Road maintenance firm BEAR Scotland this week pledged to repair badly-deteriorated red surface on the A7 near Parkdaill “at the earliest suitable opportunity”....
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Scott Drummond – the longest-staying Covid patient in Borders General Hospital after spending over 200 days there – is “overwhelmed” to receive vital physiotherapy, thanks to Teries’ generosity....
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Local restaurant Adam’s Kitchen is celebrating after winning the town’s best Christmas window competition for the third time....
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Concerns have been raised over the “shocking” state of the town’s new flood walls in Buccleuch and Victoria roads....
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Scottish Borders Council is to carry out “checks” on the condition of trees in the Wellfield/Havelock Bank area amid ongoing safety issues....
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Dog owners are being warned about a canine faeces-related virus – requiring veterinary treatment running into hundreds of pounds – following a “very worrying increase” in the amount of dog mess in Hawick....
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A Teri’s interest in photography from an early age led to him developing a successful business in the town for almost four decades....
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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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