NHS Lothian demands a review over concerns that a private contractor has not been carrying out proper background checks on staff.

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Review of hospital staff checks

The UK government announces the setting up of a commission to look into the so-called West Lothian question.

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Probe into West Lothian question

A teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of a mother-of-two found dead at a West Lothian house.

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Man charged with woman’s murder

A 39-year-old man has died following a fire in East Lothian which took firefighters almost three hours to put out.

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Man dies in early morning blaze

Human remains found in West Lothian have been “there for a number of years” and could be from an older man, police confirm.

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Human remains might be older man

Scotland’s prisons inspector expresses concern about the number of minor assaults on staff at a privately-run West Lothian prison.

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Private jail assaults ‘too high’

A West Lothian teenager has died after apparently being kicked in the head by the horse she was given as a birthday present.

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Teenager killed by ‘horse kick’

A 23-year-old man from West Lothian has died following an off-road event at a farm in Coupar Angus, police confirm.

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Man killed during off-road event

A man has been detained after an incident at a house in West Lothian which lasted almost five hours.

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Man held after Whitburn incident

A 15-year-old boy is charged with murdering a 21-year-old woman, found fatally injured on a West Lothian street.

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Boy, 15, is charged with murder

Police are treating the death of a 21-year-old woman, whose body was found in a West Lothian street, as suspicious.

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Woman found dead in town centre

The wife of a man found dead outside the pub he owned in East Lothian says his family was the centre of his life.

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Tribute to murdered pub landlord

Detectives investigating the discovery of a man’s body behind an East Lothian pub are treating the death as murder.

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Man’s murder linked to A1 crash

Volunteers are calling on the MS Society not to abandon four respite care centres in York, Surrey, Warwickshire and East Lothian

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Plea to save MS respite centres

A murder investigation is launched by Lothian and Borders Police after a man was stabbed to death in Edinburgh.

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Murder inquiry after man stabbed