Windfarm company take on MoD in court
Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | NewsPetition on seismic budget allocation will go to judicial review A DEVELOPER of commercial windfarms, which applied for planning permission for a windfarm within the consultation zone of the Eskdalemuir seismological monitoring station, has succeeded in petitioning a court for…
What a boring survey
Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | NewsANOTHER Clap for Carers is coming up tonight. It’s strangely emotional, a sincere and deeply-felt expression of gratitude and solidarity for NHS and all care workers.It gets bigger and noisier in Langholm every week. As well as the message it…
A look around at life in lockdown
Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | Community News“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season…
Kitchen is dumped and set on fire
Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | Farming and Environment NewsA COMPLETE kitchen has been dumped and set on fire near Newcastleton.Police are appealing for information after the incident near Whitropefoot on Thursday, April 16 between 12.30pm and 2.30pm. Officers want to speak to the driver of a white Ford…
Petition calls for Day to reinstate workers
Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | NewsStaff made redundant should be furloughed, say MSP and MP A PETITION has been launched in Fife urging billionaire businessman Philip Day to furlough staff ditched just before coronavirus lockdown.Mr Day’s Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group has refused to re-employ and…
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Week: 18 | 1st May 2020 | LettersAS THE lockdown continues, it is understandable that everyone is becoming increasingly anxious and stressed and some frustrations are being vented through the Langholm COVID-19 support group page on Facebook. As a support page, it is our job to support…
Big benefits for community
Many groups in the area receive funding from the Ewe…
Rural testing pledge
NHS to expand its service into hot-spots in rural communities…
Tributes to Scott
A lovely, humble, young friend to many THE people of…
Nature wins in £6m sale of special moor
A PRICE tag of £6m has been put on more…
Bags of love for the NHS
A LABOUR of love to support NHS workers has sewing…
McArthur’s visit still on the cards
Athletics COMMONWEALTH Games athlete Holly McArthur will keep her date…
Gardening is good for you
A catch-up with E&L gardening columnist Helen Knowles GARDENING is good…
Couple’s wedding is put on hold by virus
Langholm bride and groom will have to wait to make…
Farmers count on their resident birds
SIXTY farmers in Scotland recorded 81 species on 81,362 acres…
MSP supports EWM redundant workers
Willie Rennie has appealed to Philip Day to reverse the…
£83,000 for Eskdale
NEARLY £83,000 is being pumped into Eskdale’s economy through the…
100 not out for Jean
CENTENARIAN Jean McKie celebrated her 100th birthday on Monday with…
No pause on flood scheme disappoints
Week: 17 | 24th April 2020 | NewsTHE council team in charge of developing Langholm’s flood protection scheme has squashed a rumour that the project is on hold for six months.Work will continue as planned, despite Dumfries and Galloway Council putting so much of its resources into…
Action on south
Week: 17 | 24th April 2020 | NewsTeam SOS is ready to support businesses WORKING as one team to support businesses and communities in southern Scotland is the top priority of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders Councils and the new South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE).That’s the…
Jobs at risk at mill after orders dry up
Week: 17 | 23rd April 2020 | NewsMOST of the 16 employees at Drove Weaving in Langholm are at risk of redundancy, it has been revealed. Lochcarron of Scotland has announced that Drove Weaving will enter into a period of consultation to consider the cessation of all…
EWM cancels orders with Asian suppliers
Week: 16 | 21st April 2020 | NewsMillions of pounds worth of lost business has been catastrophic EDINBURGH Woollen Mill is among a number of British retailers to have collectively cancelled £1.4bn and suspended another £1bn of orders from Bangladesh.More than a million Bangaldeshi garment workers have…
Be responsible on walks on farmland
Week: 16 | 21st April 2020 | Farming and EnvironmentAN APPEAL has been issued to the public, particularly dog walkers, to be responsible when out walking during the lambing season.Colin Smyth, South Scotland MSP and Scottish Labour’s rural economy spokesperson, Rachael Hamilton, Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire MSPand shadow cabinet…
