Galashiels, England News

Prostrakan, the Borders-based speciality pharmaceutical group, yesterday said its cancer-pain relief drug Abstral had been accepted for review by Health Canada, the Canadian governmenta s department with responsibility for public health, writes Mark Smith.

For all those who dream of leaving the rat race for a life in the sun, the 65-year-old Alan Walker has a sobering message: Some dreams may not be what they are cracked up to be.

The soldiers from southern Scotland have been based at Wishtan in the Sangin Valley area of Helmand during their six-month tour of duty The Royal Scots Borderers are currently midway through a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.

A bowling club treasurer who embezzled more than A 3,000 avoided jail on Monday with an alternative sentence of 200 hours' community service.

HUNDREDS of women in the Borders could be put at risk as the region's only dedicated post-natal depression centre has announced it is to close.

A 695,000 improvement package for flood defences in a Borders town looks set to move forward.

A CONSTRUCTION company has been fined a total of 3,600 for failing to ensure properly trained staff were managing a site in Galashiels.

SCHOOL pupils in the Borders are gearing up to 'think green' as they prepare to embark upon another year of special educational in-store tours at Marks & Spencer's first 'green' Simply Food store in Galashiels.

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The Last Word: 'I can think of nothing more uplifting than standing out there with your anthem being played, and you with your job to do' GETTY Commentator Bill McLaren, who died this week, was a master of imagery enlarge Tuberculosis is by all accounts nothing to be grateful for, yet over the years I have met three men whose TB rather fortuitously ...

By Fiona MacLeod SCHOOL inspectors should be banned from the classroom and responsibility handed to local authorities, senior figures in Scottish education said last night.

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THE death of an "outstanding" headteacher was "inextricably linked" to the outcome of a school inspection, a sheriff has ruled.

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TAX offices in the Borders will close by March 2011, it has been announced. HM Revenue and Customs have confirmed that it intends to shut 130 offices across the country - including those in Galashiels and Hawick.

The problems facing the Borders textiles industry have been raised at the Scottish Parliament.

LOTHIAN and Borders Fire Service has denied ignoring local businesses in the redevelopment of Hawick Fire Station.

Inside the Scottish Borders, there is a town called Galashiels that is widely known for its textile factories and the Hariot-Watt University's Textile and Design School.

Blizzards have swept across southern England threatening the worst disruption of the winter so far and there could be even more snow to come.

MORE than 170 jobs are under threat after a Borders-based cashmere manufacturer announced it has entered administration.