Scottish actor appeals for donations to moor
Week: 38 | 18th September 2020 | NewsGregor has good memories of raising his family in Langholm
Dyehouse cuts ten jobs as orders dry up
Week: 38 | 17th September 2020 | NewsCOVID-19 pandemic hits successful company’s customers
Plan launched to make south a greater place
Week: 37 | 15th September 2020 | NewsEnterprise body to make area centre for opportunity, innovation and growth
Seaweed and sparrows
Week: 37 | 14th September 2020 | Arts and EntertainmentMargaret Walty has opened her Autumn exhibition “Here be Dragons” at the Welcome to Langholm Hub. Running until Monday 5th October from 10am until 1.30pm, only three visitors at a time are allowed in to view the exhibition due to…
Volunteers needed to drive community car
Week: 37 | 11th September 2020 | Community NewsNew 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
Langholm’s popular performing arts venue is vital to economy
Academy’s head pupils
LANGHOLM and Canonbie Schools Cluster is delighted to announce the…
Church reopens for worship
By the Rev Dr. Robert Pickles
RAVE REVIEWS: Twice Brewed Inn, Bardon Mill
TWICE Brewed Inn sits on the edge of the Military…
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
Artists 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
Week: 32 | 7th August 2020 | NewsA CONFIDENTIAL online consultation service giving patients another way to access support is being launched at Canonbie medical practice next Wednesday, August 12. e-Consult will enable patients to seek help and support from their own home at a time convenient…
Town is a high priority
Week: 32 | 7th August 2020 | NewsLangholm does not rank the lowest in an index based on need
MARVELLOUS!
Week: 32 | 6th August 2020 | Common Riding NewsIT WAS dark when three horsemen were greeted by a small group of supporters at Tibbielugs last Friday. At 5am Langholm’s burgh standard was handed to semi-jubilee Cornet Stevie Ellwood and Roger Maxwell, chairman, urged him to: “Carry this flag…
Neighbourly celebrations
Week: 31 | 4th August 2020 | Common Riding NewsMOODLAW Point and Henry Street South neighbours gathered on Jennety’s Green to mark the occasion of Stevie Ellwood’s semi-jubilee. Every effort was made to observe social distancing regulations but, nonetheless, a grand time was had in the mixture of chilly…
Neighbourly celebrations
Week: 31 | 4th August 2020 | Common Riding NewsTHE neighbours in Academy Place and Douglas Terrace could not hold a traditional street party for Jubilee Cornet Neil Davidson. But they did not want to see this fantastic milestone go unmarked so, after Pipe Major Craig Irving piped Neil…
Partnership secures £2.1m for the south
Week: 31 | 3rd August 2020 | NewsScottish government awards funding to 28 innovative projects
Jobless warning
JUNE’S unemployment figures are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’…
Weaving company’s future in the balance
Management buy-out team seeks to progress talks with owner
Defibs are going live
Life-saving equipment will come with full instructions on use
Helping to ease the burden
By the Rev Scott McCarthy, minister of Garthamlock and Craigend…
Mill’s billionaire owner crippling suppliers, claim
But EWM says it has reached agreements with nearly all…
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
Week: 28 | 10th July 2020 | News3m fund will help the industry in southern Scotland to recover
Restrictions are lifted as outbreak contained
Week: 28 | 9th July 2020 | NewsEskdale residents are now free to travel more than five miles
Council implements post-virus recovery
Week: 27 | 7th July 2020 | NewsDUMFRIES and Galloway Council’s leader says it is unlikely its services will return fully to pre-pandemic levels. Councillor Elaine Murray said: “The council has sustained essential services through the emergency lockdown, despite challenging circumstances. “We’ve adapted our delivery models and…
Sports centre plans are top of the range
Week: 27 | 2nd July 2020 | NewsPublic are asked to choose their favourite from a trio of options
Walking through the lockdown
Week: 26 | 1st July 2020 | Lifestyle ReportersMY LOCKDOWN walk on day 54, Saturday, May 16, took us downstream to Hagg-on-Esk along the banks of the Esk onto The Hollows, to Claygate and back home along the Tarras Road. I’ve always enjoyed getting out for walks in…
Gormley is back in the saddle
Week: 26 | 30th June 2020 | Horse Racing SportFLAT-RACING jockey Jamie Gormley is back in the saddle and has had 13 rides over 14 days from Redcar to Newmarket. While there have been no winners, he had two second places for his boss Iain Jardine of Carrutherstown. At…
Tribute paid to armed forces past and present
Special week to remember those who serve and have served
Closure claim denied
But NHS says it must adapt to meet threat of…
Back to school
Pupils will return to full-time schooling
Langholm ride-outs will definitely be off
Castle Craigs Club sets out its reasons for cancellation of…
Designs ready to go to the public
THE group working on the transformation of Townfoot sports centre…
Windfarm is poorly sited and designed
Heritage body highlights significant adverse effects on valleys
More rural housing options are needed
More houses and more affordable homes will benefit everyone
Villagers land £850k
Land Fund award will enable Newcastleton to buy Holm Hill
Four months to raise £5.4m to buy our moor
Langholm offered £1m grant but time is tight to raise…
Have your say on X95
BORDERS Buses, which runs the X95 in Eskdale, continues to…
A win-win relationship which breeds success
Rugby
£1m in grants to help rural schools connect
Rural businesses and residents to get better internet access, too
