Students put coffee morning cash on dry bar menu
Skills for Learning and Work students held a coffee morning in the restaurant at Scottish Borders Campus, Galashiels, and raised £77.10 for Rowland’s Dry Bar in Selkirk.After being presented with a...
View ArticleSelkirk pupils on track to reach the height of fashion
Selkirk High School pupils fundraised throughout the previous term to allow them to attend Birmingham Clothes Show, writes Becky Blair.This was achieved in many different ways – from running a charity...
View ArticleProhibition on enjoyment
Last summer Scottish Borders Council announced plans to introduce by-laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in designated public places.The council has issued a consultation document, which is...
View ArticleWardens still have role to play
Many readers of last week’s Southern would experience mixed feelings on learning that traffic wardens are to be withdrawn from Borders towns in February.It is nearly 50 years since the service was...
View ArticleFinancial gangsters
The total cost of the August 2011 riots was estimated at £0.5billion. The total UK cost of the 2008 financial crisis caused by financial deregulation, bank fraud and management failures was estimated...
View ArticleSteel laments failure to halt 1969 axing of railway
Failure to halt the axing of the Borders railway in 1969 is the biggest disappointment of David Steel’s near 50-year parliamentary career.The former local Lib Dem MP, first elected in 1965, made the...
View ArticleTexel sales expected to attract interest
Some of the region’s top Texel breeders put animals forward for in-lamb pedigree sales at Carlisle’s Borderway Auction Mart this month.Around 170 ewes and gimmers from Arnold Park’s renowned Drinkstone...
View ArticleWorkshop covers markets as well as soil resilience
Borders growers are invited to workshop on soils and creating resilience in arable land at Lauder on Tuesday (January 14).The day-long event for farmers has been organised by arable specialists HGCA...
View ArticleLandlines – Water is an effective spreader of disease and pollution
Although most of our area escaped the worst of the early January floods there’s enough water lying in fields and round buildings to remind us of our uneasy relationship with one of the simplest and...
View ArticleSwapping life in the Borders for a tour of duty in Afghanistan – new feature...
In the first of a new series of articles, our special columnist tells what life is like after swapping the Borders for Afghanistan.Although from the Borders, where he lives with his family, security...
View ArticleMen are the key to success for Children’s Panel
Big changes have been happening with Scotland’s Children’s Panels and as the new regime beds in the need for new members, particularly men, is greater than ever.The Children’s Panel is the largest...
View ArticleHaggi survive storms
Heavy rain has provided more than a few woes for the organisers of the Town Arms Great Selkirk Haggis Hunt on Sunday (January 19).Parts of the prime breeding and hunting ground was flooded but is now...
View ArticleFirms not ‘out of the woods’ says FSB
In his new year message, FSB Scottish policy convenor Andy Willox has said that despite more small firms turning a profit and more planning to hire, businesses are ‘by no means out of the woods’ at the...
View ArticleMedics face abuse and violence at Borders addresses
A total of 19 addresses in the Borders have been flagged up to ambulance staff warning them that they could be at risk of abuse or violence when they are called out.Despite the number recorded in this...
View ArticleTraining and safety make a saw point
This week, enough of the seasonal frivolity. Time to get back to some proper, serious, smallholding issues. Like pig muck and frozen finger ends. And chainsaws. As the owners of two fallen trees...
View ArticlePalliative care unit’s first year
More than 150 patients have been cared for in the year since the Margaret Kerr Unit opened at the Borders General Hospital.Dr Annabel Howell, locum consultant in palliative medicine, said: “Despite the...
View ArticleMerger for Sale and Partners
CHARTERED surveyors Smiths Gore has announced a merger with the Wooler office of independent firm Sale & Partners.As a result of this merger the breadth of services available to clients across the...
View ArticleTop cop steps down to take on new beat at council
THE region’s top police officer is leaving her post to take up one of two new depute chief executive roles at Scottish Borders Council (SBC).Chief Superintendent Jeanette McDiarmid, made divisional...
View ArticleMarket Prices
BORDER LIVESTOCK EXCHANGEThis week Border Livestock Exchange to week ending sold 182 prime cattle including 62 cows, 3,043 prime sheep including 375 cull ewes, 390 store lambs, 26 store cattle and 40...
View ArticleDeer death investigation
Police Scotland have said that no update will be available on the circumstances surrounding the death, and dumping, of six roe deer near Peebles earlier this month until post mortems are completed.A...
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