Farm thefts warning
Police have urged farmers to secure their properties after thieves targeted various sites in Berwickshire and Lauder last weekend.The attacks on various sites saw a Ford Focus car, diesel fuel, garden...
View ArticleFuture of historic mill in question
The state of one of Selkirk’s oldest mills has been questioned. A planning application by owner Matthew Claridge to turn the derelict Forest Mill into 16 flats and maisonettes is still to be decided,...
View ArticleFired-up Fenton to the four in victory
A bravura all-round performance by Darren Fenton proved the key ingredient in Selkirk’s latest victory in Division Five of the East of Scotland League.The senior Fenton in the Selkirk side has often...
View ArticleMotorcyclist killed in weekend crash
A 60-year-old man became the latest motorcycling fatality on local roads after he collided with a car on the St Boswells road at the weekend.John Southern, from Blyth in Northumberland, was riding with...
View ArticleTwo face jury over fire charge
Glen Douglas, 21, from Ettrick Terrace, and Neil Brown, 19, of Annfield Gardens, Galashiels, have denied conspiring to set fire to a car at Croft Road, Lauder, on September 18. Brown also denies taking...
View ArticleMicro brewery bid in Peebles
A planning application has been submitted for a new micro brewery in Peebles’ South Park Industrial Estate.Richard White of the Freewheelin’ Brewery Company already has planning permission to set up a...
View ArticleGeese gig is no flutter for St Boswells Live!
St Boswells Live! is putting on a ceilidh for the first time in a bid to benefit a local fundraising group.The Wild Geese Ceilidh Band will perform, having played since 1996, including public ceilidhs...
View ArticleExcellence award for organisation
Galashiels-based Volunteer Centre Borders picked up a ‘Committed to Excellence Award’ at the Scottish Awards for Business Excellence, which are organised by Quality Scotland.“Our strengths as an...
View ArticleGardens to host 2014 Games festival
DAWYCK Botanic Gardens will provide the setting for events taking place as part of the nationwide Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games cultural programme, which was unveiled this week.During summer 2014,...
View ArticleHawick’s Hush wins St Ronans Sprint
VETERAN Hawick athlete David Hush proved that silence is golden by winning the top event on the St Ronans Games card yesterday.A beaten finalist in the Jed sprint the previous week Hush showed he was...
View ArticleGroup established in wake of last year’s flooding
LAST summer’s floods in the Borders has prompted 10 Scottish councils and key agencies to join together to plan for extreme weather and the impact of climate change.It is hoped that better planning...
View ArticleSparkling success for cleaning chemical firm
A batch of new contracts has given R.P. Adam an £800,000 boost and will help create new jobs, both at its Selkirk factory and in the field.The agreements mean the firm’s cleaning chemical products will...
View ArticleDemanding times for council finance boss
The council’s chief financial officer has said the local authority is facing increasingly “challenging” financial pressures.David Robertson made the comment in the local authority’s annual unaudited...
View ArticleBorders cricket round-up
It was a good weekend for Borders clubs in the East League. Division One outfit St Boswells won away to struggling side Watsonians 2nds.Gala continued their surge to the Division Two title with a...
View ArticleMarket Prices
woolerAt their weekly Primestock sale last Wednesday John Swan Ltd had forward and sold 1,640 lambs, 19 hoggs and young sheep and 160 ewes.Larger numbers and the heat wave against the sheep trade...
View ArticleBorders families celebrate birth of babies alongside Royal family
Three Borders babies will share their birthdays with the new Prince of Cambridge.The trio of boys were born yesterday morning in Borders General Hospital, just hours before the son of Prince William...
View ArticlePodium place for Easton as Championship heats up
Hawick’s Stuart Easton was hoping for better luck after his disastrous previous round of the British Supersport championship at Snetterton in Norfolk.And he got it.With two races on the 2.4 mile GP...
View ArticleFlood alert warning for Borders with further heavy rain today
The Borders is currently under a flood alert after a night of torrential rain, and thunder and lightning. A spokesman for the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) said: “The initial band of...
View ArticleScout soars in Snowdon international
WHILE the hardy local hill runners were lining up in Victoria Park, at the St Ronan’s Games, ready to endure the rigours of Lee Pen, Moorfoot’s Scout Adkin was toeing the line in Llanberis.The Peebles...
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