Beattie secures Midlothian North seat despite strong opposition

SNP’s Calum Kerr has won the Midlothian South, Tweedale and Lauderdale seat after taking over long-standing Christine Graham.

The winners of the Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith seat and the Edinburgh North West seat have been announced.

The SNP has secured its hold on West Lothian’s Holyrood seats.

Holyrood veteran Angela Constance secured her fifth term as an MSP representing the Almond Valley Constituency.

Former East Lothian MSP Paul McLennan won a newly created seat in the county for the SNP by just 418 votes in a knife edge battle with Labour.

The SNP has taken the newly created Edinburgh Eastern Musselburgh and Tranent constituency.

The Greens have won Edinburgh Central, with former party co-convener Lorna Slater trouncing SNP cabinet secretary Angus Robertson.

Pauline Stafford the depute leader of the SNP group on West Lothian Council has been elected MSP for the new Bathgate constituency.

The winners of Edinburgh Southern and Northern have been announced with Lib Dems taking Edinburgh’s north and Labour securing the southern constituency.

The count is officially underway in the Midlothian North constituency as candidates, counting staff and party activists gather at Lasswade High School LIVE UPDATES

SNP and Conservative candidates have highlighted that Reform are ‘causing a great concern’ in the Midlothian North constiuency.

Carriageway resurfacing works will be carried out on a section of the B6371 between Ormiston and Tranent.

Next door neighbours in Peebles have been at loggerheads for three years over a leylandi hedge blocking out sunlight to a garden, it has emerged.

Spiritfilled, the Fife-based independent bottler, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its award-winning Mythical Beasts label with five rare single cask releases.

A dozen much-needed new homes in the Scottish Borders are to be built after a land transfer deal was struck.

Refurbishments have been carried out at a day care facility for children in Hawick – but more work is needed.

Access for vessels and pedestrians will be unavailable at Eyemouth Harbour for a period of time today due to a manual bridge lift.

Controversial plans to change the centre of Winchburgh have been backed by West Lothian Council.

Labour councillors have called cuts to health care funding in Midlothian ‘shameful’ amid claims 170 people who need ‘critical’ care remain on a waiting list.

Two staff members at NHS Borders received deserved recognition at the RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards.

Two public consultations are planned next month over controversial plans or a major new major substation on a “very precious” site in the Borders.

Children and young people in Midlothian will be given access to free and cut price sport activities this summer after a £229,000 investment.

Bethany Christian Trust's Edinburgh service will continue through the year due the Edinburgh Council funding.

Academy back-row Ollie Duncan has earned his first professional contract with Edinburgh Rugby.