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Go Fibre and Emtelle have teamed up to bring full fibre broadband to Hawick. Photo: Jim Payne.

Two companies join forces to improve connectivity in Hawick

SBC Headquarters.

Council tax rise plans for larger homes criticised

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

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

Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

End the violence in our schools, says MSP

MSP calls for rail extension talks

Rachael Hamilton, MSP.

MSP’s concerns over hunting bill

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. Photo: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/Shutterstock.

Borders Tories split on next leader

Staff at the Borders General Hospital at Melrose are struggling to cope with current staffing levels, says the union Unison. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

NHS workers “can no longer cope” with staffing pressures, says union

John Lamont and Rachael Hamilton with winner Eoin.

Eoin’s card takes first prize

Coldingam branch surgery closed last month.

Fears over future of GP surgeries after Coldingham's closure

Rachael Hamilton at the public toilets in Greenlaw earlier this year.

Halle-loo-jah! Public toilets reopen across Berwickshire
Visitors and residents can spend a penny in towns and villages across the region again after Scottish Borders Council pledged to reopen most of its public toilets this week.

Councillor Scott Hamilton says the money should be paid back. Photo: Bill McBurnie

Fury over £1million exam pay-out

Rachael Hamilton MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire has been appointed shadow rural affairs cabinet secretary by Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross. Photo: Phil Wilkinson

MSP Hamilton appointed to shadow cabinet

Rachael Hamilton MSP and Andrew Dobbie of Dobbie and Michie in Hawick's High Street.

Rachael Hamilton vows to help Hawick High Street bounce back

Rachael Hamilton wins the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency.

Tory Rachael Hamilton holds Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire with decreased ma...

Conservative candidate Rachael Hamilton, who is hoping to keep hold of the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire seat.

Counting under way in Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire election

Borderers will be heading to the polling stations on May 6. Who'll get your vote?

Candidates for Scottish Parliament elections announced

Rachel Hamilton MSP speaking during the debate on a care homes inquiry

Border MSP welcomes inquiry into Covid-19 deaths at care homes

The Pavilion Bingo in Galashiels.

Borders businesses need more support

Borders MSP Rachael Hamilton at the Scottish Parliament last Thursday.

Borders MSP calling for retraining to help avert threat of mass job losses after...

The embankment next to the collapsed section of the A68 is almost up to road level and the road is set to reopen early next week.

A68 set to reopen next week

Nicola Sturgeon at first minister's questions at the Scottish Parliament last week. (Photo by Fraser Bremner/pool/Getty Images)

Borders MSP voices concerns about rise in abuse of disabled

Fencing is put up where a massive section of the A68 between Pathhead and Fala Dam collapsed

Bear makes “good progress” on A68 “complex repair”

Litter left alongside St Mary's Loch by campers.

Borders MSPs call for action to tackle litter-lout campers

US president Donald Trump with trade representative Robert Lighthizer. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

US tariff climbdown welcomed but further concessions needed, say Borders MP and ...

Deputy first minister and education secretary John Swinney delivering his ministerial statement on exam results in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, August 11. (Photo by Fraser Bremner/pool/Getty Images)

Borders MSP calls for inquiry as controversy over exam grades continues

The Borders General Hospital at Melrose.

Medics in Borders to resume non-urgent operations at end of month

Johnstons of Elgin in Hawick.

Union urging bosses not to make any compulsory redundancies at Hawick cashmere m...
Union officials are calling on bosses at Johnstons of Elgin not to make any compulsory redundancies at its Hawick and Moray mills.

UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak leaving 11 Downing Street in London last week. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

More than quarter of Borders workforce now on furlough, statistics reveal

Nicola Sturgeon at July 8's Scottish Government Covid-19 update in Edinburgh.

First minister issues further defence of transfers of hundreds of hospital patie...

UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak leaving 11 Downing Street in London yesterday to unveil a mini-budget to help kick-start the UK economy following the Covid-19 lockdown. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

UK Government’s post-lockdown economic rescue package meets with mixed reaction ...

A nationalist demonstrator taking part in an anti-English protest in the lay-by at the Scotland-England border on the A1 on Saturday.

Further roadside protest planned in Borders in defiance of plea by Nicola Sturge...

Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, who has come under fire for a tweet she posted on her social media page last week.

Tory MSP comes under fire for “ignorant” tweet

Jedburgh's Starrett tool factory, in Oxnam Road, is among the Borders employers set to lay off staff.

Unemployment in Borders up almost 120% year on year

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...

A Borders Railway train at Stow station.

MP and MSP muster show of support for Borders Railway extension bid after doubts...

First minister Nicola Sturgeon laid out the plans for a gradual ease of lockdown restrictions today in Holyrood.

Route out of lockdown is welcomed

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MAY 20: Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon attends First Ministers Questions at Holyrood on May 20, 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Fraser Bremner-Pool/Getty Images)

First minister promises talks with Ovo Energy to see if redundancies can be prev...

Galashiels Golf Club.

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

Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

Borders MSP calling for change to law on fly-tipping

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

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

The border between Scotland and England at Carter Bar.

Concerns voiced over potential for confusion in Borders if Scotland comes up wit...

A still image of a Union Flag paper lantern being released supposedly in support of the National Health Service.

Opposition mounting in Borders to plans for mass release of paper lanterns

Rachael Hamilton MSP at Scottish Borders Housing Association with electrician and digital apprentices during Scottish Apprenticeship Week

Borders MSP in partnership plea to local colleges over apprenticeships

Rishi Sunak, the UK Government's chancellor of the exchequer, getting ready to deliver his budget yesterday, March 11, in London. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

£30bn in budget for dealing with coronavirus welcomed by Borders’ MPs
Yesterday’s UK Government budget announcement by chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by the Borders’ two MPs for the £30bn it sets aside for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic currently spreading worldwide.

MSP Rachael Hamilton at the Borders General Hospital.

Health chiefs calling for Borders hospital’s laundry to be spared from axe as pa...

Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

New job for one Borders Tory MSP in shadow cabinet reshuffle but sack for anothe...

MP John Lamont and MSP Rachael Hamilton.

Two Tories' summer surgery tour will take in more than 80 Borders towns and vill...

Rachael Hamilton wins over voters

Prime Minister Theresa May visiting Abbey Gauge and Tools in Kelso today. Pictured here speaking to Adam Roxburgh.

Theresa May visits Kelso in show of '˜strong and stable' support

SNP candidates in the by-election and General election respectively, Gail Hendry and Calum Kerr, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and a host of party supporters in Hawick today.

First Minister and Prime Minister in Borders visits

SNP campaigner steps into the limelight

Rachael Hamilton is hoping to swap her regional list Holyrood seat for a Borders constituency one.

Regional list MSP picked to fight Borders by-election for Tories

Christine Graham

MSP Christine Grahame slams Tory ‘dishonesty’