A couple have just celebrated 70 years of marriage....
The Queen’s funeral rekindled memories from seven decades ago for Teri Jim Anderson....
On behalf of her late parents, Marina Arnot last week made the journey from Hawick to Westminster Hall to say farewell to the Queen as she lay in state....
Our sadness at this time is shared by people across the globe, as we remember with affection and gratitude the lifetime of service given by our longest-reigning monarch....
With the death of Queen Elizabeth three days previously, the continuing history of the town was played out on Sunday with Provost Watson McAteer reading out the Proclamation of Accession to the throne of King Charles III from the town hall balcony. There was a gathering estimated of several hundred Teries, young and old, in...
Her remarkable input and unwavering support for local opera and drama, spanning half a century, was marked at the weekend when Deborah Lyons was honoured for her service....
A Bonchester Bridge man was on parade before a packed Edinburgh city centre and worldwide TV audience as Scotland bid a final farewell to the Queen. Andrew Lubbock, a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the monarch’s bodyguard north of the border, for more than 20 years was selected for duty at St Giles’...
A Hawick mum whose two 13-year-old children have suffered constant bullying for over a year has accused the high school of failing to take any “effective” action....
The United Kingdom’s new head of state, King Charles, has a keen interest in the local knitwear industry, it was revealed this week. Malcolm Grant, formerly managing director of Scott & Charters when the then Prince of Wales officially opened the Burnfoot factory in 2019, told The Hawick Paper about his recollections of that special...
Former Hawick Quins player Derek Szoneberg is on the mend following a serious injury sustained during Coldstream Civic Week’s Flodden ride last month....
Scottish Borders Housing Association is to plough more than £3million into Burnfoot in the shape of 14 new houses....
After months of delay, Victoria Bridge finally reopened yesterday (Thursday), reconnecting the High Street and Commercial Road....
Endurance runner Bernie Armstrong completed the final leg of his charity triple extra mile challenge on Saturday, raising more than £8,000 so far for three great causes....
A swathe of church buildings in the Hawick area are facing closure. Under a draft mission plan to go before a meeting of the Presbytery of Jedburgh on Wednesday, doors would shut for good at the town churches of St Mary’s & Old Parish and Trinity, with those at Bedrule, Cavers, Minto, Roberton, Southdean and...
Hawick will feature in the national spotlight once again with a global television audience of millions expected to watch stage two of the world-famous Tour of Britain cycle race which starts in the town on Monday....
With the Tour of Britain set to roll into Hawick again, this week was the perfect time for last year’s local schools design-a-cycling-jersey competition winner, Lily Hartop, front centre, of Drumlanrig Primary, and her classmates to thank Barrie Knitwear and cycling clothing company Le Col for their help in judging entries and then producing Lily’s...