Short back and sides for trees in Peebles
Scottish Borders Council is to carry out work on trees in the Tweed Green and Ninian’s Haugh areas of Peebles from Monday.The project includes pollarding, general pruning and the removal of deadwood...
View ArticleNet gain for Stobo Castle
THE world’s largest travel website has voted Stobo Castle hotel and health spa in Peeblesshire as one of its top destinations.Trip Advisor gets more than 50 million monthly visitors and has more than...
View ArticleBorderers urged to keep their eyes on the African aid ball
A KIRK-LED mission aimed at sending aid to Malawi has raised £8,000 to foot the bill for dispatching a container.And now the Church of Scotland’s Presbytery of Melrose and Peebles is appealing to...
View ArticleLandlines by Halidon
The saying “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” occurred to me when I read that NFU Scotland is going to focus on more effective communication with its 10,000 or so members.At...
View ArticleFarmers warned over deadly slurry gas
“A few breaths and it’s too late: you’re dead,” warns the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) about the dangers of toxic slurry gas killing farmers and their cattle.The new alert was caused by an...
View ArticleBrewis family cleans up at Perth Bull Sales
The Brewis family from Eastfield of Lempitlaw Farm, near Kelso, are celebrating sweeping wins at the Perth Bull Sales in Stirling, with all four of their entires winning a first prize and five-figure...
View ArticleFairtrade Big Brew
BORDERERS are being asked to enjoy a brew in aid of Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs from Monday to March 11.A Big Brew coffee morning is being held in Melrose Corn Exchange on Saturday, March 3, from...
View ArticleCommunity cash on cards if eight turbine wind farm given go-ahead
A WIND farm developer is claiming its eight turbine planning bid between Selkirk and Hawick could generate more than £2 million for the surrounding villages. ABO Wind submitted plans to construct the...
View ArticleSouper recipes for thrifty cooks
Spring Nettle Broth“Three platefuls of this broth was considered the best pick-me-up after a long, cold winter devoid of fresh greens,” writes Catherine Brown. “In some areas families gathered for...
View ArticleOne pot wonder: Scots love affair with soup
While England may be a nation of roasters, the Scots are kings of the big cooking pot. “With typical resourcefulness the Scots have turned their hand to concocting wholesome and flavoursome dishes out...
View ArticleSign language upstaged by apostrophe error
A grammatically-incorrect sign which mysteriously appeared outside a Kelso school is to be removed.The poster, which reads “No Dog’s”, was spotted by Kelso resident Dotty Finlow outside Edenside...
View ArticlePolice appeal over incidents
A POLICE probe is ongoing into a spate of incidents at Innerleithen which have included an assault, fire-raising and vandalism between Tuesday and Saturday of last week.They happened around Leithen...
View ArticleFatal crash witness plea
POLICE have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to a two-car crash in which 24-year-old Graham Milroy, from Torwoodlee, near Galashiels, died.His Citroen Saxo and a black Skoda Octavia collided around...
View ArticlePapal hand of friendship for Borders MP
Borders MP and Scottish Secretary Michael Moore met Pope Benedict XVI during a UK ministerial visit to the Vatican, writes Mark Entwistle.They discussed international issues such as international aid,...
View ArticleTime running out for valley youth hostel
THERE is little hope that Scotland’s oldest youth hostel, situated at Broadmeadows in the Yarrow Valley, will be kept open beyond the summer, unless user numbers can be almost doubled.That was the view...
View ArticleTry this at home: how the Ambrosians fed themselves
James Hogg explains the secrets of a Border dish to his fellow Ambrosian, Christopher North, aka Professor John Wilson...North: May I ask, with all due solemnity, what are rumbledethumps?Shepherd:...
View ArticleMission Marmalade (by Keith Allan)
The single-track road that skirts Ullswater in Cumbria from Pooley Bridge to Sharrow Bay is a bit tricky, even in broad daylight. But when an eerie pea-souper descends, making you drive at a snail’s...
View Article‘Pepper awa, gents’: confessions of an unexpected foodie…
THE poet, novelist and Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg, described aptly by Scots as ‘a man o’ pairts’ and by Wordsworth as “a man of original genius”, lived another life in Scotland as a food celebrity....
View ArticleOBITUARY: Tom Shearer: 1925-2012
Tom Shearer was born at the Astley-Ainsley hospital in Edinburgh on the November 16, 1925. He spent the first 21 years of his life at home with his parents, three brothers and one sister at Hillhead...
View ArticleYetholm Church to reach out with interior facelift
built on the site of the last thatched church in Scotland, Yetholm kirk occupies a location that has been a place of worship for more than eight centuries, writes Mark Entwistle.And tomorrow will see...
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