A campaigner seeking to safeguard the future of a day care service for the elderly – suspended due to lockdown – has taken some encouragement from a meeting with Scottish Borders Council (SBC)....
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Project director updates paper on £88million Hawick’s “much-needed” flood defence scheme is taking shape, with “dramatic progress” promised throughout 2021. Speaking exclusively to The Hawick Paper earlier this week, project director Conor Price highlighted ongoing work on the £88million scheme, while underlining that it was “on track” to be completed “by late 2023”....
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Despite the huge disappointment of having to cancel the Common-Riding, the committee has pledged to take the virtual celebrations “to another level”....
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Potholes continue to plague the region’s roads, with one at Victoria Road described as “one of the biggest” in recent times....
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Plans are afoot to establish a “No Cold Calling” zone in the town’s Wellington Court....
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The Angling Club is in a tangle with the council over its latest attempt to install new windows....
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Plans to install a new heating system at a well-used leisure facility now hinge on the outcome of a bid to Scottish Borders Council’s community fund....
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Steps to curtail recurrent speeding in the Denholm area must be implemented to “keep residents safe.”...
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Teviot and Liddesdale Community Assistance Hub has “revolutionised the way Scottish Borders Council is working with partner agencies and volunteers during this terrible Coronavirus pandemic” according to the town’s provost....
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Wallace Shaw, a ‘weel-kent’ face in Hawick for more than a decade in the 1960s and early 1970s, passed away on Hogmanay. He was 80....
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Unearthing an old photograph has stirred great memories of a royal visit to the town by the Queen prior to her reign....
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A Common Good-owned painting worth up to £50,000 is set to be restored with a view to then loaning it back to the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)....
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Plans to create a sluice facility for campervans at the Common Haugh are to be “further investigated” and costs sought, it was heard at last week’s Common Good Fund Sub-Committee. ...
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Bonchester Bridge Care Centre has been given until the middle of next month to make improvements after “serious concerns” were raised by inspectors....
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The Common-Riding has been cancelled for the second consecutive year, following advice from Scottish Borders Council on the Covid-19 guidelines....
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Hawick’s GP surgeries are hoping more vaccine doses will be delivered today (Friday) in their bid to inoculate all over-80s in the town against coronavirus as quickly as possible....
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