Environment

Rosslyn Chapel has boosted its environmental sustainability by taking a first delivery of recycled sand.

Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Community Council has written to Midlothian Council calling for a halt to housebuilding in the town while the current infrastructure struggles to cope.

Midlothian Council’s decision to introduce a garden waste collection charge provoked fury on the Advertiser Facebook page last week.

Newbattle Abbey College has appointed a Community Woodland Ranger to work with the local community to increase involvement with Lord Ancrum’s Wood.

Household waste bins in Midlothian could be halved in size or reduced to monthly collections in a bid to crackdown on rogue garden waste.

Midlothian MP Danielle Rowley (Lab) joined rural skills students from Newbattle Abbey College to plant trees as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, a network of forest conservation initiatives in association with the Woodland Trust.

MP Danielle Rowley has welcomed the decision by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to reject proposals from Edinburgh Airport that would have led to an increase in noise over Midlothian.

Midlothian North MSP Colin Beattie has praised Scottish Water for its quick action to clean-up the sewage that has polluted the Mary Burn and River South Esk.

Midlothian North MSP Colin Beattie has spoken of his anger after seeing first hand the sewage that has polluted the Mary Burn near Easthouses.

A seven-mile pipeline is currently being installed in the Pentland Hills to help to deliver fresh, clean drinking water to more than 165,000 people in Edinburgh and the Lothians area.

Dalkeith residents have criticised Midlothian Council for replacing a conservation area’s street lighting with new lampposts which they say are unsuitable.

A Gorebridge group celebrated success at the Beautiful Scotland Awards last Thursday in Haddington.

Environmental community group Greening Gorebridge has a number of volunteer opportunities for people to get involved in helping their local community.

Pollution has been spilling out into the River South Esk between Dalkeith and Newtongrange, leaving sanitary products and other items in the popular river.

Schools across Midlothian continue to count the cost of the previous PFI legacy – which will see the council spend 11 per cent servicing the decade-old debts.

A teacher from Stobhill Primary School has won a national conservation prize as part of WWF’s Green Ambassador Awards.

Homes across Midlothian and South Lanarkshire are now significantly warmer and cheaper to live in thanks to a £6 million energy efficiency programme delivered by Melville Housing Association.