Lothian County, Scotland News

Contrary to his subsequent assertions, the protest which greeted Nigel Farage on his trip to Edinburgh last week was not motivated by anti-British or anti-English "hatred". Most of the students who heckled the UKIP leader outside the Canon's Gait pub on the Royal Mile were in no way associated with the SNP or the independence movement, while those ... (more)

'Smart pig farming' - the application of Information and Communications Technology - will offer hard-pushed pig farmers a way to remain competitive in the future.

The force will be teaming up with the Alcohol Licensing and Harm Reduction Working Group on Saturday night to highlight the consequences drink can have on crime and personal safety.

A roller disco will be held every day throughout half term. From Tuesday May 28 until Friday May 31, Fulwood Leisure Centre, Black Bull Lane, Preston, will host an hour long roller disco from 1pm.

Vandals caused major damage to a car parked at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

Angel Biotechnology Holdings plc is a contract bio manufacturing company, based in the UK.

Chad Yakobson, the founder and director of the Crooked Stave Artisan Brewing Project , ages his beer in barrels and massive oak wood foedres crammed into a small industrial park on the outskirts of Denver.

A much-treasured silver medal, won 77 years ago in a singing contest at Carnlough and feared lost forever, has been proudly presented again in replica form.

As well as being a local path it is part of Route 76 of the National Cycle Network which heads towards Berwick-upon-Tweed via Cockburnspath and Coldingham Moor.

Academic researchers in Scotland will receive nearly 14 million from government grants and a commitment from universities to match the funding.

A Justice Centre in the central Borders is being considered when Duns and Peebles courts are closed in January 2015.

Council bosses have been accused of creating their own "Berlin Wall" to keep riff-raff out of the revamped Brunton Hall.

One of Preston's most deprived areas has been given a massive shot in the arm with the arrival of BT's super-fast fibre broadband.

MSPs are set to get an automatic 15,000 pay rise thanks to a link with MPs' salaries at Westminster - even though the "justification" for the increase does not apply in Scotland.

Friday, May 24 PIZZA AND GAME NIGHT at Mill Crossing Church, 211 Queen St. W., starting at 7 p.m. Email millcrossingchurchcambridge@gmail.com . ROTARY CLUB OF CAMBRIDGE SUNRISE meets Fridays at 7:15 a.m. at the Galt Country Club.

A retired midwife was installed as the 40th Mayor of South Ribble at a formal ceremony at the Civic Centre, Leyland.

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of Art.

FOUR fire crews were called to rescue the man who was trapped 30m down a bank of the River Esk in Dalkeith.

The wife of a serviceman killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has told mourners at his funeral he will live on through their unborn son.

A criminal has been jailed and two others handed community orders after a spate of car thefts across the North West.