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A look back at the Hawick News archives 60 YEARS AGO WELCOME FOR SCOTTISH COVENANT: Doubts as to the reception Hawick would accord the Scottish Covenant were dispelled at the largely attended meeting in the town hall when Mr John MacCormick stated the facts of the Hawick case for a Scot tish Parliament.

By Antoinette Galbraith Fairnilee sits on the side of a hill on the left bank of the River Tweed in the hilly Borders countryside west of Galashiels.

By Rosemary Gallagher Business News Editor THE head of a Scottish property company has described a decision by the Holyrood and Westminster governments to pay for a A 24 million facility at Edinburgh's BioQuarter as a "stab in the back" for private developers operating within the Edinburgh Science Triangle.

At its first general meeting on Monday, the town's new regeneration company unanimously agreed to resubmit a bid for A 200,000 to the government's climate change challenge fund .

THE Royal and Ancient Burgh of Selkirk was transported 200 years back in time for another magical Scott's Selkirk weekend, evoking the spirit and influence of the great writer Sir Walter Scott.

HAWICK Girlguiding County Commissioner Lorna Reid has paid tribute to an "exceptional lady" following the death of Dr June-Paterson Brown CBE.

Thieves who carried out a raid on a Galashiels church have been described as despicable by police.

THE family of a head teacher believed to be the first in Scotland to have taken her own life through the stresses of a school inspection hope the long-awaited inquiry into her death will prevent a similar tragedy from happening again.

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By Sandra Dick DO NOT be too concerned if the name Emun Elliott doesn't mean that much to you at this precise moment.

THEY'VE performed to a television audience of millions and been on the receiving end of pop mogul Simon Cowell's infamously sharp tongue.

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A BUS firm that took schoolchildren through a road closed sign and into a flooded highway last Friday has been stripped of its contract.

HEADTEACHER Alan Vannan, staff and members of the parent council welcomed Lauder Primary School children back to a bright new school today .

Councillor Parker led the tributes this week. TRIBUTES have been paid to former Galashiels councillor, Alex Scott MBE, who died in his sleep aged 95.

By CLAIRE SMITH HUNDREDS of schoolchildren cheered and stamped their feet with excitement at an awards ceremony at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh last week.

Lauder has become the latest community in the Borders to get a new primary school.

A GRIEVING grandson has blamed a local care home for the death of his grandmother after discovering it failed to improve the standard of care it provided to its residents - despite repeated warnings from a care home watchdog.

The owner of a newspaper in North Yorkshire has started limiting access to its online content in a groundbreaking trial.