Festive fund-raiser Dianne Murphy has raised £1,320 for Action Medical Research, after another year which saw townsfolk opting to donate cash instead of sending Christmas cards....
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Land at Hornshole is about to be entrusted to the Common Good Fund – a move described as “a lovely Christmas present to the town”....
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Concerns have been expressed over plans for a water turbine generator in the River Teviot. A planning application has been submitted by the Hawick Community Energy Group for what is known as an Archimedean Screw on land at the Cauld. The bid has been lodged in conjunction with the Hawick Flood Protection Scheme....
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Following cutbacks to essential services, the £9.6million purchase of Lowood Estate by Scottish Borders Council has angered many of the town’s councillors....
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The town’s youth theatre group has been handed an early Christmas present ahead of April’s eagerly anticipated production of The Sound of Music....
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The Salvation Army has welcomed a donation of food worth more than £200 from big-hearted gas company workers and bosses....
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The head teacher of Hawick High School heaped praise on senior pupils for being a “credit” to the town, following their dance last Friday night....
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The pupils of Wilton Primary School performed a hugely popular Christmas show to four sell-out audiences last week. The Wilton Express, which is based around a small girl starting to lose festive spirit, was written several years ago by acting head Martin Wilson. ...
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Heads Together, the local brain injury charity, has so far secured more than £50,000 in a bid to safeguard its future in the town....
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The fallout from Councillor Neil Richards’ decision to snub his fellow local members and vote for Galahiels to be given priority over Hawick for a new secondary school continues to reverberate around the town....
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Poundstretcher is set to return to the town, when the discount store will take over the Victoria Road premises occupied by The Original Factory Shop, after it closes in January....
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Hawick Reivers Festival has been awarded a £3,000 cash boost from the Common Good Fund, following what was, at times, a heated debate at Tuesday’s meeting....
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“I would do it again in a heartbeat.” The words of mum of three, Stacey Sanderson, who earlier this week donated bone marrow just a year after registering as a potential donor....
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A pensioner has been accused of causing a vehicle collision and then driving off in an alleged road rage incident....
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Only seven months after the retiral of Rev. Douglas Nicol as minister of Hobkirk and Southdean linked with Ruberslaw Parish Church has a new minister....
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Santa dropped in on Burnfoot last Thursday afternoon, just in time for the estate’s Christmas lights switch-on by Councillor Stuart Marshall....
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