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Altitude Drivers versus the potholes
Week: 17 | 23rd April 2026 | Arts and Entertainment Community Newcastleton NewsHugh Ferguson captured photos of the Altitude Driver Club members navigating the Tarras road at the weekend. Altitude…
Mollie’s new business off to a very tasty start
Week: 13 | 26th March 2026 | Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsThere’s a new name on Newcastleton’s main street and it’s now officially open for business.For many years it…
Conservation work completed on listed Riddings viaduct
Week: 12 | 22nd March 2026 | Canonbie E&L Life Newcastleton NewsDistinctive Victorian cross-border edifice is repaired National Highways has completed a major programme of repairs to secure the…
Happy 100th dear Marion
Week: 10 | 5th March 2026 | Lifestyle NewcastletonLong-time Copshaw resident joins the Centenarian Club A very happy 100th birthday to Marion Powolny Smit – probably…
Encouraging noises for Holm's No8 Club
Week: 07 | 12th February 2026 | NewcastletonA number of possibilities for future running of venue Newcastleton’s No8 Club has been undergoing something of a…
Holm pre-school care gets another set of top marks
Week: 06 | 5th February 2026 | Community E&L Life Gilly Fraser Newcastleton SchoolCare Inspectorate full of praise for Childminder, Katrina Skelton It won’t surprise anyone on Newcastleton to hear that…
Copshaw and Canonbie on 2027 Tour de France route…
…but hey-ho, Langholm to miss out as the world’s biggest…
Biggest wildlife petition presented to Scottish Parliament
22,000 signature document is with Scotland’s decision-makers The petition going…
Center Parcs receives official council go-ahead
Major leisure development near Hawick willsurely have a knock-on benefit…
Wind farm worries for distinctive goats
Oxygen Conservation’s plans at odds with Trust Conservationists have hit…
Caroline in tears at the kindness of everyone
Community in mourning at sad loss of Sam Cropper Copshaw…
St Kilda’s sheep ‘protected’; Langholm Moor goats ‘feral’
Scottish Government accused of “muddled thinking” The Scottish Government has…
Much-loved music festival has new team at the helm
Fresh committee have lots of ideas to carry the event…
Goat Petition reaches Scottish Parliament
Board gives sympathetic hearing after 13,000 signatures The Wild Goat…
Our caprine friends are notoriously hard to count
There could be as many as 900 goats roaming the…
Holm Show 2025
Copshaw’s big day expertly captured by the Camera Club Words…
Copshaw celebrates its 500th Clatter
Community mag has been published since 1983 The Copshaw Clatter…
New Lidd owners have many plans for old Holm hostlery
Liddesdale’s fresh mine hosts have worldwide experience The first weekend…
Only 58 days to prepare for the Holm Show 2025!
Week: 27 | 3rd July 2025 | Farming and Environment NewcastletonHolm Show schedules will be in local shops and on the event’s revamped website next week – so…
New recruits needed for life-saving community service
Week: 24 | 12th June 2025 | E&L Life NewcastletonVillage’s First Responders a critical resource When someone suffers a serious medical emergency, survival can be a race…
Tam o' Shanter and the Education Angels
Week: 23 | 5th June 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Canonbie Newcastleton SchoolLocal schools perform with Scottish Opera Pupils from Newcastleton, Langholm and Canonbie Primary Schools got together this week…
New Tub, Oli, will fight to save Music Festival
Week: 22 | 29th May 2025 | Lifestyle NewcastletonMoves afoot to save 56 year old event Copshaw’s newly elected Tub is launching his year in office…
Like Mother like Tub
Week: 21 | 22nd May 2025 | Arts & Entertainment E&L Life NewcastletonCopshaw has chosen its new Tub. Voters went to the polls on Saturday and elected 21-year-old Oli Downey…
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…
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
‘Electric’ meeting anticipated at Copshaw Community Council Copshaw Community Council…
Huge local reaction to news of proposed goat cull
Social media alight and petition raised following announcement by Oxygen…
THEY'RE GOING TO CULL THE GOATS!
In what will be a hugely unpopular decision, Oxygen Conservation…
Grapes Bar and restaurant to close
The owners of the Grapes hotel in Newcastleton have confirmed…
Grapes Hotel holds crisis meeting with villagers
“Frankly if I followed pure logic, I would close the…
Service held to celebrate union of parishes
The Church of Scotland presbytery of the South West held…
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…
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…
Copshaw's golden boy adds to his medal haul
Week: 02 | 9th January 2025 | E&L Life Newcastleton NewsParalympian Stephen Clegg receives an MBE in King’s New Years Honours list Paralympic gold medallist Stephen Clegg who…
A new future for three local churches
Week: 48 | 28th November 2024 | Canonbie Community Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsBy Anthony Lane Many readers of the E&L will be aware of the enormous changes that have taken…
The human cost of ‘progress’
Week: 46 | 14th November 2024 | Farming and Environment Gilly Fraser NewcastletonGilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement in the Newcastleton hills has turned into a…
Polysport venue helps keep Copshaw folk in top form
Week: 44 | 31st October 2024 | E&L Life Gilly Fraser NewcastletonMSP is shown round The Holm’s health and fitness facility The important role even a small village can…
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
The Alpaca Experience will give the public the chance to…
Care Inspectorate praise for Copshaw Nursery
School staff ‘pleased and proud’ after glowing report received By…
Mighty Hiking family off round Kielder
Jacksons and Dinwoodies aim to make ‘The Difference’ for BGH…
Missing German Shepherd Xara elicits high-tech response
When 16-month-old German Shepherd Xara gave her owner the slip…
Far-reaching implications for rural landowners
Gilly Fraser investigates couple’s rural retreat which is under threat…
