We are aware that there are households in Bolton who are still without power. The Salvation Army Mobile Unit will be there later this morning (Monday 29th November). The unit is able to provide hot water and charging points for mobile phones.
The unit is in Athelstaneford until 11am and will moving to Bolton after then.
Contact Councillor Shamin Akhtar for more information.
All recyclable material will now be collected from households on the same day of the week, starting today, 15th November. Collections will be made every week with all materials collected on the same day. East Lothian Council has redesigned the collection process to help increase the amount of material recycled and with more frequent collections to reduce the number of boxes used.
Plastics, cans and cartons – use a new container for this material: a sealable, weighted, reusable bag. The bag should have been delivered to your address in the last few weeks.
Paper and card (grey thin card used in food packaging like cereal boxes) – goes in the existing blue boxes.
Cardboard (brown corrugated packaging like the boxes from online deliveries) – can go in another blue box, or as now, flattened and presented beside the boxes or in another cardboard box.
Food waste – no change, continue to use the existing caddies.
Check your collection calendar here.
The new weekly recycling services for East Lothian households, due to start from 20 September, has had to be delayed due to a combination of external factors.
Residents should continue to present their recycling, separated in the blue and green boxes, and on their old collection scheduled dates until the new service starts from Monday 15 November.
Households should continue to present their recyclable material as previously:
• Blue box – for paper, card and cardboard.
• Green or black box – for plastics, metals and glass.
• Outdoor silver caddy – for food waste.
The new weighted bags are expected to be delivered to homes towards late October.
Visit the East Lothian Council recycling site for more information.
Saturday 11th September
Stage Seven of the Tour of Britain, the UK’s most prestigious cycle event, will be speeding through East Lothian on Saturday afternoon, en route from Hawick to Edinburgh.
Watch action as the riders zip by sometime between 2pm and 3.30pm. They will be travelling through Gifford and on by Pencaitland towards Pathhead before heading downhill to finish in Edinburgh.
The A J Bell tour of Britain website shows the route to be travelled over the day.
