Alzheimer Scotland is the latest charity to receive a cash boost from the annual Hizzy Run. The event, now in its 16th year, raised almost £3,000. The good cause is the 14th to benefit from the run in memory of motorbike legend Steve Hislop. Steve’s mum Margaret said: “Alzheimer Scotland was a charity we hadn’t...
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Funding for the town’s eagerly anticipated pump track at Wilton Lodge park has received a welcome £200,000 boost from Scottish Borders Council. The exciting project – costing an estimated £300,000 – is now another step closer towards being installed with funding expected to be completed by next year....
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Fresh concerns over “abandoned” allotments have been expressed, amid a claim that around two-thirds of plots in the town are not being looked after. The issue, which first came to light in August, has prompted Councillor Clair Ramage to call for stricter rules on renting the land. She also visited the Wilton Park Road allotments...
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A property on the High Street is a “hazard to the public” and causing an ongoing headache to owners of neighbouring flats....
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A more proactive approach is being called for to address a growing trend of discarded drugs paraphernalia in the town....
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Lauren Scott, a hairdresser from Hawick, recently returned from a trip of a lifetime, where she helped teach hairdressing to disadvantaged youngsters in the Philippines....
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The mother of an Ex-Cornet has become the district’s oldest lady, after celebrating her 105th birthday last week. Dorothy McCrerie, whose son Charlie led the Common-Riding in 1975, was the toast of Bonchester Bridge Care Centre last Friday when she reached the remarkable milestone....
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To mark the finish of the five-year Wilton Lodge Park regeneration project, parting gifts were presented to events manager Gordon Webber and volunteer co-ordinator Lisa Brydon at a recent barbecue at the Walled Garden....
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Facing driving rain and gale force winds in the recent 12-hour Osprey Challenge mountain bike event was “nothing”, says charity fund-raiser Colin Spalding, compared to the fight his niece Emma Clarke is facing as she battles bowel cancer....
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To commemorate her father’s centenary as Cornet, a retired minister is planning an emotive visit to next year’s Common-Riding, and will stay at his birthplace. Ann Winning is the daughter of 1919 Cornet Thomas Girdwood Winning, who was born at Branxholme Knowe....
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Girls’ Brigade groups from around the town joined forces for a special event to mark the organisation’s 125th birthday. A total of 136 youngsters, comprising the three Hawick companies as well as a Galashiels contingent, attended last Saturday’s celebratory afternoon at Burnfoot Community Hub....
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First year science pupils at Hawick High have been learning about how the eye and spectacle lenses work, thanks to a visit from local optometrist Lee Street.
One hundred years ago to the day, October 3, 1918, Major William F. Beattie MC, the sculptor of the 1514 Memorial, was killed in the First World War. On Wednesday night this celebrated son of Hawick was remembered in a procession along the High Street to his iconic masterpiece in Central Square. Welcoming a gathering...
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A Hawick woman has received an apology from NHS Borders after doctors at Borders General Hospital failed to diagnose her late husband’s stroke, as well as for the standard of nursing care he received. Having initially been admitted with pneumonia, an investigation later discovered that doctors had failed to recognise he had had a stroke....
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Now you can relive this year’s festivities all over again with the release of a Hawick Common-Riding highlights DVD.
Young Jack Halliday fought off strong competition to win an art competition designed to promote the campaign to extend the Borders Railway link from Hawick to Carlisle....
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