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Scottish first XV head coach Gregor Townsend during an Emerging Scotland training session at the Oriam in Edinburgh on Tuesday (Photo by Ross Parker/SNS Group/SRU)

Six Borderers named in Scotland rugby development squad to play Italy’s under-23...

No 8 Allan Ferrie on the ball for Melrose during their 43-29 win at home to Currie Chieftains at the Greenyards on Saturday (Photo: Andy McLean)

Melrose cut gap to top four in rugby’s Arnold Clark Premiership with win v Curri...

Danny Galbraith in action for Gala Fairydean Rovers (Library pic by Thomas Brown)

Gala Fairydean Rovers have been free scoring despite lowly league position

​Councillor Stuart Marshall says Border residents deserve better.

Public deserves “full-time not part-time” waste collection service

Gala Fairydean Rovers Amateurs in possession during their 2-0 win at home at Netherdale to Hawick Legion on Saturday (Photo: Fearne Miller)

Three Borders football teams into round two of South of Scotland Amateur Cup

Alex Luetchford, left, and Rory Anderson taking part in round two of the new Borders Cross-Country Series at Peebles on Sunday (Photo: Gerry Moss)

Teviotdale Harrier Rory Anderson wins round two of new Borders XC Series

7th September Galashiels - Action shots from today’s Lowland League game at Netherdale were Gala Fairydean Rovers welcomed Cumbernauld Colts. The game ended 4-4. *** NOT FOR SYNDICATION *** : Gala Fairydean Rovers drawing 4-4 at home to Cumbernauld Colts in September (Photo: Thomas Brown)

​Basement battle up next for Gala Fairydean Rovers

Lewis Young on the ball for Jed-Forest during their 18-7 loss at home to Gala on Saturday at Jedburgh’s Riverside Park (Photo: John Frater)

Gala on up in rugby’s Arnold Clark National League Division 1 after derby win v ...

Graeme Clark on the ball for Langlee Amateurs during their 3-2 loss at home to Carluke Thistle at Netherdale in Galashiels in October in round one of the South of Scotland Amateur Cup (Photo: Grant Kinghorn)

​Six Borders sides in South of Scotland Amateur Cup action at weekend

Kelso celebrating after beating Watsonians 36-31 at home at Poynder Park at the end of August (Pic: Steve Cox)

Arnold Clark Premiership rugby season set to resume after three-week break

Gala Fairydean Rovers beating Gretna 2008 4-1 at home last September (Photo: Thomas Brown)

Visit from ​Gretna 2008 next up for Gala Fairydean Rovers

​Gala Fairydean Rovers are hoping to bounce back from their East of Scotland Qualifying Cup exit at Linlithgow Rose at the weekend at home to Gretna 2008 this coming Saturday back on Scottish Lowland Football League duty.

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Duncan Kemp in action for Langlee Amateurs during their 3-2 loss at home to Carluke Thistle at Netherdale in Galashiels last month in round one of the South of Scotland Amateur Cup (Photo: Grant Kinghorn)

​Six sets of Borderers in first-round South of Scotland Amateur Cup action

Kyle Mitchell in action for Vale of Leithen during their 6-3 win away to Kirkcaldy and Dysart in round three of the East of Scotland Qualifying Cup on Saturday (Photo: Julie Russell)

Hawick Royal Albert and Coldstream rack up clean sweep of East of Scotland Footb...

​The suicide support event will take place in Selkirk.

Day of reflection in Selkirk for those impacted by suicide

Patrick Harrison during a Scotland training session at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group/SRU)

Three Borderers named in Scotland rugby team’s match-day squad to play Portugal

Che Reilly on the ball during Gala Fairydean Rovers' 2-0 Scottish Lowland Football League defeat at home to Tranent Juniors earlier in the season (Photo: Brian Sutherland)

​Gala Fairydean Rovers back at bottom of Scottish Lowland Football League table ...

Berwick Town and Highfields United vying for possession on Saturday in round one of the Waddell Cup (Photo: Keith Hamblin)

Five lots of Borderers and two Northumbrian sides make it past round one of cup

Vale of Leithen losing 4-3 at home to Edinburgh College on Saturday (Photo: Hilary Isaac)

​Vale of Leithen, Linton Hotspur and Gala Fairydean Rovers up for cups at weeken...

