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Much-loved music festival has new team at the helm
Week: 39 | 25th September 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Newcastleton NewsFresh committee have lots of ideas to carry the event forward When a new team got together to…
Goat Petition reaches Scottish Parliament
Week: 38 | 18th September 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsBoard gives sympathetic hearing after 13,000 signatures The Wild Goat Conservation Trust has thanked its many supporters after…
Our caprine friends are notoriously hard to count
Week: 37 | 11th September 2025 | Farming and Environment Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsThere could be as many as 900 goats roaming the local moorland There has been a great deal…
Holm Show 2025
Week: 36 | 4th September 2025 | Canonbie Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsCopshaw’s big day expertly captured by the Camera Club Words By Gilly Fraser Photos by Barry Jarvis &…
Copshaw celebrates its 500th Clatter
Week: 34 | 21st August 2025 | Lifestyle NewcastletonCommunity mag has been published since 1983 The Copshaw Clatter has reached an amazing milestone in its long…
New Lidd owners have many plans for old Holm hostlery
Week: 30 | 24th July 2025 | Arts and Entertainment NewcastletonLiddesdale’s fresh mine hosts have worldwide experience The first weekend in July is always special for Copshaw, holding…
Only 58 days to prepare for the Holm Show 2025!
Holm Show schedules will be in local shops and on…
New recruits needed for life-saving community service
Village’s First Responders a critical resource When someone suffers a…
Tam o' Shanter and the Education Angels
Local schools perform with Scottish Opera Pupils from Newcastleton, Langholm…
New Tub, Oli, will fight to save Music Festival
Moves afoot to save 56 year old event Copshaw’s newly…
Like Mother like Tub
Copshaw has chosen its new Tub. Voters went to the…
Goat group presses Council
Campaigners want protected status David Braithwaite, Chairman of The Wild…
Goat petition reaches MPs
4,000 anti-cull signatures handed over Conservative politicians John Lamont MP…
Hope Rising: An Easter Message to our Community
As the days grow longer and spring blooms around us,…
4,000 signature petition to be handed to politicians
Oxygen Conservation’s disregard prompted massive response A local petition with…
NatureScot tells the E&L “culling the goats is legal”
Oxygen Conservation lays the blame at Government’s door Part of…
Confirmation received that cull has already begun
Gilly Fraser delves further into the feral goat debacle Oxygen…
Goat cull company tackled by councillor
Meeting with CEO of Oxygen Conservation requested Councillor Male has…
Blight on the landscape as SPEN plans 65 metre pylons
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | E&L Life Newcastleton‘Electric’ meeting anticipated at Copshaw Community Council Copshaw Community Council is anticipating a lively meeting on Tuesday when…
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…
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…
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…
Grapes Hotel holds crisis meeting with villagers
Week: 06 | 6th February 2025 | Community Lifestyle Newcastleton“Frankly if I followed pure logic, I would close the doors right now.” By Gilly Fraser The future…
Service held to celebrate union of parishes
Week: 06 | 6th February 2025 | Canonbie E&L Life Newcastleton NewsThe Church of Scotland presbytery of the South West held a service in Langholm Parish Church last Thursday…
Copshaw on the the cusp of red and amber for Éowyn
Health Centre provided a Warm Hub throughout the storm By Gilly…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
Copshaw's golden boy adds to his medal haul
Paralympian Stephen Clegg receives an MBE in King’s New Years…
A new future for three local churches
By Anthony Lane Many readers of the E&L will be…
The human cost of ‘progress’
Gilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement…
Polysport venue helps keep Copshaw folk in top form
MSP is shown round The Holm’s health and fitness facility…
Special Day, special guests at the Holm Show
If you want good weather for your event – try…
Fingers crossed for a fine day for the 127th Holm Show
Marquees are up, entries are made and there’s no rain…
Copshaw artist Paula to display her “Wild Side”
Newcastleton Nurse is to retire to follow her passion ~…
Pureous Bunkumos
Saturday dawned bright and beautiful for the Copshaw Common Riding,…
EDF presents revised plans for windfarm near Copshaw
Revised plans for a major new windfarm to be sited…
Missing Lynx project
Fierce opinions on whether or not to reintroduce lynx to…
Kerry’s adoreable Alpaca pals
Week: 20 | 16th May 2024 | Farming and Environment NewcastletonThe Alpaca Experience will give the public the chance to get up close and personal with the 25-strong…
Care Inspectorate praise for Copshaw Nursery
Week: 17 | 25th April 2024 | Gilly Fraser Newcastleton NewsSchool staff ‘pleased and proud’ after glowing report received By Gilly Fraser The Headteacher of Newcastleton Primary School…
Mighty Hiking family off round Kielder
Week: 15 | 11th April 2024 | Community Gilly Fraser Lifestyle NewcastletonJacksons and Dinwoodies aim to make ‘The Difference’ for BGH Four members of a Copshaw family are joining…
Missing German Shepherd Xara elicits high-tech response
Week: 14 | 4th April 2024 | Arts & Entertainment Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsWhen 16-month-old German Shepherd Xara gave her owner the slip and went on the run in an area…
Far-reaching implications for rural landowners
Week: 11 | 14th March 2024 | Newcastleton NewsGilly Fraser investigates couple’s rural retreat which is under threat from ‘big telecomm’ A Newcastleton couple caught up…
Langholm Moor goat population safe for now
Week: 09 | 29th February 2024 | Newcastleton NewsGilly Fraser reports on rumours of an imminent cull of our popular Tarras neighbours The company which now…
Lamont visits Barony
Scotland Office Minister learns about digital innovations The Barony Campus…
Made it to Crufts
Copshaw Mother and Son to take their terriers to top…
Participate in Polysport’s potential improvements
Newcastleton residents encouraged to have a say in development People…
Good show for Holm Show fundraiser
Newcastleton’s Holm Show calendar of events got off to a…
Copshaw man served on Christmas Island
“You could see all the bones in our hands as…
Step-daughter will run 26.2 miles in honour of Philip
Popular son of Copshaw’s wish was to increase awareness of…
‘Nothing But Whisky’ to be found in The Holm
Gilly Fraser samples a new specialist shop in Newcastleton A…
Having a final say on the future of Holm Hill
Newcastleton and District Community Trust is just about to carry…
Langholm Moor Lynx fears are calmed... for the moment
Fears that the new owners of former farmland on Langholm…
Old Copshaw hostlery closes its doors
One of Newcastleton’s longest-established businesses has closed down. The Liddesdale…
Innov8-ive ideas to tackle isolation in kids
Gilly Fraser reports on Newcastleton initiative to instil pride and…
