Printer shuts after 40 years
AFTER 40 years, well-known printing firm, Kelso Graphics, has ceased trading.The company, which had offices and a studio in The Knowes, was run by three business partners, being Clive Dibbern, and his...
View ArticleClosure of Martin’s Bridge to disrupt Roberton and A7
Martin’s Bridge will be closed for 10 weeks from the beginning of April, with temporary traffic lights and a single lane imposed for a further 10 weeks, bringing disruption to Roberton residents and A7...
View ArticleLocal policing to fore in new chief’s plans
THE police chief who will be responsible for the whole of the Borders and Lothians has reassured local councillors of her commitment to local policing, writes Adam Drummond.Chief Superintendent...
View ArticleSchools chairman welcomes budget
BORDERS education chairman Sandy Aitchison believes the local authority’s latest budget is good news for the region’s schools, despite concernsthat a new review could herald mergers or even closures,...
View ArticleWatson resigns as councillor
THE by-election to find a successor to Borders Party leader Nicholas Watson as a councillor for the Leaderdale and Melrose ward will be held on May 2.Mr Watson, who led the Save Scott’s Countryside...
View ArticleBorders producers head up national farmers union
STOW farmer Nigel Miller has been returned unopposed as president of the National Farmers Union of Scotland.No other candidates stood and this week’s AGM saw the livestock producer proposed and...
View ArticleMARKET PRICES
ST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday John Swan Ltd sold 106 clean cattle, 75 OTM cattle, 2,880 old season lambs and 988 ewes.Bullocks (41) averaged 215.5p per kg and sold to 238p (+0.4p on week),...
View ArticleSnow flurries hit region again
AFTER snowfall throughout Wednesday morning, Hawick High School took the decision to send pupils from Langholm home early.Snow had been falling across the Borders since the early hours of Wednesday and...
View ArticleBorderers rise against violence to women
ORGANISERS hope 1,000 Borderers will go to Kelso tonight to dance and clap with others across the world in a bid to stop violence against women.So far more than 400 are expected to attend the One...
View ArticleBus crashes off icy road
A SERVICE bus operated by Munro’s of Jedburgh crashed off the road and into a field between St Boswells and Kelso at around 10pm on Tuesday night.Fortunately only the driver was on board and he escaped...
View ArticleRabbit theft
POLICE are searching for a pet thief who struck in Peebles, leaving a family distressed.The culprit targeted a hutch in the Connor Street area of the Tweeddale town overnight on February 7 stealing an...
View ArticleFamily feud led to victim being beaten up in pub toilet
“BAD blood” between two families led to a Galashiels father and son attacking a man in a pub toilet, Selkirk Sheriff Court heard on Monday.Raymond Sutherland, 52, and his 27-year-old son, Des, both of...
View ArticleChild-porn teenager is jailed for nine months
A Walkerburn teenager who downloaded 757 pornographic images and videos of children on computers at his former Hawick home was jailed for nine months at Jedburgh Sheriff Court last...
View ArticleSentence is no laughing matter for thief who stole hospital gas cylinders
A Man who stole gas cylinders worth more than £2,000 from two Borders hospitals was jailed for nine months.Lloyd Griffiths claimed he was forced into the crime to clear a debt with an...
View ArticleSheriff’s road red card for boozed-up football fan
A DRIVER who was four-and-a-half times the alcohol limit some 11 hours after his last drink was fined £2,000 and banned from the roads for 29 months.First offender Gerd Friese had drunk into the early...
View ArticleJed petrol station robber’s jail sentence extended
A PRISONER who was jailed for carrying out two armed robberies on a Jedburgh petrol station while disguised as a scarecrow has received a further four-month sentence. Craig Stevens, formerly of...
View ArticleCouncillors clash over Newcastleton expense claim
TWO Hawick councillors have become embroiled in a war of word of expenses, writes Kenny Paterson.David Paterson believes his Conservative colleague George Turnbull was wrong to claim back full...
View ArticlePolice welcome rise in reports of domestic violence
POLICE in the Scottish Borders believe an increase in reported incidents of domestic violence is something to be welcomed, writes Adam Drummond.Between April and December last year, a total of 720...
View ArticleWe only have a smidgeon of widgeon
The snow was “pirling” away last Sunday as I embarked on another monthly wildfowl count. The sky was both laden and leaden, and as a much heavier fall threatened, I quickened my pace round my three...
View ArticleProactive approach results in increase in stop and searches
PROACTIVE policing in the Scottish Borders has resulted in a huge increase in the number of stop and searches carried out.A total of 829 stop and searches for drugs were undertaken in the local area...
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