Foraging grant is no small beer for brewery
The Scottish Borders Brewery is releasing six new beers flavoured by foraged plants in the next 12 months, thanks to £13,000 funding from Scottish ale company Caledonia Best.The project, named Wild...
View ArticlePlanning bids on their own doorstep out of bounds to Kelso councillors
FEARS have been voiced over a bizarre situation that has emerged involving town boundaries at Kelso.It was at last week’s meeting of Kelso Community Council that local Scottish Borders councillor Tom...
View ArticleXmas lights for Selkirk
SELKIRK has been forced to adopt a Heath Robinson approach to the switch-on of its new Christmas lights, writes Kenny Paterson.An Awards for All grant of £8,909 means the Royal Burgh will shine...
View ArticleHaining open day off
THE group behind plans to renovate The Haining house have cancelled an event due to take place on the same day as Scott’s Selkirk.The Haining Charitable Trust had planned to open the house, bequeathed...
View ArticleKaty’s £1,000 concert
AN Ettrickbridge schoolgirl has raised more than £1,000 for Children in Need from a concert and celidh she organised herself.Katy Lowthian, daughter of well-known accordionist Ian, put together the gig...
View ArticlePhemie’s a model finalist
SELKIRK hairdresser Phemie Beattie is one of 50 hopefuls competing in The Model of the Year finals in Norwich tomorrow night.The competition, now in its third year, is run by model and actress Kerri...
View ArticleWork expected to start soon on latest Kelso Square improvements
KELSO town centre is slowly being transformed, with the latest series of improvements expected to begin coming on stream during the next few months.Members of Kelso Community Council last week...
View ArticleSheikh’s falconry plan for Bonchester farm
THE QATARI Royal family could soon be regular visitors to the Borders if planners give the go-ahead to a falconry breeding centre near Bonchester Bridge.Businessman Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Althani hopes...
View ArticleGala go top after gritty display at the Greenyards
Melrose 12 Gala 17PREMIER LEAGUEFiona Scott reports from the GreenyardsIF EVER a team deserved to go top of the Premiership it was Gala following this dogged show of guts and determination.With so much...
View ArticleBAAGS upgrade respite caravan
A BORDERS charity is celebrating after raising enough money to buy a better respite care caravan. Borders Asperger aAnd Autism Group Support (BAAGS) has upgraded its “carer-van” at Berwick-upon-Tweed...
View ArticleKatie’s on song for charity
AN 11-YEAR-OLD Ettrickbridge schoolgirl has helped raise more than £1,000 for Children In Need thanks to a concert she organised herself.Katie Lowthian, daughter of well-known accordionist Ian, put...
View ArticleBGH pool row growing
THE backlash is continuing to grow against any threat to close the hydrotherapy pool at Borders General Hospital, writes Mark Entwistle.It was last week that TheSouthern revealed the threat to the pool...
View ArticleMoffat leads research into redheads
THOUSANDS of Scots have now had their DNA tested by a unique project to discover their earliest origins.The man behind the ScotlandsDNA research initiative, Borders broadcaster and author Alistair...
View ArticleCouncillor promises public meeting over Gala play park fears
A PUBLIC meeting is to be called to discuss plans for a £30,000 play park in Galashiels, after road safety fears were raised.Councillor Bill Herd says he will arrange the meeting within the coming...
View ArticleEvening with Scots Makar delights poetry lovers
After Border writers’ group The Eildon Tree hosted The Scots Makar, Liz Lochhead, at the Heart of Hawick last week, Selkirk-based writer and Eildon Tree co-editor Julian Colton reviews the readings of...
View ArticleSalmon on the menu
PLANS have been approved to turn an empty Ettrickbridge home into a salmon smokehouse and office.The application by Michael Bell received the backing of Scottish Borders Council’s planning department...
View ArticleLocal author’s tale of soldier bear looks set for big screen
HOLLYWOOD movie producers are looking at turning a book by a Borders author on how a bear came to fight as a Polish soldier in some of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, into a big-screen...
View ArticleCouncil to fight Holyrood over proposed court closures
The Scottish Goverment is facing strong resistance in the Borders, with Scottish Borders Council and a firm of local solicitors both against its plans to close Peebles and Duns Sheriff Courts. SBC...
View ArticlePaediatric doctor shortfall fears
EFFORTS are under way to minimise any potential impact on children’s healthcare services in the Borders due to a continuing national shortage of specialist paediatric doctors.The paediatric workforce...
View ArticlePolice believe body discovery is missing man Angus Clyde
POLICE believe they have found the body of missing Traquair man Angus Clyde.The body was discovered yesterday afternoon in dense woodland at Thornielee Forest near Clovenfords.Mr Clyde was last seen...
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