Bus 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...
View ArticleGala churches launch food bank
Six Galashiels churches have started a food bank to donate emergency food to cash-strapped families in crisis, covering the areas of Galashiels, Gattonside, Melrose and Tweedbank, writes Sandy...
View ArticlePope’s resignation sparks ‘surprise and shock’
POPE Benedict XVI’s resignation earlier this week has taken the region’s Catholics by surprise.The 85-year-old leader of the Catholic church said in his announcement on Monday that his “strengths due...
View ArticleLocal butchers reaping the benefits of horsemeat scandal
Horses for courses, odds-on menu favourite, lunch on the hoof – the jokes keep on coming in light of the ongoing scandal following the discovery of horsemeat in a number of processed meals.But in...
View ArticleNFU call to get tough on tracking imported meat
CHANGES are needed to tighten up systems which keep track of imported meat, NFU Scotland president Nigel Miller said this week.In his presidential address at the union’s centenary AGM in St Andrews on...
View ArticleWin tickets to Scotland v Ireland at Murrayfield
Caledonia Best, the Official Beer of Scottish Rugby, has teamed up with the SouthernReporter to offer fans the chance to win a pair of tickets to the hotly anticipated Scotland v Ireland clash at...
View ArticleKelso school deep cleaned after four in 10 children were off because of illness
A KELSO primary school was closed for deep cleaning after winter bugs took their toll on the school roll, writes Sally Gillespie.Scottish Borders Council cleaners blitzed the primary earlier this month...
View ArticleReported domestic violence increases
POLICE in the Borders have welcomed an increase in reported incidents of domestic violence.Between April and December last year, a total of 720 incidents of domestic violence were reported to local...
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I HAVE an incurable fondness for old jokes, and one that sprang to mind last week was of about Second World War vintage, relating to the packs of cheap cigarettes dished out to overseas troops.A...
View ArticleMargaret aims to bring in tourists as face of Selkirk’s pop-up shops
Margaret Sweetnam has been appointed Selkirk’s pop-up shop project manager.The Royal Burgh’s Chamber of Trade was awarded nearly £22,000 in January to create about five pop-up shops in the town’s...
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