Crolla cues up second age-group win
SELKIRK snooker ace Patrick Crolla has lifted the 2013 Borders 25-and-under Snooker title for the second time.Playing in his last year of the age group competition, 25-year-old Crolla made his swansong...
View ArticleInnerduro again
FOLLOWING the success of last year’s partnership, Innerleithen MTB Racing and Alpine Bikes are working together again to bring the 2013 Alpine Bikes Innerduro Series to the Borders.This year’s series...
View ArticleCharitable members
THE Hirsel Golf Club Captain’s Charity has donated £1,800 to the Scottish Borders Disability Sports Group.Funds were raised by members, visitors and from a competition held last year for one-armed...
View ArticleAll roads point to Friars Haugh on Sunday
SCOTLAND’S first point-to-point of the season comes under orders on Sunday when the Jedforest Hunt stages its 2013 meeting at Kelso’s Friars Haugh course.With a frozen track at Alnwick forcing the...
View ArticleBorders girls shake off cobwebs in capital victory
Borders 55Edinburgh 28UNDER-17s NATIONAL PERFORMANCE TIERTHE Hirsel Estate Developments-sponsored Borders Under-17 District squad braved the snowy conditions at the weekend to play the third of their...
View ArticleJosh goes the distance
KELSO youngster Josh Abbott was celebrating in the snow on Saturday after lifting the East Lothian Cross-country Championship at Meadowmill Stadium.Josh, 11, is a member of the Gala Harriers club and...
View ArticleUnorthodox curling proves a big hit
THE most recent round of the Agrii Border Curling League took in three games in which Greenlaw defeated Lammermuir 8-4, Yester went 8-5 against Glendale and Swinton stopped Foulden at 6-4, writes...
View ArticleImprovement required from bowlers as Scottish Cup ties loom
LAST week, Tweedbank Indoor Bowling seniors played their last league match of the season away to Portobello.In the past, this fixture has never been an easy one and this was no different. The Tweedbank...
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 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,...
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 ArticleLangholm volunteers set up Muckle new adventure
LANGHOLM is to host a new outdoors festival this spring.The Muckle Toon Adventure Festival (MTAF) in May is being organised by volunteers and is set to boost the town’s under-threat walking...
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