Dumfries & Borders

Oscar lost his 17-year-old ­sister to a drug overdose.The trauma and challenges he faced following this “knocked him off his path”.

Bordering on perfection, Catriona Thomson stays at this self catering gem.

Campaigners fighting to stop a historic building in a Scottish Borders town being demolished have accused councillors of making a secretive and hasty decision.

Public transport was the issue dominating debate at the first-ever environment-themed hustings to be held in the Borders.

A police officer has won a national award for valour for single-handedly apprehending a murderer in a Borders supermarket car park.

Festive feelgood factor was in abundance as more than 2,000 Teries turned out on Saturday, November 30, to see Hawick’s Christmas lights switched on.

Kelso’s Christmas lights are now shining bright as the festive season approaches.

Peebles High School is to remain closed for at least the next five weeks due to the widespread damage caused by the fire that hit it yesterday, November 28.

Calls are going out for the annual Hawick Reivers’ Festival to be treated the same as the Borders Book Festival or the Melrose Sevens rugby tournament and be given council funding as a matter of course.

Plans to close one of Jedburgh’s two remaining banks have been described as a “hammer blow” for the town.

Borders rugby star Doddie Weir will be the focus of a television documentary to airing on BBC Scotland.

A man involved in a disturbance at a Galashiels pub has been fined £630 at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

A Kelso musician is hoping to be bang on tune when it comes to raising money and awareness for Borders rugby legend Doddie Weir’s charity.

Fears have been voiced that plans to move Jedburgh Library away from the town’s centre could hit trade there.

Five more banks in the Borders are facing an uncertain future now TSB has announced proposals to scrap almost a sixth of its branch network.

Almost 100 Borderers donned their Santa suits, hats and beards for a stoll, jog or run around the grounds of Harestanes, near Ancrum, yesterday.

A painstaking clean-up operation on a haul of Viking-age treasures found buried on church land in Scotland is unlocking new secrets about their origins.