Politics

A Galashiels pub is thinking big as it presses ahead with plans to expand into a neighbouring shop.

Plans by Home Bargains to take over Hawick’s Homebase store would almost double the number of staff employed there, it has been revealed.

The Royal British Legion Scotland club in Galashiels faces having to rethink its Remembrance Sunday plans as council officials are objecting to its licensing application to open its bar earlier.

Potential alterations to Jedburgh’s one-way system have been scrapped by Scottish Borders Council.

Two sets of neighbours have become embroiled in a planning dispute after submitting rival applications to develop sites next to each other’s properties.

The restoration of Hawick’s Wilton Lodge Park is now finally complete after five years’ work and an outlay of £3.64m.

Council chiefs have pledged up to £1.8m to ensure a housing development in Galashiels can go ahead after its projected bill was bumped up by the discovery of asbestos on the site.

The region’s health board has defended its rates of prescriptions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medicines after they were shown to be higher than the national average.

A landmark building in Melrose will no longer stand in splendid isolation if scaled-down plans for a housing development are given the thumbs-up.

The demolition of Galashiels’ Beech Avenue flats is set to go ahead after Scottish Borders Council agreed to part-fund the purchase of the remaining ones in private ownership.

Borders MP David Mundell has threatened to resign over a European Union exit deal set to be signed off by the UK Government as soon as next week.

Selkirk Community Council is looking into the possibility of erecting a statue of William Wallace.

Plans have been drawn up for the demolition of an old department store and church in Hawick to make way for a new business centre.

The state of some of Hawick’s public allotments has been described as “appalling” by one town councillor.

A Scottish Borders Council boss has been arrested and charged by police investigating allegations of serious fraud at a neighbouring local authority.

Border Search and Rescue Unit is drawing plans to move to a new base in a bid to respond faster to emergencies across the region.

A Borders councillor is making it his mission to save the world from global warming, and he’s taking that crusade to the top.

Scrapping a bungled IT system overhaul has left one of the biggest employers in the Borders in need of a £28.2m bailout from the public purse.

Borders MP David Mundell has offered his backing to former Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale in a legal battle centred on his homosexuality.