Scottish Labour has warned that communities are at risk of being “cut off” as the number of bus routes in Scotland collapses.

Councillors have rejected a retired couple’s bid to build a ‘dream home’ on the site of a former bank hall in East Lothian after describing the price paid for it as ‘excessive’.

Six new homes on a former hospital site could be built using money left to an East Lothian town by one of its former residents.