Queen honours the humble and the embarrassed
A horse enthusiast, a village shop owner and a festival president have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list published last week.Ann Fraser from near Jedburgh was made an MBE in recognition...
View ArticleFraser leads the way at this year’s Melrosian’s rideout
A glorious summer evening greeted the 181-strong mounted cavalcade that saddled up for Monday night’s Melrosian’s rideout.Despite good weather, however, recent heavy rains meant the traditional...
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Peebles Cornet Kevin Smith was installed outside the Parish Church last night after the 2013 Cornet Daniel Williamson reluctantly returned the Burgh Flag. Kevin’s partner Sharon Rusnak was installed as...
View ArticleLocals oppose egg giant’s plan to ditch farm gates
Locals are reacting with growing concern to egg giant Glenrath Farms’ application to take down gates set up to reduce traffic on a C road to and from its Blyth Bank Farm, near West Linton.Scotland’s...
View ArticleVolunteers in baton run
The Royal Voluntary Service Scotland baton will be in several venues around the area this weekend, rivalling the Queen’s baton. The organisation will be using many different means of transport and,...
View ArticleHistorical society
Henry Borthwick will give an updated illustrated talk about Oxton Village to Lauderdale Historical Society on Wednesday (June 25) at 7.30pm in Lauder Youth Trust Hall, Lauder. Further details from Joan...
View ArticleFlaming June as fires destroy local van and car
There have been several vehicles found on fire in the town in recent weeks, with police and fire services attending at least one incident.At 10pm on the night of June 10, police and firefighters were...
View ArticleBusinesses hungry for referendum data
Two in five small businesses say new data could sway their vote in the upcoming referendum, with a majority of Scottish business owners having sought out information to help them decide, new research...
View ArticleTweed Horizons manager’s award
Lisa Archibald, service manager of New Horizons Borders, was presented with a Churchill medallion by Dame Mary Peters DBE, Olympic gold medal winning pentathlete and a 1972 Churchill Fellow herself.As...
View ArticleNew poll shows Borders’ Nos in lead ahead of Referendum
An exclusive opinion poll commissioned for ITV Border’s political programme Representing Border, and conducted by ComRes, suggests a big majority of voters in the South of Scotland still intend to vote...
View ArticleWoolly talk at Highland Show
Wool producers have the chance to meet members and staff of the UK’s only central marketing board, the British Wool Marketing Board (BWMB), to discuss prices and the BWMB’s work at the Highland Show...
View ArticleMore support for ‘Take the Lead’
Local farmers and politicians are backing a national campaign to reduce dog attacks on livestock.Regional support comes in the wake of attacks earlier this year when sheep were drowned after being...
View ArticleMichael aiming to cater for foreign markets
A Borders business is making the most of Scotland’s great food and drink, by targeting tourists for its cook school enterprise.Realising that foreign visitors might want to do more than just eat the...
View ArticleWomen don’t get credit they deserve in rural businesses
Good news, we’ve had the warmest spring on record in Scotland since at least 1910, and by implication that must also be true for much of the north of England.Bad news, the wet, mild winter followed by...
View ArticleKeeping up with new technology
There will always be events in any life that seem so innocent at first sight, but lead on to interludes of fear, anger, frustration, and at times despair; let me tell you this and no more, starting off...
View ArticleMoore welcomes job figures
Michael Moore MP has welcomed news that more than 400 people have found work in the region over the last year as shown by official figures released last week. He said: “TheBorders economy is recovering...
View ArticleHorse. cheese and poultry winners at Highland Show
Borders beef and sheep producers brought home a haul of trophies from last week’s Highland Show but the region’s horsemen and women and others did the Borders proud too.For Andrew Tennant from...
View ArticleOff to the races
Riders head off to take part in the Lindean Chases on Monday evening.The event attracted a good turnout of spectators, before the participants returned to the town for the Riders’ Social at Quins...
View ArticleMorebattle tryst
They rode from Jedburgh and they rode from Kelso... Jethart Callant Jack Fraser and Kelso Laddie Ross Henderson met in fine weather at the Trysting Tree in Morebattle last Sunday.The cavalcade from...
View ArticleMarket Prices
woolerAt their weekly sale of primestock last Wednesday John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 1,181 new season lambs, 64 hoggs and young sheep and 187 ewes and rams.Lambs forward in larger numbers as...
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