Flooding meeting
Residents and councillors will meet in Jedburgh tonight to talk about improving the town’s flood defences. Around fifty homes and businesses were damaged, some of them badly, when the Skiprunning Burn...
View ArticleValleys’ vision of the future
Ettrick and Yarrow valley residents get a sight of how they and their neighbours think the area should develop early next monthThe Southern Upland Partnership (SUP), targeted 378 homes in Ettrick,...
View ArticleComputer upgrade for schools
Gala Academy and Selkirk High are the first schools in the Borders to get a computer upgrade.Testing of new general software and specialist softwarde to support the curriculum will continue.By summer...
View ArticleHealth heroes
The hunt is on for and unsung health hero and Borderers are invited to nominate an NHS workers who has particularly impressed with their skill and dedication.The Scottish Health Awards, which include...
View Articlelandlines
For family reasons I recently spent a short time in California’s Salinas Valley. It was a great experience.I’m a fan of John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men and...
View ArticleYou don’t need clues to figure out why Innerleithen’s music fest is so...
INNERLEITHEN Music Festival went clueless last weekend, as it held its first busking competition to mark its 10th anniversary.Clueless was, in fact, the name of a guitar and fiddle trio of teenagers...
View ArticleNew season under way at Gala Opera
Gala Opera is back in action for another season.Preparations for its 2013 production got under way last week at the opening rehearsal. This year’s musical is Guys and Dolls – a return to a Broadway...
View ArticleCentre opens new chapter on Scott
THE public this week had their first glimpse of the purpose-built visitor centre that forms part of the near £15million transformation of Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford home.The £4million...
View ArticleVisitors’ views
Kenny Paterson asked opinions on the centre’s second dayJill O’Brien, of Darnick, with children Mollie and Brodie, said: “I came to Abbotsford years ago, but we saw the visitor centre was opening this...
View ArticleFramed in Time
Whereas Dawson International PLC has dominated the headlines in TheSouthern in recent weeks as the future of Barrie Knitwear in Hawick is threatened, it was all so different in 1983.This photograph,...
View ArticleBoozed-up nurse drove with daughter, 5, in car
A father was almost twice the alcohol limit when he crashed his car driving back from a party with his five-year-old daughter.The vehicle was badly damaged after it crashed through a fence and rolled...
View ArticleLanghope Rig wind farm firm to discuss B711 road closure plans
PLANS to close a road linking Hawick with the Ettrick Valley in order to accommodate a wind farm are to be discussed next week.Two information days will be held in Roberton detailing the 10-turbine...
View ArticlePair’s counterfeit £20 notes operation failed to pay off
A trainee soldier who tendered counterfeit £20 notes in a Galashiels nightclub, and the man who produced them on a computer, were both sentenced to unpaid work in the community.Twenty-year-old Satinder...
View ArticleNot such a bright sparky
Driving a car when over the alcohol limit cost Michael Allan a £235 fine.The 24-year-old, of Valley View, Clovenfords, was also banned from driving for 12 months. Allan admitted driving at Wilderhaugh,...
View ArticleHeroin offender jailed for 18 months
A drug user who appeared at court with heroin hidden in his body was jailed.Alan Finn had come prepared for prison when he turned up at Selkirk Sheriff Court in May, internally concealing heroin to...
View ArticleFour year drive ban
Suspicious of a vehicle travelling ahead during the early hours of the morning, police stopped the car and the driver was found to be more than twice the alcohol limit.Rupeni Ragia, 37, of Gladstone...
View ArticleParty goer had knife
After being ejected from a New Year’s Day party, a drunken woman was found in the common close with a knife hidden under her jacket.Charly Brown, 17, of Parkhead Lodge, Edinburgh Road, Penicuik,...
View ArticlePlea to push sporting excellence for all, not just budding Olympians
ONE of the Borders’ most knowledgeable sporting authorities says all athletes, whether their chosen discipline is among the host of Olympic sports or not, should be given the chance to compete at the...
View ArticleLivestock market prices
ST BOSWELLSST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday John Swan Ltd sold 62 clean cattle, 59 OTM cattle, 1,955 spring lambs and 746 ewes.Bullocks (30) averaged 211p per kg (+30p on the week). Heifers...
View ArticleHouse sale help
Scottish Borders Council (SBC) is backing a matchmaking scheme to cut the number of long-term empty houses in the region. The idea is to introduce buyers looking for an investment or renovation...
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