Classes for new start-up businesses
BUDDING entrepreneurs are getting the chance to learn a range of new skills in a series of free start-up workshops.The Business Gateway sessions are designed to provide anyone interested in starting a...
View ArticleRecord rainfall runs up a £1M bill
The Borders is counting the cost of last year’s record-breaking rainfall, writes Sally Gillespie.Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire and Berwickshire were the wettest since Met Office records began more than...
View ArticleStrike threat over council pay changes
UNION leaders this week threatened strike and legal action over cuts in pay for new council employees.Three unions representing more than 2,000 current manual, office and home care staff condemned...
View ArticleHooded and skinny suspect sought following Selkirk attack
POLICE are hunting a hooded woman who attacked and tried to rob another woman in Selkirk, writes Bob Burgess.IT happened yesterday shortly after 9pm on the footpath on the Old Bridge Road. A spokesman...
View ArticleFancy a Bard night out in Kelso?
The Kelso Folk and Live Music Club committee have decided to look at fresh fields this year, so the Burns Night Supper will be held on Saturday, January 26, at the Contented Vine in Kelso. “Musicians...
View ArticleBorders youth brass festival
THIS Sunday sees an exciting full day of music-making for young people, organised by the Scottish Borders Brass Band Association, in the Volunteer Hall, Galasheils. The morning session will see the...
View ArticleVictim’s jaw broken in early-hours supermarket attack
A drunken Hawick teenager who committed an unprovoked attack on a 20-year-old, breaking his jaw, was sentenced to a 12-month community payback order, with a condition he completes 120 hours of unpaid...
View ArticleGalashiels car vandal is locked up for four months
A drunken man who vandalised nine cars, causing £600 worth of damage, was jailed for four months at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday.Daniel Stewart, 22, of High Tweed Mill, King Street, Galashiels, had...
View ArticleLight music and dark horses at the Clef Club
The January meeting of Galashiels Clef Club on Saturday, featured a feast of surprises and new composers. Linda Gray on piano opened with Gillick’s New Orleans Blues, followed by an arrangement of...
View ArticleA sound fundraiser
THE Borders branch of the Order of St John raised more than £1,000 for local good causes at its first Christmas lunch and carol singing.More than 50 people attended the event at Duns Castle and enjoyed...
View ArticleSingle headteacher to be sought for local Roman Catholic schools
SOME harder choices may have to be made if this week’s decision by the local education authority to seek a single headteacher for the region’s four Roman Catholic primary schools proves unsuccessful as...
View ArticleDeveloper pledges 6% of Greenlaw windfarm profits to community
Proposals have been announced this week for a £25million wind farm at Rumbletonrig, west of the village of Greenlaw.Developers TCI Renewables claim the proposed nine, 100m high turbines would generate...
View ArticleA £22,000 boost for Selkirk’s pop-up shops
Selkirk’s Chamber of Trade has been awarded nearly £22,000 to set up pop-up shops around the royal burgh, in order to help reverse its 30 per cent drop in pedestrian footfall.The cash is being provided...
View ArticleArta tinkles the ivories of Melrose Music Society’s new piano
At a recital of the Melrose Music Society on Sunday, January 20, at 2.30pm in Melrose Parish Church Hall, the celebrated young Latvian pianist, Arta Arnicane, will play music from France, Spain,...
View ArticleTweeddale MD to head Scottish division
THE managing director for Tweeddale Press (TDP) – owner of The Southern Reporter and Selkirk Weekend Advertiser - is to take up a new role within parent company Johnston Press.Stuart Birkett will be...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Scottish lamb price boost
FARMING leaders have welcomed Sainsbury’s announcement it will increase what it pays sheep farmers for their lamb.The supermarket said last Friday it will pay its 800 lamb development group farmers...
View ArticleParents join education discussions
TWO mums have joined the council’s education committee to represent the voice of parents, writes Bob Burgess.Alison Ramcharran will represent primary school parents, while Kate Foreman will represent...
View ArticleFRAMED IN TIME
Pictured outside Galashiels fire station in Abbotsford Road in February 1982 are local firefighters, members of the Lothian and Borders Fire Board, plus representatives of Borders Health Board.The...
View ArticleCouncil deserves praise for Catholic schools effort
THIS week’s decision by members of Scottish Borders Council’s education committee to appoint one single headteacher for the region’s four Roman Catholic primary schools is to be applauded.It might not...
View ArticleScrutiny duo named
TWO members of the public have been appointed to the audit committee of Scottish Borders Council.They will serve alongside six cross-party councillors reviewing and scrutinising various aspects of the...
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