Security cameras set to be trained on iconic monument
A VANDAL attack on Hawick’s historic 1514 Memorial, known universally as The Horse, was described by police last November as “difficult to comprehend for local people”.The flag on the landmark statue...
View ArticleBorders financier wins backing of Ibrox old guard for Rangers bid
A BORDERS-BASED businessman is expected to lodge a takeover bid tomorrow for troubled Rangers Football Club.Paul Murray has a home near Abbotsford House and is on the board of governors at St Mary’s...
View ArticleRegenerating Selkirk
SELKIRK residents are being urged to attend a special workshop on regeneration, which is being held in the local high school on Tuesday, starting at 6.15pm.The aim is to update the Selkirk regeneration...
View ArticleTulley wants young blood
A PLEA has been made to the people of Galashiels to stand for the town’s community council.And former town councillor Drew Tulley also believes candidates who reside in Galashiels are needed at the...
View ArticleFormer Haldanes store in Kelso could re-open
THERE is speculation that the Co-op could be set to re-open the former Haldanes supermarket in Kelso’s Roxburgh Street under its own banner.All 50 Haldanes staff lost their jobs in June after receiving...
View ArticleCouncil set to exempt small cultural events from new licensing requirements
SCOTTISH Borders Council is set to head off a potential flurry of protests by agreeing later this month that organisers and host venues of minor entertainment events need not apply for special...
View ArticleNetherdale dog ban call
CALLS have been made to ban dogs from the Netherdale area of Galashiels.Former Scottish Borders Council leader Drew Tulley made the plea at this month’s community council meeting after hearing dog...
View ArticleChanging the climate bit by bit
Two projects in the Borders have been given more than £60,000 under the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund (CCF), writes Mark Entwistle.The cash is part of £6.9million in total being given to...
View ArticleHopes that map’s rivers will once again flow lie with Historic Scotland
MOVES are underway to get the massive three-dimensional relief map of Scotland – created by Polish students in the 1970s in the grounds of a Borders hotel – listed before the establishment is sold to...
View ArticleHolly keeps Earlston’s flag flying high at Palace of Westminster
EARLSTON High School last week continued a remarkable record of success when third-year student Holly Cunningham enjoyed an all-expenses paid trip to London to celebrate coming first in a unique...
View ArticleWoman fined
POLICE issued a fixed penalty fine to a 24-year-old woman after they came across an early-morning disturbance in Channel Street, Galashiels, on Sunday.She admitted breaching the peace.
View ArticleEyesore set to be flushed away
THE plug is to be finally pulled on a block of dilapidated and disused public toilets in Galashiels, writes Kenny Paterson.The loos in the Public Park beside Tweed Road were shut down in the summer of...
View ArticleAccommodation block on TV as university project hits elderly viewers
Elderly residents living in Kingsknowes retirement village, opposite the construction site of the new Heriot Watt student accomodation block in Galashiels, have reported months of disruption to their...
View ArticleJohn’s jobless plight highlights a situation faced by many of our young
Nineteen-year-old John Gotterson of Jedburgh is a trained painter and decorator, and a former Student of the Year at Borders College in Galashiels – just waiting for a local employer to give him a...
View Article3G Arena opening delayed
The official opening of the £1 million 3G Arena Netherdale in Galashiels this Saturday has been cancelled for a second time. The ceremony was previously postponed in November because the...
View ArticleWestminster urged to allow work on local “shovel ready” project to get under way
Christine GRAHAME, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, has written to Scottish Secretary Michael Moore urging him to support a request that would allow work by Historic Scotland to...
View ArticleSouthern shortlisted
YOUR top-selling Borders newspaper The Southern Reporter is in the running for a major award.We have been shortlisted in the Weekly Newspaper of the Year category in the annual Scottish Press Awards....
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with a straight answer?
There are mixed views about Freedom of Information legislation which affords us all the right to quiz public bodies about their affairs to an almost forensic degree. For cash-strapped Scottish Borders...
View ArticleWatchdogs set to get teeth into row over ex-SBC chief’s departure
TWO national watchdogs are to be asked to investigate why senior officers at Scottish Borders Council have refused to divulge information regarding the shock departure last year of chief executive...
View ArticleSummit called as red tape engulfs ridings
CAN common ridings and local festivals in the Borders survive under the welter of bureaucratic requirements organisers must fulfil to comply with legislation driven by health and safety?That is the key...
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