FUNDING and expert support from Business Gateway Scottish Borders has helped a former corporate lawyer from Peebles turn her interest in natural skincare into a successful small business.
SCOTLAND’S health minister has admitted the Borders has “still some way to go” in reducing the number of smokers in the region.
WITH just over two weeks left of the 2017 salmon fishing season, catches on the River Tweed are predicted to be the lowest in 33 years.
HOPES that the much-vaunted Edinburgh and South of Scotland City Deal would provide funding for a textile innovation centre in Galashiels have been dashed.
SCOTTISH health minister Shona Robison has expressed “concerns” to the chairman of NHS Borders over a recent damning report on nutritional care for older patients at the Borders General Hospital.
WHILE service cancellations continue to be a feature of the Borders Railway, plans are in place to ensure all carriages are air conditioned and accessible to disabled people.
GRASS areas which are too steep to be cut by Scottish Borders Council workers for health and safety reasons have become “unsightly jungles”, it was claimed last week.
A CALL for a ban on the smacking of children in Scotland was endorsed last week by Scottish Borders Council – despite a plea for no action from new Galashiels and District councillor Harry Scott.
A BEREAVED West Linton woman has hit out at a landlord’s policy of only granting grieving families seven rent-free days to clear homes and return the keys after the death of a tenant.
