Light music and dark horses at Gala Clef Club
The January meeting of the Galashiels Clef Club on Saturday, January 12, featured a feast of surprises and new composers. Linda Gray, on piano, opened with Gillick’s New Orleans Blues followed by an...
View ArticleGuitarist Richard Durrant plays Bach to Django
RICHARD DURRANT, one of the leading concert guitarists of his generation, visits Peebles next month with a brand new show for 2013.Local music fans can see the 50-year-old maestro in action at Eastgate...
View ArticleKelso Music Society evokes Edwardian England on Wenlock Edge
Kelso Music Society has announced the return of pianist Anna Tilbrook (top of page) for a concert at Kelso High School on Sunday, February 3, at 2.30pm, where she will perform with one of the world’s...
View ArticleFolk Duo Bruce and Walker play at Eckford
Two of Scotland’s finest award winning singer songwriters Ian Bruce and Ian Walker have joined forces to perform two 50-minute spots in Eckford Village Hall on Friday, February 1, at 7pm.They promise a...
View ArticleShikari in Gala for intimate and off-the-beaten-track tour
Enter SHIKARI have announced a gig at Galashiels’ Volunteer Hall on Sunday, April 21.The British post-hardcore band are rounding off 18 months of touring the world promoting their third album, A Flash...
View Article£30,000 Melrose house raid driver jailed for 20 months
The driver in a £30,000 raid on a family home near Melrose was this week jailed for 20 months.Jon Renton was paid £200 for his part in the robbery, having driven his accomplices to the secluded...
View ArticleAssailants knocked OAP unconscious
A PENSIONER was left unconscious after being attacked in the street, Jedburgh Sheriff Court heard last Friday.His assailants avoided jail with an alternative sentence of a community payback order (CPO)...
View ArticleSentence deferred
A 21-year-old man lost his temper after an argument with his partner and assaulted her.Ryan Edmison, 21, formerly of Buccleuch Street, Hawick, admitted assaulting his then partner by seizing her by the...
View ArticleCountess of Wessex adds touch of royal glamour as Border Union marks 200 years
ROYALTY was present in Kelso this week, as 500 local farmers, landowners and other representatives from the agricultural community across the Borders and north Northumberland braved Arctic-like weather...
View ArticleSad finale for Gala’s Blockbuster store
ANOTHER national firm has pulled out of Galashiels town centre, after DVD and computer games rental firm Blockbuster plunged into administration last week, writes Kenny Paterson.The Bank Street...
View ArticleSBC official’s sacking ‘fair’
aN employment tribunal has unanimously agreed that the sacking of a senior council manager was both fair and appropriate.The tribunal in Edinburgh had already heard how Alan Hasson was dismissed from...
View ArticleAsh dieback spans Stobo to Eyemouth
Four new cases of ash dieback disease have been discovered across the Borders over the last six weeks.Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) confirmed tests had revealed Chalara in an Eyemouth woodland,...
View ArticleGroup aims to boost farmers’ staying power
THERE is more demand for stays on farms than farmers providing accommodation, according to Farm Stay, the award-winning farmer-owned marketing consortium which promotes farm tourism and helps producers...
View Articlelandlines
ALMOST every informed comment on last week’s “horsemeat in burgers” shock-horror revelation came to the same conclusion: if the offer is eight frozen burgers for £1 or, in Ireland, six for €1, what do...
View ArticleExperts warn of frightening sheep liver fluke levels
FRIGHTENING levels of liver-fluke infection in sheep in Scotland could be just the “tip of the iceberg”, according to vets from SAC Consulting, a Division of Scotland’s Rural College.Infection by the...
View ArticleRural affairs minister under pressure over farm rent reviews
SCOTTISH minister Richard Lochhead is facing demands for a compulsory code of practice on farm rents. The cabinet secretary for rural affairs and the environment has met the Scottish Tenant Farmers’...
View ArticleCatching criminal profits
Lothian and Borders Police are asking the public to report people who make money illegally through crime, in a campaign launched this week called ‘Made From Crime?’. The initiative targets criminals...
View ArticlePublic pressure pays off as Scott statue is saved
A controversial competition to redevelop Glasgow’s George Square, which could have resulted in the removal of the city’s Sir Walter Scott monument, has been dropped in the face of public...
View ArticleBlackbirds go to war over apples
Last weekend’s snow brought a feeding frenzy to my back garden from the local bird population and it kept me busy just keeping the feeding stations topped up with food. Such was the demand after the...
View ArticleEttrick and Yarrow Valleys projects get Euro cash boost from LEADER
A EUROPEAN cash grant to the tune of £67,000 will help take a raft of projects earmarked for the Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys to the next stage.The money is from the Leader rural grants programme and,...
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