Features on Lothianlife.co.uk include informative articles of particular interest to discerning, 'thinking people' of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian.

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Dedridge Project Hoping for Green Grant

Dedridge Environment Ecology Project (DEEP), the West Lothian based community group, has been announced as a finalist in the running to receive a Green Grant of £10,000 to fund the Wave Pond Wetland Project.

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Bathgate’s Burns’ Enthusiast

Burns enthusiasts every January celebrate the Birthday of Scotland’s national bard but it is doubtful if any mark it in such an elaborate manner as Bathgate spinning wheel maker John Stark did during Victorian times. Every year on 25th January, Starkie, as he was known in the old mining and weaving burgh, marked the birthday of his favourite poet by declaring Burns’ Day a personal holiday Read the rest of this entry »

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Dunbar’s Dream

If you could get a group of people from a community together and if you dared ask them what they would like to see changed in their town, you would be sure to end up with a wish-list so daunting that you’d say it was impossible. That’s what’s happened in Dunbar; but a group coordinated by Philip Revel has produced the Sustaining Dunbar Local Resilience Action Plan, which tackles issues, one by one, breaking them down into tiny steps which are not daunting and not impossible.

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Generous Students send Gifts to Belarus

Generous students at West Lothian College have created special ‘shoebox’ gift packs to send to needy children in Belarus.

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