Landlords and brigade join forces to cut accidental house fires
AN initiative which aims to cut the number of accidental house fires in the Borders has been launched.The campaign, signed off at Galashiels Fire Station, includes an agreement involving Lothian and...
View ArticleBorders food events
Haddington Farmers’ Market, Court Street, Saturday April 28, 9am-1pmBerwick Farmers’ Market, The Maltings Art Centre, Sunday April 29, 10am-1:30pmDavid Hume Philosophy Dinner, Chirnside Hall Hotel,...
View ArticleFive minutes is all you knead for some lovely loaves
Oat and Molasses Bread475g (15oz) strong wholemeal flour; 2 tablespoons butter; ¼ plain or orange flavoured 1000mg vitamin C tablet; 1½ teaspoon salt; 4 teaspoons molasses sugar; 100g (3½oz) rolled...
View ArticleGone but not forgotten: clods, todgies and nackets
When Robert Burns described Scotland as “the land o’ cakes”, our national bard did not mean sweet fancies, but the flat, unleavened bannock or oatcake, baked on a girdle or bakestone. “In Scotland,...
View ArticleTrailer blaze closes A68
A FIRE on a timber lorry trailer forced the closure of one of the Borders’ busiest roads on Monday.Two crews tackled the blaze on the A68, four miles south of Lauder, on Monday morning, forcing traffic...
View ArticleMore motor misery for Galashiels
MORE road misery is ahead for Galashiels motorists as a five-month project takes place on a major route through the town.The work registered by Morrison Construction and Scottish Water along a one-mile...
View ArticleHope rising for future of troubled care home in Langholm
A LANGHOLM councillor is hopeful the town’s only care home will remain open as talks continue to save the troubled facility.Dalarran Nursing Home, run by Welcare Homes, has suffered financial problems,...
View ArticleNow Borderers will know, not just think, who they really are
LONG after they became extinct, Scotland’s ancient race of Picts have been discovered alive and well, and living near Hawick.This is just one of the startling discoveries made by Scotland’s DNA...
View ArticleAsperger seminars
Author Rudy Simone, who has Asperger Syndrome, will deliver two seminars in the Buccleuch Arms Hotel, St Boswells, on May 23.The morning and afternoon sessions, which will consider the impact of the...
View ArticleJed rhino horn find worthless
MOUNTED rhino horns worth thousands of pounds on the black market are being kept in a secret location after being found, forgotten, in Jedburgh library’s attic, writes Sally Gillespie.Eleven sets of...
View ArticleLamont demands talks over Vodafone signal issue
MOBILE phone giants Vodafone have been forced to apologise again after its Hawick signal was lost once more last weekend.It means customers in the Teviotdale town have endured either limited or no...
View ArticleMemories of fun and fellowship to be relived in Selkirk
MEMORIES of fun and fellowship will come flooding back to the many Borderers who recall, with great affection, Selkirk’s Railway Mission, writes Andrew Keddie.Standing across the road from the town’s...
View Article‘Undue haste’ claim over £360,000 libraries and contact centres merger
STAFF, users and community groups have just three days to have their say on the physical layout of libraries and contact centres which are to be integrated on a single site in six Borders towns.The...
View ArticleCouncil tax benefit cut delay is welcomed
THE average Band D householder in the Borders has saved £460 in the five years since council tax was frozen.The revelation by Scottish finance secretary John Swinney came before his government at...
View ArticleMixed reports for region’s primaries
THREE Borders primary schools were recently inspected by HMIe, writes Kenny Paterson.While St Margaret’s Roman Catholic school in Galashiels was commended for a series of key strengths, HMIe staff said...
View ArticleCalling all TD6 garden owners
A PLEA has gone out for anyone with unused garden space in the TD6 postal area, which includes Melrose, to allow keen gardeners to use it for growing food, writes Mark Entwistle.The initiative is part...
View ArticleWind farm action groups throw down gauntlet to candidates
IT is a sign of the times that overtures on behalf of taxpayer-subsidised wind farm developments, large and small, are currently outstripping proposals for house extensions in the in-trays of planning...
View ArticleFarm on market for £3m
OFFERS over £3million are being sought for Chapel Mains Farm, four miles south of Lauder.Extending to around 667 acres and including a farmhouse, two cottages, a new country house and building plot...
View Articleopen country
Cademuir Forest near Peebles is a relatively small Forestry Commission plantation predominantly of Sitka spruce and larch. I was surveying a walk there in early March. When the needles are off the...
View ArticleYour Southern is here to stay
IT IS business as usual at The Southern Reporter, despite media reports this week to the contrary.News of TheSouthern’s apparent closure and subsequent job losses surfaced in the region on Monday....
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