Politics

Hawick residents have been expressing their anger this week after their award-winning children’s play park became the target of mindless vandals.

Traffic accidents involving Scottish Borders Council employees cost the local authority’s insurers more than £200,000 last year.

Originally, HM Revenue & Customs could only collect actual underpayments of tax for an earlier tax year via an adjustment through your tax code.

Scaffolding which has surrounded the town’s main civic building should be removed next week as the deadline for refurbishments looms tomorrow.

Plans for a new gym and soft-play area have hit a stumbling block after planning chiefs refused permission for the conversion last week.

Borderers nearing 60 will have breathed a sigh of relief this week, following the Scottish Government confirming they’ll still get their bus pass.

Following last week’s suspected arson attack on a brand new playground in Galashiels, council convener David Parker has said that the local authority was looking into the possibility of installing CCTV.

Increasing numbers of patients are being kept waiting over four hours to be tended to at the casualty department at the Borders General Hospital, latest figures reveal.

Campaigning councillor Heather Anderson fears the imminent end of the road for two night-time buses serving West Linton will be a big blow for villagers there.

Charitable trust Live Borders has been given the job of managing community access to facilities at the new £22.5m Kelso High School.

Councillors have rejected plans to build a two-bedroom home on a plot of land at Darnick.

Plans to stop providing plants for flowerbeds in a bid to cut costs have been put on hold by Scottish Borders Council following protests from community councils and horticultural groups.

A memorial stone in a former Borders cemetery dedicated to German prisoners of war is in line to be rebuilt to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War.

The average waiting time for children’s mental health services has trebled in the Borders in the space of a year.

Part of Earlston High Street is to be shut for three days next week as resurfacing work gets under way.

Staff suspensions have cost Scottish Borders Council more than £250,000 over the last four years, it has been revealed.

Plans to set up a training centre in Hawick for textile industry workers and expand the town’s Borders College campus as part of a near £7.7m funding package have been welcomed by councillors there.