Repeat success at Kelso would be a dream come true for Hawick trainer
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Horse Racing SportBy Gordon Brown Ewan Whillans is dreaming of a repeat success with Cracking Rhapsody in the £120,000 bet365 Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso on Saturday. Twelve months ago, Scotland’s richest hurdle race – a handicap over two-miles – went to the…
NFUS retiterates its opposition to National Park in Galloway
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Farming and Environment NewsNFU Scotland has once again made clear its opposition to the creation of a new National Park in Galloway, and says the proposal lacks clear benefits for farmers, food producers, and the rural economy.Over the past three years, NFU Scotland…
D-day for Council Tax rises across the area
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Lifestyle NewsDumfries and Galloway Council will make decisions today about the budget for 2025/26 with three different proposals to consider. The Conservatives who are in the administration of the Council are proposing a council tax increase this year of 9.2% with…
THEY'RE GOING TO CULL THE GOATS!
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsIn what will be a hugely unpopular decision, Oxygen Conservation says it must reduce the numbers Wild goats on parts of Langholm Moor are to be culled by Oxygen Conservation.The company which owns twelve thousand acres of the land including…
Decisive Edinburgh win in shadow of Murrayfield
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | Rugby SportBonus point win as Wanderers succumb to LRFC tenacity League action was resumed on Saturday when Langholm RFC played Murrayfield Wanderers in the shadow of the national stadium. Langholm had narrowly beaten the Edinburgh side earlier this season, but a…
Grapes Bar and restaurant to close
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | E&L Life NewcastletonThe owners of the Grapes hotel in Newcastleton have confirmed that its Reivers Bar and Restaurant will cease trading at the end of this week. The announcement comes just two weeks after owner Steven Swan held a public meeting in…
Sitka spruce going, going, gone!
A big task for the Tarras Valley team over the…
Daniel Lacey: A Guilded Craftsman
Prestigious recognition for Langholm artisan from City of London livery…
D&G Council Tax set to rise between 5 to 10%
…and the same for Water Rates…possibly 9%. Budgets are to…
Virus on D&G farmtook 90 of 150 lambs
Farmers are urged to report Schmallenberg (SBV) cases NFU Mutual…
Doddie’s Grand Tour visits the Muckle Toon
Fundraising cyclists and organisers bowled over by the hospitality received…
Caroline Street is still railing against its railings
As angle of fence increases, council budgets for repairs to…
U15 gold medal for Langholm’s Aoiffion
Amazing 12 year old athlete makes her mark in her…
Grapes Hotel holds crisis meeting with villagers
“Frankly if I followed pure logic, I would close the…
For age there’s no limit in the world of Burns
Young and old gather in Langholm and Gilnockie to celebrate…
Service held to celebrate union of parishes
The Church of Scotland presbytery of the South West held…
Concern over decline in dairy herd numbers
NFU Scotland say they’re concerned by figures just released which…
Eskdalemuir's Hub generate Eowyn warmth
But Scottish Power falls short of supporting othervulnerable customers after…
Return to the Far Pavilions for Helen
Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Lifestyle NewsAnother 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 NewsHealth 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 SportPresentation 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 NewsBoth 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 NewsBest 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…
Langholm deny Dalkeith a four-try bonus point
Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Rugby SportThe 61-15 triumph includes a hat-trick from Donaldson By Jason Ratcliffe Langholm 61 – Dalkeith 15 On Saturday Langholm welcomed Dalkeith to Milntown in what will be the only home fixture of 2025 before their Sevens.Quick out of the blocks…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
Langholm’s ‘model’ citizen hits the highlights in Milan
Proud Langholm Mum, Deborah Laidlaw, set off on a four-flight…
Langholm Housing Needs survey – the results are in!
Exceptional response captures the views of 24% of the town’s…
Langholm man honoured at Northampton Saints
Fitting and thoughtful gesture to John Elliot by former clubs…
Farming land remains in great demand
Farmland market edged up slightly during 2024 Demand for farmland…
Ewes SWI start the Burns ball rolling with a highly entertaining celebration
The annual celebration of the Bard went ahead with a…
'Carter's Rest'
…US President in Langholm After the news of the death…
Canonbie trust has its eye on Cross Keys Hotel
Potential purchase of historical inn presented to local residents Canonbie…
Skelton surpasses but Idem impresses
Review of last meeting of 2024 and preview of the…
Hilltop Leaf responds to questions about the project
CEO Hamish Clegg brings us up to speed with the…
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’
Audit of regional facilities puts Langholm on the top rung!…
Muckle Toon serves up a treat with Pinocchio... Panto Italiano!
Week: 51 | 19th December 2024 | Arts and Entertainment LifestyleCapacity 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 LifeThe 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 NewsBuilding 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 SportAND 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 LifestyleA 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…
Serious inaction by D&G Council
Week: 50 | 12th December 2024 | Community NewsLetter to the Editor I am writing again to express my deep concern regarding the unsafe, deteriorating state of Erskine Church in Langholm. Pleasereview the attached images, which showdebris dislodged and thrown into my Mum’s yard during high winds at…
Busy first meeting for new community council
Unclear how access to LEWCC finances will be resolved and…
Holyrood rally calls for investment in agriculture
NFUS leads farmers and crofters in Edinburgh protest Hundreds of…
Bike Seven celebrates 15 years in business
Bike business with strong Langholm following celebrates 15th anniversary By…
Creation Mill to create their own textile centre
Inspirational Langholm firm take their business a stage further Creation…
Another blow to Langholm as Skinyards set to close
Up to 10 jobs to be lost as 176-year-old employer…
Joe the butcher runs 50km to make a difference
Amazing gesture of kindness Well-known Langholm butcher and Longtown man,…
Would you pay £272 for a Flat White Coffee?
An innovative farmer from Mossgiel explains why Well, you might…
A new future for three local churches
By Anthony Lane Many readers of the E&L will be…
King Charles honours dedicated Langholm bandsman with MBE
David Calvert is presented with his medal by Lord Lieutenant…
Erskine Church is on a downward ‘spire-al’…
After contact with the owner, it appears thatthe eyesore will…
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
By Calum Graham On Sunday, Langholm Girls FC welcomed Galloway…
