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    The Hawick Paper

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    ‘Shocking’ state of town roads

    Friday, January 6th, 2023

    Mansfield Gardens residents will have to wait until the end of the year before permanent repairs to the pothole-infested road are carried out....

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    It has been a whirlwind festive period for rising Hawick duo Western End....

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    ‘Miracle’ man’s thanks

    Friday, December 30th, 2022

    After receiving life-saving treatment, Kevin White vowed to fund-raise for Borders General Hospital in a bid to go some way towards repaying the “amazing” professional care he received as a patient....

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    Pulling down the Buccleuch Mill building in Green Lane will have a major impact on the town’s landscape, the local ward councillor claimed this week....

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    Retirement shout for firefighter

    Friday, December 30th, 2022

    It was feared that Grant Harris, who retired on Friday after more than 28 years as a firefighter, had “perished” in a massive blaze in Edinburgh, the 55-year-old recalled this week....

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    Borders Green Team volunteer Elliot Ballantyne has been presented with a special wood sculpture from group members in recognition of his exceptional charity fund-raising efforts over the years....

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    Powering up a storm response

    Friday, December 30th, 2022

    The Hawick area is to get three portable generators for use during power cuts. They are part of a batch of 15 to be purchased and distributed by Scottish Borders Council (SBC) among communities....

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    Great Escape lands £15,000

    Friday, December 23rd, 2022

    A six-week £15,000 crowdfunding campaignto maintain Escape Youth Services was achieved earlier this week, providing the best possible Christmas present for the hundredsof youngsters benefitting from the five-night-a-week provision.Staff revealed the news to members at their Christmas parties on Tuesday, leaving the youngsters jumpingfor joy, while manager Sian Snowdon said she had been “humbled” by […]


    The town’s knitwear and textiles industry has been given a big shot in the arm with news that Borders College’s Hawick campus is to deliver a new training programme....

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    Regeneration roaring ahead at ex-Lib Club

    Friday, December 9th, 2022

    Work on the former Liberal Club building should be finished by February, it was revealed this week....

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    120m Priesthaugh met masts get thumbs-up

    Friday, December 9th, 2022

    The building of two temporary meteorological masts – up to 120 metres in height – near Priesthaugh were this week approved by councillors....

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    Tenant trouble fears ignited

    Friday, December 2nd, 2022

    Residents in an ongoing battle over disturbances at a property in the Fisher Avenue area have reached the end of their tether following a fire there at the weekend....

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    Teries are this week mourning the loss of Pearl Dalgliesh, a hairdresser in the town for more than four decades....

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    The Frouds in Hawick have a special interest in the World Cup in Qatar with a member of the family, Finn, having been selected as one of the ball boys for the tournament....

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    There are only five Scottish-born Nobel Prizewinners still alive today and Hawick High was privileged to have two of them, both former pupils, as guests at the school on Tuesday afternoon....

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    Knitwear workers’ cost-of-living relief

    Friday, November 25th, 2022

    In a bid to ease the cost-of-living crisis, every employee at Johnstons of Elgin has received a much-appreciated boost to their wages over the last three months....

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