A Hawick exile who recently featured on the Helicopter ER television programme admitted that watching the footage back for the first time was a “real lump-in-the-throat-time moment”....
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One of the local textile industry’s most weel-kent faces has retired after 43 years in the business....
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A three-month road closure along the riverside from Martin’s Bridge to Wilton Park Road is set to impact local residents with diversions causing increased travelling times....
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The parents of toddler Flora Gentleman celebrated very special New Year chimes last Friday when the four-year-old rang her ‘end-of-treatment’ bell at the Sick Kids’ Hospital in Edinburgh....
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Burnfoot Community Council is to take action to clear an unsightly and dangerous path. The route, which links Queen’s Drive to Kenilworth Avenue, previously attracted headlines due to an overgrown hedge, but now the issue is related to discarded rubbish, including broken bottles....
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A fabric donation from a local business is helping weave new challenges into a school fashion course....
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A Hawick mum this week recalled her traumatic teenage years as a family member “lost everything” because of drink and drugs....
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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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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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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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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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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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