Firm seeks approval for 20-stall market
Stalls will be erected outside as well as inside the former main Post Office in Galashiels when a new retail market starts operating there next month.Based on demand from traders to participate, there...
View ArticleJail for Kelso man who pushed stepsister about
A Kelso man who assaulted his stepsister, and made offensive comments to his partner, was this week jailed for four months.Neil Ford, 27, of Inchmyre, appeared from custody at Jedburgh Sheriff Court...
View ArticleBattling to cure ‘bed blocking’
I was invited to spend a half-day in Borders General Hospital where I had the opportunity to see much of the excellent work staff are doing for patients.I attended patient safety meetings, visited a...
View ArticleWeb map provides snapshot of region’s ‘digital exclusion’
New research indicates that 14.7% of adults in the Borders have never been online.“Too many people and organisations are still missing out on the benefits the internet has to offer,” claimed Go ON UK,...
View ArticleFree stress classes through November
NHS Borders will be running a series of weekly classes throughout November to give people practical advice on managing stress.The free classes are being run in Hawick in the form of hour long sessions....
View ArticleIt’s the toughest cut for rector’s wife Kate
Nine-year-old Melrose Primary School pupil Gavin Blackledge came up with a cutting plan for raising money for Syrian refugees.And while it is surprising enough that one so young has the empathy and...
View ArticleConker festival helps save squirrels
Sandy the Squirrel, the Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels mascot, will take part in this weekend’s Scottish Conker Championships against Festival Fox at the Tweed Valley Forest Festival to raise...
View ArticleLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
wasteCommercial confidentiality barrierI notice that yet another attempt to shed light on Scottish Borders Council’s financially-disastrous liaison with waste management company New Earth Solutions...
View ArticleFollowing the Leader just gets better and better
As I write, the last vestiges of summer are still clinging on, with a few butterflies still appearing on the Michaelmas daisies in my garden. They are now all Red Admirals, the other species having now...
View ArticleLeyden’s Monument sustains severe damage to railings
The decorative railings around Leyden’s Monument in Denholm have been damaged to the tune of several hundred pounds, writes Lorna Robertson. Police can’t pinpoint exactly when the incident took place...
View ArticleWhen the going gets tough, the tough get going on their holidays
No Big Brother-style Geordie accent this week. Thought I’d give everyone a rest from Hell’s Kitchen. Which is sooooo close to being finished, by the way. Apart from the splashbacks. Oh, and the...
View ArticleJournalist wins Selkirk solar panel battle
A well-known photojournalist has been granted planning consent to install an array of 16 solar panels on the roof of his Selkirk home.The local review body (LRB) of Scottish Borders Council unanimously...
View ArticleBorders lags behind in post-referendum boom
Tourism figures published this week show that while Scotland as a whole has experienced a massive rise in tourism following last year’s independence referendum, the Borders has not benefitted as much...
View ArticleKerr backs subtitle campaign
Borders MP Calum Kerr is backing a campaign by the charity Action on Hearing Loss Scotland calling for more and better subtitles for viewers who are deaf or have hearing loss.These problems affect one...
View ArticleMobile bookshop set to fire young imaginations
If you can’t get children to come and see the books and meet the authors, take the books – and the authors – to the children.That’s the philosophy behind a new project launched this week by St Boswells...
View ArticleSign of a Borders property boom
Property consultancy CKD Galbraith has launched a Galashiels sales department to handle high levels of interest from commuters looking for homes following the reopening of the Borders railway.Polly...
View ArticleScotrail predictions didn’t add up
The prediction by Scotrail for the number of passengers using the Borders railway was about half of what has actually happened.That’s why there has been problems caused by not having enough carriages –...
View ArticleNo bad language from Gala pupils
A recent careers event highlighted the importance of language skills to Galashiels Academy pupils. S3 pupils participated in the event held in the school on September 23. It aimed to demonstrate the...
View ArticleApples top the menu as eco groups enjoy taste of cafe society
Freshly-squeezed apple juice was used to toast the success of an eco cafe organised by Greener Melrose, Fair Trade Melrose and the Eco Congregations in the town’s Corn Exchange.On display was the Seeds...
View ArticleLandlines: Presenters make a good job of Harvest 2015 TV programme
Apart from his irrepressible urge to play with big boys’ toys such as a combine and a sugar beet harvester I thought that presenter Gregg Wallace and his colleague Philippa Forester made a good job of...
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