Midlothian Council

Walkers battle stormy weather.

Watch: The 60 areas included in the Met Office’s amber weather warning

Snow falls in Scotland as Met Office issues further warning.

Watch: Snow falls in Scotland as Met Office issues further warning

A skip full of classroom equipment in Midlothian

Exclusive How staff found class toys and sofas dumped in skips at 7 schools

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Bees show the way to build buzz for community heat neworks - Rachel Munro

Lingerwood Artist impression

New 1,000 home Scottish village embracing 20-minute neighbourhoods

L-R: Barry Stuart, the senior project manager with Midlothian Council; Midlothian Council’s cabinet member for housing, councillor Stuart McKenzie; Cruden commercial director Richard Crowther and Cruden site manager Willie Marshall.

Edinburgh commuter village to get 75 homes that will ‘benefit local people’

Equipment dumped in skips at a Midlothian school

Exclusive School staff 'distraught' after finding class equipment in skips

Paul Steen is director of Heat Networks, North at Vattenfall Heat UK

Climate-friendly future: Why we need to train a new green workforce

Lesley Anderson, Regional Director for SPA

Record £175.4m boost for Scotland’s public sector

A tax on tourists would discourage them from coming to Scotland (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Ditch tourist tax plan and put new levy on under-used second homes instead

The Nevis Ensemble has staged hundreds of performances since the company was formed five years ago (Picture: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan)

As Scotland's cultural crisis claims another victim, the future looks bleak

Most younger children in Midlothian would no longer have access to any musical instrument tuition under the proposals put forward by the council.

Musical instrument lessons for most children to be axed in Scottish council area

Britain's housebuilders are looking to ramp up the construction of new homes to plug the gap between demand and supply.

More than 30 family homes set for release this Easter in Midlothian village

Boys playing in a soccer match. Picture: Getty Images

Parents reducing children’s hobbies due to rising energy bills, study suggests

Learning a musical instrument can lead to improved thinking skills in old age, according to new research

Playing music in childhood linked to sharper mind in later life

The swimming pool at the Mariner Centre in Camelon is among a growing number of facilities closed across Scotland. Picture: Scott Louden

Councils warn of more swimming pool closures due to chlorine shortage

James Barnes, director of landowner Melville Nursery and the former chief executive of Dobbies Garden Centres, is leading the application for the Midlothian business park, together with development consultancy Advie Properties.

Plans submitted for major 'green' office park on outskirts of Edinburgh

Midlothian Council has heightened its Brexit risk assessment

Heightened Brexit risk in Midlothian

The paddock at the centre of the planning application

Midlothian landowner wants to build house on a horse's paddock

The Duke of Buccleuch's firm is behind the proposals

£50 million Dalkeith warehouse to create hundreds of jobs

House plan was likened to a home in Malibu - minus the miles of golden sandy beaches.

Pathhead house plan likened to a 'Malibu beach house'

Each pot hole costs an average £40 to fix

Midlothian councillors veto £40k a year business manager job

A computer generated image of Shawfair town.

New towns meet housing need and changing property demands - Nick Waugh

'I could have been born of slaves' -Councillor Joe Wallace

Midlothian councillor discovers his ancestors were victims of forced servitude

Award winning farmer: Peter Eccles

Go Native & Wild with Midlothian family farm's new product range

How the New Pentland project could look

New £22.4 million Straiton retail park plan for hotel, shops and housing

Expansion plans: The Secret Herb Garden

Secret Herb Garden jobs boost with planned visitor centre and tasting room

Hillend Destination resort in Midlothian took another step forward as councillors granted planning permission

Green light for £13.8 million Hillend Destination winter sport centre

Live lessons are now an option for Edinburgh schools but education chiefs say they will not be the norm

First day of home learning disrupted

The yellow warning of snow and ice will affect the east of Scotland.

Further warnings of snow and ice in east of Scotland

The Met Office has said that the weather warning will end this morning.

Yellow weather warning for Scotland

Around 160 pupils at Lasswade High School are currently self-isolating.

Covid: Third of pupils at Lasswade High off

Hart Builders, part of the Cruden Group has secured a major contract to build a new affordable housing development on behalf of Midlothian Council.

Work to get underway on £10m council housing project in Midlothian

Eilidh and her kids at farm signpost

Midlothian farm is set to launch a self-service butcher’s shop

Even pre-coronavirus, pupils were missing school.

Thousands of children on a long-term absence from school

Edinburgh and the Lothians are projected to experience higher than the Scottish average population growth in the decade to mid-2028. Picture: SWNS

Why Edinburgh and Lothians have the fastest growing populations

Achref Bejaoui, 25, performs parkour, a sport that originated in France in the 1990s. Picture: Karin Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images

What is parkour? The extreme sport that has surged in popularity due to Covid-19

Connie Rutherford, 12 and Edward Renwick 10 do Parkour in Holyrood Park.

‘Socially distanced’ parkour sees surge in popularity amid coronavirus pandemic

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for parts of the UK, including Scotland, as Storm Ellen is set to move in from the Atlantic, bringing strong winds with it (Photo: Oskari Porkka/Shutterstock)

Storm Ellen: Met Office issues weather warnings for strong winds

Pupils eating school meals and talking

Scots councils pay price for school lunch online payment system

We are working hard to create a town with a high level of self-sufficiency, says Palmer. Picture: contributed.

Aiming to bring eco-friendly power to the people - comment

The City of Edinburgh Council has this week announced a proposed
reduction of £0.5m to its funding of instrumental music education in
its schools.

More than 2,000 oppose proposed cuts to Edinburgh school music lessons
Almost 2,000 people have signed a petition aiming to halt £500,000 of cuts to Edinburgh’s musical instrumental tuition in schools.

Got a Christmas tree to get rid of? The council can help with that too. Picture; Shutterstock

Bin collection dates Christmas and New Year 2019: when rubbish is collected in E...

Among the plans to secure the future of the centre, which is used by local schools as an educational centre as well as a public sports venue, the proposals will include hotel accommodation, glamping sites, food courts and cafe facilities.

Planning application submitted for huge £13.8m Hillend Destination including 'UK...

Scots Corner manager Diane Janczyk with Gina Clark, the community development worker with the Army's Welfare Service.

Drop-in to see new early learning centre in Penicuik

Picture by JANE BARLOW.

Midlothian Council receives hundreds of garden waste complaints

No pupils - except those of S4 and above who are taking SQA exams in music - will be given instrumental tuition.

Instrument lessons set for axe in Dumfries & Galloway schools

David Adam (local historian),and community councillors Annabel Hamilton, Gina Temple, Pat Kenny and Charles Hamilton, with Midlothian councillor Kelly Parry, at the site to be called Canmore Court, next to St Margarets Church. Photo by Lisa Ferguson.

Street naming anger in Loanhead

More Midlothian Council savings agreed to meet budget

Midlothian Council auditors praise efforts to balance the budget

Millerhill recycling centre officially opened

Protesters defeated plans to cut music tuition in Midlothian in February, but they have now been resurrected (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Music tuition cuts plan is an affront to demcoracy – leader comment

Midlothian said it wants to cut music tuition in schools.

Scottish council reignites plans to cut music tuition in schools

Scottish councils would be able to run their own bus services like Lothian Buses in Edinburgh

MSPs back plans for Scottish councils to run bus services

Midlothian Council suspends the use of weed killer

A 500m zipline is set to be installed at Midlothian snowsports centre after ambitious plans were backed by councillors.

Plans for outdoor activity centre in Midlothian backed by councillors

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