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Langholm's Front Three have a great Day out at Hawick Common Riding
Week: 24 | 12th June 2025 | Common Riding Community NewsRead much more in this week’s E&L available at your Newsagent or available online by subscription. Click HERE
Huge attendance at crucial Town Meeting
Week: 23 | 5th June 2025 | Community NewsStrength of feeling of townsfolk made plain to panel…but will it make a difference? Almost three hundred people…
Engaging with Ewan
Week: 23 | 5th June 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsFirst visit to the Hut for Langholm’s new Front Three Langholm Front Three, Cornet Ewan Patterson, RHM Bailey Donaldson…
Let’s get the Muckle Toon back to its former glory
Week: 22 | 29th May 2025 | Community NewsCommunity Council to chair event where you can have your say on what needs to be done about…
Glowing report for Langholm Nursery
Week: 22 | 29th May 2025 | Community Lifestyle News SchoolStaff delighted after “Very Good” Care Inspectorate visit Staff and parents of pupils at Langholm’s Nursery were delighted…
Ewan Patterson elected as Langholm’s 2025 Cornet
Week: 20 | 15th May 2025 | Common Riding Community NewsOver 50% of the town turn out to vote as record number of voters is equalled On a…
Thoughtful VE Day ceremony held at Langholm's War Memorial
RAF Police Sergeant David Patterson led a poignant service at Langholm’s…
Well-wishers attend opening of Langholm’s new Post Office
After months of work and training, Elizabeth and staff finally…
A quality quartet
Another healthy contingent of fine young men put theirnames forward…
Eighty years since Victory in Europe
A poignant reminder of resilience and unity rising from adversity…
New Post Office opens on Tuesday
It’s countdown now until the new post office opens on…
End of Langholm banking era as BoS closes its doors
Scotland’s oldest bank bows out of High Street The Bank…
Goat group presses Council
Campaigners want protected status David Braithwaite, Chairman of The Wild…
20 might be plenty, but is anyone heeding the signs?
Over the years, the Scottish Government has made so many…
Preliminary meeting focusses on Townfoot's hole in the ground
Particular issues discussed in advance of June’s public forum In…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day commemoration events
Langholm, Ewes and Westerkirk community council is working with Langholm…
Return of full Post Office is first-class news for town
Elizabeth and team are all trained up and ready to…
A healing moorland…
Sphagnum moss wound dressings during the Second World War By…
NHS D&G announces massive funding shortfall
Week: 15 | 10th April 2025 | Community NewsBoard seeks public support to manage £33.6 million funding gap in the new financial year… Some shocking news…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - 1949 style
Week: 15 | 10th April 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community LifestyleAudrey Maxwell and friends reminisce about their first exposure to the world of Pantomime 76 years ago! 76…
Scottish Woodlands plan ' voluntary' Environmental Impact Assessment for Warblaw
Week: 15 | 10th April 2025 | Community Farming and Environment NewsScottish Woodlands, which has been developing the woodland creation design for Warblaw sent the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser…
New health team sought for Canonbie Surgery
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2025 | Canonbie Community NewsHusband and wife medical partners to hang up their stethoscopes WORK is actively underway to identify a new…
18-month trial of 20mph has begun
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsA7 Action Group discuss various issues The A7 Action Group met last week, and Bear Scotland provided an…
No caravans or motorhomes to cross Milntown bridge
Week: 13 | 27th March 2025 | Community NewsFar-reaching effect on the community as Ewes Water site has to postpone opening for season The community was…
Some beautiful moments in LAODS’ latest show
Annie Get Your Gun is chock-full of love, laughter and…
Parking restrictions and 20mph limit from next week
By the end of March, the speed limit throughout the…
A well-used community resource for over 30 years
Mairi Telford Jammeh takes a look at what goes on…
Wheatley has “No plans for housing in Eskdale
Scotland’s second largest social landlord is also “not considering the…
Langholm Town Band do well in regionals
By Christine Calvert This weekend saw the latest contest outing…
As predicted, D&G raise Council Tax by 9%
Furthermore, they will “implement increases inselected fees and charges relating…
Community Council hears from concerned residents
Number of derelict sites in the town is a major…
Huge local reaction to news of proposed goat cull
Social media alight and petition raised following announcement by Oxygen…
D&G Council Tax set to rise between 5 to 10%
…and the same for Water Rates…possibly 9%. Budgets are to…
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…
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
Week: 06 | 6th February 2025 | Arts and Entertainment CommunityYoung and old gather in Langholm and Gilnockie to celebrate the birth of Scotland’s Bard The Community Burns…
Eskdalemuir's Hub generate Eowyn warmth
Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Community Eskdalemuir NewsBut Scottish Power falls short of supporting othervulnerable customers after four days without power Eskdalemuir community hub created…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
'Carter's Rest'
…US President in Langholm After the news of the death…
Langholm Fire Station wins ‘best in D&G’
Audit of regional facilities puts Langholm on the top rung!…
Cumberland commits to Langholm High Street
Building society seeks to assure customers that it has no…
Serious inaction by D&G Council
Letter to the Editor I am writing again to express…
Busy first meeting for new community council
Unclear how access to LEWCC finances will be resolved and…
Another blow to Langholm as Skinyards set to close
Up to 10 jobs to be lost as 176-year-old employer…
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…
