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Berwickshire

Triple points for Tillage 08

Efficiency, innovation and best practice are the 'take home' messages from this year's Tillage Events to be held during September in Northamptonshire and Berwickshire – and for the first time, growers attending Tillage...

Wind-farm inquiry is halted by mix-up over documents

Published Date: 22 August 2008 A COSTLY public inquiry into a controversial wind farm has been halted after it emerged documents for public inspection were put on display in the wrong library. The blunder by Scottish Borders...

Reality TV toff is Cam's new adviser

David Cameron's latest adviser lorded it over servants with "terrible relish" as a pampered aristocrat in a TV reality show, it was revealed yesterday. Jonty Olliff-Cooper also taught at the Tory leader's elite old school Eton...

A flood which swept away bridges

A giant inland lake, estimated to contain 400 million gallons of water, was formed by the flood. The floods it caused have been described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of the Borders. A coach had to be pulled...

Wind farm inquiry gets under way

The inquiry has been scheduled to take place over eight days A public inquiry is scheduled to begin into plans for a wind farm development on the Berwickshire coast. Eight days have been set aside to discuss the 22-turbine...

SNP's rural policies looking like the weather: a washout

Published Date: 11 August 2008 IT HAS been the week of the wellie: seldom in my memory has there ever been a first week in August to match the recent downpours. If it has not been a good weather-week, the past seven days have...

Plague of plastic casts cloud over our beaches

Aug 11 2008 by Kim Carmichael, The Journal VOLUNTEERS cleared a record 1.2 tonnes of rubbish off the region’s beaches last year, The Journal can reveal. A survey of 19 beaches in Northumberland and Berwickshire revealed 57% of...

Station reopening scheme studied

Mr Stevenson will discuss reopening the station on the east coast line Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson is to visit a Berwickshire village to discuss reopening its station. A campaign has continued in recent years to have...

Seven-year-old boy seriously hurt after cliff plunge

A SEVEN-year-old boy was seriously injured after falling 50ft from cliffs yesterday. A major rescue operation was launched after the accident at 5.30pm. The victim was flown to hospital where he was being treated for multiple...

Missing Scot warned not to climb alone

Published Date: 26 July 2008 THE sister of a Scottish mountaineer missing in northern Pakistan after a solo attempt on a 20,000ft summit yesterday revealed that he was warned not to take on the challenge. Ben Cheek, 28, began...

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