Langholm's Front Three have a great Day out at Hawick Common Riding
Week: 24 | 12th June 2025 | Common Riding Community NewsRead much more in this week’s E&L available at your Newsagent or available online by subscription. Click HERE
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…
Huge attendance at crucial Town Meeting
Week: 23 | 5th June 2025 | Community NewsStrength of feeling of townsfolk made plain to panel…but will it make a difference? Almost three hundred people…
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…
Engaging with Ewan
Week: 23 | 5th June 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsFirst visit to the Hut for Langholm’s new Front Three Langholm Front Three, Cornet Ewan Patterson, RHM Bailey Donaldson…
Let’s get the Muckle Toon back to its former glory
Week: 22 | 29th May 2025 | Community NewsCommunity Council to chair event where you can have your say on what needs to be done about…
New Tub, Oli, will fight to save Music Festival
Moves afoot to save 56 year old event Copshaw’s newly…
Poppy perfection wins Helen’s team a gold at Chelsea
The Meconopsis Group impresses the judges with their display at…
Glowing report for Langholm Nursery
Staff delighted after “Very Good” Care Inspectorate visit Staff and…
James Ewart Racing ends 21 years of training
Mairi Telford Jammeh speaks to Langholm trainer after surprise racing…
Like Mother like Tub
Copshaw has chosen its new Tub. Voters went to the…
After 102 years, LAODS has a new name
Fresh Talent sought for the new season on stage Langholm…
D&G Chief pays visit to Langholm organisations
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Chief Executive Dawn Roberts paid a…
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
A poignant reminder of resilience and unity rising from adversity…
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…
High-powered visitors
Week: 18 | 1st May 2025 | Arts and Entertainment NewsVa-va-vroom! Langholm’s Kilngreen had some very special visitors last weekend in the form of two dozen or so…
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…
Highland surprise on the North Coast 500
Week: 17 | 24th April 2025 | E&L Life NewsThe North Coast 500 is a 516-mile scenic route around the north coast of Scotland starting and ending…
Preliminary meeting focusses on Townfoot's hole in the ground
Particular issues discussed in advance of June’s public forum In…
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…
Goat petition reaches MPs
4,000 anti-cull signatures handed over Conservative politicians John Lamont MP…
A healing moorland…
Sphagnum moss wound dressings during the Second World War By…
Heilan’ Coos and Fell Ponies join the Tarras Valley family
The cows and ponies will play their part in restoring…
Hope Rising: An Easter Message to our Community
As the days grow longer and spring blooms around us,…
NHS D&G announces massive funding shortfall
Board seeks public support to manage £33.6 million funding gap…
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”
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2025 | E&L Life Newcastleton NewsOxygen Conservation lays the blame at Government’s door Part of the E&L’s “…Liddesdale Lineup…” NatureScot has denied issuing…
New health team sought for Canonbie Surgery
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2025 | Canonbie Community NewsHusband and wife medical partners to hang up their stethoscopes WORK is actively underway to identify a new…
18-month trial of 20mph has begun
Week: 14 | 3rd April 2025 | Community Lifestyle NewsA7 Action Group discuss various issues The A7 Action Group met last week, and Bear Scotland provided an…
No caravans or motorhomes to cross Milntown bridge
Week: 13 | 27th March 2025 | Community NewsFar-reaching effect on the community as Ewes Water site has to postpone opening for season The community was…
Confirmation received that cull has already begun
Week: 13 | 27th March 2025 | E&L Life Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsGilly Fraser delves further into the feral goat debacle Oxygen Conservation have confirmed that they have begun culling…
Some beautiful moments in LAODS’ latest show
Week: 13 | 27th March 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsAnnie Get Your Gun is chock-full of love, laughter and some damn fine singing…don’t miss it! It’s ‘Opera…
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
Mairi Telford Jammeh takes a look at what goes on…
Goat cull company tackled by councillor
Meeting with CEO of Oxygen Conservation requested Councillor Male has…
Wheatley has “No plans for housing in Eskdale
Scotland’s second largest social landlord is also “not considering the…
Langholm Town Band do well in regionals
By Christine Calvert This weekend saw the latest contest outing…
As predicted, D&G raise Council Tax by 9%
Furthermore, they will “implement increases inselected fees and charges relating…
Blight on the landscape as SPEN plans 65 metre pylons
‘Electric’ meeting anticipated at Copshaw Community Council Copshaw Community Council…
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…
