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ISSUE No.508
For all those involved with Hawick Royal Albert, more than 50 years of waiting on championship glory came to a joyous end on Tuesday. Last winning a league title in 1973/74, back when there was just one East of Scotland League, they were finally champions again....
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The countdown to this year’s Common-Riding has started with hundreds of supporters descending on Cavers on Wednesday on a cool but dry night. Halberdier Keith Douglas-Hogg, escorted by the Drums and Fifes, delivered the all-important letter from Provost Clair Ramage inviting Joseph Jordan Nuttall to be Hawick’s 308th Cornet....
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Councillors have voiced frustration and cautious optimism after Scottish Borders Council told us it had pushed back the decision on the proposed McDonald’s drive-thru in Commercial Road to June 20....
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Five Hawick Kettlebell Sport athletes will represent Scotland at the European Championships in York next weekend. The all-female quintet of Laura McColm, Lesley-Anne Grieve, Jenny Nichol, Diane Keddie and Bronwyn McGeorge will battle it out against some of Europe’s top kettlebell lifters at the International Union of Kettlebell Lifting (IUKL) three-day event....
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ISSUE No.507
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ISSUE No.506
The result was not what anybody wanted, but playing at Murrayfield in front of a record crowd on Saturday was a “moment in history” that Lana Skeldon “will never forget”. Before the weekend’s 84-7 defeat to world champions England in round two of the Women’s Six Nations, Scotland women’s record rugby home crowd was 7,774...
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Riversdale Mills at Mansfield Square has become “a regular haunt for drug users”, according to a local source who spoke to the paper. The Hawick Paper understands that the long-derelict building is being regularly frequented by those seeking illicit substances, with the dangerous condition of the old factory making unauthorised entry particularly hazardous....
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Denholm’s up-and-coming scrum-half Hector Patterson says it feels “incredibly special” to have signed his first professional contract with Edinburgh Rugby. The former Jed Thistle youngster made his first steps in senior rugby back in 2022/23 when he helped Hawick win the Premiership title....
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The Sandbed Launderette, one of the town’s best-known and long-established businesses, is up for sale. Proprietor Betty Renwick, who turned 80 in February, has decided to hang up her iron stating “it was a big decision, but the time is now right”....
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The final sections of the town’s £12million active travel network (ATN) are set to be brought into use next Friday. Two seating areas on the north side of the James Thomson Bridge, and an outdoor gym area to the rear of B&M Bargains in Croft Road, will see Heras fencing removed and be open to...
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ISSUE No.505
