“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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Hawick woman Leah Chapman’s brave battle with Multiple Sclerosis inspired her partner and his family to get on their bikes for charity on Sunday....
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Brain injury charity Heads Together faces raising £65,000 by the end of the year to secure its popular Dovemount Place base. Run entirely by volunteers, the charity has been at its current location since it was founded in 2010....
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McCulloch’s Seafood shop at 29 High Street has shut....
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With travellers arriving at lower Mansfield and the Wee Haugh over the summer, the potential for the town as a designated camp site has raised emotive discussion. Lower Mansfield was first mooted some years ago under Roxburgh District Council, and there is already a designated camp-site at Innerleithen....
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An estimated 250 bikers are expected to roar through Hawick on Sunday as part of the annual run in memory of late superbike champion, Steve Hislop....
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Reports that tenants have been secured for the new industrial units at Galalaw Business Park have been quashed by Scottish Borders Council. There has, however, been “good interest” expressed by several companies, the local authority told us this week....
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Frustrations are growing following the latest episode of antisocial behaviour to the rear of the Howegate. Local hair stylist Kev Sykes, who works at D’Fine Hair Sudio, was horrified last Thursday to discover a discarded syringe on a wall to the rear of the flats leading towards Buccleuch Street....
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Traders have welcomed a police blitz on motorists who flout town centre parking regulations, but say that more needs to be done to save the High Street. Local officers teamed up with the new Community Action Team on Friday to tackle drivers who park illegally and affect business in the shops. And although the operation...
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Police have no plans to deploy mobile CCTV or a police vehicle in Burnfoot, despite calls for both following a worrying spate of vandalism. Councillor Stuart Marshall was confident it would act as a viable crime deterrent....
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An appeal to erect 12 turbines on Harwood Estate has been endorsed by the Scottish Government. The proposal by Leeds-based Energiekontor Ltd, was initially rejected by Scottish Borders Council and was backed by 54 objections, against 30 in support. The initiative was also opposed by the area’s community councils – Denholm, Hawick, Hobkirk, Newcastleton, Southdean...
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New road safety measures have been implemented at the “dangerous” Baker Street junction with Teviot Road....
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Hawick councillors Watson McAteer and Stuart Marshall have today (Tuesday 21st August) left Scottish Borders Council’s ruling administration.
