storms and minus degrees outside, and all I could think of was ‘where is he?’"

Councillors are being asked to cut funding for West Lothian Leisure, but argued they had been given no information on what the likely impact on community venues would be.

All schools in West Lothian were shut to pupils today as teachers walked out

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