Scottish Borders Council to discuss building 200 affordable homes
Councillors will discuss plans to build up to 200 new affordable homes in the Borders next Wednesday at a full meeting in Kelso.Members are being asked to approve proposals which would see SBC staff...
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what and where?A Tri Beinns, Longnewton, Melrosehow much?Guide price £350,000who is selling?Cullen Kilshawanything else?EPC rating C
View ArticleGray elevated to RC superhead
The historic appointment of a first superhead of the Borders’ four Roman Catholic schools has been made, writes Kenny Paterson.Karen Gray takes up the £52,290 post in August, having been acting head of...
View ArticleGranny with MBE X factor
A Gattonside grandmother, who raised funds and awareness to battle a rare genetic syndrome affecting herself and her family, is now an MBE. Maude Brownlie, 70, set up the Helen Maude Garfit Fund, named...
View Article‘A’m chuffed wi’ ma BEM’
Teri Ian Landles has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the community in Hawick.While travelling from Hawick to Hong Kong, Mr Landles expressed his delight in a letter to TheSouthern:...
View ArticleBikers pay homage to Hawick racing great
A total of 150 vintage vehicles took part in the Jimmie Guthrie Memorial Run on Sunday.In its 52nd year, enthusiasts left Denholm and visited the Guthrie Statue in Hawick. Organiser Jimmy Steel said:...
View ArticleHot to trot as sun shines on Melrose festival
Prayers seem to have been answered in Melrose that the recent glorious summer weather continues for this week’s festival.Warm and sunny conditions saw large crowds of spectators and big numbers of...
View ArticleDrug habit led to crime ‘rampage’
A son who stole his father’s Christmas money was jailed for 12 months at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday.Andrew Clamp, 20, committed the £150 theft following a Christmas Day celebration at his father’s...
View ArticleTeenager taken to BGH after street attack
A 16-year-old was heard screaming and crying after being attacked in the street.The assault happened after the victim laughed when Claire Condie shouted to get her “some glow”.Condie, 24, of Blair...
View ArticleCross Kirk Warden Malcolm draws Beltane parable with God’s party
This year’s March Riding and Beltane Queen Festival at Peebles began as it has done for seven decades in the open air ruins of an ancient church.Sunday’s service saw the Reverend Malcolm Jefferson...
View ArticleFood literacy is key for future
Reports such as “Eight out of 10 children don’t know milk comes from cows” or “Six out of 10 children think bananas grow in Britain” are familiar enough, emphasising the ever-increasing disconnection...
View ArticleUnion leaders press Scotland’s case
Scottish farming leaders met Defra minister Owen Paterson last week to press the case for Scotland in the final lead-in to CAP reform decisions being made. NFU Scotland president Nigel Miller and other...
View ArticleGood health as Cornet and Lass are installed
Health worker Daniel Williamson found the perfect prescription for happiness last night when he was installed as Peebles Cornet.Also installed was Cornet’s Lass Susan Thomson, a fellow health worker at...
View ArticleGrahame defends vote to close her local courtroom
Christine Grahame has defended her vote to close Peebles Sheriff Court and nine others in an interview with The Southern.In a debate in Parliament in February 2012, the Midlothian South, Tweeddale and...
View ArticleRodgerson holds his nerve in special year for Selkirk
There was 500 years of history weighing on Martin Rodgerson’s shoulders, as well as a family tradition ingrained in the Common Riding.Five centuries since the Battle of Flodden and Fletcher’s show of...
View ArticleBorders justice for people – not places
Well, I’m taking a bit of stick for a vote which will see Peebles Sheriff Court sittings end in 2015.The courthouse proper closed years ago. Of course what I had to vote for was the ending of sittings...
View ArticleTime for bit more of ‘can do’ spirit
Pumping more than £3million into the local economy and attracting over 13,000 people, the Borders Book Festival is a truly world class standard event.The Southern was once again proud to be a media...
View ArticlePutting us on fancy dress parade
As I write, there’s a discussion on BBC Radio Scotland about whether the novelist Sir Walter Scott is more relevant today than he was at the time he was alive.I’ve just switched it off. I think Scott...
View ArticleWORLD WAR Z (15)The Pavilion, Galashiels
There has always been something faintly ridiculous about zombies. Vampires are the same. Undead? What’s that? Payday for makeup artists?From the innovative credits to the emotive ending, World War Z...
View ArticleThe Snows Of Kilimanjaro (15) Heart of Hawick
Anyone going to the Heart of Hawick tonight expecting a retro evening with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner will be sorely disappointed. Snow is no longer falling on this particular mountain top in Africa....
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