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Borders Book Festival set to open with Sir Jackie Stewart in pole position

Entertainment

Ryan Nixon - June 14, 2022

THE BORDERS Book Festival opens its doors this week with motorsport icon Sir Jackie Stewart, OBE opening the four-day event. Sir Jackie will appear at the...

Borders Book Festival set to return with host of popular names

Entertainment

Ryan Nixon - May 9, 2022

THE BORDERS Book Festival is set to return for the first time in three years, with organisers eager to welcome a host of well-known...

Scots veteran inducted into rugby club’s hall of fame after attending 80th annual sevens festival

News

Darren McConachie - April 14, 2022

A SCOTS veteran has been inducted into his rugby club’s hall of fame after attending his 80th annual sevens festival. Jack Dun first attended the...

Beware of the Borders as care homes celebrate Halloween

Community

Roderick Holly - October 27, 2021

FOUR Borders care homes have celebrated Halloween with their own parties in traditional frightening fashion. Mansfield Care’s Galahill House in Galashiels, St John’s in Melrose,...

NFU boss hits out at “catastrophic” lynx plan

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - April 30, 2015

A spokesman for the National Farmers Union Scotland has hit out at plans for the reintroduction of the lynx into the Scottish countryside. Rob Livesey,...