Below average rainfall leads to SEPA warnings
Week: 11 | 13th March 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentFarmers should take steps to ensure their summer water supply Farmers in Scotland are being told to take steps now to ensure they have enough water this summer. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued the advice following below-average rainfall…
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” Under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and the Local Government Finance Act 1992, a local authority must set its Council Tax…
Greenhouse gasses high from drained peatlands
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentA major new initiative is underway to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands.A number of different options are being considered by researchers including growing cat-tail and using the plant’s fluffy fibre for insulating clothing; growing reed as a building…
Community Council hears from concerned residents
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | Community NewsNumber of derelict sites in the town is a major issue The E&L attended the March meeting of Langholm, Ewes and Westerkirk Community Council on Monday evening. After the preliminary introductions and apologies, the chair, Stuart Clement opened the public…
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 proposed culling of feral goats by Oxygen Conservation and a day later a petition was started on social media to ‘Halt the…
Repeat success at Kelso would be a dream come true for Hawick trainer
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Horse Racing SportBy Gordon Brown Ewan Whillans is dreaming of a repeat success with Cracking Rhapsody in the £120,000 bet365 Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso on Saturday. Twelve months ago, Scotland’s richest hurdle race – a handicap over two-miles – went to the…
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…
Decisive Edinburgh win in shadow of Murrayfield
Bonus point win as Wanderers succumb to LRFC tenacity League…
Sitka spruce going, going, gone!
A big task for the Tarras Valley team over the…
Daniel Lacey: A Guilded Craftsman
Prestigious recognition for Langholm artisan from City of London livery…
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…
For age there’s no limit in the world of Burns
Young and old gather in Langholm and Gilnockie to celebrate…
Service held to celebrate union of parishes
The Church of Scotland presbytery of the South West held…
Concern over decline in dairy herd numbers
Week: 06 | 6th February 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentNFU Scotland say they’re concerned by figures just released which show a decline in Scottish dairy herd numbers.The Scottish Dairy Cattle Association has revealed a net decrease of thirty dairy herds in Scotland during 2024, bringing the total number of…
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 a resilience plan after Storm Arwen in 2021 when many people in that area were left without power. Perhaps as a result…
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 to find myself back in the Himalayas last year but in October myself and 5 companions set off on a botanical expedition…
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 Centre on the evening of Tuesday 4th February to present to the community updated design sketches for the refurbishment of the old…
Langholm’s firefighters are the pride of D & G
Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Community NewsBest Dumfries and Galloway Fire Station for 2024/2025 awarded to the Muckle Toon We reported in the E&L Advertiser at the end of last year that Langholm came out as the best Dumfries and Galloway First Station for 2024/2025 following…
Langholm deny Dalkeith a four-try bonus point
Week: 04 | 23rd January 2025 | Rugby SportThe 61-15 triumph includes a hat-trick from Donaldson By Jason Ratcliffe Langholm 61 – Dalkeith 15 On Saturday Langholm welcomed Dalkeith to Milntown in what will be the only home fixture of 2025 before their Sevens.Quick out of the blocks…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
Langholm Housing Needs survey – the results are in!
Exceptional response captures the views of 24% of the town’s…
Langholm man honoured at Northampton Saints
Fitting and thoughtful gesture to John Elliot by former clubs…
'Carter's Rest'
…US President in Langholm After the news of the death…
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!…
Muckle Toon serves up a treat with Pinocchio... Panto Italiano!
Capacity audiences at each performance as 1,250 people attend Centre…
Cumberland commits to Langholm High Street
Building society seeks to assure customers that it has no…
Nicol scores on this 350th appearance for Langholm
AND gets man of the match too! Emerging rugby legend.…
Heritage Centre Questionnaire
A local group, under the auspices of The Langholm Alliance,…
Serious inaction by D&G Council
Letter to the Editor I am writing again to express…
Busy first meeting for new community council
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Community NewsUnclear how access to LEWCC finances will be resolved and one-way traffic systems discussed By Mairi Telford Jammeh Langholm, Ewes and Westerkirk community council had its first full meeting since the election, on Monday night. The police report highlighted a…
Holyrood rally calls for investment in agriculture
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentNFUS leads farmers and crofters in Edinburgh protest Hundreds of farmers, crofters and smallholders gathered at Holyrood last week to call on the Scottish Government to increase investment in agriculture and rural development.NFU Scotland says a modest increase in rural…
Bike Seven celebrates 15 years in business
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Cycling E&L Life SportBike business with strong Langholm following celebrates 15th anniversary By Mairi Telford Jammeh Bike Seven the bike shop opened its doors ten years ago, in 2009, in the Sandilands industrial estate in Longtown. The bike shop, which is very much…
Creation Mill to create their own textile centre
Week: 49 | 5th December 2024 | Lifestyle NewsInspirational Langholm firm take their business a stage further Creation Mill is creating a new textile centre in Langholm at Buccleuch Mill. The building belongs to the SIL group who are based in Lancashire and who are fully behind the…
Another blow to Langholm as Skinyards set to close
Week: 48 | 28th November 2024 | Community NewsUp to 10 jobs to be lost as 176-year-old employer will cease trading an the end of the year The Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser has been trying to get information about the alleged closure of theSkinyards business but has been…
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 place across the Church of Scotland in recent years. There are fewer ministers and members of the church and now proposals have…
King Charles honours dedicated Langholm bandsman with MBE
David Calvert is presented with his medal by Lord Lieutenant…
Erskine Church is on a downward ‘spire-al’…
After contact with the owner, it appears thatthe eyesore will…
Buccleuch confirms its commitment to 150 lodges
Center Parc’s plans for development of site near Hawick will…
Aoiffion & Lara are Dumfries & Galloway Life award winners
Locals are well represented in glamorous, district-wide event Two Dumfries…
At the going down of the sun and in the morning…
Eskdale remembers… Langholm, once more, remembered the fallen of all…
Will Center Parc’s Hawick plans affect Irvine House?
Buccleuch assures the E&L that they are fully committed to…
Barony’s Dairy Nexus is a Borderlands first
The multi-million-pound Dairy Nexus project at the Barony campus will…
Toss a coin into Kelso’s Wishing Well Chase Day
Under new rules, racing has to be completed by 2pm…
Stars in Their Eyes and performing in their hearts!
Local entertainers take to the stage to strut their stuff…
Castleholm is officially in community hands
Landmark deal sees cherished land transferred to the people of…
Hope Hospital shines in Excellence in Care inspection
The Thomas Hope hospital in Langholm recently had a six-month…
Forresters couldn’t see the wood for the trees
Another robust performance by LRFC on home soil this time…
