Jedburgh, Scotland News

St Boswells Many a hillwalker may be called Craig or Ben, but the most appropriate name I knew until recently was that of my brother-in-law, Munro Dunn ... and yes he has completed all the Munros.

HUNDREDS of shoeboxes filled with gifts are on their way to make Christmas a little bit better for less fortunate children in Belarus, Crimea and Kyrgyzstan.

SNP candidate for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Paul Wheelhouse has hit out at the UK Government after a Sunday newspaper revealed savage cuts to the Army Cadet Force training budget.

Denholm's village drama group is to take its new two-act play Find The Lady on a short Borders tour.

FOR the second time this year Selkirk has lost out with its bid for some of the one-off A 60million the Scottish Government set aside for town centre regeneration projects in the current financial year.

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JEDBURGH town centre is to benefit from an award of 606,745 under the Scottish Government's Regeneration Fund SNP MSP Christine Grahame has confirmed.

A man has appeared in court accused of starting a blaze which caused damage of 20,000 to a house after a firework was pushed through its letterbox.

Marsali Taylor recounts the history of the Reverend John Turnbull, ill-fated minister of Tingwall parish.

ORGANISERS of a real ale festival are to go on an odyssey around Scotland collecting beer a ' by horsebox.

A NEW book showing Scotland from the air includes many Borders views. Among the places featured are Hermitage Castle, Hume Castle, Eckford, Stanhope, Habchester Hill Fort, Longcroft, Woden Law, Jedburgh, Marchmont House, Melrose and Paxton House.

THE region's barmiest fundraisers will be hoping they have a ghost of a chance of raising money for the Whizz Kidz charity on Saturday.

As of Monday, November 2, a reduced service will run between the two Borders towns to the capital.

By Lisette Johnston A FORMER soldier who was traumatised by the horrors of war helped launch an appeal for the charity that helped him turn his life around.

THE BORDERS has won nearly a quarter of the awards made for this year's Best kept War Memorials in Scotland.

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An excellent visitor centre contains artefacts from the abbey's past, and there is an interactive play area for younger visitors.

Members of a Borders presbytery of the Church of Scotland have backed plans for the region's first crematorium.

The Ancrum quarry would become a home to hundreds of birds of prey if the 1.5m Eagle Gardens project proceeds.