Politics

A Galashiels councillor is urging the council to help keep a disability charity open during the winter months. 

Councillors have balked at proposed changes to the winter maintenance of footpaths in the Borders, over fears that schoolchildren would be left walking on icy pavements.

The owners of Deans’ Bar in Hawick have won their latest battle with council bureaucrats but fear they still may lose the war. 

Councillors have voted to rubber stamp an increase in taxi fares, after hearing that refusing to do so would result in government intervention. 

The future of an eyesore building at the heart of Galashiels town centre hangs in the balance amid fears it has become a potential death trap.

A Penicuik’s man’s planning battle is set to drag on as councillors have delayed making a decision on plans to open a dog walking facility near Peebles.

Opposition is mounting to plans to demolish an eyesore building in Jedburgh town centre shrouded in scaffolding for the last four years.

A second new-look community council in a matter of months is on the way for Hawick following a string of resignations.

A rejected application for four low-energy houses in Hawick is set to go to appeal next week. 

Council road workers are set to strike over changes to their employment terms and conditions.

Borders health chiefs have voted to axe nearly half the region’s acute dementia beds. 

Telecommunications giant BT is looking to remove almost 100 of its public payphones in the Borders.

Borders businesses are being offered a chance to splash the cash on their shopfronts, thanks to a near-£190,000 handout from the Scottish Government’s town centre fund.

A meeting next week to decide the future of a Hawick bar will make or break the business, its anxious owner has admitted.

Residents seeing red over proposals that double yellow lines be removed from a Hawick road are stepping up their opposition to that controversial suggestion.

The widow of a Galashiels soldier murdered in an army payroll robbery in 1985 has told of her disgust this week after a Scottish Borders Council worker destroyed the turf around his grave.

Scottish Borders Council is calling on current and former Merchant Navy personnel to get in touch ahead of a flag-raising ceremony and reception to honour their services.

Proposals to build 12 new affordable homes in a Borders village have been submitted to planners.

Scottish Borders Council bosses could end up with blood on their hands if a controversial proposal to remove double yellow lines along a Hawick road gets the green light, angry residents have warned.