Dumfries and Borders

Three of the Highland cows at Kitchen Coos & Ewes in Newton Stewart.

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Staff members test out the 'Adventure Nets' at Center Parcs in Longleat Forest, Wiltshire (Picture: Ben Birchall)

Why Borders is pinning its hopes on 'game-changer' Center Parcs Martin Roche

Hamish Marshall, director at James A Marshall, with Svenja MacMillan.

Historic 170-year-old Scottish manufacturer secures major new investor

Bruno the baby hare who has been hailed a "little miracle" after being delivered from its dead mother in an emergency roadside Caesarean after she was killed in a farming accident. Picture: Scottish SPCA /PA Wire

The baby hare hailed a 'little miracle' after being born roadside

SkiffieWorlds set to take place next month

The 2,000-strong rowing extravaganza descending on this Scottish town

Plans to create a national park in Galloway have proved controversial

Where £160k was spent on consultation for axed national park

Graeme Clark, Graeme Duffin, and Kevin Simm of Wet Wet Wet will play five intimate Scottish gigs in 2026.

How to get tickets for Wet Wet Wet's intimate Scottish gigs in 2026

A South Tyneside councillor is calling on Stagecoach to rethink proposed changes its bus services.

Almost all Stagecoach services to be axed in this Scottish region

A Scottish air ambulance attended the scene

Air ambulance called after motorbike and campervan in crash

Nigel Griffiths

The 77-year-old grandfather walking the 3°W line of longitude

Couple create Scotland's first 'champagne' from old potato field

Judith Molloy

Family in emotional tribute to 'adored' grandmother killed in crash

Plans to create a national park in Galloway have proved controversial

Scottish Government ditches plans to create Galloway National Park

A woman has died following the collison.

Woman dies after horror two-car crash involving Peugeot van

The eight-year-old girl remains in hospital.

Girl, 8, in hospital with serious injuries after being hit by car

Galloway Forest Park

Ministers told to ignore 'land-owning lobbyists' as park axe looms

An impression of some of the lodges planned for the proposed Center Parcs site near Hawick in the Scottish Borders. PIC: Center Parcs.

Center Parcs in Borders: A blue whale arriving in a medium-sized pond

A general view of Wanlockhead - Scotland's highest village. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Meet the new 300-mile-long driving route - including highest village

The best and worst Scottish motorway service areas as rated by Which?

Police are looking for three youths.

Youths seen driving golf buggy dangerously through town before crash

The subtropical swimming paradise planned for the Center Parcs development near Hawick

Watch: Look inside plans for new 700-lodge Center Parcs village

Mr Turnbull went missing after a sailing trip on Tuesday.

Body discovered in search for missing Scottish sailor

Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images.

Sailor missing off Solway Coast named by police as search continues

A number of Coastguard teams are searching for a 72-year-old man who went missing while sailing in the Wigtown Bay area.

Urgent search for man, 72, who went missing sailing off Scottish coast

A 12-year-old boy has been injured in the collision

Boy in critical condition in hospital after two-car crash

Plans to create a national park in Galloway have proved controversial

New national park 'would cost £500m' by stopping wind farms

Stuart Brandon Donald

Motorcyclist killed on unclassified road in crash with car named

Selkirk is one of the towns in the Borders that could be impacted by the potential closure of facilities

Proposed closures will 'rip the heart out of our communities'

Hawick library is one the list of potential closures

Consultants advise closing libraries and axing 50 jobs in this area

A 65-year-old woman has died in the house fire in the Scottish Borders

Woman dies at scene of village house fire

Hollywood star Jack Lowden attacks nursery closures in Scottish village where he grew up

Hollywood star attacks nursery closures in village where he grew up

Picture shows some of the damage caused by the wildfire that spread through areas of Galloway Forest Park from Thursday

Pictures reveal aftermath of massive Scottish wildfire

NHS Dumfries and Galloway has called on the public to help it plug its £33.6m deficit

NHS board extends funds plea to the public to plug £33m deficit

Wigtown Book Festival artistic director Adrian Turpin hopes more talented poets will enter this year

Creative director to stand down from much-loved book festival

An image issued by the Galloway Mountain Rescue Team of a wildfire in the Glen Trool area of the Galloway Forest Park. Picture: Galloway Mountain Rescue Team/PA Wire

