SCOOTER fanatics from all over the country and further afield descended on Paxton House last weekend to attend the 3rd Border Bash Scooter Rally.

AN agent who has submitted an application to site a 45.2 metre wind turbine at Fellowhills Farm, Swinton, has claimed that visitors to the Borders are more likely to be put off the area by “a massive litter problem”, rather than wind turbines.

A COMPONENT fault caused the shutdown of one of the two nuclear reactors at Torness power station, its operator has revealed.

THE leader of the SNP group now sharing power as part of the new Scottish Borders Council ruling administration claims there is no intention of using the local authority as a vehicle to help promote their national party’s campaign for independence.

The recently completed Berwickshire Coastal Path, which works its way from Cockburnspath to Berwick, has been added to the national network of long distance routes known as Scotland’s Great Trails.

Every house has a story to tell, its own unique history.

THE Flodden1513 Ecomuseum is looking to expand with the addition of 25 Flodden-related sites across the UK.

IT’S been her home for the past 16 years and now acclaimed artist and illustrator Brita Granström is paying her own tribute to Berwick by making it the subject of her latest body of work – ‘Butcher, Baker, Cockle-Sweet Maker’.

BERWICK Garden Centre’s owner has dismissed rumours that the imminent opening of his new garden centre in Dunbar will lead to the closure of the Berwick business.

AN EDINBURGH cat is believed to be enjoying an impromptu holiday in Berwick.

Berwick is often said to bridge the gap between England and Scotland – so it was a fitting place for the marriage of childhood sweethearts Stuart Ambler and Rebecca Carver. Even if the groom’s ring went missing.

A Borders Gliding Club pilot had to make an unscheduled landing in a in a newly sprouted wheat field near Kelso.

TWO young musicians from Berwickshire feature on a new CD released by Scottish Borders Council which endeavours to bring new life to a tradition that has almost disappeared.

Getting drunk should not be a pre-requisite to having a good time.

A YOUNG Borders shepherdess has written a book about her life.

EYEMOUTH High School has been widening its curriculum by offering driving lessons to pupils as young as 14.

An new coalition involving independents, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party will form the new Scottish Borders Council administration after negotiators from both parties reached a deal following the election. David Parker will remain as council leader, and the Conservatives have been ousted from power after two Borders Party members opted to join the ruling group.

BERWICKSHIRE’S Lord Lieutenant Major Alexander Trotter has appointed two new Deputy Lord Lieutenants.

Heavy summer downpours have been blamed for a dip in top quality bathing water at Scotland’s beaches.

Measures to prevent homelessness are being backed with extra Scottish Government funding this year and Scottish Borders Council say, although the Goverment’s commitment to drastically cutting the number of homeless people nationwide “presented them with a significant challenge”, they have achieved their target, becoming one of the first in Scotland to do so.