Politics
Social network slip leaves county SNP leader out of pocket
A BIZARRE series of events over the creation of a social networking website for East Lothian's SNP Group led its leader to admit he "mistakenly" approved the project's £3,000 price tag without the authorisation of his party colleagues.
Posted 24 May 2012 09:29
Kirsty Gibbins 
110 Comments
THE new political rulers of East Lothian Council have declared improving the local economy and the council's finances their first priority.
Posted 17 May 2012 09:30
Bryan Copland 64 Comments
War of words as right to buy set for swift return
THE planned revival of the suspended modernised Right to Buy (RTB) scheme - a key housing policy of the Thatcher era - by the new Labour/Conservative administration of East Lothian Council has been branded a "betrayal" by Nationalist councillors.
Posted 17 May 2012 09:28
Kirsty Gibbins 12 Comments
Cameras in the chamber for day-off debate
CAMERAS were rolling as councillors debated whether or not to grant East Lothian Council staff an additional day's leave to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Posted 17 May 2012 09:26
Kirsty Gibbins 0 Comments
Tory provost to be 'apolitical'
EAST Lothian's new provost has stepped down from his position as leader of the Conservative Group as he wants the role to be "apolitical".
Posted 17 May 2012 09:23
Bryan Copland 1 Comments
AN UNLIKELY alliance between Labour and Conservative councillors to form a ruling coalition on East Lothian Council is about to be finalised - and steps are being taken to reverse decisions made by the previous SNP/Lib Dem administration.
Posted 10 May 2012 09:30
Kirsty Gibbins 113 Comments
Tearful, cheerful... and confrontational!
There were tears, cheers and no little animosity as candidates and supporters eagerly gathered in Haddington's Corn Exchange last Friday morning to learn the outcome of the East Lothian Council 2012 election.
Posted 10 May 2012 09:25
Kirsty Gibbins 7 Comments
New faces among council candidates
THE list of candidates who will stand in May's East Lothian Council elections has been confirmed by the local authority.
Posted 5 Apr 2012 09:27
Bryan Copland 1 Comments
War of words over charity cash
Labour politicians have branded a decision by East Lothian Council not to take up an offer of funding to help provide support to cancer patients as "disgraceful".
Posted 5 Jan 2012 09:26
Sam Berkeley 33 Comments
Gray's long goodbye is finally at an end
His time as Scottish Labour leader will forever be remembered for a thumping SNP election victory, but East Lothian MSP Iain Gray says he is determined that his loss of the party's top job North of the Border will be the county's gain.
Posted 5 Jan 2012 09:24
Kirsty Gibbins 49 Comments
THE global economic crisis now threatening Europe is clearly bad news, but for one man it has offered a golden opportunity.
Posted 6 Oct 2011 09:24
Kirsty Gibbins 3 Comments
HIS tenure as Scottish Labour leader saw his party humbled at the polls yet Iain Gray hopes he can still achieve enough in East Lothian to not be remembered solely for Election 2011.
Posted 12 May 2011 09:30
Kirsty Gibbins 7 Comments
Lib Dem collapse sucks Labour into votes black hole
HE'D spent the previous 40 hours travelling the length and breadth of Scotland in a last-ditch attempt to persuade the people to throw their lot in with Labour at last Thursday's Scottish Parliament elections.
Posted 12 May 2011 09:29
Editorial 0 Comments
New MSP will 'work hard' for Honest Toun
IT WAS a scene repeated in many of Scotland's Holyrood constituencies: SNP take advantage of Lib Dem vote collapse.
Posted 12 May 2011 09:25
Steven MacDiarmid 0 Comments
