
EWM TO CLOSE 200 STORES IN NEXT FORTNIGHT
Week: 41 | 9th October 2020 | News24,000 Jobs are at risk

Village sewage works due to open next spring
Week: 41 | 9th October 2020 | NewsCanonbie and the River Esk will benefit from better treatment

Housing developer is ready to move onto site
Week: 41 | 8th October 2020 | NewsPlan put in for initial works, including improved A7 junction

Diggle Boy makes it a hat-trick
Week: 40 | 6th October 2020 | Hounds SportHounds

Rescued mill has new name and big plans
Week: 40 | 6th October 2020 | NewsDrove Weavers in Langholm earns praise and admiration from MSP

Keeping active during Covid
Week: 40 | 2nd October 2020 | SportSTEPS are being taken to encourage school pupils to be active during the COVID-19 crisis. Restrictions are in place on the type of sport and physical activity which can be delivered during physical education in schools. Annandale and Eskdale Active…

Digital skills project is launched in Langholm
Older people, young people and low-income families targeted

Flood protection order delayed by fresh study
Environmental impact assessment will take six months to do

Team appointed to regenerate Copshaw
Development officer to lead transformation of Buccleuch House

Four more defibrillators go live
FOUR more defibrillators have been installed as part of a…

Border Brae takes the honours
PUPPY produce day was held at Sewingshields last Saturday. As…

Centre design rethink after public response
And council calls for extra study after identifying flood risk

Village completes historic land buy-out
Newcastleton trust buys 750 acres of Holm Hill from Buccleuch

Scottish actor appeals for donations to moor
Gregor has good memories of raising his family in Langholm

Dyehouse cuts ten jobs as orders dry up
COVID-19 pandemic hits successful company’s customers

Plan launched to make south a greater place
Enterprise body to make area centre for opportunity, innovation and…

Seaweed and sparrows
Margaret Walty has opened her Autumn exhibition “Here be Dragons”…

Volunteers needed to drive community car
New Caddy will be used to transport residents to appointments

Another million given to moorland buyout
Week: 37 | 10th September 2020 | NewsSouth of Scotland Enterprise give huge boost to venture

Centre bids for funding to survive the long term
Week: 36 | 7th September 2020 | Arts and Entertainment NewsLangholm’s popular performing arts venue is vital to economy

Academy’s head pupils
Week: 36 | 6th September 2020 | News SchoolLANGHOLM and Canonbie Schools Cluster is delighted to announce the head boy and girl for Langholm Academy in 2020. They are Iona Stevens and Callum Jeffrey. The depute head pupils this year are Cerys Gough and Ben Winter. The pupil…

Church reopens for worship
Week: 36 | 4th September 2020 | Community NewsBy the Rev Dr. Robert Pickles

RAVE REVIEWS: Twice Brewed Inn, Bardon Mill
Week: 36 | 3rd September 2020 | Arts and Entertainment ReviewTWICE Brewed Inn sits on the edge of the Military Road (B6318) which runs parallel to Hadrian’s Wall from Heddon-on-the-wall and eventually comes out at Skippers Bridge. After an hour’s circular walk on the wall from Steel Rigg to Sycamore…

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
Week: 36 | 3rd September 2020 | NewsArtists impression of how proposed flood defences may look

Rotten meat costs £2k to clear away
NFU Scotland and Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) are jointly…

Unfathomable planning rules
I WISH, through your columns, to advise residents of a…

£500k boost for moor
Family foundation breathes new life into bid for nature reserve

Langholm’s last mill has a brighter future
Well-known designer will create jobs and establish new brand

Nicol’s enterprising role to regenerate town
Former Langholm man will deliver Langholm’s action plan

Dance scholar rewarded
A PERFORMING arts student from Langholm has won a coveted…

Centre announces an August reopening
Coffees and lunches are back on the menu – at…

Canonbie surgery
A CONFIDENTIAL online consultation service giving patients another way to…

Town is a high priority
Langholm does not rank the lowest in an index based…

MARVELLOUS!
IT WAS dark when three horsemen were greeted by a…

Neighbourly celebrations
MOODLAW Point and Henry Street South neighbours gathered on Jennety’s…

Neighbourly celebrations
THE neighbours in Academy Place and Douglas Terrace could not…

Partnership secures £2.1m for the south
Week: 31 | 3rd August 2020 | NewsScottish government awards funding to 28 innovative projects

Jobless warning
Week: 31 | 31st July 2020 | NewsJUNE’S unemployment figures are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and Dumfries and Galloway is still nowhere near the likely peak, an MSP has warned. Colin Smyth, South of Scotland MSP, is urging the UK and Scottish governments to take…

Weaving company’s future in the balance
Week: 31 | 30th July 2020 | NewsManagement buy-out team seeks to progress talks with owner

Defibs are going live
Week: 30 | 29th July 2020 | NewsLife-saving equipment will come with full instructions on use

Helping to ease the burden
Week: 30 | 24th July 2020 | News ReportersBy the Rev Scott McCarthy, minister of Garthamlock and Craigend Parish Church of Scotland, Glasgow

Mill’s billionaire owner crippling suppliers, claim
Week: 30 | 23rd July 2020 | NewsBut EWM says it has reached agreements with nearly all its manufacturers

Rose’s Wardrobe makes lunar loveliness
Langholm fashion company embraces Neil Armstrong’s tartan

Langholm hotelier backs VAT cut to five per cent
THE Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s package of measures, which he outlined…

Six-figure grant will transform building
Bunkhouse and digital hub at Buccleuch House in Newcastleton

Buccleuch boss pledges to get project to the line
Benny Higgins criticises Scottish Land Fund for its rigidity over…

Winner demolishes a bewildered Derby field
And Langholm Common Riding followers debate the shade of the…

A mahoosive reduction!
By David McVittie I, LIKE most of the country, if…

Bob: a Langholm luminary
Robert McLure (1951-2020)

Tourism resurgence
3m fund will help the industry in southern Scotland to…

Restrictions are lifted as outbreak contained
Eskdale residents are now free to travel more than five…

Council implements post-virus recovery
DUMFRIES and Galloway Council’s leader says it is unlikely its…

Sports centre plans are top of the range
Public are asked to choose their favourite from a trio…

Walking through the lockdown
MY LOCKDOWN walk on day 54, Saturday, May 16, took…