Hogarth helps Maggie’s
A Selkirk company is raising money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres through selling a new range of headwear.Textiles company Murray Hogarth in Tweedmill is launching a new headwear and accessories...
View ArticleDuo swim against tide to help injured soldiers
IT took the best part of the summer to complete, but two determined swimmers swam from Kelso to Berwick to raise more than £6,000 for soldiers, writes Sally Gillespie.Ghillie John Edey (‘Wee John’) and...
View ArticleMill for sale
plans to turn a former Galashiels mill into a 108-bed development for student accommodation are in doubt.The town’s community council heard Bristol Mill, on Magdala Terrace at the northern entrance of...
View ArticleMelrose playgroup faces closure threat
A MELROSE playgroup almost half a century old could close because of a lack of children.Private competition is blamed for threatening the survival of the ante-pre and pre-school provider Gibson Park...
View ArticleCouncil pins fraud security hopes on chip system
A MORE secure way of paying cash to Scottish Borders Council is being introduced.A chip-and-pin method of payment will be available at some council offices from October 24.Councillor Michael Cook...
View ArticleTaxi fares in Borders set to rise
TAXI fare in the Scottish Borders are set to rise by 2.5 per cent following talks between the council and taxi operators, writes Bob Burgess.The planned rise follows the annual review of fares and if...
View ArticleFire figures
NEW statistics have revealed that more than half the fires which took place in Lothian and Borders region were in homes without a working smoke alarm.Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSP John Lamont...
View ArticleStark Main scoop top award for excellence
SELKIRK’s award-winning chartered tax advisers and Accountant, Stark Main & Co, has scooped another national award, being named the overall winner in the Practice Excellence Award 2012. Last month,...
View ArticleHawick jobs saved as Chanel buys Barrie Knitwear after Dawson collapse
FEARS for almost 180 jobs at Barrie Knitwear in Hawick have been lifted with confirmation that the company has been bought by Chanel, writes Bob Burgess.The cashmere firm’s parent company Dawson...
View ArticleBennett’s big payout
Selkirk bookmaker Andy Bennett handed over a cheque for £1,362 to sister Shirley Syme of the Borders General Hospital’s Special Baby Care Unit recently, raised from his static line parachute jump....
View ArticleConcert to raise cash for palliative care unit
THE Hawick PSA Male Voice Choir are putting the finishing touches to a charity concert scheduled for Friday, November 2 in the Town Hall and have put together a programme which is sure to please all...
View ArticleTalk of devolution yawns
PEOPLE could be so bored of devolution talk that when a referendum happens it will be an anti-climax, says Lord Steel.The former Liberal leader was asking “What Kind of Country?” in the Kirkgate...
View ArticleMachinery sale
a Farm finishing displenishing sale of vehicles and machinery is taking place at Swinside Townfoot, Oxnam, on behalf of E. Taylor & Sons on Friday, October at 10.30am.By permission: Dowdeswell 3m...
View ArticleCo-op’s Kelso date
THE Co-op has now revealed that its reopening of part of the former Haldanes store in the town’s Roxburgh Street, will take place on December 6.Closed by Haldanes last summer with the loss of 50 jobs,...
View ArticleJed floods report soon
ENGINEERING consultants Halcrow, looking into floods which raged through Jedburgh town centre in July, are expected to report back to Scottish Borders Council by the end of next week.Their findings...
View ArticleBlaze probed
POLICE have launched an enquiry into an incident of wilful fireraising.It follows a blaze at farm near Greenlaw on Sunday morning.Fire crews were alerted around 7.10am when a number of straw bales were...
View ArticleIconic fashion label Chanel buys Barrie, saving almost 180 jobs
There was jubilation in Hawick this week, with news that the French luxury fashion house Chanel has saved almost 180 local jobs by acquiring the town’s under-threat cashmere manufacturer, Barrie...
View ArticleTransport minister must act before A7 takes more lives
How many more lives must be lost and people seriously injured before extra cash is sanctioned to allow improvements to the stretch of A7 north of Galashiels?Research by one bereaved mother suggests one...
View ArticleEarlston offender cultivated cannabis ‘cure’
WHEN police forced their way into Elliot Grieve’s Earlston home, they uncovered a cannabis cultivation with a potential value of £8,000.Grieve told officers he was growing the crop for his own use,...
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A CARE assistant has been suspended from her job after assaulting a frail 91-year-old woman in a nursing home, Selkirk Sheriff Court was told on Monday.The elderly patient was left with a red hand mark...
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