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Galashiels audience in for a tuba treat from leading...
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Cancer charity therapists making a real difference
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First adventure festival a Muckle success
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Courting trouble for the Borders
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Schmallenberg vaccine expected by summer
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Osprey chick in Tweed Valley screen debut
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Pipe dreams come true for Jethart Callant Ramsay
News
New egg plant jobs boost
Up to 30 full-time jobs could be created at a pasteurised liquid egg processing plant near West Linton.
No monkey business over zoo poster for Gala student
There was no monkeying around for Galashiels art student Alistair Kerr when it came to designing a poster for Edinburgh Zoo.
‘Peruse it or lose it’, pen local writers facing arts cuts
Border writers’ group The Eildon Tree stands to lose their decade-old, free magazine, unless readers feedback to St Mary’s Mill arts service.
Galashiels audience in for a tuba treat from leading light Les
Galashiels Town Band’s spring concert will be held on May 25 in the Volunteer Hall, starting at 7.30pm.
Cancer charity therapists making a real difference
In the latest in our series marking the 10 years of The Lavender Touch, we focus on the work of therapists
Business forum says voice will be heard loud and clear
COMPANY bosses have formed a new organisation that will be used to make their voices heard.
Sport
Kelso Races are putting on the style for final meeting
High fashion and quality racing combine for Kelso’s final meeting of the season on Sunday when Ladies’ Day boasts an exciting seven-race card.
Bike ace Peat rolls in to Peebles
The world’s most successful downhill mountain biker will be at the Tweedlove cycling festival in Peeblesshire next week.
Goodbye Goody as Jed rain on sevens parade
There was joy for both Melrose and Jed-Forest last weekend as one of the closest Kings of the Sevens competitions for many a year came to a conclusion.
Hawick rugby stalwart Robin Charters dies
HAWICK international centre and SRU past president Robin Charters died this week at the age of 82.
Lifestyle
First adventure festival a Muckle success
More than 600 competitors took part in Langholm’s first Muckle Toon Adventure Festival at the weekend.
We’ve been enjoying a pint for longer than you may think
A bevy of foragers will ramble deep into the Teviot Valley on June 1-2, hunting for wild plants to flavour six new beers by the Scottish Borders Brewery.
Health chief admits error over Jed pool
Borders health chiefs jumped the gun in issuing a statement that gave the impression a new hydrotherapy pool at Jedburgh was a done deal.
Time to shed that macho image, Mr Entwistle
HOW do you measure the success of a smallholder? By how much they manage to produce to feed their family each year? By how many gallons of pea-pod burgundy they can make? By how many acres they have?
Maxton granddad’s baby charity hike
RETIRED scientist Tom Veitch will start to walk the Pennine Way for charity later this month.
Community
Clues sought in Kelso stained glass mystery
A probe has been launched in Kelso to try to uncover the
The burning questions
It may not be everybody’s way of spending a Sunday but the man who oversees the only crematorium in the Borders is confident his first open day will be a success.
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Pipe dreams come true for Jethart Callant Ramsay
Jedburgh hailed Garry Ramsay as the 2013 Jethart Callant outside its courtroom on Friday, before he made history by opening the Jubilee Fountain.
Water water – but not a drop to drink
Hope sprang at last for Jedburgh folk, as the Market Place’s Jubilee Fountain finally flowed with water after four years of repairs, and decades running dry.
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Saturday 25 May 2013
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