Fly-tipping in the area reaching epidemic level
Week: 35 | 28th August 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsMost roads around Langholm have seen junk dumped Fly tipping continues to be a problem in our area…
Bus services review leaves passengers wanting better
Week: 34 | 21st August 2025 | Community NewsFrom the Co-Op to Eskdalemuir, new timetable has crucial holes in it that must be addressed Residents of…
Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites
Week: 34 | 21st August 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsMoonman and locals feature in screening at the Edinburgh Festival “Out of the world and into Langholm” is…
Langholm Common Riding 2025
Week: 31 | 31st July 2025 | Community NewsCornet Ewan Patterson carried out his duties last Friday in a calm, unassuming manner and was a credit…
Everyone is behind Ewan
Week: 30 | 24th July 2025 | Common Riding Community E&L Life NewsFamily ties and a heart for Langholm have nurtured Ewan’s childhood dreams Ewan Patterson was elected in May…
New one-way system for Elizabeth and Caroline Streets
Week: 28 | 10th July 2025 | Community NewsProposals put forward further to a request from residents and Councillor Male Langholm Ewes and Westerkirk Community Council…
Creation weaves a new future
Langholm textile project launches new centre along with new hope…
Unwanted changes coming to Langholm Town bus service
Lifeline local transport is in danger of having itsoperation reduced…
No pot of gold at the end of this ‘rainbow’
SNP to form a minority administration after Conservative split in…
Langholm's Front Three have a great Day out at Hawick Common Riding
Read much more in this week’s E&L available at your…
Huge attendance at crucial Town Meeting
Strength of feeling of townsfolk made plain to panel…but will…
Engaging with Ewan
First visit to the Hut for Langholm’s new Front Three…
Let’s get the Muckle Toon back to its former glory
Community Council to chair event where you can have your…
Glowing report for Langholm Nursery
Staff delighted after “Very Good” Care Inspectorate visit Staff and…
Ewan Patterson elected as Langholm’s 2025 Cornet
Over 50% of the town turn out to vote as…
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
Week: 19 | 8th May 2025 | Community E&L Life NewsA poignant reminder of resilience and unity rising from adversity VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is…
New Post Office opens on Tuesday
Week: 19 | 8th May 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsIt’s countdown now until the new post office opens on Tuesday 13th at 1pm and everyone is invited…
End of Langholm banking era as BoS closes its doors
Week: 18 | 1st May 2025 | Community NewsScotland’s oldest bank bows out of High Street The Bank of Scotland on Langholm High Street closes its…
Goat group presses Council
Week: 18 | 1st May 2025 | Community E&L Life Newcastleton NewsCampaigners want protected status David Braithwaite, Chairman of The Wild Goat Conservation Group has contacted the Chief Executives…
20 might be plenty, but is anyone heeding the signs?
Week: 17 | 24th April 2025 | Community NewsOver the years, the Scottish Government has made so many cutbacks that it is impossible to police Since…
Preliminary meeting focusses on Townfoot's hole in the ground
Week: 17 | 24th April 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsParticular issues discussed in advance of June’s public forum In advance of the June meeting that Langholm, Ewes…
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
Board seeks public support to manage £33.6 million funding gap…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - 1949 style
Audrey Maxwell and friends reminisce about their first exposure to…
Scottish Woodlands plan ' voluntary' Environmental Impact Assessment for Warblaw
Scottish Woodlands, which has been developing the woodland creation design…
New health team sought for Canonbie Surgery
Husband and wife medical partners to hang up their stethoscopes…
18-month trial of 20mph has begun
A7 Action Group discuss various issues The A7 Action Group…
No caravans or motorhomes to cross Milntown bridge
Far-reaching effect on the community as Ewes Water site has…
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
Week: 11 | 13th March 2025 | Community NewsScotland’s second largest social landlord is also “not considering the Murtholm site at the moment” As a follow-up…
Langholm Town Band do well in regionals
Week: 11 | 13th March 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community Lifestyle NewsBy Christine Calvert This weekend saw the latest contest outing for the town band under MD Chris Bradley.…
As predicted, D&G raise Council Tax by 9%
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | Community NewsFurthermore, they will “implement increases inselected fees and charges relating to leisure andsport, licensing, registrars and bulky waste”…
Community Council hears from concerned residents
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | Community NewsNumber of derelict sites in the town is a major issue The E&L attended the March meeting of…
Huge local reaction to news of proposed goat cull
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Community Newcastleton NewsSocial media alight and petition raised following announcement by Oxygen Conservation Last week our headlines were about the…
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…
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
Young and old gather in Langholm and Gilnockie to celebrate…
Eskdalemuir's Hub generate Eowyn warmth
But Scottish Power falls short of supporting othervulnerable customers after…
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
Both the Langholm Primary and Secondary schools and the Xcel…
Langholm’s firefighters are the pride of D & G
Best Dumfries and Galloway Fire Station for 2024/2025 awarded to…
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…
