By Andrew Picken RATS, beetles and cockroaches are among the pests which have been discovered in Lothian hospitals and health centres, it emerged today.

SOME 100 patients at Carstairs state hospital are to be moved to lower security institutions in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

By Gareth Rose THE Capital's 195-year-old Royal Edinburgh psychiatric hospital could see its services split between two sites as part of a review launched by NHS Lothian.

By Gareth Rose HEALTH chiefs are set to spend GBP 11.5 million refurbishing two hospitals that face being demolished in a few years. Plans to move both the Royal Edinburgh and Royal Victoria are currently facing delays.

By Alan Roden Health Reporter A MULTI-MILLION pound plan for a new hospital and health centre in the Lothians is facing further delays. The hospital in Haddington is now not expected to open before 2012 or 2013 - up to three years later than hoped.