Following a secret ballot, Councillor Neil Richards has replaced Stuart Marshall as chairman of Teviot and Liddesdale Area Partnership. Also taking up a new post is Councillor George Turnbull who becomes chairman of the Police, Fire and Rescue, and Safer Communities Board, a position previously held by Watson McAteer....
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A book as a guide to many of the most important and exciting heritage sites in the Borders, Borders Tales and Trails, was launched last month at the Borders Textile Towerhouse....
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Townsfolk will be aghast to learn that the grass at six sites in the town, thought to include the bankings at the Morrisons roundabout and Sleepy Valley, may not be cut at all this year....
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Teries who attended the high school from 1949 and for about the next ten years will remember principal history teacher A. D. Cameron who died in Edinburgh last month....
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The campaign to extend the Borders Railway was given significant backing earlier this week....
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A Denholm man was among almost 20 people who attended a civic reception at Scottish Borders Council headquarters to mark Merchant Navy Day. Ian Thompson, of Denholm, racked up 44 years in the Merchant Navy, before retiring three years ago....
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Police have been called to three incidents at Hawick High since the new term started last Tuesday, it has emerged....
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Axing a rural bus service will have a devastating effect on isolated users in the local community, according to a local councillor. Watson McAteer says he is “shocked” by the news that the Craik/Roberton/Hawick bus route will cease in just over a month’s time. He is also angered that the decision to remove the service...
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Teries and bikers braved the rain on Sunday to ensure that the 16th annual Steve Hislop Memorial Run was a roaring success. Villagers in Denholm were out in force to support the popular outing, which this year headed south through Langholm – and despite numbers being less than expected due to the rain, it did...
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Hundreds of visitors are expected to descend on Hawick this weekend for the start of the 24th Scottish Borders Walking Festival. Last held in the town in 2011, the event – which gets under way on Sunday and runs until next Saturday, September 8 – is likely to provide a huge boost to the local...
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Hawick Callants’ Club is seeking approval from the Wilton Lodge Park stakeholders’ group and other interested parties, for the siting of a memorial in the park honouring the Scottish soldiers who fought and those who gave their lives in the First World War Battle of Passchendaele in 1917....
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The Hawick branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland is to stage a Drumhead Service next month as a commemoration of the Armistice of 1918. The religious service, which will be held in the Haugh on Sunday, September 16, at 2pm, is designed to provide a short period of communal reflection to remember the peace...
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“It was undoubtedly one of the toughest, but best experiences of my life,” is how Scocha singer Dave Chapman summed up his Ben Nevis night hike on Saturday night....
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Friends and family of breast cancer survivor Julie Given joined her for a two-mile open water swim at Loch Lomond last weekend as part of the Great Scottish Swim....
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This year’s fireworks display at Mansfield Park is set to go with an even bigger bang thanks to a £2,00o grant from Hawick Common Good Fund. The inaugural event last November attracted more than 2,000 spectators and organiser Ian Middlemass told last Tuesday’s Common Good Fund meeting in the lesser town hall that he hoped...
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Two local councillors have branded it “ridiculous” that they’ve been thrown out of Scottish Borders Council’s ruling administration. Stuart Marshall and Watson McAteer are in no doubt that their decision to leave the independent alliance plus their unremitting resolve to do their best for Hawick led to their shock dismissal on Tuesday morning. ...
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