West Lothian early years centre celebrates excellent report card

A selfless West Lothian gran who is recovering from a double hip replacement braved freezing temperatures in just a sleeping bag to raise money for a lifeline mental health charity.

Police are hunting the driver of a car stolen in Livingston after a hit-and-run. The red Audi was taken from the Livingston area.

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A young West Lothian postmaster who survived cancer has told how his ordeal over plugging a £100,000 Horizon black hole was as stressful as his fight with the deadly disease. Salman Aslam said a relentless five-year battle with the Post Office over major discrepancies at his branch destroyed his life. The 25-year-old finally walked away from the business he took over from his father last summer, having been blamed for another £80,000 shortfall he could not pay. Salman, from Bathgate, spoke out after other Scots postmasters told our sister title the Daily Record that the Fujitsu IT system – which was previously blamed for the wrongful convictions of hundreds of postmasters and is at the centre of a national scandal – is still making lives a misery. He says Horizon left him broke, depressed and had tarnished his reputation after what happened at his Motherwell branch.

An angry councillor has said a plot of land on a former war memorial site should "never have been sold" to developers, after plans to build around 50 houses were rejected.

More than 70 people interviewed during a three-year investigation by The 19th said their drinks were drugged at The Abbey in West Hollywood. In some cases, patrons provided medical documentation of hospitalizations, photos, text messages, videos or contacts for companions who cared for them, which were all reviewed by The 19th as a part of its investigation. Reporters also interviewed Abbey bartenders and other staff, West Hollywood City Council members, toxicology experts, and law enforcement officials in an effort to capture a full picture of the culture and allegations at the bar, The 19th said. Abbey management denied all the allegations. Photo: Q Voice News

Brent Lang Executive Editor Not much is funny about those terrifying early days of COVID, when the world was cloaked in an apocalyptic doom and the president was telling us to drink bleach. But in “Stress Positions,” Theda Hammel miraculously finds the funny side of lockdown, mining the masks, Purell and social distancing that defined that unhappy era for physical comedy. “Those gestures are like balloons, and they’re filled with the sense of danger and a sense of peril,” Hammel says of the Sundance-bound film that she directed and co-wrote.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Premieres of new and returning TV shows fell sharply last year while the number of movies getting a theatrical wide release went way up. The volume of TV programs in the true crime genre went through the roof and non-English language films are becoming a bedrock of streaming platforms. Those are among the notable content trends documented in the 2023 Year-End Film and TV Report released today by Luminate, the entertainment data and insights firm.

LS Lowry's famous match day painting has left its home at The Lowry theatre and gallery in Salford and has begun a year-long tour around the region. 'Going to the Match' will be on display at five Northern venues over the next 12 months.

The long-term future of Howden Park Centre has been secured.

The Office is still one of the most popular syndicated TV shows on the air today, and fans have been wondering if there will ever be a reboot.

Discovering the ideal city in Britain to live in means weighing factors like well-paid jobs, reasonable housing costs, amenities and a vibrant cultural scene.

Plans to progress a new £24 million primary school for Craigshill in Livingston are expected to be approved next week. Education Executive are being asked to back plans that would begin the formal consultation process which is legally required to create a new primary school, at their meeting on Tuesday 16 January 2024. This process will also review the catchment area for the new school, and close both Riverside and Letham primaries once the new school is in place.

Two council payment offices will be closed in March.

Police have launched a murder probe after a man's body was discovered inside a vehicle at a shopping centre car park.

Edie Falco: It’s like you want to be a race car driver and the first thing they hand you is a Lamborghini. That’s what [“The Sopranos”] felt like to me. It remains a very specific chapter in my life with tremendous emotional reverberations, still.My family kept trying to tell me [how good the show was] and I told them, “Stop telling me that stuff because it’s just going to mess with me — I don’t know where to put that information.” I felt maybe I really don’t know what I’m doing or maybe they’re going to find out I don’t know what I’m doing.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Harry Pitman who was stabbed to death in north London on New Year’s Eve.

People across West Lothian are invited to say what they really mean when asked how they are, and have an open conversation about mental health.

A 48-year-old man had to be rushed to hospital to be treated with facial injuries after being set upon and assaulted with weapon.

Naman Ramachandran Eimi Imanishi is thematically expanding her Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival winner, “Battalion to My Beat,” as a narrative feature film titled “Doha – The Rising Sun.” The film, written and directed by Imanishi, will follow Mariam, a young woman who is forced to return home to Western Sahara when she is deported from Europe. Adrift in the very place that was once her home, she desperately searches for the means to assert agency over her own life.