Hartleys keep calm and canter on during crisis
Week: 16 | 21st April 2020 | Equestrian SportEquestrian UNTIL a few weeks ago the Hartley family were looking forward to a packed schedule of competition with their horses and ponies.Teenager Jackie and her dad, Steve, are well-known competitors on the local scene, while mum, Kath, prefers hacking…
“Bomber” command
Rugby PROFESSIONAL rugby player Robin “Bomber” Hislop has secured his…
European connections
by Freya McCallof Langholm I CONTACTED Lea Moyon, a French…
Boost for flood victims
FORTY households in Newcastleton, hit by floods during Storm Dennis…
Langholmite in lockdown
By Ken Turk WE ARE now into our fourth week…
Nurse catches virus from hospital patient
Langholm woman had sore throat, cough and was short of…
Eggs-actly what’s needed
THE Easter Bunny did not let down the children of…
Langholm gets £60k boost for shopfronts
A TOWN centre improvement scheme, which provides half of the…
On the frontline
Paramedic is committed to the service ONG-SERVING paramedic Hazel Jeffrey…
Full support promised after exams cancelled
Headteacher pledges that no exam pupil will be disadvantaged. NO…
Rugby season declared null and void
Rugby The SRU has declared the current rugby season null…
Horseracing BRIAN Hughes, who rides regularly for James Ewart Racing…
Libby switches focus to 2021
Athletics CANCELLATION of this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, due…
RAVE REVIEWS: Travel: Petra, Jordan
Week: 15 | 13th April 2020 | Arts and Entertainment ReviewReviewers: Tony Parker & Avril Bannatyne AT THE end of February Avril and I fulfilled lifelong ambitions to visit the ‘Rose red city half as old as time’ – Petra.We had earlier joined the Fred Olsen cruise ship Boudicca in…
Kia ora from Aotearoa
Week: 15 | 13th April 2020 | Reportersby Heather Kennedyof Newcastleton HELLO from New Zealand or Land of the Long White Cloud, as the Maori name translates.I am a junior doctor, currently working in the city of Christchurch on the South Island. As someone who grew up…
Centre progress
Week: 15 | 13th April 2020 | NewsPROGRESS on redeveloping the Townfoot Sports Centre in Langholm continues.During the COVID-19 pandemic the working group, who manage and co-ordinate the redevelopment project, are working from home and making progress, aided by consultant Robert Potter & Partners.All the field surveys…
Rainbows shine a light
Week: 15 | 13th April 2020 | NewsTHE rainbow pictures, which have been appearing in windows all over Langholm, have inspired an idea for a competition.Alison Hotchkiss, a counsellor for Langholm and Canonbie Schools Cluster, said: “It all started by seeing the lovely rainbow windows already in…
EWM denies it has treated staff badly
Week: 15 | 10th April 2020 | NewsRedundancies were “out of the blue” and “heartless”, it’s claimed STAFF made redundant by Edinburgh Woollen Mill say the company was heartless not to re-employ them after the UK government introduced a scheme to retain workers laid off because of…
Care for our carers
Week: 15 | 10th April 2020 | LettersNEW immigration rules are coming into place, barring “unskilled” workers from the UK.The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the idea of “unskilled” people being of less value to our country is not only uncompassionate but evidently untrue.As well as those on…
Don’t ignore vital grants
Council encourages application ESKDALE businesses could miss out on emergency…
Virus setback for Murtholm housing
Scheme is delayed by three months but could still be…
Nostalgia
25 years:£420 boost for summer outing Around £420 was raised…
Brown’s the Butcher opens
A welcome new shop as High Street starts to make…
Day’s tree appeal dismissed
PHILLIP Day, owner of The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, has lost…
London in lockdown
A Langholm man’s perspective on the capital in quarantine By…
Amazing support from the community
Langholm COVID-19 support group garners 900 members We are living…
The Rainbow Connection
Following the coronavirus lockdown, many families in Langholm have decided…
AMAZING SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY
We are living in a time of crisis and it’s…
Restaurant Review : The Boathouse Glencaple
Reviewer: Clare Rogerson Boreland We pulled up into a nice…
Lockdown in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Rhea Cavers AFTER a couple of months of travelling round…
Walk the Walk
E&L Life columnist Gavin Graham has an ambition to walk…
