Borders and Edinburgh crews tackling house blaze near Galashiels
FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a major blaze at a large countryside house in the Borders, writes Bob Burgess.Crews were alerted shortly before 12.20pm to the fire at Fairnielee House near Clovenfords about...
View ArticleBig Apple run for Muriel
A SECOND-timer is taking part in perhaps the world’s most famous marathon in New York next month.Scottish Borders Council IT official Keith King is running for his mum Muriel, of Russell Place,...
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BedruleWHIST: There is a whist and dominoes on November 5 at 7.30pm in Bedrule Hall.Christmas Market: Local food can be ordered at the village Hall on Sunday (November 4), 2-5pm for collection form the...
View ArticlePups in car boot sale shocker in Galashiels
A PROBE is underway to trace a woman who was spotted selling puppies from the boot of a car outside a supermarket in the Scottish Borders, writes Bob Burgess.Officers from the animal welfare charity...
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ST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday John Swan Ltd sold 86 clean cattle, 116 OTM cattle, 2,356 new season lambs and 1,498 ewes.Bullocks (40) averaged 208.2p per kg and sold to 241p (-7.8p on week)...
View ArticleWinter feed advice
BEEF farmer Robert Neill is hosting an on-farm meeting about winter feeding on November 6.A past Farmers Weekly Beef Farmer of the Year, Mr Neill is holding the event at Upper Nisbet, near Jedburgh...
View ArticleTurbine open day
WIND turbine company Scaled Energy is holding an open day on November 5. The company supplied artisan bakers Bread Matters’ turbine at Mackbiehill Farmhouse near Lamancha where owners Andrew Whitely...
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DURING a recent conversation with a neighbour, as we tried to avoid talking about bad weather, a bad harvest, bad sowing conditions, slug damage, soil damage and other gloomy matters, we chanced on the...
View ArticleMonitoring Hundleshope
PEEBLESSHIRE’S first monitor farmers, Kate and Ed Rowell ,will host their first meeting at Hundleshope Farm next week. A qualified vet, Mrs Rowell said she and her husband were inspired to get involved...
View ArticleTough conditions as Borders welcome ploughing championships
THE Borders rolled out the red carpet for the 50th Scottish Ploughing Championships at Coldstream last weekend, writes Peter Small. McGregor Farms and Lennel Estates and all their staff put in a lot of...
View ArticleFiddling away those Nordic nights
Scandinavia and Scotland unite in a smörgåsbord of Norwegian and Scottish music and food events this weekend.On Friday in Maxton Village Hall, Gaelic singer and fiddler Rona Wilkie joins forces with...
View ArticleWinners will be able to Race the Loser with folk band Lau
The folk music band Lau is performing its new, third album Race the Loser at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh on November 6, and TheSouthern is giving away two free CDs.To win one, answer the following...
View ArticleBruce MacGregor Trio of talent
The Bruce MacGregor Trio is playing at Peebles’ Eastgate Theatre on Wednesday November 7, starting at 7.30pm. “Bruce MacGregor (fiddle), Tim Edey (box/guitar) and Christine Hanson (cello) have just...
View ArticlePure Brass delivers it all, from Bach to the Beatles
Peebles’ music season continues on Tuesday, November 6, as Pure Brass promises to delight fans of brass instruments as much as the Brodsky Quartet delighted lovers of strings in October. “This exciting...
View ArticleWin family tickets to see the Singing Kettle
TheSOUTHERN has four sets of family tickets – each worth £44 – to a historic tour for the Singing Kettle.Husband and wife Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise – who founded the musical children’s...
View ArticleBody of Ladykirk gamekeeper recovered from Tweed
THE body found in the River Tweed near Norham last Wednesday morning was that of William Purves from Ladykirk, near Berwick.Search-and-rescue volunteers from the Borders were involved in a five-hour...
View ArticleBorders sculptor’s memoirs see light of day after decades down under
AFTER lying unread for decades and gathering dust in the attic of an Australian farmhouse, the memoirs of the Borders sculptor who carved the statues of Ettrick shepherd James Hogg at St Mary’s Loch...
View ArticleKiller tree disease not yet in Borders
THERE have been no cases of ‘ash dieback’ in the Borders so far, but a local forester warned the killer disease could be the equivalent of the 1970s Dutch Elm disease to the ash population.Forestry...
View ArticleJedburgh inn on market
ONE of Scotland’s oldest licensed hotels, the Spread Eagle in Jedburgh, has gone on the market.Owners for the last eight years, John Campbell and Dr Lorna Noble, hope to move on to a smaller...
View Article‘Busiest’ forest festival ever
THIS year’s Tweed Valley Forest Festival which finished at the weekend was the best so far, say organisers.Co-ordinator Chris Sawers said the seventh annual woodland celebration was “the busiest...
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