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woolerAt their weekly Prime Stock sale last Wednesday John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 802 lambs and 295 ewes.Lamb numbers slightly easier, but vendors received returns above expectations, early week...
View ArticleRSPB tend to mostly blame farmers for decline of birds
Not many years ago there were regular stories about the nuisance caused by starlings in cities and the efforts made to stop them congregating and defecating in large numbers.I sympathised because we...
View ArticleNational award for local accountants
Selkirk-based Stark Main and Co have been awarded the Scottish Independent Firm of the Year award at the British Accountancy Awards at a ceremony in the Tower of London.It is the second year in the row...
View ArticleHealthy Working Lives awards presented to firms
ELEVEN organisations from across the Borders have picked up awards for their efforts to boost health, safety and wellbeing in workplaces.The Healthy Working Lives award programme was launched to...
View ArticleAutumn statement’s impact on business
IN HIS autumn statement Chancellor George Osborne emphasised the improved economic conditions and announced that economic growth forecasts for this year have more than doubled from 0.6 per cent to 1.4...
View ArticleCongregations’ search for minister is over
The arrival of a new minister for the parishes of Caddonfoot, linked with Trinity in Galashiels, is the ideal Christmas gift for both congregations.It has taken the nomination committee two years to...
View ArticlePresidential party gathers in Hawick
Hawick Rotary Club president’s night was held in the town’s rugby clubrooms, with 67 Rotarians and friends in attendance.John Elliot, who visited a Mary’s Meal School in Malawi, spoke briefly of the...
View ArticleSheriff right to tackle abusive patients
Imagine the scene. A five-year-old boy is struggling to breath in a hospital cubicle. Medical staff are assessing and preparing for treatments. The lad’s parents are probably up to ninety. And in the...
View ArticleDryburgh cottage transformation given go-ahead
A PLAN to transform a cottage in Dryburgh Village to include a hydrotherapy pool and spa treatment rooms has been given the green light by the council’s planning department, writes Adam Drummond.The...
View ArticleMotorist’s dispute with hauliers over roof damage
AN offshore worker had a noisy and costly shock on his journey home to Galashiels from Aberdeen in October. And two months later he is still in dispute with NWH, the firm off whose lorry, he claims, a...
View ArticleBorders trust buys Peeblesshire estate
The historic Talla and Gameshope estate has been bought for £900,000 by Borders Forest Trust (BFT).The Ancrum-based charity announced last week it had purchased 4,527 acres, the majority of the estate...
View ArticleRSPB tend to mostly blame farmers for decline of birds
Not many years ago there were regular stories about the nuisance caused by starlings in cities and the efforts made to stop them congregating and defecating in large numbers.I sympathised because we...
View ArticleTourism and renewables boost farm incomes
Latest figures from the EU show that 20 percent of tillage in Scotland uses conservation methods and less than 20 percent of land is left bare during the winter.The Scottish Government’s chief...
View ArticleClosing time at Baxters
Food specialists Baxters is preparing to axe its shop and restaurant in Selkirk with the loss of 23 full and part-time jobs, writes Bob Burgess.The company is also set to pull the plug on its showcase...
View ArticleBerwickshire’s Chris represents Scotland
BERWICKSHIRE farmer Chris Walton represented Scottish organic farmers when he attended the European Commission’s launch of the United Nations’ (UN) ‘International Year of Family Farming’ in Brussels...
View ArticlePlaying a part in Lindean high-wire act
A colleague reminded me this week that I had once reached great heights.We were on the road from St Boswells to Selkirk and in the December darkness the red lights of the Lindean transmitter mast...
View ArticleLong-tailed tits in return to garden
The number of birds feeding in my garden has increased quite dramatically during the past week. Blue tits are still the most common visitors to the peanuts, followed closely by the house sparrows, but...
View ArticlePerfect! Storm brings log bounty
THIS last week, I have mostly being cheating death. Not once, but twice. Not a very exciting kind of death that makes the news if it happens. When I lived in Londonshire, a long time ago in a galaxy...
View ArticleTourism and renewables boost farm incomes
Latest figures from the EU show that 20 percent of tillage in Scotland uses conservation methods and less than 20 percent of land is left bare during the winter.The Scottish Government’s chief...
View ArticleBerwickshire’s Chris represents Scotland
BERWICKSHIRE farmer Chris Walton represented Scottish organic farmers when he attended the European Commission’s launch of the United Nations’ (UN) ‘International Year of Family Farming’ in Brussels...
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