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SNP Councillor resigns from Scottish Borders Council

SBC Headquarters

SBC policy review after Israeli colours lit up its headquarters

Campervans On Common Haugh

Motor-homes car parking request put on hold after public backlash

Hawick's Welcome Hosts greet visitors to the town.

Welcome Hosts initiative £3k funding gap plugged

Hawick's Wilton Cemetery.

A new remembrance garden gets green light after decade-long campaign

Zander Murray in goal celebration mode. Photo: Brian Sutherland.

Praise in council chamber for Zander

HRH The Princess Royal met with a number of Scottish Borders Council's care home and home care staff during her visit to Waverley Care Home in Galashiels. Photos: AndersonDrummond Photography.

Grieving princess visits Galashiels care home

The proclamation was delivered in keeping with tradition.

A right Royal rumpus after ‘proclamation row’ in Jedburgh

The Queen unveiled the plaque celebrating the official opening of the Borders Railway in 2015.

Tributes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II pour in from the Scottish Borders

Frederic Augustus Washington Bailey changed his name to Douglass, inspired by a Sir Walter Scott character.

Hawick plaque for US anti-slavery campaigner

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

Councillors set for pay hike
Newly-elected councillors on Scottish Borders Council are in line for a salary hike.

Galashiels and District Councillor Euan Jardine was elected leader at today's meeting of Scottish Borders Council.

"Fresh start" for council as leader and convenor appointed

Galashiels and District Councillor Euan Jardine is set to lead the new administration. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Three independents to sit with Tories in new administration

Hawick and Denholm Councillor Stuart Marshall was the biggest winner of the day, garnering 2,265 votes. But the make-up of the council is still to be decided as talks are ongoing. Photo: AndersonDrummond Photography

Talks launched over who will form an administration

Deanfield Care Home in Hawick. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Concerns raised over future of Hawick care village plans

Hawick provost Watson McAteer. Photo: Bill McBurnie

Hawick provost calls for police CAT to be disbanded

The painting will soon be heading to its "ancestral home".

£60k Hawick painting will soon be returning to its ancestral home

Watson McAteer. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

Hawick provost condemns Scottish Government's 'lack of commitment' to Borders Ra...

Teries are hoping for a more normal Common Riding this year, with other towns more than likely to follow suit.

Hawick provost welcomes the return of the town’s Common Riding this summer

Councillor Watson McAteer. Photo: Bill McBurnie.

Councillor predicts Council Tax rise of 3%

Graffitti near Spittal on Rule on the Dunion Road

Anti-vax graffiti to be removed from road signs

Town provost Watson McAteer at the site of the blaze adjacent to the town's vaccination centre. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

Potential death-trap empty factory buildings in Hawick are highlighted after all...

The fire from above. (Photo: Raighan McGee)

BLAZE REPORT: Dramatic images and video of a major fire in Hawick last night

Gender-neutral toilets: A good idea?

BORDERS DEBATE: Should new schools in our region have gender-neutral toilets ins...

Councillor Stuart Marshall.

Two communities in Hawick are to be inter-connected by a new £2m footbridge

A concept design of how the new Hawick High School could look.

Will any of the existing Hawick High School buildings be retained when a new £48...

Town Provost Watson McAteer. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

UPDATED: Townsfolk to have their say on the future of the existing Hawick High S...

Hawick Cornet Connor Brunton, dipping the colours the river Teviot with Gareth Renwick, right hand man, Ali George left hand man. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

It was all hush-hush when the Hawick Common Riding tradition of dipping the flag...
Traditions just don’t die in Hawick.

Watson McAteer. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

Impassioned plea from Hawick councillor for Borders Railway extension not to be ...

A windfarm panoramic

New proposed Teviothead windfarm bid raises 'huge concerns' - despite £3.6m a ye...

Hawick market.

Hawick's once-popular Saturday market could move location as revival plans are r...

Councillor Watson McAteer beside the former Burtons and Dorothy Perkins stores. (Photo:BILL McBURNIE)

Shock bid submitted today to fill a gaping retail hole in Hawick High Street

Mick Murphy's home at Crowbyres near Hawick was one of those flooded on Tuesday night. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

More misery for householders around Hawick as flood waters breach homes for seco...

Watson McAteer at Dorothy Perkins, Hawick. (PHOTO: BILL McBURNIE)

Retail revival planned after town suffers a devastating double shop blow

Councillors Stuart Marshall and Watson McAteer at Hawick's Katharine Elliot Day care centre. (PHOTO: BILL McBURNIE)

‘Please allow us to reopen vital day centre now’

Hawick High School.

School plan will make the grade

The Refresh Pavilion Cafe at Hawick's Wilton Lodge Park.

Relief for townsfolk as cafe set to reopen

2011 silver jubilee Hawick cornet David Nuttall presenting his acting father, Bert Wear, with a walking stick.

Tributes paid to ex-Hawick community councillor and acting father Bert Wear afte...

Councillor Watson McAteer at Teviot Crescent, Hawick

Hope in store as shop site finally flattened

Myra Turnbull Hawick Provost

Myra was town’s ambassador

Campervans in Hawick's Common Haugh car park.

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

Hawick's Common Haugh public toilets are among 15 in the Borders set to reopen soon.

15 public toilets in Borders about to reopen after being shut in March

Councillor Watson McAteer at roadworks next to O'Connell Street in Hawick.

Answers being demanded after lack of signs leads to traffic trouble in Hawick

The Refresh Pavilion Cafe at Hawick's Wilton Lodge Park.

Hopes high that Hawick park cafe will reopen before summer is over despite opera...

Ian Landels sings in the hut in 2013.

It’s up wi’ auld Hawick as common riding live streamings gather pace
The Teries set to grace our screens for this year’s alternative online Hawick Common Riding in the coming weeks have been announced.

The England-Scotland border at Carter Bar.

Borders councillors up in arms over suggestions that army patrol border with Eng...

Guthrie Drive in Hawick.

Plans for £8.5m care home in Hawick unveiled after U-turn by council bosses

Hawick and Denholm councillor Stuart Marshall is concerned about the current closure of the Borders' recycling centre leading to an upsurge in fly-tipping.

Borders council bosses warned of environmental disaster if recycling centres don...

Hawick Cornet Connor Brunton follows behind the Drums and Fifes band in 2019.

Teries set to rally round online Hawick Common Riding events

Hawick and Hermitage councillor Watson McAteer at the planned Commercial Road McDonald's site.

Fears being voiced that lockdown hold-up could wipe McDonald’s bid off menu for ...

Hawick Volunteer Flood Group members Andy Lewis, Marion Chrystie, Stuart Marshall and Mick Robertson showing Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon a stretch of the Teviot set to be kept at bay by forthcoming river defences during her visit to the town in February

Bill for Hawick’s flood defences now looking set to rise as high as £60m

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 ...

Former police chief and Scottish Borders Councillor Andrew Farquhar.

Tributes to ex-police chief and Hawick councillor

Hawick and Hermitage councillor George Turnbull with members of the Borders' first and second police community action teams.

Second police action team to carry on pounding beat despite budget cut threat

Flowers left as a tribute to Hawick's Leon Ali following his death on the A698 in November.

Death toll claimed by Borders roads on increase