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A NEW president has taken over the reins of the Honest Toun’s Association (HTA), which organises the annual Musselburgh Festival.

A photographer is celebrating the publication of an A-Z of her work which showcases her home town of Musselburgh.

THE annual Musselburgh Festival came to a successful end at the weekend as a party atmosphere hit the town for the fancy dress parade, family fun…

ITS full steam ahead for this year’s Musselburgh Festival after the announcement of the official party.

The Musselburgh Festival Association has announced an Honest Lad for the 2022 after co-opting a candidate.

THERE will be no Honest Lad elected this Friday to serve Musselburgh, as had been planned.

The Musselburgh Festival will go ahead this year after a two-year gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This summers Musselburgh Festival has been cancelled due to Covid-19, it has been announced. The election of the 2021 Honest Lad and Honest Lass, which usually takes place at the end of April, has also been shelved. Last years festival, which traditionally take place in July, did not go ahead but an online celebration, including sharing photographs of past festivals, was enjoyed by many. Alison Elgin, president of the Honest Touns Association, which organises the annual event, said it ...

A GALASHIELS man has donated funds to Musselburgh’s Honest Toun’s Association in memory of his sister, who was killed in a car crash. Craig Lowrie, 43, took on a running challenge after the family tragedy in 2019, raising just over £8,000 for festival committees and the children’s ward at Borders General Hospital. His son Robbie, now 23, was appointed Braw Lad in Galashiels in April 2019. But just two weeks before the start of the summer festivals, Mr Lowrie’s sister Donna, 36,...