A new Lidl has been given planning permission for Easter Road.

Supermarket chiefs said that work would begin on the new store – on the former B&Q site – within the next three months.

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They said it would boast an instore bakery, customer toilets and parking for both cars and bicycles.

Lidl UK’s head of property for Scotland, Gordon Rafferty, said: “We could not be more delighted to have received planning permission, and look forward to getting started on construction.