Emily sets the mysterious scene for author’s latest adventure
Peebles schoolgirl Emily Wright is the winner of a highly unusual competition which asked children from across Scotland to suggest a real-life location to be used in a forthcoming book by award-winning...
View ArticleMSP welcomes timely payments of SFP
The Scottish Government announced last week almost three-quarters of people eligible for single farm payments (SFP) would start to receive their money from last Thursday.Rural Affairs Secretary Richard...
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Last week the Westminster government, in the form of one of its ministers Chris Huhne, announced that about 32,000 wind turbines must be erected over the next few years if renewable energy targets are...
View ArticleMorebattle heifer fetches £6,000
morebattle farmers Ron and Robert Wilson have sold a prize-winning heifer for £6,000 to be a foundation animal in a herd down south.Female champion at the recent Hereford autumn calf show at Agri-Expo,...
View ArticleTraffic delays still in the pipeline
WORK on the latest phase of the Galashiels inner relief road has fallen behind schedule.Diverting gas mains should have been completed this week, but engineers have said work will continue until...
View ArticleSBC welder just pipped in UK apprenticeship awards
A BORDERS council employee took the runner-up spot in a prestigious apprentice competition held in Stoke-on-Trent.Colin Lothian, from Scottish Borders Council (SBC), was shortlisted as one of the top...
View ArticleSupper starts plan to add Ogilvie to poetry’s A-list
WHEN it comes to the greats of Borders poetry and literature, most people will be familiar with the likes of Sir Walter Scott and the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg.But an inaugural event was held...
View ArticleFresh chapter in library saga
LIBRARY users want a public meeting on whether the service should move to the town’s contact centre.More than 30 Friends of Selkirk Library attended a meeting with Scottish Borders Council cultural...
View ArticleDuo make BAAGS of cash in Cory’s name
IN ONLY its first year a Borders charity raised £6,000 to help people with autism The World According to Cory was set up by Jedburgh mums Sara Farqharson and Dawn Jackson following the diagnosis of...
View ArticleMill flats plan backed
PLANS to convert an empty Galashiels mill – branded as horrible – into student accommodation have been welcomed by Galashiels Community Council, despite concerns over a lack of parking spaces, writes...
View ArticleKOSB four reunited by Colours controversy
FOUR Kings Own Scottish Borderers’ veterans who revisited Berwick Barracks this month have thrown their weight behind the bid to return the regiment’s Colours to be laid-up in the town.Ed Swales...
View ArticleA transport of delights as Una meets Santa
The Burgh Express pulled out of Galashiels this week en route to the North Pole – with lots of festive fun along the way.There were sell-out crowds at all four performances of the Burgh School’s...
View Article£300,000 takes Pavilion to the next dimension
More than £300,000 has been invested in the Pavilion Cinema, safeguarding 20 jobs.The cash boost means the Galashiels complex will become a fully digital cinema – described as the biggest change to...
View ArticleIf Rio has Copacabana … Gala needs Boleside
COUNCIL bosses have been urged to revisit their decision not to renew a lease for a beauty spot described as Galashiels’ own Copacabana.Boleside will no longer be rented by Scottish Borders Council...
View ArticleLatest computer scam cons Peebles woman
POLICE are investigating whether fraudsters targeting the Borders through a computer software scam are based as far away as India.A Peebles women is £65 out of pocket after being duped into purchasing...
View ArticleCalling time on the march of wind farms
Has the time now come for at least a temporary halt to be made on the march of the wind farm? Last week’s blazing turbine near Ardrossan and much closer to home the collapse of a giant tower near...
View ArticleMoratorium call over exploding wind turbine ‘tinderbox’ fears
IT has become one of the iconic images of last Thursday’s storm in which the south of Scotland was hammered by gale force winds and resulting in Scottish Borders Council (SBC) closing all schools...
View ArticleTweeddale changes proposed
COUNCILLORS today will consider their response to plans to change UK parliamentary constituencies in Tweeddale.The sixth Boundary Commission for Scotland recommends adding Peebles, West Linton and the...
View ArticlePanda-monium in Peebles
PAnda fever hit senior pupils at a Peebles primary this week.On Monday, Kingsland, the town’s newest school, played host to a giant panda mascot to mark the much vaunted arrival at Edinburgh Zoo of...
View ArticleInquiry beckons as Watson and power giant object to rail land acquisition bid
A PIECE of farmland considered essential to the agreed route of the Borders railway in the north of the region has yet to be acquired, TheSouthern can reveal.This week it emerged there have been two...
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