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Eskdalemuir's Hub generate Eowyn warmth

Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Community Eskdalemuir News

But Scottish Power falls short of supporting othervulnerable customers after four days without power Eskdalemuir community hub created a resilience plan after Storm Arwen in 2021 when many people in that area were left without power. Perhaps as a result…

Return to the Far Pavilions for Helen

Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Lifestyle News

Another Himalayan adventure for gardening columnist Helen Knowles Life is full of surprises and I really hadn’t expected to find myself back in the Himalayas last year but in October myself and 5 companions set off on a botanical expedition…

Copshaw on the the cusp of red and amber for Éowyn

Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Community E&L Life Newcastleton News

Health Centre provided a Warm Hub throughout the storm By Gilly Fraser Storm Eowyn started causing problems for Newcastleton even before the first ferocious blast of wind hit the village. The Holm Show Coffee Morning – always a top favourite in…

Update on long-awaited Townfoot Sports Centre

Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Community Sport

Presentation of latest designs sketches for project The Townfoot Sports Centre working group will be at the Buccleuch Centre on the  evening of Tuesday 4th February to present to the community updated design sketches for the refurbishment of the old…

Touching tributes to an incredible young man

Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Community News

Both the Langholm Primary and Secondary schools and the Xcel Project paid very moving tributes to the Lewis Chapman this week. Lewis was killed tragically in a car accident in December. They said: “We are thinking of former pupil Lewis…

Langholm’s firefighters are the pride of D & G

Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Community News

Best Dumfries and Galloway Fire Station for 2024/2025 awarded to the Muckle Toon We reported in the E&L Advertiser at the end of last year that Langholm came out as the best Dumfries and Galloway First Station for 2024/2025 following…

Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025

Langholm deny Dalkeith a four-try bonus point

The 61-15 triumph includes a hat-trick from Donaldson By Jason…

Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025

Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans

The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…

Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025

Langholm’s ‘model’ citizen hits the highlights in Milan

Proud Langholm Mum, Deborah Laidlaw, set off on a four-flight…

Week: 03 | 16th January 2025

Langholm Housing Needs survey – the results are in!

Exceptional response captures the views of 24% of the town’s…

Week: 03 | 16th January 2025

Langholm man honoured at Northampton Saints

Fitting and thoughtful gesture to John Elliot by former clubs…

Week: 03 | 16th January 2025

Farming land remains in great demand

Farmland market edged up slightly during 2024 Demand for farmland…

Week: 03 | 16th January 2025

Ewes SWI start the Burns ball rolling with a highly entertaining celebration

The annual celebration of the Bard went ahead with a…

Week: 03 | 16th January 2025

'Carter's Rest'

…US President in Langholm After the news of the death…

Week: 02 | 9th January 2025

Canonbie trust has its eye on Cross Keys Hotel

Potential purchase of historical inn presented to local residents Canonbie…

Week: 02 | 9th January 2025

Skelton surpasses but Idem impresses

Review of last meeting of 2024 and preview of the…

Week: 02 | 9th January 2025

Hilltop Leaf responds to questions about the project

CEO Hamish Clegg brings us up to speed with the…

Week: 02 | 9th January 2025

Copshaw's golden boy adds to his medal haul

Paralympian Stephen Clegg receives an MBE in King’s New Years…

Langholm Fire Station wins ‘best in D&G’

Week: 51 | 19th December 2024 | Community News

Audit of regional facilities puts Langholm on the top rung! Another public service in Langholm has come out with a glowing report. We recently reported on the audit of care at the Thomas Hope hospital which was very positive. Now…

Muckle Toon serves up a treat with Pinocchio... Panto Italiano!

Week: 51 | 19th December 2024 | Arts and Entertainment Lifestyle

Capacity audiences at each performance as 1,250 people attend Centre Stage’s latest blockbuster showcasing a wee toon with muckle talent If you were one of the lucky 1,250 people who piled in to The Buccleuch Centre last week to see…

Churches unite with Liddesdale

Week: 51 | 19th December 2024 | E&L Life

The Reverend Morag Crossan has announced that from 1st January there will be a union of Langholm, Ewes, Eskdalemuir, Westerkirk and Liddesdale parishes. Morag will be the new minister for this newly created charge of Eskdale and Liddesdale. She looks…

Cumberland commits to Langholm High Street

Week: 50 | 12th December 2024 | Community News

Building society seeks to assure customers that it has no plans to follow the course of the other banks in the town The Cumberland Building Society has underlined its commitment to Langholm as the town’s last remaining bank prepares to…

Nicol scores on this 350th appearance for Langholm

Week: 50 | 12th December 2024 | Rugby Sport

AND gets man of the match too! Emerging rugby legend. Langholm RFC took on Ross High RFC at a cold and very windy Milntown on Saturday. Despite the overnight heavy rain, the pitch was playable but soft. The grandstand was…

Heritage Centre Questionnaire

Week: 50 | 12th December 2024 | Arts and Entertainment Lifestyle

A local group, under the auspices of The Langholm Alliance, is currently exploring the possibility of opening a Heritage and Genealogycentre in a vacant site in the centre of Langholm.They feel that with the abundance of history that Langholm and…