Rory Sutherland in action for Scotland during their 57-17 win versus Fiji at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday, November 2 (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group/SRU)

Borderer Rory Sutherland in line for 34th Scotland cap v South Africa

Liam Watt, seen here in prior action for Gala Fairydean Rovers, scored the second goal of their 3-2 home loss to Linlithgow Rose yesterday (Photo: Thomas Brown)

Gala Fairydean Rovers hit by ninth defeat of season

Head coach Gregor Townsend arriving for Scotland’s 57-17 win against Fiji at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday (Photo: Euan Cherry/Getty Images)

Scottish national rugby team head coach Gregor Townsend calling on his side to r...

Borders rugby coach Richie Gray at an Edinburgh Napier University graduation ceremony this week (Photo: Allan Shedlock/Edinburgh Napier University)

Borderers Richie Gray and Jill Douglas awarded honorary doctorates

Borders wheelchair racer Samantha ​Kinghorn was named as joint para athlete of year, with Ben Sandilands, at a Scottish Athletics awards ceremony in Glasgow on Saturday (Photo: Bobby Gavin)

Borders wheelchair racer Samantha ​Kinghorn named as joint para athlete of year

NHS Borders nurses Gemma Burdett (left) and Joan Rutherford.

Borders nurses up for award

Tighthead prop Ryder Joyce in possession for Selkirk during their 47-38 loss at home to Heriot’s at Philiphaugh on Saturday (Photo: Grant Kinghorn)

​Selkirk now only Borderers left in top half of rugby’s Arnold Clark Premiership...

Later Gala Fairydean manager Peter Cormack playing for Scotland during a 3-1 loss against England at Wembley Stadium in London in May 1971 (Photo: Allsport UK via Getty Images)

Galashiels club join in tributes to Liverpool football legend Peter Cormack

Kieran Dolan scored twice for Gala Fairydean Rovers away to Civil Service Strollers on Saturday in the Scottish Lowland Football League (Photo: Thomas Brown)

Gala Fairydean Rovers up against seventh-tier opposition in round three of chall...

Kelso’s Matty Fleming after winning the 1,600m youth race at 2024’s St Ronan’s Border Games in Innerleithen in July (Photo: Brian Sutherland)

Five Borderers named among Highland Games’ athletes of year

Five Borderers have been named among the Royal Scottish Highland Games Association’s 15 athletes of the year for 2024.

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​Meyhem Brooks in action.

Borderers get ready to rumble with the return of the World Wide Wresting League

Harmony Garden in Melrose.

Fall into Autumn with a delicious day at Harmony Garden

From left, Team Borders’ James Cockburn, Russell Wilson, Isla Woodburn, Gerry Moss, Robyn Lees and Lucy Scott at Grangemouth in August (Photo: Kenneth Sutherland)

Borders athletes hoping to follow up Forth Valley league success in XC campaign

Liam Watt on the ball during February 2023’s 3-2 defeat for Gala Fairydean Rovers at home to Bo’ness United at Netherdale (Photo: Thomas Brown)

​Gala Fairydean Rovers back on league duty at weekend and hoping to end three-ga...

Prof John Lennox speaking by video link at last year's conference.

Christian men take lead from women at conference in Kelso

Oscar Onley during stage two of this year’s Tour of Britain, from Darlington to Redcar, going up Saltburn Bank (Photo: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com)

Borderers Oscar Onley and Callum Thornley win Scotland’s first Tour of Britain j...

Melrose edging out Currie Chieftains 28-27 at Edinburgh’s Malleny Park on Saturday in rugby’s Arnold Clark Premiership (Photo: Bob Douglas)

Melrose out to kick on after beating defending Arnold Clark Premiership champion...

Tighthead prop Nicky Little on the ball during Hawick’s 51-13 win at home to Marr in rugby’s Arnold Clark Premiership on Saturday (Photo: Malcolm Grant)

​Hawick get back to winning ways in rugby’s Arnold Clark Premiership with half-c...

Gala's Ben Gill takes on Highland

Gill ‘wonder-try’ as Gala see off Highland 31-19

Gala Fairydean Rovers drawing 4-4 at home to East Kilbride at Netherdale Stadium on Saturday (Photo: Thomas Brown)

​Last-minute leveller denies Gala Fairydean Rovers first league win v East Kilbr...

