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Is tram scheme on the right lines?
A suggestion to bring trams to Midlothian has provoked a mixed reaction in the county.
Ex-striker on Wright road
Former Hibs and Scotland striker Keith Wright became a trainee road worker for a day to highlight the benefits of working as an apprentice.
Midlothian pupils encouraged to ‘book swap’
Children in Midlothian are set to take part in the country’s biggest book swap when thousands of youngsters exchange their favourite stories with friends in an initiative from Edinburgh International Book Festival sponsor ScottishPower.
Woodburn pupils get books boost
Woodburn Primary School Nursery have received a donation from a local councillor to buy books.
Metal thieves hit church roof
A church near Pathhead has become the latest victim of lead theft in the county, after its roof was stripped twice in a fortnight.
Support Penicuik principals
PENICUIK will soon be bursting with festive fervour when its eagerly-anticipated summer festival gets under way.
Sport
Football: Midlothian teams chase silverware
Many congratulations to Alan Miller’s Newtongrange Star who have won the Premier League title following Ballingry’s defeat on Saturday.
Star win cup tie as they take title
Newtongrange Star discovered they had won the Premier League last Saturday, just as they began a cup-tie penalty shoot out.
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City of Edinburgh Trampoline Club, in partnership with Midlothian Council, hosted the Midlothian Schools Trampoline Competition at Lasswade High School recently.
Junior football round-up
This Saturday sees Newtongrange Star at home to Super League’s Lochee United in the third round of the East of Scotland Cup.
Katie’s funding is ring fenced
ESKBANK fencer Katie Smith has been earmarked as a future British Olympian after being chosen to be part of the Bank of Scotland Local Heroes initiative.
Midlothian Junior Football round-up
On Saturday Newtongrange Star contest the League Cup final against newly-crowned Super League champions Linlithgow Rose.
Lifestyle
Win an overnight stay and meal for two!
To celebrate our new look Advertiser, we’ve teamed up with The Elphinstone Hotel to offer readers the chance to win a fantastic meal for two and a room for the night with breakfast.
The journey to the final frontier
In the captain’s log from the 1960s TV series, James Tiberius Kirk brazenly split an infinitive as the crew of the Enterprise embarked on a five-year mission “to boldly go where no man has gone before”.
The Mentalist (Five, 9pm) 17/05/13
What’s It All About? Apart from making tea, driving Lisbon (Robin Tunney) crazy, and outing murderers with clever mind games, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) has spent the past five series doing little else, but hunting for Red John. Now the California Bureau of Investigation’s most unusual independent consultant narrows down the list of people who could be the serial killer to seven suspects. However, the man who murdered his wife and daughter strikes again, and Jane is dealt another blow when he discovers the victim is linked to Jane’s past.
Music: Seasick Steve on a roll
In a world where music’s as much about how it sounds as the story accompanying it, Seasick Steve seemed too good to be true at first.
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Weather for Dalkeith
Saturday 18 May 2013
Today
Heavy rain
Temperature: 9 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 9 C to 18 C
Wind Speed: 8 mph
Wind direction: North east
