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ISSUE No.402
A fight which began more than four years ago to ensure dementia patients in Hawick received day care support ended last Friday with the opening of a brand-new unit at the community hospital....
Plans to permanently close the Wilton Centre by the end of June received full support from councillors earlier this week and will now go to public consultation. The move was unanimously backed by Scottish Borders Council’s education sub-committee on Monday....
Denholm endometriosis sufferer Hannah Marshall has thrown her weight behind a local MSP’s new “policy paper” on the debilitating disease. Holyrood parliamentarian Rachael Hamilton says it is a “horrific condition”, and highlighted that, on average, it takes more than eight years for a diagnosis, despite one in ten women in Scotland living with it....
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ISSUE No.401
A call has gone out to the UK and Scottish governments to “demonstrate real commitment” to extending the Borders Railway to Hawick and on to Carlisle. Issuing the plea was Councillor Watson McAteer following last Thursday’s meeting with the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop....
Brian Hegarty first played for Hawick in 1968/69 and turned out in some sevens’ tournaments for the Greens at the end of that season. His first sevens trophy wins came in the autumn of 1969 at Earlston and Selkirk, aged just 18....
The allotments site in Weensland is not back up and running for this year’s growing season, despite Scottish Borders Council being “fully aware” that it need to be operational before now....
Recent statistics show that the number of high school students entering further and higher education, training, or employment is at its highest level in five years, and well above the national average. Figures released by Scottish Borders Council reveal that 95.8 per cent of high school leavers went on to a “positive destination” last year....
Six Hawick lads, employed by Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame, embarked on a clean-up of their home town on Monday. The company is a division of Barratt Developments, which is promoting a ‘Big Barratt Cean-Up’ this month, encouraging employees to go litter-picking in their local communities....
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ISSUE No.400
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ISSUE No.399