Steven Brown

1 week ago | eastlothiancourier.com | Steven Brown

2 1/1 A county group is to celebrate 200 years of the world's first public railway steam train and East Lothian's own contribution to railway history. In 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in Durham, the first-ever public railway line to use steam locomotives to carry passengers.

1 week ago | eastlothiancourier.com | Steven Brown

A person was taken to hospital following the crash to the west of Gullane (Image: Google Street View) A PERSON was taken to hospital after a one-vehicle crash on the A198 yesterday on the outskirts of Gullane. At 11.34am, the Scottish Ambulance Service was called to the incident, south-west of the village.

1 week ago | eastlothiancourier.com | Steven Brown

4 1/1 CHURCHGOERS have been left "saddened" after a "pebble fight" left their place of worship's glass side entrance door shattered. An exterior side door to The Abbey Church, North Berwick, was damaged on Friday evening after it was alleged that  youths had been throwing stones at each other. Additional security measures at the Church of Scotland church, which is just yards from the town's West Beach, are now being considered.

1 week ago | eastlothiancourier.com | Steven Brown

Dirleton Avenue in North Berwick is expected to open next week (Image: Pat Christie) THE busiest road in and out of North Berwick, which has already been shut for more than six weeks, should re-open next week. On March 2, gas distribution company SGN began emergency works on the town's Dirleton Avenue, closing the road between its junctions with Hamilton Road and Ware Road. This resulted in diversions for cars and public transport via surrounding streets.

1 week ago | eastlothiancourier.com | Steven Brown

A  lorry carrying two large containers smashed into three front gardens this morning. Police Scotland attended Gardiner Road, Prestonpans, after a flatbed lorry ploughed into the gardens close to Preston Lodge High School. Some residents on the scene alleged that the lorry had "rolled down the hill" from the nearby high school. Pictures taken by the Courier show the road shut off with the lorry spread across the three front gardens of numbers 115, 117 and 119 Gardiner Road.