Rowan Boland Trust grants
The Rowan Boland Memorial Trust has stumped up £400 to help Galashiels cricketer Caitlin Ormiston travel with Scotland under-17s.The 17-year-old Gala Cricket Club member is part of the age-group squad...
View ArticleHot to trot as sun shines on Melrose festival
Prayers seem to have been answered in Melrose that the recent glorious summer weather continues for this week’s festival.Warm and sunny conditions saw large crowds of spectators and big numbers of...
View ArticleTeam honours for Tara and Danielle
Borders golf duo Tara Mactaggart and Danielle Ker lifted the Scottish Schools Team Golf Championship at Murrayshall, near Perth, last weekend.Both aged 17 Tara (Minto) and Danielle (Roxburghe) won by...
View ArticleSure footed Moorfoot take national silver
COMPETING at the Scottish National Relay Championships at Grangemouth on Sunday, the Moorfoot Under-14 Girls team brought home silver medals.Drawn in the last of three heats, in the 3x800m, against hot...
View ArticleHarriers head for Hollybush
The annual handicapped Gala Harriers Hollybush 10k is always a popular club event, and this year 35 Harriers and two guests competed over the 6.2 miles course from the Academy up to the Rink Farm and...
View ArticleElusive sprint victory for Gala flyer Stanners
Galashiels runner Angus Stanners has appeared in a few finals in the open athletic scene, although victory has always eluded him.In the sunshine, heavy rain and swirling winds at Selkirk Common Riding...
View ArticleSpare a thought for the East League says Purves
An emergency general meeting of the East of Scotland Football League has been called following the loss of nine member clubs to the new 12-team Lowland League.With just five clubs left in the Premier...
View ArticleDrug habit led to crime ‘rampage’
A son who stole his father’s Christmas money was jailed for 12 months at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday.Andrew Clamp, 20, committed the £150 theft following a Christmas Day celebration at his father’s...
View ArticleTeenager taken to BGH after street attack
A 16-year-old was heard screaming and crying after being attacked in the street.The assault happened after the victim laughed when Claire Condie shouted to get her “some glow”.Condie, 24, of Blair...
View ArticleCross Kirk Warden Malcolm draws Beltane parable with God’s party
This year’s March Riding and Beltane Queen Festival at Peebles began as it has done for seven decades in the open air ruins of an ancient church.Sunday’s service saw the Reverend Malcolm Jefferson...
View ArticleFood literacy is key for future
Reports such as “Eight out of 10 children don’t know milk comes from cows” or “Six out of 10 children think bananas grow in Britain” are familiar enough, emphasising the ever-increasing disconnection...
View ArticleUnion leaders press Scotland’s case
Scottish farming leaders met Defra minister Owen Paterson last week to press the case for Scotland in the final lead-in to CAP reform decisions being made. NFU Scotland president Nigel Miller and other...
View ArticleGood health as Cornet and Lass are installed
Health worker Daniel Williamson found the perfect prescription for happiness last night when he was installed as Peebles Cornet.Also installed was Cornet’s Lass Susan Thomson, a fellow health worker at...
View ArticleBook for a decade of Tweed ospreys
The Tweed Valley Ospreys Project (TVOP) is 10 years old this year. And Friends of Kailzie Wildlife has won Awards for All cash to create a book about the work with Innerleithen schoolchildren the same...
View ArticleHow wooden windows can be a good investment
Get those jobs done with a little help from DIY guru Julia Gray. This week: how to improve the performance and value of wooden windows.Many period properties (as well as some modern ones) were built...
View Articlesomething old, something new
Old has never been more in vogue, and giving a home a vintage feel is bang on trend. Gabrielle Fagan digs out two crafty projects to conjure up the bygone era.If you’re secretly yearning to give your...
View ArticleGrahame defends vote to close her local courtroom
Christine Grahame has defended her vote to close Peebles Sheriff Court and nine others in an interview with The Southern.In a debate in Parliament in February 2012, the Midlothian South, Tweeddale and...
View ArticleRodgerson holds his nerve in special year for Selkirk
There was 500 years of history weighing on Martin Rodgerson’s shoulders, as well as a family tradition ingrained in the Common Riding.Five centuries since the Battle of Flodden and Fletcher’s show of...
View ArticleBorders justice for people – not places
Well, I’m taking a bit of stick for a vote which will see Peebles Sheriff Court sittings end in 2015.The courthouse proper closed years ago. Of course what I had to vote for was the ending of sittings...
View ArticleTime for bit more of ‘can do’ spirit
Pumping more than £3million into the local economy and attracting over 13,000 people, the Borders Book Festival is a truly world class standard event.The Southern was once again proud to be a media...
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