A RUNNER had to be airlifted to hospital after she was struck by a car while jogging.

ANIMAL welfare chiefs have rescued a neglected rabbit found dumped outside a vet.

A TEENAGER broke a woman’s jaw when he lashed out in a nightclub called The Chill Out Zone.

A BENEFITS cheat has been ordered to hand over £8000 he illegally claimed in disability living allowance.

TWO children were forced to flee from a house after a blaze broke out in the kitchen.

A FARMER has spoken of his distress after discovering eleven of his sheep mauled to death and a further nine badly injured following a dog attack.

A SCHOOLBOY from the ­Lothians has become the first person in Scotland to be named RIBI British Young Musician of the Year.

TWO unemployed men thought they could make a killing by stealing scrap metal from an old abbatoir.

A MUM has told a court that she was raped at the age of 19 after she agreed to sleep over at an ex-soldier’s house.

A MUM embezzled £30,000 from her bosses to feed her ­addiction to internet shopping.

A MAN and two children escaped unhurt after fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Whitburn, West Lothian.

A STRAY cat crawled under the bed of a little boy and gave birth to three kittens - but the sleepy seven-year-old thought the noise was the neighbours snoring.

A PENSIONER repeatedly punched a policewoman on the head and attacked her colleague after being accused of causing damage to a care home, a court has heard.

A FATHER-OF-TWO from West Lothian has died after being hit by a car while on holiday in the Canaries.

Staff at a Lothians hospital have hit out at NHS bosses after they were told they would have to park their cars at a football stadium 15 minutes away and walk into work.

A WAR hero called Asian serving staff “Taliban b******s” and lobbed food at them because he was unhappy with the chicken nuggets he had bought.

A KEYHOLE surgery technique which speeds up recovery times for cancer patients has been 
introduced in West Lothian.

A COUNCILLOR has been reported to standards watchdogs for allegedly describing the SNP as “fascists”.

Campaigners have called for a life-size public statue of Mary, Queen of Scots to be erected in Scotland.

A MOTORIST has died and four people have been injured in an accident involving a car and an ambulance for the disabled.