Wool, Woven and Wild
Week: 48 | 27th November 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsCreation Mill has just announced plans for a new festival called ‘Wool, Woven and Wild’ which will take place in Langholm at the end of February. The festival will include stalls focusing on local wool, textiles and our natural landscape.…
Wind Farms versus the Eskdalemuir seismic array
Week: 47 | 20th November 2025 | Community NewsLocal MP calls for extra protections for monitoring station New planning rules being considered by the UK Government must protect vital defence infrastructure such as the seismic monitoring system at Eskdalemuir. That was the demand this week from Dumfriesshire MP David…
End of an era for Langholm Girls FC
Week: 47 | 20th November 2025 | Football SportThe 13th of November saw the end of an era at Langholm Girls Football Club when many of the current U14 team played their last game for the club. Four years ago to the night, many of the girls were part…
Pudsey's Primary Pals
Week: 47 | 20th November 2025 | Arts and EntertainmentLangholm Primary School supported children in need last week and raised £300.Connie Laidlaw (right) completed a sponsored walk and sold stickers for Children in Need and raised £159. Read much more in this week’s E&L available at your Newsagent or…
ACTS looking for volunteer drivers
Week: 47 | 20th November 2025 | Lifestyle NewsAnnandale Community Transport Services (ACTS) is seeking volunteer drivers. If you have a clean driving licence, a few spare hours, and a desire to make a real difference in your community you might be able to help. The organisation is…
Many 'Treats' in store for Langholm's new Emporium
Week: 47 | 20th November 2025 | Community E&L LifePopular local businessman expands his horizons with new venture John Reid, locally known as Treats, has opened an emporium on Drove Road, Langholm. John still has a store for his second-hand furniture down on Waverley Road but has now opened…
Third flood in a month leads to urgent calls for a solution
Securing the A7 at Townfoot from flooding must be a…
Oxygen Conservation have wind farm ideas.
Letters have been sent to all Copshaw households informing them…
Joss is selected for regional school football team
Congratulations to Langholm Academy S3 pupil, Joss Skelton,who has been…
Eskdale & Liddesdale remembers
Remembrance Sunday marked in both valleys8-page supplement in this week’s…
Caroline in tears at the kindness of everyone
Community in mourning at sad loss of Sam Cropper Copshaw…
Muckle Bang brings Muckle Folk
Over 3,500 people attend Langholm’s Big Bang to see a…
Sports Centre project closes
For the past few months the project to open a…
MURTHOLM NO MORE!
Widespread disappointment as Loreburn Housing reneges on its promises for…
Convincing win for Langholm Girls' FC
By Calum GrahamOn Sunday, our Under 14s made the journey…
Turnip growers seek to revive the lowly neep
“Neeps Rising: Scotland’s rooted revolution!” It used to be the…
Chloe and Scott tie the knot
Langholm couple Chloe Johnstone and Scott Collins were married in…
Bloch Wind Farm £27m community benefit package
RES, a British company has joined forces with local Community…
Bus Network review
Week: 44 | 30th October 2025 | Canonbie Community Eskdalemuir Lifestyle NewsCouncil officers are recommending to the Economy and Infrastructure Committee next Tuesday the scope of a piece of work to consider options for the development of the bus network in Dumfries and Galloway. The officers propose that a transport specialist…
Astonishing Alphorn music comes to the Buccleuch
Week: 43 | 29th October 2025 | Arts and Entertainment NewsMark Hallam presents Mountain Adventures 2: The music As described in last week’s E&L, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 12th November Langholm Rotarian and adventurer Mark Hallam will be presenting alpine journeys on foot, crampons, paraglider, via ferrata, skis, and music…
BT phone changes will seriously hinder emergency communication
Week: 43 | 23rd October 2025 | Community Eskdalemuir NewsRecent incident faced in Eskdalemuir could have acute repercussions in our many rural communities The Eskdalemuir resilience group is concerned about communication with local people if there is an emergency such as a storm that knocks out the electricity for…
St Kilda’s sheep ‘protected’; Langholm Moor goats ‘feral’
Week: 43 | 23rd October 2025 | E&L Life Farming and Environment NewcastletonScottish Government accused of “muddled thinking” The Scottish Government has been accused of “muddled thinking” by the Newcastleton-based Wild Goat Conservation Trust and following the government’s decision to rebut calls by Vets for sustainable management of Soay sheep on St…
One of highest scores at Milntown for many years
Week: 43 | 23rd October 2025 | Rugby SportLangholm team in total control over Dalkeith By Kenneth Pool Langholm RFC welcomed Dalkeith Rugby Club to Milntown on Saturday for the 6th East League 1 fixture of the season. With only one away defeat so far Langholm were keen…
Fire strategy urgently needed
