The 2012 Muirfield Riding Therapy calendar has raised a bumper £13,400 to support the charity’s work at its base near Gullane.

The state of a kitchen at the council-owned Corn Exchange in Haddington, which is used for a pensioners’ lunch club, has been branded “an absolute disgrace.”

Community councillors want North Berwick to be flushed with pride with more public toilets provided in the town.

North Berwick’s business community is working to boost trade in the town and is keen to hear ideas at its annual general meeting on February 27.

Members of the North Berwick group Regal, Retired Gentlemen are Living, heard about a sailing ship which became a school for children in the late 19th century.

An informal coffee morning has been organised by the Wingate Tenants and Residents Association in Dunbar in a bid to attract more people to its meetings.

The Scottish Government’s recycling roadshow rolls into East Lothian this month to urge residents to give items a new life and to recycle more often.

East Lothian MSP Iain Gray and his colleague Claudia Beamish MSP, Shadow Minister for the Environment, met the directors of Dunbar Community Energy Company to discuss their plans for a community wind turbine.

Six East Lothian groups are to share more than £20,000 for projects that will enhance their local areas.

A NEW committee is to be elected at the Nungate Tenants and Residents Association’s annual general meeting on Monday, February 13, at 6.30pm in the Tynebank Resource Centre, Haddington.

A TOTAL of 2,648 items of furniture were collected from 1,325 households in East Lothian in 2011 by Macmerry-based charity Recycling First.

Rotary Day on Thursday, February 23, will be marked in Musselburgh with a large banner in the High Street in a bid to highlight the push to stamp out polio worldwide. Local Rotarians will be out and about continuing to raise awareness of the need to eradicate the disease. They will outline their aims, continued support and commitment to this cause which is the theme of this year’s Rotary Day.

North Berwick is one of 73 finalists to be selected from more than 1,000 entries to take part in the 2012 Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom UK finals.

Lady Luck shone on North Berwick for this year’s festive Shop Local draw in East Lothian.

Nikola Lynch will be crowned the 2012 Seton Queen on Saturday June 2 by Archie Johnston, a respected member of the community whose family has been involved with the gala in Cockenzie and Port Seton for many years.

A WORKSHOP has been organised to give residents of the Parsonspool area in Dunbar the chance to say how they would like their street developed for the future.

Councillors are to visit a farm at North Berwick to see if a proposed wind turbine of more than 35 metres high would have a harmful impact on the area.

It is hoped that a plan to make the Musselburgh area ‘Incredibly Edible’ will bear fruit with vegetables planted along the River Esk and a community orchard created at Newhailes industrial estate.

Free kits are being distributed across East Lothian to prevent young children becoming tangled in blind cords.

HADDINGTON Golf Club has teed off as the first sports club in East Lothian to change its status to an open licence.