Kill your darlings (15) Heart of Hawick
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILERLiterary movements, or whatever, emerge from youthful rejection of conventional values. It has always been thus.Occasionally, one of these acts of rebellious suicide...
View ArticleThe Monuments Men (12A) Pavilion, Galashiels
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILERThe true story upon which this is based contains incredulity in equal measure with commitment, courage and conviction.At one point Frank Stokes (George Clooney) tells his...
View ArticleCuban Fury (15) Pavilion, Galashiels
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILERBrit films are blazing bright in the critics’ Happy Faces file during the awards season while other lesser breeds suck on the detritus of shattered hope. Cuban Fury...
View ArticleDrug stash stored in shipping container
A shepherd who produced cannabis with a potential value of £3,000 in a rented shipping container has been sentenced to a community payback order with 80 hours of unpaid work.William Moscrop grew 10...
View ArticleTrust locals to look after all our halls
In agreeing a 25-year lease of Jedburgh town hall, a number of councillors said they believed that the town’s leisure facilities trust will be in a better position to run it than the council.That...
View ArticleJed valley in £40M plans
Secrecy surrounds a meeting being held tonight near Jedburgh, when plans will be revealed for a multi-million-pound drinks industry project.The Southern understands that dozens of invitations have been...
View ArticleKelso’s new 20-ton ‘cobble’ lowered into place by crane
After a journey that began 4,000 miles away in the dust of a quarry in India, the huge lump of basalt for Kelso’s new public artwork finally arrived.Onlookers watched as a crane from Rodger (Builders)...
View ArticleKelso man caught with cocaine
When police stopped Alexander Woodhead on the A1 near Lamberton, he pulled out his wallet and a bag of white powder fell on the ground.The 33-year-old, of Mercers Court, Kelso, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleRescuers in Cheviots hunt for lost walkers
The busy spell for members of the Border Search & Rescue Unit continued this week, with a late-night call-out to hunt for two missing walkers.Unit members from across the Borders would have been...
View ArticleCouncil agree to examine Hawick 3G pitch proposals
THE council has agreed to fund a feasibility study for a 3G pitch at the Volunteer Park, Hawick.The project, which is being led by the Bill McLaren Foundation through Bill McLaren Park Ltd, failed to...
View ArticleGalashiels doesn’t have all the answers
Inner Wheel quiz teams from the Galashiels and Eastern Borders clubs, with district chairman Vi Romanis.Vi, from the Galashiels club, had been challenged to pull together an inter-club quiz to...
View ArticleBetter outlook for Scots from within UK
As the independence referendum date approaches, I was glad to have the chance to speak in the House of Commons recently on Scotland’s place in the UK.The debate was an opportunity to make some key...
View ArticleRoyal recognition again for family firm
The only Borders company to hold a Royal Warrant from the Queen has had it extended for four years.Eric Gillie, specialist horse transporters based near Kelso, were successful in gaining the Royal...
View ArticleFive-figure grants for three Borders groups
Three local organisations are celebrating the award of grants of £25,000 each from the Scottish Government’s Enterprise Ready Fund.The fund, which aims to help maintain, develop and grow third sector...
View ArticleLamont wins Primary aim
The Tory party’s first open primary election of a Westminster party candidate in Scotland saw John Lamont MSP selected in Kelso on Sunday evening.Around 300 people – party members and other Borders...
View ArticleKelso turbine mix-up
Kelso community councillors did not object to plans for a wind turbine on an industrial estate because they thought it was for a local factory.At last week’s February meeting of Kelso Community...
View ArticleTweed woven into festival programme
The UK’s biggest cycling festival, Tweedlove, launched a new ride aimed at families at Traquair House yesterday (Thursday, February 20).Organisers say the Tweed Ride is a celebration of both the Tweed...
View ArticleTop mountain bikers expected at sellout Enduro in Tweed Valley
Entries for the UK’s first Enduro World Series mountain biking race in the Tweed Valley in May went on sale last night (Wednesday, February 19) and sold out in under an hour.The 600 £65 places have...
View ArticleRough grazing pay plans ‘unfair’
Borders MSP John Lamont says farmers could lose out because of the way the Scottish Government plans to hand out CAP cash.He is concerned all rough grazing land will be viewed as equal under the new...
View ArticlePoultry fans set to flock to Peebles for town’s annual show
With 1,426 entries, this Sunday’s annual Peebles Poultry and Bantam Club Championship Show is set to be the largest to date. Regular exhibitors and visitors to the show at Walkershaugh community centre...
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