Scotland’s orchestra, digitally
Week: 44 | 3rd November 2020 | Arts and Entertainment ReviewTHE Royal Scottish National Orchestra is bringing audiences its first digital season over the coming months. The performances will be filmed live for audiences in the RSNO’s studio. The concerts are a reimagining of its 2020:21 season and feature many…
Community buys Langholm Moor
Week: 44 | 2nd November 2020 | Community NewsSOUTHERN Scotland’s largest community buyout is set to go ahead after one of the most ambitious community fundraising campaigns ever held. The Langholm Initiative has agreed a deal with Buccleuch to buy 5,200 acres of Langholm Moor after raising the…
Day earns extension to save retail empire
Week: 44 | 1st November 2020 | NewsHigh Court grants EWM Group two more weeks to save firm
Flu vaccine campaign for over 65s is on target
Week: 44 | 30th October 2020 | NewsEligible patients will receive a letter soon for an appointment
Great new plans for old favourite
Week: 44 | 29th October 2020 | NewsOwners have fresh outlook for Langholm’s Crown Hotel
Pick up a pumpkin
Week: 43 | 26th October 2020 | Community NewsTHERE’LL be fewer ghostly goings-on this Halloween but don’t despair. To cheer up everyone, Langholm Regeneration Group has organised some autumnal fun for the town’s younger generation. From this Saturday the High Street shops and other businesses in the town…
Time is running out to buy town’s moorland
It’s a race to the finish as deadline of October…
Kelso’s quality field
Horseracing
Day of reckoning
EWM chain’s future is in doubt if group’s owner saves…
Flood Scheme Forum
RESIDENTS living in riverside properties in Langholm have voiced their…
Langholm Loves Local launched
LANGHOLM is bouncing back with a new initiative to make…
Luke takes league title
Bowling
New coronavirus rules will not help industry
Hotel owner criticises Scottish government for unclear message
Return to rugby is postponed for three months
CLUB and school rugby will not return to competition until…
Pandemic infects iconic retail brand
More unemployment as Day puts EWM Group in administration
Villagers welcome a 20mph limit trial
Newcastleton’s streets will be safer for pedestrians and drivers
EWM TO CLOSE 200 STORES IN NEXT FORTNIGHT
24,000 Jobs are at risk
Village sewage works due to open next spring
Canonbie 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
Week: 40 | 2nd October 2020 | NewsOlder people, young people and low-income families targeted
Flood protection order delayed by fresh study
Week: 40 | 1st October 2020 | NewsEnvironmental 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
South of Scotland Enterprise give huge boost to venture
Centre bids for funding to survive the long term
Langholm’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
Week: 35 | 2nd September 2020 | Farming and EnvironmentNFU Scotland and Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) are jointly reminding the public and businesses of their responsibility to not fly-tip in Scotland’s countryside. The call comes after a spate of incidents, including meat waste from a processing plant being…
Unfathomable planning rules
Week: 35 | 1st September 2020 | LettersI WISH, through your columns, to advise residents of a major application for forestry planting which will impact severely on our hills. For reasons I find unfathomable, where even a minor proposal for a property development or alteration requires planning…
£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
Scottish government awards funding to 28 innovative projects
Jobless warning
JUNE’S unemployment figures are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’…
