Prestonpans / Cockenzie / Port Seton
Top gala roles for Kayla and Liam 
THE countdown has begun for 11-year-olds Kayla Thomson and Liam Storrie, who are set to take star roles in Prestonpans Children’s Gala.
Rehearsals are underway with the big day only five weeks away when Kayla, a pupil at Prestonpans Primary School, will be crowned as gala queen, with her escort Liam, who attends St Gabriel’s Primary School, alongside.
‘Royal’ line-up for diamond jubilee
A FORMER Cockenzie and Port Seton Gala queen who lives in Western Australia, is planning to join the line-up of ex-gala queens for this year’s diamond jubilee celebrations.
Kids collect a monster load of rubbish
VOLUNTEERS turned out in force to ensure that Cockenzie and Port Seton is looking its best this summer.
No takers yet for abandoned nursing home
THE owner of the former Cockenzie House Nursing Home expects the building to lie empty for a long time.
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BUSINESS leaders are to discuss possible ways of assisting troubled Haddington-based Corsie Group, amid growing fears for the company’s 35-strong workforce.
SPEEDING drivers on the county’s rural roads could soon be caught on camera and brought to book.
Planning chiefs get tough with housing developers
EAST LOTHIAN planning chiefs have vowed to take a tough line over developers who fail to meet agreed conditions, after hearing this week that residents have been waiting for four years for a playpark which has still failed to materialise.
HOLY matrimony took on a whole new meaning for Prestonpans minister, the Rev Robert Simpson, when he tied the knot with Susan Sadler, his partner – and parishioner – of two years!
A NINE-year-old girl is said to be in a state of distress after a youth indecently exposed himself in front of her.
ARTEFACTS from the life of Nigel Tranter, hailed as Scotland’s greatest storyteller, have been immortalised in a public exhibition in Athelstaneford Parish Church.
REVISED plans for a £1.6 million veterinary surgery and canine rehabilitation centre in Haldane Avenue have been given the green light by councillors – despite objections from nearby residents and the town’s community council.
A MAN was taken to hospital after fire tore through a kitchen in Wallyford on Saturday.
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