Two local businesses are in the running for prestigious awards. King Cobra Tattoo and Hunters Hair have been nominated by members of the public for the Borders Retail Business Awards, and are invited to attend a glittering ceremony at Peebles Hydro on Sunday, September 30....
Norton Owners’ Club members descended on Hawick on Saturday to visit the statue of motorcycle ace Jimmie Guthrie as part of their weekend stay in the Borders....
A bid to revive the popular Top Teri Awards has been given a timely boost with a £4,000 grant from the Common Good Fund. As we revealed last week, the ceremony, which last ran in 2012, is to be reintroduced by Escape Youth Services. And thanks to the cash windfall, plans are already gathering pace...
Mounting levels of fly-tipping in the local countryside pose a serious risk to both humans and animals, and must be addressed by the council, according to a concerned resident. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, reported bins full of rubbish and “a significant amount of other rubbish” dumped in a lay-by on the Burnfoot...
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....
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....
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....
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....
The campaign to extend the Borders Railway was given significant backing earlier this week....
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....
Police have been called to three incidents at Hawick High since the new term started last Tuesday, it has emerged....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...