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• Midlothian Trading Standards seizes over 9,500 illicit cigarettes

  Published on 17 Dec 2024

  The council’s Trading Standards team have seized 9,580 illegal cigarettes from a shop in Dalkeith.

• New plan to foster a wellbeing economy approved

  Published on 12 Nov 2024

  Councillors today (Tuesday) approved the Midlothian Strategy for Inclusive Economic Growth 2025-2030, a comprehensive plan aimed at fostering a wellbeing economy.

• Local fraudster ordered to pay compensation

  Published on 11 Nov 2024

  Following a Trading Standards investigation, a former local trader has been ordered to compensate people he defrauded.

• New registration requirements for outdoor bird keepers

  Published on 10 Sep 2024

  The council’s Trading Standards team is reminding bird keepers of new UK-wide legislation coming into effect soon.

• Celebrating Tyne & Esk community benefits

  Published on 11 Apr 2024

  Midlothian Volunteer Centre, Rural Youth Volunteering is among Midlothian and East Lothian projects to benefit from more than £400k in funding from the Tyne & Esk Community Led Programme.

• Council seizes illegal vapes

  Published on 10 Apr 2024

  Midlothian Council Trading Standards Officers seized a haul of over 2,300 vapes from local retailers in the last year.

• Councillors note City Deal annual report

  Published on 10 Oct 2023

  Five years after it was signed, the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal has helped 15,000 people secure employment, and improved the skills and knowledge of over 103,000 citizens.

• Helping the local economy recover

  Published on 4 Oct 2022

  Councillors have approved an updated strategy to help the local economy recover from the impact of Brexit and the pandemic while dealing with the ongoing challenges of the cost of living crisis.

• COVID recovery fund to support local economy

  Published on 15 Sep 2022

  Midlothian Council has been allocated £1.36 million from the Scottish Government to support local economic recovery and the impact of the cost of living crisis on low-income households.

• Parents warned of dangers of small objects

  Published on 25 Apr 2022

  Midlothian Trading Standards are warning parents and carers about potential hazards to children associated with swallowing items such as button batteries.

• New website launched to encourage links between good causes and businesses

  Published on 11 Nov 2021

  A new website has been launched to encourage links between good causes and businesses across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and Borders.

• Funding boost for tourism in Midlothian

  Published on 7 Oct 2021

  Midlothian Tourism Forum has secured funding from the VisitScotland Destination and Sector Marketing Fund to help boost tourism in the area.

• LEADER brings Scottish Rural Parliament to Midlothian and East Lothian

  Published on 2 Sep 2021

  The Tyne Esk LEADER rural funding programme has become gamekeeper turned poacher by securing funds to promote the Scottish Rural Parliament in rural Midlothian and East Lothian. 

• Funding for building improvements in historic Penicuik town centre

  Published on 14 Jul 2021

  The Penicuik Heritage Regeneration Project has approved building grant applications for a number of properties in the historic town centre.

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