Week: 43 | 23rd October 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentScotland needs a country-wide Integrated Fire Management Strategy to protect rare species and habitats.That’s the call being made by Scottish Land & Estates which says wildfires are becoming more common in Scotland.SLE Director of Moorland Ross Ewing, says the fires…
Hallpath flooding petition
A petition and letter from the residents of Hallpath and…
Concerns grow over town’s road safety and gateway signs
BEAR representative tours problem sites on High Street, with Cllr…
Royal Mail sponsors girls' new 'Kit for Kids'
GIRLS’ FOOTBALL In 2024, Royal Mail launched a new programme…
Prostate cancer blood tests available to to men aged 40+
Langholm Alliance launches Scotland’s first community-based tests This initiative follows…
Derek Johnson breaks Langholm Legion appearance record with 536 appearances for the club
Last weekend Derek Johnson made history by surpassing Martin Thomlinson’s…
Amy, first of the season, causes Townfoot chaos
Resident Mark Hallam reports on the damage done by the…
Langholm Karate Club celebrates 35 years
Rokudan Phil Gunn has trained many successful students On Saturday…
200 walkers hit the trail for the Umbrella Walk
Storm Amy behaved to allow the Rotary Club of Langholm’s…
Balance of nature cited as need for goat cull announced
Goat population of 800-900 has reached a concerning level The…
Perturbing disappearance of Langholm’s Golden Eagles
Police are concerned that Tarras and Wren have come to…
Official plans submitted for Irvine House Holiday Lodges
After local enthusiasm for the project, last year, Buccleuch have…
Much-loved music festival has new team at the helm
Fresh committee have lots of ideas to carry the event…
SRUC’s £21m project has a new Director
Week: 39 | 25th September 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentPauline has supported innovative projects from concept to delivery The Digital Dairy Chain has appointed a new Programme Director. Pauline Murray has been Innovation Broker Project Manager within the £21 million project, which is led by SRUC from the Barony…
Local Derby sees a win for Harlequins
Week: 39 | 25th September 2025 | News SportIt was looking good for Langholm until last-minute penalty Langholm RFC took on Hawick Harlequins in round 1 of the national shield competition at Milntown on Saturday. Having beaten East League leaders Dunbar RFC the week before hopes were high…
Umbrella Walkers to step out for big Rotary event
Week: 39 | 25th September 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community E&L LifeSince its inception, the sponsored walk has raised of £390,000Rotary Club of Langholm Umbrella Walk Saturday 4th October 2025 The Umbrella Walk has been running successfully since its introduction in 1998 by the late Alastair Davies, who was at that…
Langholm's locked and lacklustre lavvies
Week: 38 | 18th September 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsBut behind the headline lies a more serious issue Following complaints about the public toilets at the Kilngreen we paid a visit. In the space of ten minutes at least a dozen people made a comfort stop there on their…
Donaldson penalty secures home win against Dunbar
Week: 38 | 18th September 2025 | Rugby SportHelped by new team shirts sponsored by Cullen Kilshaw A much-changed Langholm side played a great game of rugby at Milntown on Saturday to secure a hard fought but well-deserved victory over top of the table Dunbar RFC. Before the…
Goat Petition reaches Scottish Parliament
Week: 38 | 18th September 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsBoard gives sympathetic hearing after 13,000 signatures The Wild Goat Conservation Trust has thanked its many supporters after their petition to save the wild goats on Langholm Moor was given a sympathetic hearing at the Scottish Parliament’s Petitions Board. The…
David Corrie Calvert MBE 1940 - 2025 : Obituary
Popular bandsman and Langholmite leaves behind a huge musical legacy…
Public Service Excellence award for Councillor Archie
Recognition for outstanding contribution to local government Councillor Archie Dryburgh…
Langholm Athlete runs in Edinburgh Championships
Aoiffion rounds off a fantastic year with two more medals…
Westerkirk Horticultural Society: A fine affair!
In this chaotic world, full of nonsense, a day at…
Our caprine friends are notoriously hard to count
There could be as many as 900 goats roaming the…
Langholm Pipe Band stars at Braemar Highland Games
King and Queen were ‘blown away’ by the Muckle Toon’s…
No comment from the public on Kilngreen’s transport hub
Potential risks of cycling on an E-bike down the A7…
Great start in first league match of new season
Tranent succumbs to LRFC in impressive away win Langholm RFC…
Holm Show 2025
Copshaw’s big day expertly captured by the Camera Club Words…
Dumfries & Galloway’s bold vision for future housing needs
Councils new Local Housing Strategy sets out five key priorities…
Certain Bluetongue controls to be relaxed
The Scottish Government has announced it’s to relax certain controls…
Fly-tipping in the area reaching epidemic level
Most roads around Langholm have seen junk dumped Fly tipping…
