Care for our carers
Week: 15 | 10th April 2020 | LettersNEW immigration rules are coming into place, barring “unskilled” workers from the UK.The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the…
Don’t ignore vital grants
Week: 15 | 10th April 2020 | NewsCouncil encourages application ESKDALE businesses could miss out on emergency grants if they fail to apply.They are being…
Virus setback for Murtholm housing
Week: 15 | 10th April 2020 | NewsScheme is delayed by three months but could still be on time THE construction of extra-care sheltered housing…
Brown’s the Butcher opens
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2020 | NewsA welcome new shop as High Street starts to make a come-back A NEW food shop has opened…
Day’s tree appeal dismissed
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2020 | NewsPHILLIP Day, owner of The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, has lost his appeal against his international firm of solicitors,…
London in lockdown
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2020 | News ReportersA Langholm man’s perspective on the capital in quarantine By Nicol Nicolson THE FIRST thing that strikes you in…
Amazing support from the community
Langholm COVID-19 support group garners 900 members We are living…
The Rainbow Connection
Following the coronavirus lockdown, many families in Langholm have decided…
AMAZING SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY
We are living in a time of crisis and it’s…
Lockdown in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Rhea Cavers AFTER a couple of months of travelling round…
Walk the Walk
E&L Life columnist Gavin Graham has an ambition to walk…
Money does grow on trees in Eskdalemuir
FIVE miles along a rough forestry track north of Eskdalemuir…
Langholm goes live!
A NEW project has been started during this difficult time…
Village at odds with official flood report
Diaries show residents were left to cope on their own…
Health helpline set up to manage more demand
NHS24 opens dedicated service as a response to virus crisis…
Virus may put paid to most treasured event
Common Riding cannot take place in its customary way THERE…
Electric vehicle ports coming to Langholm
Council is waiting for a sub-station to be built on…
£3.5m price tag to buy Langholm Moor
Private donations and crowd-funding will be essential to success AT…
Joint response
Week: 12 | 19th March 2020 | NewsDUMFRIES and Galloway Council leader Elaine Murray has called a full meeting of members tomorrow to consider swift…
Community rallies to support people at risk
Week: 12 | 19th March 2020 | NewsCOMMUNITY and business life in Eskdale and Liddesdale is grinding to a halt as the coronavirus COVID-19 tightens…
Langholm teenager is elected to parliament
Week: 11 | 12th March 2020 | NewsCameron is keen to start his fledgling parliamentary career A LANGHOLM youth councillor has been elected a Member…
Region poised to deal with potential outbreak
Week: 11 | 12th March 2020 | NewsAll 33 tests for virus in Dumfries and Galloway are negative A CO-ORDINATED approach is in place in…
Project awarded £600k
Week: 11 | 12th March 2020 | NewsTrust to develop Buccleuch House for learning and enterprise MORE THAN half a million pounds has been awarded…
Moorland purchase reaches critical stage
Week: 11 | 12th March 2020 | NewsEXCLUSIVE: Public urged to get behind buy-out and sign petition THE potential community buy-out of Langholm Moor has…
Cleaning up the Liddel
EWCASTLETON Wildlife Club members braved more rain last Friday to…
Patrons follow lunch with a talk
CAMPBELL Scott, a trustee of the Langholm Initiative and project…
Community ownership conference a great success
A MAJOR conference for public sector organisations and communities all…
OH CALAMITY!
IT’S hotting up for the cast of Calamity Jane after…
Return to glass proving successful
BOTTLED milk is making a comeback in Langholm, thanks to…
Call for a rethink on town’s flood barriers
Residents seek a pause in the process after concerns voiced…
Sports centre group makes good progress
Design feasibility study will be ready for the public during…
Roger to step down from chairman’s job
He followed in his father’s footsteps to lead the Common…
£10,000 is raised so far for village flood victims
Donations pour in as Newcastleton residents clear out houses A…
Objections rise over flood protection plan
Walls and embankments lining the rivers are not very popular…
Launch of Digital Hub
THE South of Scotland Skills and Learning Network Digital Hub…
D&G to face £11m cut to services budget
Rethink by SNP government called for by councillors DUMFRIES and Galloway…
Survey will identify windfarm funding
Week: 08 | 20th February 2020 | NewsGroup encouraging people to use questionnaire to propose ideas A GROUP, which distributes windfarm benefit funds, is conducting…
Devastating flood rages through seventy homes
Week: 08 | 20th February 2020 | NewsRiver bursts its banks leaving residents wading through water up to their waists THE worst flood in living…
Floods, Gales, ice and snow a typical Scottish February
Week: 07 | 14th February 2020 | NewsESKDALE and Liddesdale were battered by Storm Ciara last weekend and this week the area is being disrupted…
Fashion regenerated
Week: 07 | 13th February 2020 | NewsTURNING scrap fabrics into eye-catching and colourful clothes and showcasing them in the places where they were dyed…
Upland bursary for Langholm ceramicist
Week: 07 | 13th February 2020 | Arts and Entertainment NewsOrganisation will provide programme of mentoring and support EMERGING ceramic artist Sophie Jarzyna has been awarded a bursary…
Oz flags fly at tower
Week: 07 | 13th February 2020 | NewsPerth couple send flags in memory of their border ancestors AN AUSTRALIAN couple, who visited Gilnockie Tower last…
Moor buy-out deadline approaches
THE Langholm Initiative is continuing to work towards a community…
Plan for troubled kids’ school must go public
Company urged to talk to Langholm residents about proposal CONCERNS…
Floods, gales, ice and snow a typical Scottish February
Eskdale and Liddesdale struggle through atrocious winter weather this week…
Plugging the hole in lost European funds
Council writes to politicians to ask for their support post-Brexit…
Krakow and the real horrors of Auschwitz
An account of a visit to this marvellous city and…
Council struggles over windfarm objection
Community councillors debate the need for more wind turbines TWO…
Rural poverty missed
Deprivation index is biased towards urban not rural locations EW…
Langholm cannabis oil factory gets go-ahead
A number hurdles still to cross but it’s a step…
Popular event packs out hall
EVERY seat was filled in Newcastleton village hall for the…
Copshaw in spotlight as campaign launches
Scotland Starts Here will raise profile to attract more tourists…
Log wagon driver admits killing cyclist
Canonbie trucker admits causing death by careless driving CANONBIE trucker…
Expanding industry needs more workers
Langholm and Hawick collaborate on textile training course A GROWTH…
