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The killer brother of tragic Amber Gibson has been branded “truly evil” by a judge after strangling his teenage sister to death and trying to rape her.

A man convicted of the murder and sexual assault of his sister in a “depraved” attack is due to be sentenced today.

An elderly dog has been given a new lease of life after a huge lung mass was removed in a complex operation at a West Lothian vets.

A man has appeared in court charged with battering and stabbing a young mum to death in her home. Michael Porchetta is accused of murdering Aimee Jane Cannon by repeatedly striking her on the head and body with a knife or knives before stealing her underwear.

A knife attacker who fatally stabbed a man in the neck during a street confrontation has been warned he faces a life sentence for the murder of his victim.

The superb new Beatlie School Campus in Livingston is already making a positive difference for West Lothian young people.

A young thug who repeatedly booted a man on the head when he was lying unconscious on the ground has been sentenced to a year's detention. Jak Biggam, 21, broke David Walker's cheekbone in the violent attack in a shopping centre car park, a court heard.

Highly skilled vets at a West Lothian animal hospital successfully removed a mass so big it was causing lung and heart displacement in a cat.

Kilmarnock provided the biggest story of the opening weekend in the Premiership and had a host of top-class performers.

Livingston and Aberdeen played out a goalless draw in a physical contest in West Lothian to get the 2023-24 Premiership season up and running.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a spate of vehicle vandalism incidents in recent months.

New neighbours are guaranteed to get the curtains twitching in any street. But no one expects to get an eyeful of models dropping into a dowdy suburban home for kinky S&M style photo sessions.

Shocking footage has been captured of a person feeding Buckfast to horses at a Scots farm and family heritage centre.

The Famous Gyros Greek cuisine has come to the Livingston Designer Outlet.

The winner of our Father’s Day makeover competition enjoyed a day to remember.

Dedridge Primary School’s drama group have been celebrating their successful performance of Gawen Robinson’s musical ‘The X Factory’ which was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

A mentally ill teenager stabbed his grandparents to death because a voice in his head told him to "kill them", a court heard today.

Delays to decisions on Scottish Government funding to replace two run-down primary school buildings in Livingston have been criticised by West Lothian Council’s Conservative group leader.

West Lothian Council's three long-term placement care homes will remain open following an agreement by the West Lothian Integration Joint Board (IJB).

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (Babylon) has been set to star opposite Hutch Dano and Christopher Livingston in Down Below, a psychological horror film from director Spyder Dobrofsky that is currently in production.

A West Lothian biotechnology company which had its contract to make covid vaccines cancelled by the UK Government still received £358 million of taxpayers’ money, it has emerged.

A number of Scottish businesses have been named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage to their lowest-paid staff, including Scotland's airling, Loganair. Over 200 companies in the UK were exposed by the government after failing to pay workers almost £5million in a clear breach of National Minimum Wage (NMW) law, leaving roughly 63,000 workers short on their wages.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Combat veterans, famously, don’t tend to talk much, if at all, about their experiences of war. At least not to civilians, and maybe not even to their closest relatives. Knowing this, those of us who aren’t veterans tend to have ideas about the things they aren’t discussing. Things like violence and fear and the chaos and insanity of battle. That’s surely a part of it, but in a way it’s also the heightened cinematic version, the one we’ve all gotten from war movies. What it leaves out are the torn-up emotions of soldiers, the lifelong imprint left upon them not just by the cataclysm of war but by their relationship with their fellow soldiers — the loyalty and love, the complex code of liberation and guilt at having survived.   

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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) and Vincent Cassel (La Haine) in action-thriller Damaged, which wrapped this spring in Scotland.

Motorist are being warned to be vigilant after a spate of vandalism attacks that saw tyres slashed and cars keyed.

Angry members of a West Lothian Burlesque group have joined local amateur actors to take up the fight against the proposed closure of Howden Park Centre.

A support worker who was employed at a children’s daycare service has been struck off by the Scottish Social Services Council after offences involving children.

Anyone who’s been missing a night out at Livingston’s Club Earth are being invited to get together to remember the old times.

Mum-of-two Lyn Graham celebrated in style after winning The Courier and The Centre, Livingston’s Mother’s Day makeover competition.