Monument part missing
A SECTION of flag pole from Hawick’s historic 1514 monument remains missing – despite a man being charged with vandalism.Police say the three-foot pole has been removed from where the 28-year-old...
View ArticleDaffodil Walk sets new challenge
EIGHTEEN years after the daffodil bulbs were first planted on a strip of land opposite the Borders General Hospital to create the Field of Hope for Marie Curie Cancer Care (MCCC), the charity has...
View ArticleWheelie good bike idea
THE takeover of a floundering mountain biking project in the Innerleithen area by a group of local residents has been hailed as a fantastic example of what can be done by members of the public.An...
View ArticleWork to start on Peebles cycle path
WORK is expected to start on a cycle path linking Peebles, Cardrona and Innerleithen this summer, it has been confirmed.The news came in a response to a question from Councillor Bill Herd (Tweeddale...
View ArticleBleak picture as councillors condemn courts proposal
VICTIMS, witnesses, police officers, and solicitors all having to travel for miles, as well as accused persons being dumped out on the street on bail, far from home and left to find their own way back...
View ArticleBudget cuts set for mounted unit is sad day for Borders
THE decision to axe Lothian & Borders Police’s mounted section after more than 130 years, has cast doubts over whether officers on horseback will ever be seen again at local events in this region,...
View ArticleSocial work bosses to review case of carer whose mileage rate was slashed
A COUNCILLOR has intervened in the case of a Borders dad who claims he has been forced into debt because the petrol allowance he receives for conveying his disabled son to a special school in Dundee...
View ArticleWelcome for £10m affordable housing boost
NO sooner had Councillor Neil Calvert, in his valedictory assessment of Scottish Borders Council’s budget for 2012/13, bemoaned the lack of new affordable housing in the region, than spirits were...
View ArticleHow SBC’s budget will hit
Scottish Borders Council’s departments, what they do and how the 2012/13 budget will affect them. Figures do not include more than £2million of efficiency savings approved in NovemberEnvironment and...
View ArticleSqueeze warning as Calvert bows out
FOR the ninth and final time on Tuesday, Councillor Neil Calvert presented details of a budget which his ruling administration will push through at Newtown next Thursday.The West Linton Conservative...
View ArticleFoster pay hike, but jobs will go
scottish Borders Council will shed a further 42 full-time posts in the forthcoming financial year as it works to balance its books while maintaining essential services.The cost of the latest staff...
View ArticleCourt bosses in the dock over closure threats
SELKIRK Community Council has sent a strong message that it will not countenance the loss of the town’s Sheriff Court.The threat to the landmark facility in Ettrick Terrace was highlighted in a leaked...
View ArticleMan’s body is found in Selkirk burn
POLICE say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a Selkirk man whose body was found in a burn in the Bannerfield area of the town on Sunday morning.The grim discovery was made...
View ArticleLandowner behind wind farm bid ‘gutted’
The Yarrow landowner who stood to benefit from the proposed Broadmeadows wind farm has dubbed its rejection as “gutting”. Farmer Alec Telfer described the moment he heard the final verdict: “I felt...
View ArticleAnger as woollens chain blocks royal holiday
A TRADE union has criticised Langholm-based Edinburgh Woollen Mill for its “mean” approach to staff holidays for the Queen’s diamond jubilee.The GMB says the company has told its 5,000 workers across...
View ArticleDriver killed in A7 crash near Galashiels – police seek witnesses
POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a 24-year-old man was killed in a two-car crash on the northern outskirts of Galashiels.Fire crews freed the man from Citroen Saxo he was driving but he died at...
View ArticleCorrection
IN a recent article about the quest of Julie Sheppard of Ettrickbridge to discover how her son Andrew died in France in 2010, we reported that her family had taken part in a charity walk along...
View ArticleSpeed sites
MOBILE speed cameras are operating at the following locations: A1 Cockburnspath; A7 Crookston, Stow and Lindean; A68 Soutra and Lauderhaugh; A701 Broughton and Romanno Bridge; A702 Dolphinton; A703...
View Articlelandlines
Confidence, that fragile flower, is at a 16-year high among farmers. Or at least it is among the 465 respondents to the Lloyds TSB survey last autumn. Buoyed up by higher prices and profits for most...
View ArticleMARKET PRICES
ST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday John Swan Ltd sold 119 clean cattle, 88 OTM cattle, 1,723 old season lambs and 617 ewes.Bullocks (52) averaged 202.3p per kg (+6.3p on the week). Heifers (66)...
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