- Men arrested over £280,000 drugs
- Classic cars begin Monaco challenge
- Man badly hurt in nightclub attack
- SNP 'backtracked' on housing pledge
- Four held after prisoner recaptured
- Body found after rural home fire
- Labour 'to force vote on RBS bonus'
- Salmond defends referendum question
- Swinney: Economy 'running on empty'
- Holyrood recruits marathon hero
- Poorly pandas removed from view
- Pair hurt in paragliding accident
- Kingdom Bakers enters receivership
- Lawyer: Tommy Sheridan to be gagged
- Award for Libyan conflict nurse
- Pressure grows over RBS chief bonus
- Housing budget set for 41% cut
- Teaching union selects new leader
- Firefighters tackle scrapyard blaze
- Buying homes 'cheaper than renting'
News
Power chiefs in current affairs talks
SCOTTISHPower bosses will meet with householders in the Ettrick Valley on Tuesday (7.30pm) to discuss their winter without electricity.
Ten youths targeted to curb Selkirk disorder
THE police have identified 10 local youngsters who, it is claimed, are responsible for most of the calls involving youth disorder in the town.
Lamont says Salmond’s vote date is a leap too far
Selkirk’S Tory MSP John Lamont has welcomed Alex Salmond’s preference for a single question in Scotland’s independence referendum – but said it must be held sooner rather than later.
Kelso back on cards for Selkirk punters after ‘rip-roaring’ disappointment
BETTING shop manager of the year Andy Bennett admitted this week he was “absolutely gutted” that he and around 90 of his punters at Scotbet in Selkirk had been unable to enjoy a free day out at Kelso races.
THE PILGRIM
Right, pay attention at the back. This is important stuff you all need to know, excepting maybe those who already know it, in which case keep quiet for now or find yourselves something useful to do until this is over.
Sport
LEARNING FROM THE BEST
EDINBURGH Rugby players are heading to Philiphaugh this Monday to deliver a coaching clinic to local youngsters, one week after booking their place in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals.
Douglas duo ready for Pitreavie
EIGHT speedy Souters are making the journey to Dunfermline on Sunday to take part in the inaugural Pitreavie Gift meeting.
Roxburgh burns it up
IN LAST weekend’s Winter Woollies competition, it was Norman Roxburgh – whose putting was described as poetry in motion, suggesting perhaps that he should be bard – who won by two shots from Alan Brown and John Coyle, whose sonsie faces were wreathed in smiles.
Lifestyle
When so-called experts’ advice is in bad taste
Ho hum, another new year, another new food scare, so what’s new about that? Why must we suffer a constant bombardment of food frighteners?
SELKIRK FIRM HELPS THE HEROES
A SELKIRK mill has answered the call to produce a tartan for Britain’s largest charity supporting wounded servicemen and women.
Cunning plan to stop poachers
A CUNNING plan has been hatched by the organisers of this year’s Great Selkirk Haggis Hunt to prevent poachers bagging the birds, writes Bob Burgess.
Burns supper
THE former standard bearer of the Coldstream-based 1513 Flodden Club – George Miller from Jedburgh – will propose the Immortal Memory at Selkirk Rugby Club’s Burns supper on January 27.
We may have to face up to weathering power cuts
I suppose it is true to say the British have more or less come to terms with the reality of bad weather. No matter what the so-called experts have to say, the bottom line is we just accept what shows up and make the best of it.
Community
Councillors brought to book in Selkirk library controversy
Following the article published in the December 16 issue of The Wee Paper, entitled “Councillors defend decision to back Selkirk library merger”, it would be reassuring to think that elected members of Scottish Borders Council also checked their facts before they started to complain about other people.
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Weather for Selkirk
Sunday 29 January 2012
Today
Light showers
Temperature: -1 C to 3 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: -1 C to 3 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: East
