Borders College wins top staudent awards
THE Borders College prospectus and website were recognised with top awards in the students award category at Scotland’s colleges’ annual marketing awards held in Bridge of Allan, Stirling, recently.A...
View ArticleFather’s complaint over exam dismissed
Two complaints against Scottish Borders Council and the Scottish Qualifying Authority over an exam row at a secondary school have been dismissed.Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Jim Martin said SBC...
View ArticleRiddell-Carre appointed to planning panel
SELKIRKSHIRE councillor Carolyn Riddell-Carre has been appointed to a panel of three illustrious judges for this year’s Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning.Scottish Borders Council’s executive...
View ArticleGreat outdoors inspires inside job
THE great outdoors has always been a profound influence on Jamie Barr – and the young Jedburgh artist is showing off the results of that inspiration in his pre-degree show this week, writes Mark...
View ArticleMentors sought as youth trust lifts award
A CHARITABLE organisation set up in Peebles four years ago to offer mentoring and support to children in Tweeddale has received an accolade, writes Andrew Keddie.The Peeblesshire Youth Trust (PYT) has...
View ArticleFlood cash boost for Galashiels
GALASHIELS is to get almost £3million towards the cost of a new flood protection scheme, it has been announced.The Scottish Government last week revealed that the town, together with Forres and...
View ArticleJames and Nyssa ecstatic after Postcode Lottery wins
A PENSIONER from Cortleferry near Fountainhall is celebrating after scooping the £100,000 first prize in Saturday’s Diamond Draw of the People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL), writes Andrew Keddie.Retired...
View ArticleGreat deal as Kelso graduate sees fledgling internet business boom
RYAN O’Rorke is the last person to have been born in Kelso Cottage Hospital and this particular baby’s already booming when it comes to the internet big time.The business that Ryan, 23, set up in the...
View ArticleThree hurt
THREE men were injured after their car ran off the road near Craigieknowe Farm outside Earlston on Monday. The Vauxhall Zafira left the unclassified road and rolled about 80m down a slope into a field...
View ArticleGala motorists go with the flow
MOTORISTS in Galashiels appear to be adjusting well to a new traffic system introduced this week.“So far, things have gone smoothly,” said a spokesman for Scottish Borders Council yesterday.From 6am on...
View Article‘Step in right direction’ as council declares war on pay day lending...
A LOCAL network of credit union access points may be desirable, but it will come too late for many Borderers already ensnared in the vicious circle of paying the exorbitant compound interest rates...
View Article‘I teach dog and humans to work as a team, rather than the human in charge...
Sandy Neil talks to Tom Middlemas, 61, from Jedburgh, of Arthurshiel Rescue Centre near St Boswells, a trainer of search and rescue dogs for 45 years -– and a man who thinks nothing of taking 24 dogs...
View ArticleVictim Support volunteer appeal
Victim Support Scottish Borders helps people affected by all types of crime through a group of volunteers working directly with victims or supporting them when at court to give evidence. They give...
View ArticleArrest
A 35-year-old man was arrested in Hawick on Monday night and charged with breach of the peace. He was later released after being issued with a fixed penalty ticket.
View ArticleTributes pour in for ‘charismatic’ Colvin
MARIE Colvin, one of the keynote speakers at a literary event in the Borders last year, was “a brilliant and courageous journalist”, writes Andrew Keddie.That tribute to the Sunday Times correspondent,...
View ArticleParker adamant over A7 realignment, despite plea
SCOTTISH Borders Council will not ask Network Rail to consider coming up with an “alternative solution” to a controversial new road layout just north of Heriot.That decision was described as...
View ArticleHMIE gold star for Heriot
Christine Grahame MSP has congratulated Heriot Primary School on its positive inspection report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education.The HMIE report praised the “courteous, motivated pupils”,...
View Article‘Like most teachers I want to make a positive difference to our young people’
IF the Scottish Government’s new Curriculum for Excellence for schools was a ship, it would be an aircraft carrier or super tanker in terms of its scale of importance to teachers and school pupils.And...
View ArticleSmears on backers of Union must end
IT is right and proper that the Scottish people get the chance to vote on whether they wish to see independent status restored to their nation.The latest development in the independence debate involves...
View ArticlePurvis and Grahame clash over Devo Plus plan
DEFEATED at the polls last May after eight years as the Lib Dem MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Jeremy Purvis this week stepped back into the national political spotlight, writes Andrew...
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