Return of full Post Office is first-class news for town
Week: 16 | 17th April 2025 | Community NewsElizabeth and team are all trained up and ready to run the service seven days a week Below…
Goat petition reaches MPs
Week: 16 | 17th April 2025 | Farming and Environment Gilly Fraser Lifestyle Newcastleton News4,000 anti-cull signatures handed over Conservative politicians John Lamont MP and Rachael Hamilton MSP have both promised to…
A healing moorland…
Week: 16 | 17th April 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsSphagnum moss wound dressings during the Second World War By Timothy McCracken Around this time of the 80th…
Heilan’ Coos and Fell Ponies join the Tarras Valley family
Week: 16 | 17th April 2025 | Farming and Environment NewsThe cows and ponies will play their part in restoring and improving habitats on the moor The matriarch…
Hope Rising: An Easter Message to our Community
Week: 16 | 17th April 2025 | Canonbie E&L Life Eskdalemuir NewcastletonAs the days grow longer and spring blooms around us, we’re reminded of the hope and renewal that…
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…
4,000 signature petition to be handed to politicians
Oxygen Conservation’s disregard prompted massive response A local petition with…
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…
As the last bank closes, a Cash Hub opens
Temporary facility will open in Holmspun with better hours of…
NatureScot tells the E&L “culling the goats is legal”
Oxygen Conservation lays the blame at Government’s door Part of…
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…
Confirmation received that cull has already begun
Gilly Fraser delves further into the feral goat debacle Oxygen…
Some beautiful moments in LAODS’ latest show
Annie Get Your Gun is chock-full of love, laughter and…
2025 Common Riding AGM
New faces in official roles he trustees and members of…
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
Week: 12 | 20th March 2025 | Community E&L Life NewsMairi Telford Jammeh takes a look at what goes on at Langholm’s Community Centre Langholm community centre has…
Goat cull company tackled by councillor
Week: 12 | 20th March 2025 | Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsMeeting with CEO of Oxygen Conservation requested Councillor Male has been corresponding with Oxygen Conservation over the proposed…
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”…
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…
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…
NFUS retiterates its opposition to National Park in Galloway
NFU Scotland has once again made clear its opposition to…
D-day for Council Tax rises across the area
Dumfries and Galloway Council will make decisions today about the…
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…
Sitka spruce going, going, gone!
A big task for the Tarras Valley team over the…
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…
U15 gold medal for Langholm’s Aoiffion
Amazing 12 year old athlete makes her mark in her…
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…
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…
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…
Return to the Far Pavilions for Helen
Week: 05 | 30th January 2025 | Lifestyle NewsAnother Himalayan adventure for gardening columnist Helen Knowles Life is full of surprises and I really hadn’t expected…
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
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…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
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…
Canonbie trust has its eye on Cross Keys Hotel
Potential purchase of historical inn presented to local residents Canonbie…
Hilltop Leaf responds to questions about the project
CEO Hamish Clegg brings us up to speed with the…
Copshaw's golden boy adds to his medal haul
Paralympian Stephen Clegg receives an MBE in King’s New Years…
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…
