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Offices off Beveridge Square, Livingston

Park, shopping centre and football stadium, viewed shortly after take-off towards the west from Edinburgh Airport.

East and West Cairn Hills dominate Livingston, here is the return view from East Cairn Hill. While this probably should be assigned to NT1061/Harperrig, I placed this in Livingston given how strongly the Almondvale and MacArthur Glen shopping centres stand out in this view over Harperrig, the Pentland foothills and into West Lothian. The main bulk of the visible white buildings are the new multi-storey car parks.

Looking north up Palmer Rise, Dedridge, Livingston, towards a rainbow.

Not so easy to find, but free parking a short way from the shopping centre in Livingston.

The centre is tucked away at the end of Beveridge Square, a non-residential street which isn't a square at all, though it does boast a not-very-pretty office building set out in a square around some open ground. To the untrained eye it looks like there is far more going on than there actually is. The sign on the right for the air cadets could have come down years ago, as they have now moved to the Craigshill area of Livingston. And regiments are actually umbrella groups subdivided into smaller units, which is why the bigger signs have two names on them. The 278 (Lowland) Battery is part of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery, which is the section of the Army Reserves covering Scotland and Northern Ireland. The regiment's headquarters are in Edinburgh, and they have surprisingly few bases - just one in Northern Ireland and seven in Scotland (including one in the Shetlands). They must have been even smaller until fairly recently as this unit was only formed, along with a sister detachment in Edinburgh, in 2014. It is viewed, by Wikipedia anyway, as a continuation of the Edinburgh City Artillery, which ran for around a century until the early 1960s and was involved in operations in both world wars. In a similar vein the 243 Provost Company is part of the 1st Regiment Royal Military Police. I've never been too sure exactly how the military police while away the hours, but was pleased to read that they only have jurisdiction over military personnel, or people they believe to be military personnel. The only time they have powers over the general public is if they are on military property or encroaching onto land getting used by the military for training manoeuvres. This means there is no need to keep a close eye on your speedo when you notice one of their cars behind you in the mirror.

West Lothian Council offices.

Another of those tiny grass squares, too small to be of any use. Still the tree is an improvement on a "No Ball Games" sign.

Underpass and offices near the Almondvale Centre.