Resource initiative success for council
The council’s TREADlightly initiative has been highly commended in the Energy Efficient Partnership of the Year category at the Energy Awards 2013 in London.The staff awareness campaign involves using...
View ArticleOver 120 NHS staff to move out of Newstead HQ
More than 120 NHS Borders employees will be relocated to the BGH complex and to offices in Melrose by the end of March in a bid to save cash.Some staff will work from the main hospital building itself...
View ArticleHundreds seek school move
In just over a year, 20 Borders school pupils have been forced to move schools because of bullying, John Lamont MSP has found.In addition, between the end of 2011 and early this year, almost 400 school...
View ArticleOut of hours care cover cut from towns
Out-of-hours GPs will no longer be based outwith the BGH following changes to the Borders Emergency Care Service (BECS).The change means Hawick, Kelso and Duns will no longer have out-of-hours doctor...
View ArticleSelkirk energy company dumps debtors in disguise
Spark Energy says its finances and 200 jobs are secure, despite it impersonating “chronic debtors” to get them off its books.BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours consumer programme found Spark’s employees...
View ArticleBig-HARTed Wilma picks up MBE in New Year Honours
Selkirk’s Wilma Gunn has been awarded an MBE for services to cardiac health and charity in Scotland in the New Year Honours.The founder of the Scottish Heart at Risk Testing (HART) charity told The Wee...
View ArticleParty puts cash in charity’s pockets
Christian Hepburne Scott hands a cheque for £2,200 to Mary, Dowager Countess of Strathmore, honorary patron of the charity Sense Scotland.The cash was realised when Christian and Diana Muir, of the...
View ArticleWe are the champions!
Ten students are set to transform health and wellbeing in their communities after graduating from a seven-week course at Borders College in Galashiels.Run in partnership with Scottish Borders Council’s...
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CADDONFOOTChurchIt has been a busy time at Caddonfoot Church over the festive period. The joint Christmas Eve watchnight service with Trinity was led by the Reverend Marion Dodd. Beadle George Wells...
View ArticleMSP responds to lottery funding for life-savers
Borders MSP Christine Grahame met a group of Community First Responders (CFRs) from Peebles, Innerleithen and Walkerburn, along with Scottish Ambulance Service staff, to offer congratulations following...
View ArticlePetition urges council action on Jedburgh flooding
An online petition urging Scottish Borders Council (SBC) to ‘get the work done’ following flooding in Jedburgh town centre in the run-up to Christmas has attracted nearly 200 signatures.The petition by...
View ArticleNew vets’ sheep group aims to give top advice
Borders vets have set up a new sheep group to pool expertise and provide the best and latest advice to farmers.Border Sheep Health, numbering 12 so far, formed in November and hopes to send out its...
View ArticleShow and sale to headline Scotsheep
A MULTI-BREED show and sale of sheep at this year’s Scotsheep in Berwickshire will be “a great opportunity”, says Heriot farmer Jimmy Sinclair.The show and sale of pairs of breeding ewe hoggs is...
View ArticleConcert cheque for Macmillan centre
Robert Turnbull, president of Melrose Amateur Operatic Society, hands over a £1,500 cheque to Judith Smith, lead nurse consultant at the Borders Macmillan Centre.The cash was raised when members of the...
View ArticleFirst Bus names boss to head the East fleet
A NEW man is in the driving seat of bust company First in the Borders following a change at the top.Paul McGowan has taken over as managing director of First Scotland East with responsibility for a...
View ArticleFestive operation arrests
MORE than 130 people were arrested in the Borders during Police Scotland’s Operation Tinsel.During the month-long campaign 26 people were charged with violent crimes and a further 28 charged for...
View ArticleMarket Prices
WOOLERAt their weekly Primestock sale on Friday, January 3, John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 991 hoggs and 169 ewes.With the festive season coming to a close all classes were keenly sort after,...
View ArticleCock-a-hoop about our new cockapoo
It’s always good to start a new year with a challenge and this year looks like being more challenging than most in the Corbie household.After losing our old Border collie “Tibbie” in the autumn last...
View ArticleChange to school week will help if staff are cut
If teacher numbers are cut, a move to a four-and-a-half day school week will help, the council’s director of education has revealed.Announcing a consultation on the proposed move to an asymmetric week...
View ArticleMobile disruption not on says MSP
John Lamont MSP has called for pupils to hand in mobile phones at the start of classes after 233 were confiscated in a high school in three years.Mr Lamont said: “The classroom is supposed to be a...
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