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SPENDING £150,000 on improving Scottish Borders Council’s child protection procedures in the wake of a damning report will be “worth every…

SPENDING £150,000 on improving Scottish Borders Council’s child protection procedures in the wake of a damning report will be “worth every…

PLANS to build a property next to a ‘party house’ in the Borders have been unanimously backed.

PLANS to build a property next to a ‘party house’ in the Borders have been unanimously backed.

ELECTED officials have overruled the council’s planning officers after backing a proposal near a Borders village due to “exceptional…

ELECTED officials have overruled the council’s planning officers after backing a proposal near a Borders village due to “exceptional…

Hopes have risen for the return of buildings-based day care services for older people across the Borders after a review was announced.

The vigil is part of a Global 16 Days of Activism Campaign which starts on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and…

PLANS for the Lowood Estate have moved a step forward following a meeting of Scottish Borders Council’s (SBC) planning committee. In 2019, the council revealed it had purchased the land south of the River Tweed for £9.6 million the previous year. Some at the time suggested that SBC had overpaid. The estate, near Tweedbank, has since been earmarked for a housing development and industrial estate – with the 34-hectare site allocated for mixed use development in the 2016 local developme...

A BORDERS councillor last week criticised a question from another elected member as “dangerous” and “damaging”.