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Letter: Donald Gordon obituary

The Guardian 01 Apr 2025
... in displaying finds from the Roman fort site near Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, in the Trimontium museum.
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Scottish trainer Sandy Thomson hits out at decision to ban Mr Incredible from Grand National | ...

The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
Mr Incredible, who is trained in the Borders by Thomson and was set to be the only Scottish-based runner in this year’s Grand National, has not completed a race since March 2024 and has pulled up or ...
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Anas Sarwar: “Energy security is national security”

New Statesman 31 Mar 2025
Scottish Labour should expect vocal opposition to drilling these fields ... Now, with Labour’s artificial ambiguity on Scottish independence, the focus north of the border is the bread and butter questions of politics.
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MSP celebrates Scottish tourism on visit to family's Berwickshire holiday park

The Scotsman 31 Mar 2025
MSP Rachael Hamilton flew the flag for Scotland's tourism industry when she visited a popular Borders holiday park during Scottish Tourism Month ....
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Man, 33, appears in court charged with maliciously damaging Trump golf course

AOL 31 Mar 2025
Robson, of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, made no plea during the brief hearing and was committed for further examination and ...
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New £56.6m high school approved for Hawick

BBC News 31 Mar 2025
Scottish Borders Council says most of the current high school will be demolished. .
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It’s terrorism, cries Trump after man charged with digging up Turnberry golf course

AOL 31 Mar 2025
Kieran Robson, 33, of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, appeared in private at Ayr sheriff court on Monday and was charged with malicious mischief ... Mr Trump added.
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Scottish Government handed Stonewall £400k in taxpayers’ money

AOL 30 Mar 2025
Lucy Hunter Blackburn, a policy analyst and former Scottish Government civil servant responsible for funding external organisations, claimed Stonewall had become a “shell company” north of the Border ... A Scottish Government spokesman said.
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Back our £25bn green energy project or we’ll take it overseas, warns FTSE grandee

The Daily Telegraph 30 Mar 2025
“This is sub-second power ... It’s geographically perfect” ... It also comes with enough land to accommodate thousands of kilometres of power lines, as well as a 180-metre tower that will be the tallest man-made structure north of the Scottish border ... X Icon.
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Scotland must sell itself to the world

New Statesman 28 Mar 2025
Should Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course host the Open in the next few years? The US President is golf-daft, and yet the top-level Scottish course hasn’t been home to a major since he bought it in 2014.
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Duns firm fined £120,000 over worker

BBC News 27 Mar 2025
The man fell 13ft (4m) while working at the site near Duns in the Scottish Borders. .
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Scottish spending cut by £900m after Spring Statement

The Daily Telegraph 26 Mar 2025
He said the cuts to departmental spending south of the Border would result in “significant reductions” of £200 million and £435 million in the Scottish Government’s block grant in 2028-29 and 2029-30 respectively.
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Wild goats could become protected species after outcry at cull

AOL 26 Mar 2025
Scottish ... Oxygen Conservation, a company that owns 11,000 acres of moorland in the Scottish Borders, faced criticism for the killing of feral goats around the villages of Langholm and Newcastleton.
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