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MORE Borders summer festivals have been cancelled due to coronavirus. Selkirk Common Riding, St Ronan’s Border Games (Innerleithen), Lauder Common Riding and Duns’ Reivers Week have all been called off for the second year running. The decision follows advice from Scottish Borders Council. As reported last week, organisers of the Braw Lads’ Gathering, Peebles’ Beltane and Hawick Common Riding have also announced their annual festivities have fallen victim to the pandemic. In a statement, the provost of the Selkirk Common Riding Trust, Keith Miller, said: “Following full and careful consideration of the restrictions in relation to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, Selkirk Common Riding Trustees have decided there is no alternative available but to cancel Selkirk’s 2021 Common Riding, which was scheduled to be held on Friday, June 18. ....
FOLLOWING a lifetime in the painting and decorating business, it would be fair to say that Graham Scott brought colour into the lives of everyone he knew. A Souter born and bred, Mr Scott died peacefully at his Hillside Terrace home on Sunday, January 10. He was 87. Graham Scott was born in Selkirk’s Kilncroft on April 12, 1933, to Robert Scott and his wife Jean (whose family name was also Scott). The couple had four other children – Bert, Tom, Margaret and Betty. Educated at Knowepark Primary and Selkirk High School, Graham left school at the age of 14 to begin an apprenticeship with Towns the painters, whose proprietor at that time was Bill Morrison. ....