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!
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | NewsA big task for the Tarras Valley team over the winter months has been the clearance of large areas of regenerating self-seeded Sitka spruce trees from the back of Whita Hill, the Castle Craigs and Little Tarras which have spread…
Daniel Lacey: A Guilded Craftsman
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | Arts and Entertainment LifestylePrestigious recognition for Langholm artisan from City of London livery company Furniture designer-maker Daniel Lacey has been awarded the 500th Bespoke Guild Mark by The Furniture Makers’ Company for his exceptional ‘Sunburst’ Table and Chairs, marking a significant milestone in…
D&G Council Tax set to rise between 5 to 10%
Week: 07 | 13th February 2025 | Canonbie Community News…and the same for Water Rates…possibly 9%. Budgets are to be set at February 27th meeting In 2023 the then First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, announced that there would be a council tax freeze on all Scottish authorities, and…
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
Another Himalayan adventure for gardening columnist Helen Knowles Life is…
Copshaw on the the cusp of red and amber for Éowyn
Health Centre provided a Warm Hub throughout the storm By Gilly…
Update on long-awaited Townfoot Sports Centre
Presentation of latest designs sketches for project The Townfoot Sports…
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
Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsThe Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at Holyrood on controversial proposals for mega-pylons in the Borders and across the country.On Wednesday, the party will use a debate in the Scottish Parliament to call for a “community veto”…
Langholm’s ‘model’ citizen hits the highlights in Milan
Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community E&L Life NewsProud Langholm Mum, Deborah Laidlaw, set off on a four-flight journey last weekend to visit her fashion model son, Sam Cook in Milan.The main reason for Deborah’s trip (apart from seeing her son, of course) was to see a gigantic…
Langholm Housing Needs survey – the results are in!
Week: 03 | 16th January 2025 | Community NewsExceptional response captures the views of 24% of the town’s population “With no future prospect of suitable accommodation in Langholm, those of working age or with families are likely to widen their search for housing, schooling and employment and move…
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!
Capacity audiences at each performance as 1,250 people attend Centre…
Churches unite with Liddesdale
The Reverend Morag Crossan has announced that from 1st January…
Cumberland commits to Langholm High Street
Building society seeks to assure customers that it has no…
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
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Community NewsUnclear how access to LEWCC finances will be resolved and one-way traffic systems discussed By Mairi Telford Jammeh Langholm, Ewes and Westerkirk community council had its first full meeting since the election, on Monday night. The police report highlighted a…
Holyrood rally calls for investment in agriculture
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentNFUS leads farmers and crofters in Edinburgh protest Hundreds of farmers, crofters and smallholders gathered at Holyrood last week to call on the Scottish Government to increase investment in agriculture and rural development.NFU Scotland says a modest increase in rural…
Bike Seven celebrates 15 years in business
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Cycling E&L Life SportBike business with strong Langholm following celebrates 15th anniversary By Mairi Telford Jammeh Bike Seven the bike shop opened its doors ten years ago, in 2009, in the Sandilands industrial estate in Longtown. The bike shop, which is very much…
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…
The human cost of ‘progress’
Gilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement…
Aoiffion & Lara are Dumfries & Galloway Life award winners
Locals are well represented in glamorous, district-wide event Two Dumfries…
At the going down of the sun and in the morning…
Eskdale remembers… Langholm, once more, remembered the fallen of all…
