Students’ cycle challenge for new unit
Twelve Borders College sports and exercise students cycled the equivalent of Galashiels to John O’Groats – 309 miles – to raise money for the Margaret Kerr Unit Appeal at Borders General Hospital.The...
View ArticleStudents bag up their greens for weekly deliveries
BRIDGING course students at Jewel & Esk College have teamed up with West Linton’s Whitmuir Organics to sell bags of vegetables at the college’s Edinburgh and Midlothian campuses.The partnership was...
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It has apparently been a good grouse year, particularly in the Lammermuirs and the Angus glens. Put another way, it has been a bad year to be a grouse in those parts as thousands more have been shot...
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BORDER LIVESTOCKDURING the week ending Friday, December 16, Border Livestock Exchange Ltd sold 186 prime cattle including 78 cast cows and bulls, 2,097 prime lambs and 129 ewes, 64 store cattle and 610...
View ArticleWe’re the sheep capital
A NEW report out last Thursday identifies the Borders as the most important sheep breeding region in Scotland.The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) study – an update on its 2008 Retreat from the...
View ArticleGrahame gets rap over knuckles
CHRISTINE Grahame, the SNP’s MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, has incurred the “strong disapproval” of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) over allegations that she...
View ArticleBorders tourism must fight for a slice of 2012 action
THE Olympic Games, a new Disney animated film and a television advertisement featuring Floors Castle could all add up to 2012 being a boom year for tourism in the Borders.That is the aspiration of Mike...
View ArticleHellowell bows out as regional boss
Sandi Hellowell, south of Scotland regional director for VisitScotland for the past three years, is retiring this month.The former teacher has fulfilled various roles in her 17 years in the industry,...
View ArticleCouncillors vote for Clovenfords stay put
COUNCILLORS have voted against Clovenfords being included in a Midlothian constituency, writes Sally Gillespie.Scottish Borders Council last Thursday decided on a response to proposals by the Boundary...
View ArticleAnger as new town centre site for Lauder health centre is ‘ruled out’
THE need for a new health centre in Lauder is not in doubt – but its location remains a major bone of contention in the royal burgh.Last week, Scottish Borders Council instructed its top officials and...
View ArticleCouncil offers borrowing provision for landlords with debts of £80million
THE region’s four largest housing associations, which have combined debts of around £80million and are struggling to borrow money at affordable rates from banks, will be able to get low interest loans...
View ArticleDamning verdict in court drama
WIDESPREAD opposition has greeted the shock news that plans have been drawn up to close three of the region’s four sheriff courts.The proposals are contained in a leaked internal discussion document...
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WOOLERAT their weekly Primestock sale held at Wooler last Wednesday John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 526 lambs and 181 ewes. Lamb numbers less due to holiday arrangements, vendors left with trade...
View ArticleBorderers boosted in charity draw
WE’VE ALWAYS known Borderers are lucky. And so it proved again when kind-hearted locals scooped all three prizes in a recent charity draw.RSABI, which helps people who have made their living from the...
View ArticlePeace on earth and goodwill to all as Borderers get into the Christmas spirit
Selkirk’s Market Place saw a certain couple sheltering in a stable, census-recording Romans, an angel on the Pantwell, carolling hordes, some shepherds and three wise men. The event was run by...
View ArticleClaws out after resignation call over salt bins
WITH local government elections only a little over four months away, two leading members of the ruling coalition at Newtown have become involved in a bitter war of words.In the blue corner is Carolyn...
View ArticleCash stolen in heist at butcher’s shop
Police are hunting a raider or raiders who swooped on a popular butcher’s shop in the Borders at Christmas.The festive crooks struck at the premises of G. W. Miller in Main Street, St Boswells, on...
View ArticlePolice step up probe in hunt for Hawick Horse desecration
POLICE have issued a fresh plea for help in their hunt for vandals who desecrated Hawick’s 1514 Memorial, writes Bob Burgess.The cherished town-centre Horse monument was erected in memory of Hawick’s...
View ArticleNew Year service
This Sunday, locum Marion Dodd will bring in the New Year with a 9.45am. service at Caddonfoot Church.
View ArticleA tuneful start
Innerleithen is set for another musical start to the New Year with both town bands on duty on Sunday. The Silver Band will be on parade from 9am, marching around some of the streets of the town with...
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