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Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

Councillor Fay Sinclair

Councillors urged to ‘Say Pants to the Tax’

An illustration of the plans.

Newtown St Boswells auction mart revamp go-ahead

Village transformation (H&H)

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Councillor Robin Tatler.

SBC building reputation for providing ‘affordable’ homes

Nicola Bulley went missing on January 27

Nicola Bulley: Councillors remove contact details over harassment

Councillor Mark Rowley.

‘Very difficult decisions’ ahead as council budget is set

Councillor Clair Ramage is among those to express concerns.

Night support removal concerns

Council leader Euan Jardine.

Borderers urged to have their say on council budget

Jill Scott celebrates after England's UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final victory over Germany

Jill Scott to be awarded freedom of the city of Sunderland

Councillor Clair Ramage at the Katherine Elliot Day Centre with campaigner Sean Elliot. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Plea to open Hawick day care service as ‘quickly as possible’
Councillors have called for urgent action to reopen a Hawick day care service for the elderly following a damning legal judgement.

SBC Headquarters in Newtown St Boswells.

Councillors back £1.2m cost of living support package

Council leader Euan Jardine.

Councillors set off on a summer road trip

Some councillors said falconry was a hobby, not a business.

Councillors reject falconry building appeal

Scottish Borders Council's Newtown St Boswells headquarters. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Councillors set for pay hike

Lianne Wallace.

Councillors add weight to ensure Galashiels gym’s U-turn

The proposed Lidl store at Tweedbank.

Lidl gets green light for Tweedbank store

Council headquarters.

Councillors agree to write-off a £100k debt owed to the local authority

Wind farm drive.

Councillors concern over Scottish Government's drive for more onshore wind turbi...

Weathercote Rig.

Councillors give approval to a new house in Gattonside despite a number of conce...

Weathercote Rig, Gattonside.

Councillors being asked to give go-ahead to new home near 'hen party house' in G...

Travellers site at Victoria Park in Selkirk.

Councillors grapple with the thorny issue of finding a suitable site or sites fo...

The reduced speed limit scheme was rolled out across the Borders last October. Photo: Fraser Bremner

Councillors set to decide if 20mph zones are here to stay

Weathercote Rig.

Councillors today agreed a site visit to Gattonside amid concern over a proposed...

Unisex toilets.

Councillors hear of claims that boys at Jedburgh Grammar Campus 'waved sanitary ...

Andrew and Garry Wight. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

Councillors split over Melrose brothers bid to relocate their agricultural deale...

Pines Burn windfarm.

Councillors today, Monday, October 4, agreed to extend the lifespan of a Borders...

Dog dirt discussed.

Councillors discuss the impact of a responsible dog ownership review in the Bord...
Scottish Borders Council has received 22 complaints with regard to dog fouling in the region since April 22 this year, councillors were to be informed this week, on Thursday, August 19.

Councillor Mark Rowley.

Councillors approve administration budget

Jill Forsyth at Gala Policies. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

Councillors make pledge to protect Gala Policies from any bid to put a road thro...

Councillor Anderson said the Newlands Centre, attached to the primary school in Romanno Bridge, is a fine example of a small school becoming a community hub.

Councillors express fears over proposed trigger points for smaller schools

Preparatory work begins on the new Reston Station.

Campaigner’s joy as work begins on new Reston Station

John Ross Scott, now a councillor in Orkney.

‘My fight for openness goes on’

Council leader Shona Haslam with councillor Carol Hamilton, executive member for children and young people, pictured at Peebles High School as the section damaged by the fire in 2019 is cleared of debris.

Councillors to discuss new Peebles High School building

Netherbarns, next to Abbotsford.

Bid to remove land near Abbotsford from list of potential housing sites fails

Extinction Rebellion activists staging a demonstration outside a Scottish Borders Council meeting in January.

Borders council declares climate emergency despite dissenting voices

Land east of Wester Deans at West Linton lined up to host a development of 15 huts.

Rejection of woodland cabin development near West Linton not an open and hut cas...

What glamping pods proposed at Stouslie Farm, north-west of Hawick, would look like.

Rejection of Hawick farm’s glamping site bid going to appeal

A former church in Melrose's West Grove, off Waverley Road, set to be demolished to make way for an apartment block.

Decision on planned retirement housing complex in Melrose put on hold

Marion Short, Marjorie McCreadie and Clair Ramage at last year's Christmas event in Hawick.

£8,000 early Christmas present agreed for Hawick festive event

Eddleston looks set to be among the first villages in the Borders to have a new 20mph speed limit introduced.

Plans to cut 30mph speed limits in Borders by 10mph given go-ahead by councillor...

Members of the community in Stow welcome the 20mph Spaces for People trial being rolled out across the Borders

Council approves blanket speed limit reduction

Campervans in Hawick's Common Haugh car park.

Bid to stage campervan rally in Hawick rejected due to coronavirus fears

A planning application site in Hume's Quarry Bank.

Rejected Hume homes given thumbs-up on appeal by councillors

The old Buccleuch Hotel in Hawick's Trinity Street.

Councillors minded to overturn planning rejection to try to save derelict Hawick...
The future of part of a former Hawick hotel now looks likely to lie in the hands of ecology officers after an appeal to change its use met with a favourable response among councillors this week.

Pedestrians and cyclists may get extra space on the streets during lockdown - bu...

Tracey Logan.

Scottish Borders Council hands decision-making power to chief executive for six ...

SB Cares' headquarters at Newtown.

Borders council chiefs’ decision to keep quiet about suspended care staff upheld...

Hawick Community Council chairman Cameron Knox.

Borderers urged to share views on potential alcohol by-law plans

An X95 Galashiels bus at Mart Street in Hawick on Tuesday before the stops there were relocated to nearby North Bridge Street.

£220,000 revamp of Hawick bus station now under way, thanks to extra cash being ...

Taxi fares are set to rise.

Fare enough, say councillors as taxi charges set to rise again

Mid Berwickshire councillor Mark Rowley.

Work on setting up new enterprise agency for south of Scotland to start within m...

The current Galashiels JobCentre site.

Planners reject bid to move Galashiels JobCentre to empty shop site

Live Borders boss Ewan Jackson.

Live Borders axes 12 staff to cut wage bill

Councillor Stuart Marshall

Technology '˜making it harder to complain'