A series of window-smashing vandal attacks and thefts at a Borders school over the summer holidays have devastated staff, pupils and parents, it has emerged.
Senior school pupils opening their exam results on Tuesday have been commended for helping to paint a picture of consistent achievement across most subjects.
A supermarket manager who makes videos of the Scottish Borders in his spare time has discovered the remarkable outline of the massive Roman fort at Trimontium, near Melrose, uncovered due to drought conditions.
Scottish Borders Council’s children and young persons’ service is spending £8.5m a year repaying historic debts generated by private-finance deals, latest figures reveal.
It’s still two years until the Great Tapestry of Scotland arrives in Galashiels, but it’s already inspiring Borders youngsters to produce artworks of their own.
Work is now under way on Jedburgh’s intergenerational school campus, and Scottish Government Deputy First Minister John Swinney visited the Hartrigge Park site on Monday to take part in a ground-breaking ceremony.
Work is well under way on Jedburgh’s intergenerational school campus, and deputy first minister John Swinney visited the Hartrigge Park site on Monday to take part in the ground breaking ceremony.
A funding boost of £9,800 has come as music to the ears of young Borderers this week as it secures the extension of their creative music programme for another year.
