The Hawick area is in the vanguard of a huge rise in the number of Covid cases across the Borders....
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An appeal has so far raised almost £2,500 for vital physiotherapy for a local man struck down by Covid. Launched on Christmas Eve, the online fund-raiser has been set up in a bid to help Scott Drummond who is currently confined to a wheelchair and has only limited movement....
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Jill Douglas, one of Britain’s leading sports broadcasters who grew up on the family farm at Howahill, Bonchester Bridge, has been appointed MBE in the New Year Honours List....
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Hawick Common Good Fund has more assets than it thought it had following an inventory of property carried out in order to establish a register of them....
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While many people make a New Year resolution to give up smoking, alcohol or to lose weight, well-known townsman Bernie Armstrong is doing none of these – but instead has pledged to run three ultra marathons in aid of charities close to his heart. There’s one in February, one in April and one in July...
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Connor Tofts began 2022 in the best possible fashion with the news that he has been given the all-clear from leukaemia....
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With Omicron variant cases escalating, the town’s principal Burns suppers will not now take place later this month....
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Persistent rumours that the project to build a hydro-power generator at the Coble Cauld has been abandoned have been branded “unfounded” by Hawick Community Energy Group (HCEG) chairman Andy Maybury....
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About 250 turkeys and a mountain of vegetables were distributed by Burnfoot foodshare group volunteers from the local community hub on Christmas Eve....
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Scottish Borders Housing Association’s (SBHA) Christmas elves were out again last week helping Scottish Borders Council’s Early Years team to drop off Cash for Kids gifts for Hawick children....
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Retired biochemist Jane Cox is standing for the Conservatives in the Hawick and Hermitage ward when voters go to the polls in May to chose the next Scottish Borders Council....
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The father of a cancer-stricken three-year-old this week spoke of his delight at the news she is responding to treatment....
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Tributes have been pouring in following the loss of one of Hawick’s true characters, Ronnie Tait, who died on Christmas Day. He was 85. He was a devoted family man, an avid Common-Riding enthusiast and a founding member of the 1514 Club. He was also a dyed-in-the-wool Hawick Linden man, a much-loved regular at Jock...
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A’ve kent Ronnie Tait frae as fer back as A can mind. Oo were, in fact, fer away related. Ma maist vivid and cherished maimory o’ um’ll aye be accompanyin’ um on the piani in The Hut for verner 30 years....
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A Scottish Borders National Park (SBNP), taking in parts of Liddesdale and the Bonchester Bridge area, could become a reality after the region was identified as one of the potential sites....
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The proposed Border Queen sculpture in the River Teviot could attract “impulse visitors” while “transforming” the area, community councillors were told at this month’s meeting....
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