Fergus Ewing

It’s less than a year since we could dine out without Covid precautions.

Funding package to support food and drink industry

Litter left alongside St Mary's Loch by campers.

Borders MSPs call for action to tackle litter-lout campers

Native tree planting...at Loch Katrine has helped Scotland lead the way in the UK.

Planting the roots for Scotland’s Covid-19 recovery

Scottish Government rural economy and tourism secretary Fergus Ewing at Holyrood yesterday. (Photo by Fraser Bremner/pool/Getty Images)

Mid-July reopening for tourism industry not soon enough, according to Borders MS...

Catherine Maxwell Stuart at Innerleithen's Traquair House.

Borders tourism groups awarded shares of £500,000 handout

Fergus Ewing MSP Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy.

Timber lorry routes in Borders to get £586k repairs

Galashiels Golf Club.

Calls go out in Borders for lockdown ban on golf and angling to be lifted

Shoppers at a garden centre in Blackpool in Lancashire reopened today.

Updated: Borders MSPs calling for green light for garden centres to open again

Here's why you shouldn't travel during the coronavirus pandemic, even within the...

From left, trust chairman John Reid, Fergus Ewing, volunteer Ann Dent and Trimontium Museum marketing manager Jason Dyer yesterday.

£400,000 boost announced for Melrose museum’s £1.25m expansion plans

Hawick councillors, from left, Watson McAteer, Neil Richards, George Turnbull and Davie Paterson at Hawick's textile centre of excellence with, fourth from left, Fergus Ewing, Scotland's rural economy secretary.

Hawick councillors welcome opening of £610,000 training centre to fill textile i...

Hawick’s councillors have welcomed the opening of the town’s new textile skills training centre this week.

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Fergus Ewing Rural Economy Secretary at Hawick's Textile Centre of Excellence

£60,000 boost for Hawick announced as town’s new £610,000 textile training centr...

Hawick Knitwear's Burnfoot Industrial Estate base.

20 jobs to be lost as Hawick textile firm closes

A Eurasian lynx photographed by Chris Godfrey.

Farmers welcome rejection of plans to let lynx loose next to Borders

Johnstons of Elgins Hawick mill is one of the employers set to benefit from the new centre, and its operations director, David Hamilton, seen here, far right, at this months Scottish Borders Business Excellence Awards with colleagues Willie Wood and Nick Bannerman, plus Sara Ward, says it is a fantastic project.

£610,000 textile training centre to open in Hawick early next year

Fergus Ewing MSP.

Farms still to receive 2017 CAP payments

Councillors Stuart Marshall and, right, Watson McAteer believe the new training centre being planned for Hawick will be a godsend for textile firms in the town such as Scott and Charters.

Councillors welcome £1.8m double boost for Hawick

Hawick's fortunes look set to be boosted by the creation of a textiles industry training centre there.

New textile training centre on way for Hawick, and Borders College to get share ...

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing

Most important day's work in farming year

4G mobile coverage is on the way for the Ettrick Valley.

4G mobile coverage on way for Ettrick Valley

The lynx shot dead in November after escaping from a zoo in Wales.

Norway research trip stokes farmers' fear over lynx plans

BSE risk status announced

Forest Enterprise Scotland communities, recreation and tourism manager Alan Stevenson, left, and Borders district manager Sallie Bailey, right, with Forest Holidays planning manager Andrew Brook at todays announcement of the £11.3m plans at Glentress Forest.

£11.3m Glentress Forest cabin plans set to create 60 jobs

North Sea cod stocks have now been declared sustainable a decade after coming close to collapse.

North Sea cod stocks declared sustainable

Hawick councillor Davie Paterson surveying the state of the B6399 to Newcastleton from Hawick.

£1m to be spent on improving timber traffic routes in Borders

Prevention zone is now lifted

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.

Scallop stocks around Scotland to be protected

Controlled trial of electrofishing

A controlled trial of electrofishing for razor clams has been authorised by the Scottish Government.

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Renewal of Avian Influenza Prevention Zone

More Scottish food and drink could be served in schools, hospitals and other public services.

Boost for Scotland's food and drink

Poultry owners warned to protect their flocks

Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy & Connectivity, spoke at the Rural Parliament.

Celebrating food and drink success

Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy & Connectivity, spoke at the Rural Parliament.

Bird keepers reminded to maximise biosecurity

Warning after bird flu found on Lincolnshire farm

Borders crucial to grouse plan

SBSR Jack Clark and Bruce Simpson SBC Chamber of Commerce

Convenor praises potential of the Borders economy

Holyrood holds up hands over late farm payments

John Devlin. 18/03/15. CUMBERNAULD. Badenheath Farm. Stock photos of cows and sheep. Cow , cows , sheep , lamb, lambs, pedigree Ayrshire cows.

IT delays '˜grim' for new minister

Meeting hears how '˜invaluable' field sports are

Calum Kerr, SNP MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Region needs tourism '˜masterplan'

29/10/15. HAMILTON.South Lanarkshire Council Headquarters, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA. Scottish Steel Task Force to meet. The first meeting of the Scottish Steel Task Force Task Force. The Task Force was created after Tata Steel announced the mothballing of its operations in Dalzell and Clydebridge placing 270 workers at risk of redundancy. The Task Force comprises representatives of Tata Steel, South and North Lanarkshire Councils, Trade Unions, Scottish Enterprise, elected representatives and industry bodies. The meeting is chaired by Business Minister Fergus Ewing.

Hawick Knitwear staff supported through PACE

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