Community News

Locals are being encouraged to drum up community spirit by joining a new samba band being launched in Pathhead.

The Kaiser Chiefs are excited to be returning to Scotland to headline the first ever Sunday Sessions Scotland music festival, at Dalkeith Country Park.

The Borders Transport Corridors study draft report recommends that the Borders Railway extension option remains open.

Police have issued CCTV images in an appeal for information following the theft of a cash register from a Dalkeith cafe.

Loanhead masonic lodge members Steve Ritchie and Bill Harra embarked on their mammoth non-stop 1700 mile charity drive to Land’s End, John O’ Groats and back last week, raising £3500 for local charities.

A Danderhall singer songwriter is set to release his second single, which he hopes will inspire others to follow their dreams like he has.

Pupils at Newbattle High School gladly gave up part of their Easter break to tackle a mountain of memorabilia for an exhibition next week.

Newbattle Pool in Newtongrange is set to close next month.

A disused railway tunnel near the Forth Road Bridge has been filled in – without anyone knowing work was being done!

The Kaiser Chiefs are excited to be returning to Scotland to headline the first ever Sunday Sessions Scotland music festival, at Dalkeith Country Park.

495 people filled in our survey about how you would like to use the 1140 hours of funded early learning coming in 2020 for eligible two-year-olds and all three and four-year-olds.

Have you ever thought about starting your own business, working for yourself or making money in your spare time?

A parent and child group from Loanhead is calling on the local community to support its bid for £50,000 of funding in a public vote which is now open.

The Penicuik to Bonnyrigg cycle path cycleway at Wester Auchendinny Bridge has now reopened.

Police are appealing for witnesses following three housebreakings and thefts in Penicuik.

Members of the Committee for Labour Market and Education from Council of Hjorring municipality spent Tuesday morning at Midlothian Council’s Fairfield House

The local community is planning to come together to say a fond farewell to Newbattle Pool in Newtongrange, which is set to close next month.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will next week continue investigating residential child care establishments run by organisations within the Roman Catholic Church.

The cycleway at Wester Auchendinny Bridge has now reopened

Former Bonnyrigg councillor Ian Baxter is set to walk 187 miles in 12 days for a charity which helps provide an education for girls in Malawi.