Helicopters 'water bomb' massive wildfire as major update issued

Hawick High School in the Scottish Borders

Police probe report of teacher viewing pornography at high school

Exclusive Fears for Scotland's southernmost village over nursery closure

Two motorcyclists have been killed in separate incidents

Two motorcyclists killed in crashes with lorries within hours

The bone was discovered in a home's garden

Bone discovered by pensioner while digging in garden

The road in Dumfries and Galloway remains closed in both directions

Major road shut in both directions after lorry catches on fire

The feral goats of Langholm are to be culled

Feral goat herd to be culled by 85% as petition launches to save them

John Fenwick (SWSA Chair), Wendi Cuffe (SWSA trustee), Struan Young, Michael Davitt, Tom Wilson (SWSA instructor), Jenna Hermans and Michael Scanlan of Clark Contracts.

Work starts on £6.7m water sports hub that will transform Scottish port town

Police stopped a car driving at 143mph on a country road in Scotland.

Police caught driver travelling at 148mph on this Scottish road

The Scottish Borders Council headquarters in Newtown St Boswells

Scottish council plans 10% tax hike as SNP ministers announce reform push

The Eastgate Theatre, Peebles.

Scottish theatre hit by 'devastating' funding cut launches campaign

The Galloway Hoard. Picture: National Museums Scotland/PA Wire

Runic translation of Viking-Age gold hoard unlocks new burial secrets

The funding wait holding up revolutionary medical drone trials

Berwickshire High School in Duns

Education chief rejects call to learn from transformed Scottish school

A blue woollen knitted sock owned by Robert Burns, complete with the initials "RB", is among the most popular of artefacts linked to the poet. The size eight socks date to around 1770-1796.

Robert Burns: Socks, locks and wedding rings among top relics of poet

The Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries gets a contemporary treatment in a light and music show by Northern Lights as part of the Big Burns Supper event this month.

The small Scottish town seizing its big Robert Burns connection

Inside the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries, which was recently lit up to mark the Big Burns Supper in the town. It was here in 1824 that a group of men entered the crypt to remove the poet's skull to use in a popular scientific experiment of the day.

Robert Burns: The night the poet's skull was taken from his crypt

The man has now been missing for four days since the crash

Police find man missing for 5 days following massive search

A 26-year-old man is being hunted after going missing following a car crash

Police helicopter used in hunt for man missing after major car crash

Alistair Cameron, chief executive of Kelso-based Scotmas Group.

Why this Scottish firm's water tech matters - £2.2m for global expansion

Fiona Lee is pictured with a stained glass window of Robert Burns inside St Michael's Church in Dumfries, which is seeking to raise £25,000 to protect and improve the building where the poet regularly attended Sunday service.

Church where Robert Burns attended Sunday service seeks £25,000

The collision involved a black Suzuki Ignis and a red Vauxhall Grandland on the A7

Man killed and woman in hospital after crash on busy country road

The collision involved a red Suzuki Ignis and a black Nissan Pulsar. Picture: John Devlin

Man killed, another 'critical' after crash on notorious Scottish road

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg arrives at Selkirk Sheriff Court for sentencing today

Ex Scotland captain Stuart Hogg faces sentencing for domestic abuse

Plans submitted for a McDonald’s on site of former Scottish hotel

The crash took place near Stirling.

Boy, 4, suffers facial injuries in horror dog attack

Snow, ice and freezing rain warnings across Scotland until Monday

Ambulance response times in the Falkirk area have improved from 2022 to 2023 (Picture: John Devlin, National World)

Woman taken to hospital after being hit by van on Boxing Day

Stobo Hope, where campaigners forced the planting of a commercial forest on black grouse moorlands in the Scottish Borders to be halted after taking the decision to court over environmental concern.

Fox hunting license rejected for disputed 700-hectare Sitka forest

Lewis Chapman, 22, who died following a crash, which involved a grey Range Rover. Picture: Police Scotland/PA Wire

'Perfect son': Family pay tribute to 21-year-old killed in crash

A section of the A75, which is undergoing upgrade works

Major road shut after two-vehicle crash

The lorry crashed into a railway line near Gretna after driving off a motorway

Man charged after lorry crashes on to railway line, causing rail chaos

A body has been discovered in Dumfries and Galloway in the search for missing woman Shona Campbell

Body found in search for woman missing after getting stuck in mud

Shona Campbell. Picture: Police Scotland

Woman missing after getting stuck in mud in estuary

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