Lorry licence suspended after driver admits interfering with tachograph
A JEDBURGH haulage driver who used a magnet to interfere with his vehicle’s tachograph, has had his large goods vehicle licence suspended because of a lack of repute after he admitted falsifying his...
View ArticleJobs boost as £1m textile centre is revealed
FIFTEEN jobs will be created in Hawick with this week’s announcement that textile manufacturer Johnstons of Elgin is opening a new visitor centre at its Mansfield Road factory.The £1million facility,...
View ArticleJed supermarket planning bid is thrown out again
THE prospects of a supermarket being located on industrial land in Edinburgh Road, Jedburgh, were finally extinguished today (Monday).After a 40-minute debate, the planning committee of Scottish...
View ArticleA little puff for year-old beer
SCOTTISH Borders Brewery owner John Henderson marked the first anniversary of his beer business by pulling the pump for its 250,000th pint.One of the country’s few plough-to-pint microbreweries, it...
View ArticleCouncillor urges police to give more public warnings after burglars ransack...
A JEDBURGH area councillor has called on the police to give the public more warnings about crime after he and his wife returned home early on Monday night and disturbed a gang of thieves in the act of...
View ArticleBGH mural offers positive message about mental health
VISITORS and staff at the Borders General Hospital have a visually spectacular reminder that one in four people in the UK will, at some point in their lives, experience mental health problems.That...
View ArticleTree-mendous effort, Amelia!
Lilliesleaf Primary School pupil Amelia Purkis was on the ball when it came to a national competition.For nine-year-old Amelia’s design was chosen from more than 2,000 to be made into the strips worn...
View ArticleTime to see the bigger picture
An agent acting on behalf of a client near Jedburgh wishing to erect two 40metre-high turbines, each capable of generating 50 watts of electricity, on his land just off the A68 south of the town has...
View ArticleTourism boss refutes ‘atrocious service’ claim by wind farm agent
It is not small-scale wind farms which are detrimental to tourism in the Borders, but “atrocious service, poor accommodation and ... the massive litter problem”.That is the publicly stated view of Dr...
View ArticleTurf Talk – Spotlight on Kelso for Morebattle Hurdle
THE north is carrying the torch of national hunt racing, with Musselburgh being the only card on Saturday with their John Smiths Cheltenham trials day.And it’s back to Scotland again tomorrow...
View ArticleCouncillors urged to ‘lead by example’ as SNP demands £1m raid on reserves
A BID will be made today to take £1million out of Scottish Borders Council’s reserves so that work can get under way later this year on a notorious accident blackspot.The challenge will come from the...
View ArticleFamily’s tribute to ‘our special son’
THE congregation attending the funeral of Graham Milroy, pictured, have been asked to wear bright colours to celebrate his life.The service for Mr Milroy, of Torwoodlee, near Galashiels, takes place...
View ArticleMARKET PRICES
ST BOSWELLSAT St Boswells Mart on Monday, John Swan Ltd sold 121 clean cattle, 54 OTM cattle, 2,034 old season lambs and 639 ewes.Bullocks (44) averaged 201.9p per kg (-0.4p on the week). Heifers (75)...
View ArticleNew phase for pig farm project
Quality Meat Scotland has launched the search for a new pig monitor farm as the project moves into a new phase.The latest three-year part of the project, which is being funded by QMS and the Scottish...
View Articleopen country
When I went to the Youth Festival at Iona in 1994 I met Kit. He had come with his friend and his friend’s mother. He was an awkward young teenager. I noticed after the first service in the abbey that...
View ArticleGolf
KELSOWinter 4 Ball-Betterball Stableford: 1, J. Anderson & JRH Taylor 50 points; 2, D. Hirst & H. Patterson 50; 3 equal, T. Pringle & K. Hush, M. Brydon & E. Wilson, G. Welsh & D....
View ArticleHigh Level leap into leadership
WITH only four games to go, the first division of the Borders Pool League remains wide open with High Level beating Waverley A, leap frogging them to go top one point clear, and Ship A moving within...
View ArticleSnooker
Results for the Jean Yule Knockout Cup semi-final: Hawick Burns B 4 Peebles 0; Selkirk A 4 Selkirk B 3.Plate Trophy Final: Hawick Burns A 2 Hawick Con A 4.Draw for the Hawick Burns Club Borders Snooker...
View ArticleBowling
ABBOTSFORDTHE handicap singles competition started last week with the first tie between Craig Riddell and Scott Thompson ending in a convincing win for Riddell.Brian Anderson was also on form, beating...
View ArticlePrimary top ten fight it out
TEN primary school netball teams qualified from their area tournaments to compete for the James McLean Trophy last week.Chirnside, Coldstream, St Peter’s A and B, Newtown, St Boswells, Broughton,...
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