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Craig Hoy MSP outside of Poynder Apartments in Kelso with Nile Istephan (Chief Executive of Eildon).

MSP welcomes new extra care apartments in the Scottish Borders

Colin Smyth MSP.

Call for hourly X95 bus service

MSP Colin Smyth

MSP attacks rising waiting list figures

Colin Smyth MSP at Tweedbank.

Timetable woes for Borders Railway

The Borders General Hospital in Melrose. Photograph: Bill McBurnie

Stretched NHS is facing 'ticking time bomb'

South Scotland list MSP Colin Smyth

Recovery plan needed for the hospitality sector

Barbra Harvie

Greens announce Holyrood candidate for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire seat

Michelle Ballantyne has been named leader of the Scottish branch of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.

Ballantyne set to spearhead new Farage party in Scotland

Michelle Ballantyne MSP – back on the front benches.

MSP Ballantyne back in favour

The MSPs want drivers going over the border to be given information on the Covid-19 regulation differences.

MSPs in plea to warn drivers

UK prime minister Boris Johnson in London today. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Borders MP hits back at claims Scotland is being short-changed in coronavirus ca...
Borders MP John Lamont has hit back at claims Scottish businesses are being short-changed by the UK Government as they try to weather the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Labour MSP Colin Smyth welcomes today's lifting of some lockdown restrictions, but said they were "fraught with danger".

Labour MSP warns lockdown relaxation is “fraught with danger”

Scottish Conservative leadership contender Michelle Ballantyne congratulates the winner, Jackson Carlaw, at the Radisson Hotel in Edinburgh today. (Photo by Robert Perry/Getty Images)

Former Borders councillor fails in bid to be Scotland’s top Tory

Energy minister Paul Wheelhouse has announced a ban on fracking.

Borders MSP and campaigners welcome Scottish fracking ban

Jim Hume

GP shortages in rural areas need tackling

MSP Claudia Beamish calls for action over milk crisis

Live fast die old, say Police