...Pureous Bunkumus...
Week: 28 | 10th July 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Gilly Fraser LifestyleIt’s that time of year again! It may have been a very mixed bag weather wise, but Tub Oli Downey and his loyal band of Copshaw Common Riding followers didn’t let that spoil their special day. The fun began for…
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 it’s time to start planning which classes to enter. If you choose to go for the paper version, it will cost 50p…
Huge message sent to Scotland’s decision-makers
Week: 26 | 26th June 2025 | Farming and Environment NewsCampaigners are pressing for goats to receive fully-protected status Campaigners fighting to save wild goats on Langholm Moor have reacted with anger to the Scottish Government’s announcement that it does not have any plans to help the animals by granting…
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 against the clock. Treatment provided in the first few minutes can literally mean the difference between life and death for that patient.…
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 to put on an amazing new interpretation of the classic Burns poem Tam O’Shanter – with a wee bit of help from…
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 with a mission.21-year-old Oli Downey is determined to do all he can to save the Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival, which is currently…
Like Mother like Tub
Copshaw has chosen its new Tub. Voters went to the…
Eighty years since Victory in Europe
A poignant reminder of resilience and unity rising from adversity…
Goat group presses Council
Campaigners want protected status David Braithwaite, Chairman of The Wild…
Highland surprise on the North Coast 500
The North Coast 500 is a 516-mile scenic route around…
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…
Below average rainfall leads to SEPA warnings
Farmers should take steps to ensure their summer water supply…
Blight on the landscape as SPEN plans 65 metre pylons
‘Electric’ meeting anticipated at Copshaw Community Council Copshaw Community Council…
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…
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…
D-day for Council Tax rises across the area
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Lifestyle NewsDumfries and Galloway Council will make decisions today about the budget for 2025/26 with three different proposals to consider. The Conservatives who are in the administration of the Council are proposing a council tax increase this year of 9.2% with…
THEY'RE GOING TO CULL THE GOATS!
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsIn what will be a hugely unpopular decision, Oxygen Conservation says it must reduce the numbers Wild goats on parts of Langholm Moor are to be culled by Oxygen Conservation.The company which owns twelve thousand acres of the land including…
Grapes Bar and restaurant to close
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | E&L Life NewcastletonThe owners of the Grapes hotel in Newcastleton have confirmed that its Reivers Bar and Restaurant will cease trading at the end of this week. The announcement comes just two weeks after owner Steven Swan held a public meeting in…
Sitka spruce going, going, gone!
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | NewsA big task for the Tarras Valley team over the winter months has been the clearance of large areas of regenerating self-seeded Sitka spruce trees from the back of Whita Hill, the Castle Craigs and Little Tarras which have spread…
Concern over decline in dairy herd numbers
NFU Scotland say they’re concerned by figures just released which…
Copshaw on the the cusp of red and amber for Éowyn
Health Centre provided a Warm Hub throughout the storm By Gilly…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
Copshaw's golden boy adds to his medal haul
Paralympian Stephen Clegg receives an MBE in King’s New Years…
A new future for three local churches
By Anthony Lane Many readers of the E&L will be…
The human cost of ‘progress’
Gilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement…
At the going down of the sun and in the morning…
Eskdale remembers… Langholm, once more, remembered the fallen of all…
Barony’s Dairy Nexus is a Borderlands first
The multi-million-pound Dairy Nexus project at the Barony campus will…
Polysport venue helps keep Copshaw folk in top form
MSP is shown round The Holm’s health and fitness facility…
Vital issues addressed at this year’s AgriExpo
This year’s Borderway Agri Expo features two seminars focusing on…
Stephen comes home with TWO gold medals!
Copshaw-raised Paralympian swims his way to a brace of golds…
Fingers crossed for a fine day for the 127th Holm Show
Marquees are up, entries are made and there’s no rain…
Pureous Bunkumos
Week: 28 | 11th July 2024 | Arts and Entertainment Newcastleton NewsSaturday dawned bright and beautiful for the Copshaw Common Riding, the sun making a very welcome appearance, at least for the first part of the day. Festivities began at precisely 7.31 at the White Gate for the Hound Trail, won…
Murray Farmcare acquired by Harbro
Week: 27 | 4th July 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentTwo agricultural businesses well-known in the south of Scotland have now become one. The Harbro Group has announced the acquisition of Murray Farmcare Ltd. Harbro’s headquarters are in Aberdeenshire and the company has branches throughout Scotland including Hawick and Thornhill.…
Missing Lynx project
Week: 25 | 20th June 2024 | Farming and Environment NewcastletonFierce opinions on whether or not to reintroduce lynx to our countryside Around 77 people took the opportunity to visit the Missing Lynx project exhibition when it was staged in Newcastleton Village Hall for several days last week as part…
Farmstrong Scotland to hold wellbeing events
Week: 22 | 30th May 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentPeer-to-peer support offered to farming community Mixing business and pleasure can really help boost wellbeing and improve mental health.That’s the main theme of a series of events being run this Summer by Farmstrong Scotland at venues throughout the country, hosted…
Kerry’s adoreable Alpaca pals
Week: 20 | 16th May 2024 | Farming and Environment NewcastletonThe Alpaca Experience will give the public the chance to get up close and personal with the 25-strong herd From Legal Secretary in Newcastle to Alpaca breeder in Newcastleton might seem like a huge and quite unlikely career and indeed…
Are potatoes losing their popularity?
Week: 18 | 2nd May 2024 | Farming and Environment NewsThat’s the surprising finding of a new report by researchers at SRUC which has highlighted a 71 per cent reduction in the demand for fresh potatoes in the UK since the 1970s, with consumers switching to alternatives such as rice…
Coast 2 Coast cyclists stay in the Muckle
By Sharon TolsonA group of cycling friends tackled the new…
Care Inspectorate praise for Copshaw Nursery
School staff ‘pleased and proud’ after glowing report received By…
Climate Targets making farmers ‘hostages to deadlines’
‘Any on-farm efficiency measures should be rewarded’ The Scottish Government’s…
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…
Langholm Moor goat population safe for now
Gilly Fraser reports on rumours of an imminent cull of…
Lamont visits Barony
Scotland Office Minister learns about digital innovations The Barony Campus…
Made it to Crufts
Copshaw Mother and Son to take their terriers to top…
Participate in Polysport’s potential improvements
Newcastleton residents encouraged to have a say in development People…
'Weel are ye worthy o' a grace'
Langholm Ladies and Gilnockie and Langholm Playcare bring the Burns…
Good show for Holm Show fundraiser
Newcastleton’s Holm Show calendar of events got off to a…
Vlog: Wellbeing in agriculture
This month’s dip into the world of podcasts, blogs, vlogs…
