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IT may have taken more than two years to get here, but Whipman Week has been a major success in West Linton.

THE heat is rising following a chef’s damning verdict on the kitchen at an historic public building in Peebles.

THE results for both Tweeddale wards in the Scottish Borders Council local elections are in.

THIS week we invited the candidates standing in the local council elections for Tweeddale West to share their goals if elected.

Around 40 members of the public attended the event which was organised by the towns community council and chaired by Reverend Calum Macdougall.

A PLANNING U-turn has guaranteed the future of a booming Galashiels gym which had been facing an uncertain future.

One of the proposals was upgrading of the school’s current camera system. Board member Brandon Marquardt, chief deputy for the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office, said those upgrades could help with identifying illegal or other problematic activities and behavior. A proposal to install vaping detectors

After saying the incident "did not take place," the Sanford Police Department is saying the incident did not "occur as reported."

But the boy's mother says police have it wrong and that her son is adamant that he was the victim of a sexual assault on a trail linking the middle school and a skate park.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a bungalow in a Borders cul-de-sac have been backed by the council’s planning committee following a vote.