Week: 50 | 12th December 2024

Serious inaction by D&G Council

Letter to the Editor I am writing again to express…

Week: 49 | 5th December 2024

Busy first meeting for new community council

Unclear how access to LEWCC finances will be resolved and…

Week: 49 | 5th December 2024

Holyrood rally calls for investment in agriculture

NFUS leads farmers and crofters in Edinburgh protest Hundreds of…

Week: 49 | 5th December 2024

Bike Seven celebrates 15 years in business

Bike business with strong Langholm following celebrates 15th anniversary By…

Week: 49 | 5th December 2024

Creation Mill to create their own textile centre

Inspirational Langholm firm take their business a stage further Creation…

Week: 48 | 28th November 2024

Another blow to Langholm as Skinyards set to close

Up to 10 jobs to be lost as 176-year-old employer…

Week: 48 | 28th November 2024

Joe the butcher runs 50km to make a difference

Amazing gesture of kindness Well-known Langholm butcher and Longtown man,…

Week: 48 | 28th November 2024

Would you pay £272 for a Flat White Coffee?

An innovative farmer from Mossgiel explains why Well, you might…

Week: 48 | 28th November 2024

A new future for three local churches

By Anthony Lane Many readers of the E&L will be…

Week: 48 | 28th November 2024

King Charles honours dedicated Langholm bandsman with MBE

David Calvert is presented with his medal by Lord Lieutenant…

Week: 47 | 21st November 2024

Erskine Church is on a downward ‘spire-al’…

After contact with the owner, it appears thatthe eyesore will…

Week: 46 | 14th November 2024

Buccleuch confirms its commitment to 150 lodges

Center Parc’s plans for development of site near Hawick will…

Langholm Girls 14s pluck a win from Galloway Thistle

Week: 46 | 14th November 2024 | Girls Football News Sport

By Calum Graham On Sunday, Langholm Girls FC welcomed Galloway Thistle from Newton Stewart to Langholm for this SWFL Rose Reilly League fixture.Following a 2-1 win away from home in August at Blairmount Park, we knew we were in for…

The human cost of ‘progress’

Week: 46 | 14th November 2024 | Farming and Environment Gilly Fraser Newcastleton

Gilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement in the Newcastleton hills has turned into a nightmare A couple who moved to Liddesdale five years ago say plans by Scottish Energy for a new cross-border energy connection are…

Aoiffion & Lara are Dumfries & Galloway Life award winners

Week: 46 | 14th November 2024 | Arts and Entertainment Eskdalemuir News

Locals are well represented in glamorous, district-wide event Two Dumfries and Galloway Life Awards 2024 came to Eskdale last Friday night at the award evening held in Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries.The Sports Person of the Year award went to young…

At the going down of the sun and in the morning…

Week: 46 | 14th November 2024 | Community Lifestyle

Eskdale remembers… Langholm, once more, remembered the fallen of all conflicts in its usual solemn and dignified manner.The Remembrance Day parade left Buccleuch Square at 10.15am led by Langholm Pipe Band and proceeded along the usual route via Henry Street,…

Will Center Parc’s Hawick plans affect Irvine House?

Week: 45 | 7th November 2024 | Canonbie E&L Life News

Buccleuch assures the E&L that they are fully committed to the 500-lodge holiday park south of Langholm Center Parcs announced on Tuesday that it is planning a new development between Hawick and Selkirk working with the Buccleuch Group. The proposal…

Barony’s Dairy Nexus is a Borderlands first

Week: 45 | 7th November 2024 | Farming and Environment

The multi-million-pound Dairy Nexus project at the Barony campus will be officially opened this month.The scheme has been set up with funding of up to £8m from the UK and Scottish Governments and £738,000 from South of Scotland Enterprise and…

Week: 45 | 7th November 2024

Toss a coin into Kelso’s Wishing Well Chase Day

Under new rules, racing has to be completed by 2pm…

Week: 45 | 7th November 2024

Stars in Their Eyes and performing in their hearts!

Local entertainers take to the stage to strut their stuff…

Week: 44 | 31st October 2024

Castleholm is officially in community hands

Landmark deal sees cherished land transferred to the people of…

Week: 44 | 31st October 2024

Hope Hospital shines in Excellence in Care inspection

The Thomas Hope hospital in Langholm recently had a six-month…

Week: 44 | 31st October 2024

Kennedy bows out of NFUS with fiery speech

Hard-hitting rhetoric at President’s last conference NFU Scotland Chief Martin…

Week: 44 | 31st October 2024

Polysport venue helps keep Copshaw folk in top form

MSP is shown round The Holm’s health and fitness facility…

Week: 44 | 31st October 2024

Forresters couldn’t see the wood for the trees

Another robust performance by LRFC on home soil this time…

Week: 43 | 24th October 2024

Emergency services rescue woman from chilly River Esk

Firefighters from Langholm, Annan, Dumfries and Gala required as water…

Week: 43 | 24th October 2024

Punk Icon to visit Buccleuch

Johnny Rotten will sell-out soon even though it’s a year…

Week: 43 | 24th October 2024

Vital issues addressed at this year’s AgriExpo

This year’s Borderway Agri Expo features two seminars focusing on…

Week: 43 | 24th October 2024

Disappointment with LINK’S response to cash worries

Cash machine company not a lot of help in finding…

Week: 43 | 24th October 2024

Stunning last-minute win for Langholm XV

Second-half determination turns the tables on Haddington By Kenneth Pool…

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