Gingerbread houses build up nicely for Children 1st
JUDGES had a tough task in the hotly-contested first Pharlanne Grand Gingerbread House competition in Kelso to raise money for charity last week. The event raised an estimated £700 for Children 1st...
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IT CAN’T be easy being a middle-ranking banker in one of the surviving rural offices. No, don’t laugh, it can’t be easy to be caught between head office insisting on tough rules and no quarter given,...
View ArticleScotch beef is on the menu at Carfraemill
FARMING leaders are inviting comment on their draft blueprint for beef, aimed at boosting the sector.The NFU Scotland plan includes measures to maintain production, improve on-farm efficiency, build on...
View ArticleYoung voices deserve a considerate hearing
The adage that children should be seen and not heard is as archaic as keeping a potty under the bed for night-time relief. Each month this newspaper offers a page to the Youth of the Borders (YoB) to...
View ArticleNewtown drink-driver overtook police vehicle
‘The court has every sympathy with your medical difficulties, but that does not extend todrunk-driving’– Sheriff Kevin Drummond
View ArticleGalashiels drug dealer is jailed for 18 months
A drug dealer found with amphetamine said to have a street value of up to almost £4,000 was jailed for 18 months at Jedburgh Sheriff Court last Friday.When police searched David Stephen’s Galashiels...
View ArticleVictim’s jaw was broken in three places
A MAN suffered three fractures to his jaw after kissing his attacker’s ex-girlfriend.Mark Heath repeatedly punched the victim on the head in a Galashiels nightclub.Heath, 21, of Duke Street,...
View ArticleChristmas cheer at cracker event
CHANNELKIRK primary school’s Toby Dawson was the winner of St Boswells auctioneers John Swan’s first Christmas Cracker young auctioneers competition on Tuesday.Toby was one of four finalists to each...
View ArticleFamily link kept up as donor’s descendant opens Jed pool café
A DESCENDANT of the man who gave Jedburgh’s swimming pool to the town, Bill Laidlaw, opened the facility’s new £210,000 cafe, meeting area and refurbished fitness suite on Saturday.The late ex-provost...
View ArticleCharity’s report points to Borders bird of prey killings
THE low numbers of hen harriers in the Borders have been attributed to illegal killings, writes Kenny Paterson.The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland revealed the findings in its...
View ArticleGalashiels deli to create 20 jobs
Twenty new jobs are being created in Galashiels, thanks to Turnbull’s new delicatessen, coffee house, brasserie and wine bar, opening at 8 High Street in April next year.The empty two-storey, 2,000sqft...
View ArticleChildren’s author Philip Ardagh to tour schools
The Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour travels to Borders primary schools this week with award-winning author Philip Ardagh. The South Scotland tour sees the children’s writer meet more than 1,800...
View ArticleNight of the Nutcracker
The Royal Ballet is appearing in Peebles this Christmas, as Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is relayed live from London’s Covent Garden into the royal burgh’s Eastgate Theatre on Thursday, December 13.“In...
View ArticleCreepy Tour of The Haining
The Selkirk Seniors group from Borders Youth Theatre will be conducting Creepy Tours of The Haining. You can join a Creepy Tour on Saturday December 15 at 6pm and 8pm, and Sunday December 16 at 4.30pm...
View ArticleStark Main end year on high with latest award
SELKIRK-BASED firm of chartered tax advisers and accountants, Stark Main & Co, has scooped another national accolade.The company was named Independent Firm of the Year – Scotland at the British...
View ArticleGardeners’ Question Time comes to Newcastleton
NEWCASTLETON is to host Radio 4’s popular Gardeners’ Question Time next week.The programme will be recorded in the village hall from 5.30pm on Tuesday when Eric Robson and his panel of experts tackle...
View ArticleRight royal performance for Melrose music lovers
Concert Royal, an ensemble of a soprano, harpsichord, flute and cello, will give a concert of 18th century British music, Under the Greenwood Tree, in Melrose Parish Church Hall on Sunday, December 9,...
View ArticleParents’ spyware can feel like invasion of privacy
you can pick up a paper and find a story almost daily about a young person, who through communication on the internet, became entangled in a situation that compromised their safety.Because of this a...
View ArticleBalancing benefits and drawbacks of Facebook
FACEBOOK – created by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in February 2004 – is a social networking site with more than a billion users. What’s worrying...
View ArticleYouth Chex – get your forms in soon
YOUTH CHEX is the Borders’ youth bank – a group of young people who live in the region and make decisions about the granting of money to youngsters on behalf of Scottish Borders Council.New information...
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