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Sean Elliot with fellow campaigners (National World)

‘Illegally closed’ Hawick day service for the elderly set for restoration

Eyemouth Leisure Centre (Live Borders)

Body blow for Eyemouth fitness fanatics – and an additional 17-mile round trip

Selkirk Library in Etttrick Terrace is now only open one morning and one afternoon a week

A postcode ‘library lottery’ is proving a disservice to the people of Selkirk

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Grab your running shoes for Eyemouth's Fun Run

Eyemouth Swimming Pool.

Two leisure facilities facing closure unless £329k repairs carried out

Gunsgreen House in Eyemouth.

Join the team at Gunsgreen

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

​Time’s running out to design flag

Live Borders Eyemouth triathlon category winners, front from left, Sarah Russell, first female over-40 veteran; Joanne Mulford, first senior female; Eilidh Miller, first female finisher overall; and Ava Macleod, female come-and-tri winner, with, behind them, Joyce Mark, female vintage winner; Sandy Walker, first Live Borders member; and David Cooper, come-and-tri winner, and next row back, Samuel Vassie, open junior winner, and John Soutar, open runner-up, and, back, Jonathan Taylor, open superveteran winner; Iain Veitch, overall winner; and Eddie Turnbull, open vintage winner. Missing are Polly Brennan, winner of the female superveteran category, and Peter Gardner, open third overall

Eyemouth hosts latest round of Live Borders triathlon series

The bench at Rotary Corner.

Rotary's eco-friendly bench

Greenlaw Primary pupils start working on their flag designs

No flagging in the race for new county colours

Councillor James Anderson.

Councillor at war with bank
An East Berwickshire councillor has poured scorn on the Bank of Scotland’s decision not to take part in a public meeting over the proposed closure of Eyemouth’s branch.

Staff at Giacopazzi's celebrate their runner-up award.

Giacopazzi's in Eyemouth named one of the best ice cream parlours in the UK

The Bank of Scotland branch in Eyemouth, which is set to close.

Bank is betraying customers by closing four Borders branches, says MP

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

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

Councillor James Anderson

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

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

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

Julie Jones' paintings look at how trees communicate.

Open studio for local artists

Paul Watson set to start the race.

Eyemouth pupils head green race

The bid was previously refused by the council.

Eyemouth-based farming company’s homes bid to ease financial pressures

Eyemouth United Amateurs celebrating winning every game of the Border Amateur Football Association C division's latest season (Photo: Stuart Fenwick)

Updated: Border Amateur Football Association C division champions Eyemouth Unite...

The new lifeboat "Sheila" and crew on her first rescue.

Eyemouth RNLI new lifeboat into action within a week of arrival

Eyemouth United Amateurs and St Boswells vying for possession on Saturday (Pic: Stuart Fenwick)

Eyemouth United Amateurs aiming for treble after keeping 100% record intact for ...

The route takes cyclists from Stranraer in the west to Eyemouth harbour in the east. Photo: Clacks Active

Exciting new coast-to-coast route

From left: Gordon Smith, VisitScotland; Tracy Duffy, Gunsgreen manager and Riddell Graham, chairman, Gunsgreen House Trustees.

Four star review for Nisbet’s Tower

Galashiels Recycling Centre.

Times they are a-changin’ at recycling centres

SBC Headquarters

Council realigns PPP contracts to save capital projects and retain frontline ser...

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

Controversial suggestions from the public for council budget

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

Co-op local causes celebrate
Celebrations took place across Berwickshire last week as nine local organisations shared in a £20,581.39 pay out from the Co-op Local Causes Fund. The money comes directly from Co-op members choosing their local causes & shopping at their local stores in Eyemouth, Duns & Chirnside and is the 7th annual pay-out to take place across the region.

Eyemouth Parish Church minister Andy Haddow with Gareth Baird, Fallago Environment Fund.. Photo: Paul Dodds.

New £340k benchmark for Eyemouth church as pews set to be removed

Schoolchildren and volunteers directed by the Archaeology Scotland team investigate the Bedrule Castle remains in the Teviot Valley. Photo: Dr Geoffrey Kolbe.

Historic dig at Bedrule

The new harbour pavilion in Eyemouth.

Flexible office space available in Eyemouth's new harbour pavilion from this Aut...

Pupils across the Borders opened their results on Tuesday.

Testing times for our Berwickshire pupils

People were warned not to enter the sea at Eyemouth following a sewage leak.

Water out of bounds due to Eyemouth sewage leak

Ross Aitchison celebrating after scoring a 93rd-minute winner for Gala Fairydean Rovers at Cumbernauld Colts last July, one of his happiest monents at the club, he says (Photo: Thomas Brown)

Leaving Gala Fairydean Rovers was toughest decision I’ve had to make in football...

Applications close on August 19 for this one-off role.

Ad Feature Offshore wind farm seeks senior manager for Eyemouth

Coastguard members were called to the scene near Eyemouth in Berwickshire PIC: HMCG

'Do not approach' alert over 27ft Berwickshire coast whale carcass

Award-winners at Sunday's Live Borders triathlon series sprint (Photo: Alwyn Johnston)

Borders triathlon series returns after two years off

Carrying out a survey near Gordon were Myra Watson, Margaret Fairgrieve, Sandy Keith and Rachel Hardie.

Tweedbank and Eyemouth set to be linked by pathway plan

The Eyemouth Barometer, originally gifted to James Johnston.

Historic barometer, with sad echoes of the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, joins muse...

A vision of the future.

Eyemouth Waterfront Project this week received a ringing cash endorsement

Jack Oliver, in blue, in action for Selkirk Victoria against Kelso Thistle (Photo: Bill McBurnie)

Goals galore as 28 netted in three cup quarter-final ties in Borders

The former Royal Bank of Scotland in Eyemouth.

Cheque this out - a former Borders bank could be converted into a bistro bar

Robbie Patterson.

Missing man from Eyemouth found safe and well

The public toilets at Greenlaw are still closed.

Scottish Borders Council urged to spend the pennies and reopen public loos

Alison Rutherford, right, with clubmate Diane Cassidy, who defeated her in last weekend's Ladies Championship final at Selkirk.

Selkirk golfer Alison is on her way to St Andrews
Alison Rutherford carded a five-under-par net 67 to win the women’s competition at the Scottish Medal Finals south event at Eyemouth at the weekend.

The leftover pipe ends are being turned into planters in Eyemouth and Duns.

Sewage pipes find a new lease of life in Berwickshire

Councillor Euan Jardine at Galashiels library.

Libraries set for early phased reopening

Eyemouth driver Steve Sadler with his Ford Fiesta

Eyemouth driver gears up for Fiesta challenge

Giacopazzi's ice-cream

Giacopazzi's in Eyemouth has invested in an ice-cream factory

Matthias Haag, NnG project director and Christine Bell, Eyemouth Harbour Trust 's business manager at the harbour.

Offshore windfarm set to provide up to 50 jobs in Eyemouth

Councillor Mark Rowley.

Compensation for fishing industry is a 'drop in the ocean' says councillor

Playwright Tom Murray, facilitator of the Eyemouth Library Group.

Eyemouth poets’ voices are heard in new charity publication

Gary Tickle for Peebles weaves around an Eyemouth player. Photo: Bill McBurnie

Match report: Peebles Rovers 7, Eyemouth United 1

Council workers clear up after cutting down Jedburgh's Christmas tree after eyewitnesses said it was "wonky". Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Jedburgh’s wonky Christmas tree to be replaced next week

Kelso's Pinnaclehill Industrial Estate recycling centre.

Limits lifted on amount of waste Borderers can dump at recycling centres