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  • Local park wins community funding for next year

    BURNBRAES Park in Biggar has been chosen as benefactors of funding from the Co-op Local Community Fund for 2019/20. Friends of Burnbraes Park were delighted by the news. Janet Moxley, Chair of the group said: "At a time when funds for community

  • 45-year-old accused of being SIX times limit behind the wheel

    A WEST LINTON man has been accused of driving a car while almost SIX times the legal alcohol limit. Forty five year old Adrian Gaisey of Alice Hamilton Way, appeared from custody at Selkirk Sheriff Court where he pleaded not guilty to driving with

  • Leaders Biggar look unstoppable as winning run continues

    Biggar 40 Watsonians 7 Al Stewart at Hartree Mill ATOP the League having lost just one match to date, and facing a side in ninth place, Biggar were favourites for the win but nothing is ever a certainty in sport and so the visitors from

  • NHS Borders apologises for new mum's scan delays

    BOSSES at Borders General Hospital have been told to apologise after delays in diagnosing a woman's painful breast abscess. The new mum, who hasn't been named, suffered difficulties in breast-feeding as well as distress after her ultrasound scan

  • Logie Legacy strengthens with Zambian visit

    THE lasting legacy of a Borders doctor was celebrated this month with the arrival of two health professionals from Zambia at the BGH. In 1991 Dr Sandy Logie, who was a retired medical consultant at Borders General Hospital, volunteered at the St