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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.
Local line-up for national festival
Award-winning photographer Laurie Campbell holds a day-long outdoors photography workship near Jedburgh next Sunday.
Borders Book Festival
Giants of fiction set to take centre stage at the festival
There is a mouth-watering selection of the best of British fiction writers on the menu for this year’s Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival.
Borders book festival
Gary Mulgrew says it wasn’t his experiences growing up in a tough, Glasgow area in the 1960s or working as a nightclub bouncer that helped him survive three years behind the bars of some of America’s toughest prisons.
Walking in grandfather’s shoes
HE may have had US president Barack Obama round to his house for dinner and spent time with A-lister singer Tom Waits.
Comment
Camping case for Copshaw capers
I want to start this week by clearing up a mystery. The mystery of the ladder. I like to believe that you were all alert enough last week to be mystified why my humble ramblings about music were accompanied by a photograph of a ladder propped against a wall. The answer is me and modern technology.
Shocked by the ASBO Bambis of Arran
I’m just back from a week on Arran and I’m pleased to report that the snow has gone and the power is back on.
HMRC wins round two of Inheritance Tax battle, ringing alarm bells for those who let
THE Upper Tier Tax Tribunal has considered the criteria for the letting of furnished holiday accommodation to be considered a business, in order to qualify for Business Property Relief from Inheritance Tax (IHT).
Visual signals that rail plan is on track
With each week that passes, there is abundant evidence that the railway is coming closer and closer.
Tea-chest plea in aid of sound cause
Those who know my musical capabilities – and even more so my lack of ability – will realise I have no aspirations to fame on the great scale that is music.
Life
Royal first for Traquair
One of the Great Bard’s most challenging plays will be tackled by promenade theatre group Shakespeare at Traquair.
Equine action in Smailholm
The Kinsman-Blake Gallery in Smailholm presents an exploratory journey into the realms of equine art.
Songs from the south - Swampgass style
A village hall in the far south of the Borders welcomes the sound of the south of the United States of America on Saturday.
Hoot’s Paxton taster
Music at Paxton open their 2013 season with two hour-long Sunday afternoon free concerts, as pre-festival tasters.
Win tickets to The South’s Gala day
The South are on their way to Galashiels and The Southern has a pair of tickets – with the opportunity to meet the band – to give away.
Outdoors
New booklet on Abbotsford walks
WALKS around Abbotsford are the latest subject of the council’s paths booklets series.
Shocked by the ASBO Bambis of Arran
I’m just back from a week on Arran and I’m pleased to report that the snow has gone and the power is back on.
Mammal ID day at Devil’s Beef Tub
IF YOU don’t know your pygmy shrew from any other small furry, Borders Forest Trust’s (BFT) Mammal ID day could be a diary date.
Country diary
SATURDAY, MAY 11 – Wildlife Photography River Walk along the Tweed at Cardrona (KLAWED Project):
A veritable feathered feast was found in my square of the country
It’s not often I’m up before the sun, but last Thursday morning was just such an occasion. Every year I take part in the Breeding Bird Survey, which entails visiting the same 1km square during the bird breeding season and following the same route across it in two different directions, logging all the birds seen or heard on the way.
Food and Drink
Students cook for Mr Roux video
ALBERT ROUX had a surprise for the six students competing for the grand prize of a six-month placement at one of his restaurants.
Bakers boon in Lamancha
‘Breadshare’ in Lamancha has become Scotland’s first all-organic communitysupported bakery.
Fishermen haul almost £250,000
Crabmeat specialists Burgon in Eyemouth have netted £246,208 from the European Fisheries Fund for crab processing facilities and equipment.
A nice trio from Chile, South Africa and Spain
2011 Estevez Cabernet Sauvignon Carmenere Reserva – Aldi – £4.99
Success on the menu for chefs of the future video
SIX trainee chefs from Borders College in Galashiels put their heart and soul into their dishes on Tuesday for a very special diner.
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Weather for Galashiels
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 7 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 3 C to 12 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
Wind direction: West
