Selkirk Today - News

Actress Alice in TV wonderland

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD from Ettrickbridge will be starring on television screens this winter.

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Halloween trick is no treat for shop owners left to clear mess

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A WEST Port shop owner targeted by Halloween vandals has slammed a police campaign aimed at cutting down on anti-social behaviour, writes Kenny Paterson.

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Community hub: tell us what you want!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AN open invitation has been extended to residents of Selkirk to come up with suggestions on future uses of the new "community hub" at 1 Tower Street.

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Former community councillor denies making death threats

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

FORMER Selkirk community councillor Nickolaus Wirsten has been remanded in custody for trial after being charged with threatening to shoot community councillors.

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Philiphaugh headteacher really digs John's new allotment plan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THE headteacher of Philphaugh Community School has welcomed a move to create allotments on land next to the school.

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News from around the district

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ashkirk

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Katie inspires summer cycle on the Isles

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AN ETTRICKBRIDGE child is the inspiration behind 120 cyclists taking to the Outer Hebrides next summer.

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Sherlock's last act

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sherlock Holmes comes to Bowhill Theatre tonight.

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Riddell Fiddles need your vote

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Riddell Fiddles have been nominated for a Scots Trad Music Award, writes Kenny Paterson.

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Selkirk Health Centre announces swine flu jab arrangements

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SELKIRK Health Centre has announced that special immunisation clinics will take place on Saturdays, commencing November 14, for patients considered at a high risk of contracti

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You can't just walk away from the truth

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

It was all very strange, a complete mystery, or so it seemed on the surface. A gent called S. Wilson in Blairgowrie just happened to be in contact with a group of Austrian hil

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Crematorium offer

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THE businessman who purchased Selkirk's former fish farm last year is to offer it as a possible site for the region's first crematorium.

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Magic lantern show at Knowepark

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Knowepark Pimary School pupils get a pumpkin lantern ready for Halloween tomorrow.

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Royal Burgh posties expected to strike

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THE Royal Mail is expecting postal deliveries in Selkirk to be affected tomorrow as national strikes continue.

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Bus back on the road

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AFTER a break of more than three months, a limited public transport service is being restored to the Ettrick Valley, writes Andrew Keddie.

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'Aabody is gan tae ken aboot it noo!'

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:36:33 GMT

FOR a historian, Walter Elliot has a poor grasp of dates. He pretends to be in his mid-seventies but anyone who knows Walter just smiles and says "aye, right". Late fi

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John gives up his steak in the business

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

JOHN Nairn is clearly a cut above the rest when it comes to Border butchers.

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Nichol's play set for glaury run

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

JOHN Nichol's play War & Glaur is set for a mini Borders tour to coincide with Armistice weekend.

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Monday Club meeting

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Because the speaker was ill, Brian Riley stepped in and showed Monday Club members images of parts of Suffolk – churches, gardens, towns, villages and the coast.

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A loyal friend who became the Queen's press secretary

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sometimes I sit down at the computer wondering how on earth I'm going to pound out 500 words for this column.

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The arachnid experience

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

According to the whims of climate, geography and associated variables, each season produces news of whatever had a good or a bad year. As far as I am concerned, this autumn ha

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Joy for caravan gran

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

NEVER-say-die Selkirk gran Muriel Aldin has finally won her five-year battle to stay on her six-acre smallholding near Midlem.

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Muriel's five-year battle is over

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SELKIRKSHIRE councillor Vicky Davidson offered her personal congratulations to Muriel Aldin this week after the 72-year-old grandmother finally won the right to stay in a mobi

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Placard-bearing pupils make themselves heard

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Primary five, six and seven pupils at St Joseph's RC Primary School were divided after they discussed a bypass for Selkirk and made posters, for and against, for a protest

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Youngsters' discipline ensured Frankenstein was a monster smash

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

You'd think that with a five-week theatre tour on my hands, that the last thing I'd want to do on a spare evening would be to see yet more plays.

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A lesson we must never forget

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:20:41 GMT

I HAVE little doubt a fair number of people will view the idea of sending our schoolchildren on a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site with a degree of distaste.

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Glenfiddich could give Rabbit a shot at the big time

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

FRIGHTENED Rabbit have been nominated for a prestigious Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award, writes Kenny Paterson.

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It ain't easy being green, but you can try

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A SELKIRK-based film project has given budding Steven Spielbergs in the Borders the chance to make their own film – and win £300 in the process.

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Stark hits out at horsebox ruling

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ASHKIRK Olympic medallist Ian Stark has criticised EU rules which hit horseriders driving to weekend events, writes Sally Gillespie.

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Lochcarron boss anticipates minimal job losses over closure

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

LOCHCARRON of Scotland is confident all workers at its doomed Hawick plant will quickly get other jobs, either at its Selkirk mill or with other local knitwear firms.

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