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Duns rally driver Garry Pearson being given his award for ClubSport Berwickshire's sports personality of the year by Live Borders sports development manager John McBay

Duns rally driver Garry Pearson named as Berwickshire’s sports personality of ye...

Creating areas of biodiversity also encouraged less regular cutting cycles.

Council planning changes to its grass-cutting regime

Councillor David Parker.

SBC consultation on through-the-night care changes is expanded

New era. Sajeef Perinpamoorthy and his wife Gayathri Raveendran have taken over from Gillian and Malcolm Renton.

New era for village shop at the heart of the community

James Anderson (SBC)

Bus services set to be restored after axe fell

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Booming farm shop’s lifespan extension bid

Grantshouse Taekwondo Club members competing at the martial art's 2023 Scottish open championships at Motherwell

Borders taekwondo club win 16 medals at Scottish open championships

Berwickshire golfer David Drysdale competing in France's Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge in June 2023 (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)

Berwickshire golfer David Drysdale finishes as leading Scot at Fife tour event

Hawick Waverley on the ball against Newtown at home at Wilton Lodge Park on Saturday (Pic: Steve Cox)

4-2 win puts Langlee Amateurs on top of Border Amateur Football Association’s A ...

Cockburnspath golfer David Drysdale playing a practice round on Tuesday ahead of the International Series England at Wylam's Close House this week (Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour)

Borders golfer David Drysdale hoping home advantage works in his favour at Asian...

Logan Robertson ( Lachlan Mackintosh), James Shirreff (General Blakeney), John McEwen (Bonnie Prince Charlie), Carol Robson (Col Anne), Jamie Mein (Lachlan Mackintosh).

Duns Players' Edinburgh Festival debut
​Duns Players, that extraordinary troupe of theatricals based at the unsubstantial, often overlooked but hugely ambitious and friendly Berwickshire town, is preparing to make a splash at the Edinburgh Festival.

How Polwarth Kirk Would Look

Blessing sought for Berwickshire church’s conversion into a ‘music hall’

Cow shed to home bid refused

Douglas Hope and his new book on planning in the Scottish Borders.

New book examines planning in the Borders

From left: Georgie Fay, Claire Beattie and Philip Tibbetts, Scotland's flag expert.

​Time’s running out to design flag

Berwick Station. Photo: LNER.

‘Isolation’ warning as Berwick train ticket office faces closure

Jack Hamilton making Raith debut at East Fife (Pic Fife Photo Agency)

Hamilton makes Raith debut as trialist

Scoutscroft Leisure Park near Coldingham.

Holiday park’s bid to stay open all year

Greenlaw Primary pupils start working on their flag designs

No flagging in the race for new county colours

The battery plant will be installed close to Eccles substation.

Berwickshire battery storage plant gets the green light

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Berwickshire care service is hailed by inspectors

The plan for the new eco-friendly home at Cove Farmhouse.​

‘Barn again’ bid in Cockburnspath

Wedderlie House, a popular wedding venue.

Proposed Berwickshire windfarm could have ‘significant impact’ on historic sites

Councillor Tom Weatherston.

Night Support Service shake-up to be trialled in Duns

The Bank of Scotland in Eyemouth ... one of the branches set for closure.

Four banks closure is a drive towards ‘cashless society’, councillor claims

Six race-goers at Kelso's ladies' day season finale on Sunday

In photos, part three: More than 4,000 turn out for Kelso Racecourse’s ladies’ d...

The cottages set for demolition.

Cottages demolition bid

Planners say the application is not a justifiable extension to the Duns boundary.

Plan to extend Duns boundary with ten new homes refused
A bid to build a row of ten detached family homes on prime agricultural land in a Berwickshire village has been refused.

Coldingham's Jack Hamilton is back in Scotland after signing up with Raith Rovers (Pic: Tony Fimister)

Borders footballer Jack Hamilton back in Scotland after signing for Raith Rovers

Pete Burdass and his wee grey Fergie tractor will be rolling through the Borders.

Wave to the wee grey Fergie as he trundles through the Borders

Councillor James Anderson

Berwickshire councillor urges Eyemouth residents to have their say on the future...

Matthew Forster, who plays the lead in Jim Clark the Musical, meets his hero at the Jim Clark Motorsport Museum, Duns.

Tribute show of racing legend returns to Duns

The Reston planning bid has won the support of the community council.

Community supporting a green light for a ‘Blue House’ conversion

The new wheelchair boardwalk will be opened at Coldingham Bay next Thursday.

Wheelchairs on the boardwalk at Coldingham Bay

Julie Jones' paintings look at how trees communicate.

Open studio for local artists

​The architect says the previous refusal was poorly considered.

Coldstream housing appeal bid is launched

Festival director John McEwen.

Duns Play Fest was best ever

Homes close to poultry manure storage building fall foul of planning committee

Houndwood Crematorium.

Cremations to restart in Eyemouth

John Lamont MP on a visit to R&K Drysdales.

Sprouting success in Berwickshire

The nursery is held in Eyemouth Community Centre.

Berwickshire nursery gets thumbs up from Care Inspectorate

Frankenstein, by the Northumberland Theatre Company, is on Wednesday, May 3.

PlayFest set to thrill all you lovers of drama

The proposed new workshop at Duns Road.

‘Jobs will be lost’ warning over Berwickshire planning bid

Your wee boxes made their way to Zambia last year.

Time to send off your wee boxes

Winners Logan Scurfield, Monty McNeil, Abby Pringle with Kevin Greenfield of DYW Borders.

Collective … you’re hired!
Berwickshire pupils proved they have superb business potential in the final of the Young Enterprise Borders Company Programme.

Councillor Aileen Orr.

Burnmouth 'strewn with human faeces'

Duns Park. Photo: Google.

£40k back to nature project in Berwickshire park

Duns Community Nursery opens on Monday.

New nursery run by Duns community opens on Monday

John Lamont with local Tory party members.

Lamont reselected as Tory candidate

Borderers are being urged to have their say on the upcoming budget.

Controversial suggestions from the public for council budget

Clive Millar, second from right, with his family - from left, Brogan, Holly and Hazel - after completing 2014's Edinburgh Marathon running for Prostate Cancer UK

Kelso rugby stalwart Clive Millar mourned following death at age of 58

From left: Nile Istephan, Michelle Meldrum, Julia Mulloy, Fraser Kelly and Callum Chomczuk.

Registered social landlord bosses make a stand against domestic violence

The Very Rev. Susan Brown with her online Advent story.

Minister’s Christmas tale will be hare-raising

RNLI Lifeguards stop to receive their Co-op local cause award at Eyemouth Beach.

Co-op local causes celebrate

The bid is for four semi-buried "Hobbit" houses at Cockburnspath.

Plans for Scotland’s first ‘Hobbit Village’ revealed