Councils across the Lothians have agreed who will run them after days of negotiations between parties.
None of the councils ended up with a single party in overall control after last week’s local elections and deals had to be done to determine where the power will lie.
On Monday it was announced Labour and the SNP would be teaming up to run the City of Edinburgh Council for the next five years. Previously a Liberal Democrat and SNP coalition, the LibDems lost 14 councillors.
Labour is now the largest group on the authority, with 20 councillors, ahead of the SNP's 18, 11 Tories and six Greens.
The leader and lord provost will come from the Labour party and the SNP will nominate a deputy leader and deputy lord provost. These will be decided on the first full council meeting on May 17.
In East Lothian, Labour and the Conservatives are set to work together, along with one independent councillor. Labour have ten elected members at the local authority and the Tories have three. The LibDems lost all their representatives.
A Labour minority has been agreed for West Lothian.
In Midlothian, the SNP and an independent, Peter de Vink, will join forces to run the council for the next five years. Green party councillors Ian Baxter has said he will lend his support to the coalition.
It is the first time in 84 years Labour has not been in power there.
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