Countdown to lights
6pm – Peebles Bell Ringers will start the evening off with a selection of Christmas tunes played on the parish church bells.6pm – Funfair and market stalls will open7.10pm – Beltane Queen, Rianna...
View ArticleInnerleithen switch-on
It’s Switched On Sunday this weekend at Innerleithen, with the Christmas lights being turned on at 4.30pm And once again there’s a full programme of entertainment as excitement mounts to the big...
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TONIGHT promises to be of one the brightest this winter in Peebles – it’s time for the Christmas lights to be switched on.And that important duty falls on two very important people – Santa Claus and...
View ArticleOffice plan for Jed shop approved
A change of use application to convert a High Street shop in Jedburgh into an office has been approved, despite an objection from the community council over the loss of retail premises.The planning...
View ArticleLamancha eco farm wins national award
WHITMUIR Organics near West Linton has scooped a national sustainable business award for environmental excellence.The award-winning organic farm and shop at Lamancha beat off competition from...
View ArticleScottish Borders battered by storm: warning to drivers
Drivers of high-sided lorries and vans in the Borders have been urged by police to pull over and wait for storm winds to subside.The plea comes from East division of Police Scotland an applies to...
View ArticleSchools in Scottish Borders closed by power cuts
The storm sweeping across Scotland as led to powers cuts in some areas of the Borders.Scottish Borders Council as confirmed that the cuts have led to the closure of six schools.Schools affected are...
View ArticleStorm rips roofs from houses in Galashiels
Flat roofs have been ripped from houses in different areas of Galashiels in this morning’s storm.One person suffered a minor leg injury when a large section of roof was torn from property in Gala...
View ArticleFarmers urged to think for themselves about future
Agree or disagree with Jim Walker’s views he’s never less than entertaining and the former president of NFUS and Quality Meat Scotland was at it again at Kelso Discussion Society.Red rag to a bull...
View ArticleStead’s influence still strong in new business
A new business has grown out of wood artist Tim Stead’s former workshop at Blainslie, after several years of preparation.David Lightly and Ross Purves launched The Wood Neuk in September, specialising...
View ArticleMarket Prices
woolerAt their weekly primestock sale last Wednesday John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 1,203 lambs and 234 ewes.Lambs forward in greater numbers, all classes in keeping with late rates.Leading prices...
View ArticleThis may be a good time to Skippy lunch
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. Well, so the story goes. I am a lover of food. I am not a connoisseur of food. Some menus bamboozle me and when they bamboozle me they really annoy me....
View ArticleGloria (15) Heart of Hawick
When people talk of “women of a certain age”, what do they mean? Over the hill? What hill? Gloria fits the category while avoiding the obvious. It’s one thing for daddy cool wannabees clubbing it large...
View ArticleFREE BIRDS (U) Pavilion
Rural myth: turkeys are stupid. Wild turkeys, on the other hand, are free. And stupid.This oddly misplaced animated movie makes fun of the stupid bit, but quickly becomes embroiled – or is that boiled?...
View ArticleUm diddly um diddly um diddly ... no
Who is Mr Banks? Why save him? From what? The answers to these questions won’t encourage curiosity, rather invite another: why spend a small fortune on a film about the woman who wrote Mary Poppins and...
View ArticleSearch provider offers a lot to businesses with websites, and much of it free...
Love them or loathe them, there’s no denying that Google offers an incredible array of tools, especially for anyone who has a website. Yes, a number of them are available from other providers, but the...
View ArticleObituary: David Rainy-Brown
There was a large turn-out of the Borders farming and horse-racing fraternity at the funeral in Kelso of David Rainy-Brown.Mr Rainy-Brown – known as Rainy – was an acknowledged expert on the...
View ArticleMuck and money is the right mix
Where there’s muck there’s money, the saying goes, and there’s plenty of muck on stretches of the A7 at the moment.But let’s not forget that there’s money too. Restoring a major stretch of the former...
View ArticleThe gift from the garden
Your garden gives up some beautiful gifts of its own at this time of year – allowing you to bring the outside into the home. By using your garden as a resource you can create some simple, yet beautiful...
View ArticleSocial work boss retires
BORDERS social work director Andrew Lowe has retired after struggling with health issues following a heart attack last year. He became director in November 2004, a year after the Miss X torture scandal...
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