Samantha Kinghorn competing in the 800m T53 final at the 2023 Para Athletics World Championships in Paris at Stade Charlety last July (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

Borderers Samantha Kinghorn and Stephen Clegg going for gold at 2024 Paralympics

Innerleithen cyclist Charles Fletcher, centre, with Bruce Irvine, left, and Paul Anderson at Sunday’s Crieff Highland Gathering (Pic: Ian Stewart)

​Borderers rack up ten wins at Crieff Highland Gathering

Gala Fairydean Rovers losing 6-1 at home to East Kilbride last August (Pic: Thomas Brown)

​Gala Fairydean Rovers’ wait for first win of new Scottish Lowland Football Leag...

Ex-Scotland and Hibernian defender Joelle Murray handing over Scottish Power-funded training kit to Coldstream Juniors (Photo: Malcolm Mackenzie)

Borders youth football team given boost by ex-player Joelle Murray

Ex-Gala winger Nairn Moncrieff has joined Edinburgh's expanded academy (Photo: Edinburgh Rugby)

Eight Borderers in new academy squads named by Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors

Ethan Dougal chasing the ball during Gala Fairydean Rovers’ 5-1 loss at home to Heart of Midlothian B on Saturday in the Scottish Lowland Football League (Photo: Thomas Brown)

​Liam Watt scores at double to earn first point of season for Gala Fairydean Rov...

Goal-scorer Kieran Dolan in action during Gala Fairydean Rovers’ 5-1 loss at home to Heart of Midlothian B on Saturday in the Scottish Lowland Football League (Photo: Thomas Brown)

Gala Fairydean Rovers face third top-four team in row after 5-1 loss to Hearts B

Gala Fairydean Rovers are hoping to get third time lucky tomorrow, August 6, after beginning their latest Scottish Lowland Football league campaign with back-to-back defeats.

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Lisa Thomson and her GB team-mates are out of the running for Olympic medals (Pic by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Borders stars in action at Olympic Games in Paris

Gala Fairydean Rovers and Heart of Midlothian B vying for the ball during their 1-1 draw last July (Pic: Thomas Brown)

​Hearts’ colts next up for Gala Fairydean Rovers after 6-0 defeat on road at Cal...

Chloe Rollie playing for Loughborough Lightning versus Saracens in Northampton in June (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images)

Three Borderers named in latest Scotland women’s rugby squad

Rory Sutherland, right, on the ball for Scotland during their 73-12 win against Canada in Ottawa on Saturday, July 6 (Photo: Chris Tanouye/Getty Images for Scottish Rugby)

Rory Sutherland and Patrick Harrison in Scotland match-day squad v Uruguay

Gala Fairydean Rovers striker Kieran Dolan, left, celebrating scoring one of his two goals in Saturday's home friendly against Newtongrange Star (Pic: Steve Cox)

​Gala Fairydean Rovers wrap up pre-season with 2-1 home win v Newtongrange Star

Hawick Royal Albert beating Hawick Legion 1-0 in a pre-season friendly at Albert Park on Saturday, thanks to a Greg Ford goal (Photo: Steve Cox)

​Coldstream handed home tie by preliminary-round-two draw for football’s Scottis...

New Hawick president Malcolm Grant with, right, predecessor Ian Landles (Photo: John Thorburn)

New Hawick president Malcolm Grant warns club to expect going to get tougher

Glen Young warming up ahead of Scotland's 73-12 win against Canada in Ottawa on Saturday, July 6 (Photo by Chris Tanouye/Getty Images for Scottish Rugby)

Injury rules Jedburgh’s Glen Young out of rest of Scotland’s summer tour

Lwendo Kazoka on the ground and Daniel Martins on the ball during Gala Fairydean Rovers' 3-0 loss at home at Netherdale in April to Caledonian Braves in the Scottish Lowland Football League (Photo: Alwyn Johnston)

Trip to Caledonian Braves first up for Gala Fairydean Rovers next season

Gala Fairydean Rovers captain Keaghan Jacobs going up against opposite number Robert Wilson during the Borderers' 4-1 pre-season friendly loss at home to Musselburgh Athletic on Saturday (Photo: Thomas Brown)

5-0 derby victory for Gala Fairydean Rovers against Vale of Leithen as pre-seaso...

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