Booze-up led to intercourse with girl,12
A HAWICK man has been jailed for 32 months after having sex with a 12-year-old girl.Jamie Fraser, 24, joined the youngster in bed at his flat after drinking wine with her and others.Judge Lord Turnbull...
View ArticleEx-soldier died after drug ‘bomb’
A SELKIRK drugs dealer has admitted supplying a former soldier with a mephedrone bomb just hours before he died. But with a post-mortem examination failing to determine what killed 23-year-old Greg...
View ArticleCare worker is sacked and police probe continues at Tweedbank dementia unit
a CARE worker at Craw Wood, the specialist home for dementia sufferers at Tweedbank, has been dismissed.Four other staff remain suspended while operator the Eildon Housing Association continues its...
View ArticleStolen Coldstream digger found in Strathclyde and Motherwell man charged
POLICE have warned building firms and farms to continue to be wary of machinery thefts, after a stolen mini digger was recovered in Strathclyde.The Volvo model was taken between January 13 and 16 from...
View ArticlePlea made to teachers and parents for views on bullying in Scottish Borders
school staff and parents/carers have until Friday to respond to a group of young people gathering evidence about bullying.The views of adults are being sought by the Scottish Borders Youth Commission...
View Article‘Keep politics out of policing’
a FORMER top Borders policeman and a member of Lothian and Borders Fire Board have warned that politics cannot get involved in the decision-making of police or fire services in the region under the new...
View ArticleLochcarron helps heroes’ charity with tartan design
A BORDERS mill has answered the call to produce a tartan for Britain’s largest charity supporting wounded servicemen and women.The Help for Heroes range will be officially launched at Edinburgh Castle...
View ArticleLead stolen
TEN metres of lead flashing has been stolen from the roof of a cottage near Bowden. The incident took place between December 30 and January 22. Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen any...
View ArticleAssault charge
A HAWICK woman received medical treatment for facial injuries after allegedly being assaulted by another woman in the town. The incident at a flat in Mansfield Crescent on Monday night saw a...
View ArticleMARKET PRICES
ST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday John Swan Ltd sold 107 clean cattle, 114 OTM cattle, 2,452 old season lambs and 489 ewes. Bullocks (49) averaged 201.2p per kg (+6.2p on the week). Heifers (55)...
View ArticleRenault van stolen
A VAN has been stolen from a Newtown St Boswells auction mart site.The white Renault panel vehicle with red lettering was taken in a break-in between 5pm last Wednesday and 8am last Thursday.Other...
View ArticleShows find the fundraising must go on…
THE president of a local amateur operatic society has stressed the importance of patrons and fundraising events as his company faces up to a £17,000 bill for staging its annual production.Alastair...
View ArticleHume anger as Borders misses investment aid
COUNCIL leader David Parker has distanced himself from the hostile reaction to the region’s exclusion from 14 new enterprise zones announced at the weekend by Scottish finance secretary John...
View ArticleLassie breaks Burns taboo
A LONGSTANDING male bastion will be breached next month when Jackie Ormiston comperes the Burns Supper of the Royal British Legion in Galashiels.Jackie, from Tweedbank, is the first female to perform...
View ArticleMissing Yorkshireman could be in the Borders
Police believe an ill missing man from Yorkshire could be in the Borders.Matthew John Thornton, pictured right, disappeared from his Skipton home nearly two weeks ago, but was only reported missing by...
View ArticleFRAMED IN TIME
This was the scene at Laidlaw and Fairgrieve’s Ladhope Mill when fire ripped through part of the Low Buckholmside spinning plant in Galashiels.Seven crews of firefighters from across the Borders were...
View ArticleSymptomatic of a wider malaise
IN a world of conflict, the debate in Lauder about the best site for a new health centre seems trifling to say the least.But as one elderly resident points out in our report on page 2, the arguments –...
View ArticleNebraska’s agribusinesses learn about EU payments
NEBRASKA came to Scotland last week, when SNP MSP for the South of Scotland, Paul Wheelhouse, welcomed a delegation from the mid-western US state’s LEAD programme to the Holyrood parliament.The...
View Articlelandlines
In spite of the steady increase in average size of farm business over the past few decades, the vast majority would still be classified as SMEs – small to medium enterprises – in the jargon of banking...
View ArticleHawkeye Czechs out with top breeder
A BORDERS bull has become the first such Hereford animal to be exported to the Czech Republic for over 32 years.The 16-month-old bull, Romany 1 Hawkeye D1 H28, from J.R.B. Wilson & Sons, at Cowbog,...
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