Dumfries & Borders

As Boris Johnson gets fired up about his latest pet project, Chris McCall talks to Wigtownshire sceptics about his chances in Scotland’s transport black spot

Boris Johnson’s bridge across the Irish Sea is likely to face a deluge of objections from local residents, a local MSP has said, risking it becoming snarled in the planning process

People in the Scottish Borders need to start questioning who owns Scotland’s land and look to the community buy-outs in the Highlands and Islands, says a leading official of a charity promoting reclaiming of land.

The problem with giant infrastructure projects like bridges is they take a long time to build - and the politicians who sign them off are often forgotten by the time they open, writes Chris McCall

Two people were hospitalised following a crash which killed a horse in Hawick during Storm Ciara on Sunday.

Voters in Scotland will require "an awful lot of convincing" on Boris Johnson’s proposals to build a bridge linking Ulster and the south-west of the country, an SNP MP has said.

Throughout history, food has fundamentally defined our way of life. From ­hunter-gatherers to industrial farming, famines, ethnic culinary influences and veganism, food has the power to transform entire ­landscapes and societies.

They are Britain’s most hated trains, condemned as “noisy, draughty, bouncy and outdated” by passengers, but largely spared from Scots – until now.

Residents in a small village in the Scottish Borders are campaigning to have a chemical factory, nicknamed ‘the bomb factory’ relocated after an explosion last month left the village in lockdown, a main road closed, and two people taken to hospital.

With just over a year to go until the opening of the new Great Tapestry of Scotland’s £6.7m visitor centre in the Borders, locals are being given the chance to contribute to the new attraction.

Factory workers in Kelso have proven real bright sparks when it comes to supporting charities close to their hearts.

Borderers being free to let their dogs foul on the region’s play areas and sports pitches could become a thing of the past if Scottish Borders Council gets its way.

Councillors who voted to let the region’s dilapidated surveillance camera network fall out of service are being accused of letting their communities down.

The Dumfries-Stranraer route is being considered for re-opening 55 years after its closure in the latest symbol of railway optimism which is even seeping into ScotRail’s performance.

Borderers wanting to fly the flag for their home-towns at their common ridings, festivals or civic weeks this summer are being urged to step forward.

Jedburgh residents are vowing to fight planned closures of the town’s library and town hall as council chiefs push ahead with plans to move those amenities to the new £32m campus at Hartrigge Park.