A multi-million pound Tranent care home is set to open its doors next month.

The facility, located to the rear of Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School, has been named the Crookston Care Home in tribute to Jackie Crookston, who was killed in 1797 when protesting in Tranent against the introduction of compulsory military service.

The name was among four shortlisted, with Baillie, McNeill, and Steill the other options. Local primary school children had already named the six wings of the building as Fleets, Winton, Howden, Bankton, Tynemount and Seton.

The new facility, which has taken 18 months to build, at a cost of more than £9 million, will have 60 beds – 20 of which will be step up and step down beds – to help free up hospital beds, while a further 40 will be a direct reprovision of those at Fa’side and Greenfield Park care homes.

Crookston Care Home will also house the town’s day centre, but that move is not expected to come until early in the New Year, when the lease on its current premises expires. There is an open day on September 21, with the home set to open to residents on October 29, when residents from the care homes at Fa’side Lodge and Greenfield Park will move in.