THE region’s largest social landlord has appointed two new executive directors to its board.

Work is expected to start soon to repair the historic window above the altar in the Church of Our Lady and St Joseph in Selkirk.

Rowland’s Dry Bar in the West Port is taking its youth work onto Selkirk’s streets to engage with more of the town’s young people, writes Sandy Neil.

A DRUG pusher has said he wished he was dead instead of local footballer Greg Alexander.

Scottish Youth Hostel Association chief executive Keith Legge will be urged to save its Broadmeadows facility from closure at a crunch meeting on Monday.

ALTHOUGH police attended 144 incidents in Selkirk in the past month, only 11 crimes were recorded and, of these, three have been solved.

WHEN it comes to the delivery of a Selkirk bypass, it would appear that hell hath no fury like local politicians scorned.

SOME of the extra money which has been set aside by Scottish Borders Council to assist the funding of “events” in the coming year should go to common ridings.

LADY members of the Woll golf course at Ashkirk were given the star treatment when students from Borders College beauty department came to visit.

AS a debate is played out nationally over whether 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote in a referendum on Scottish independence, Selkirk is set to raise the bar on youth enfranchisement.

A DAWN raid on dog fouling was launched in Selkirk last Thursday in the war against owners who fail to clean up after their pets.

The Selkirk-based Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has welcomed the Scottish Government’s new proposals and consultation this week on radically changing the way 600,000 houses in the social rented sector are allocated and managed.

Monday Club: At 2pm on February 20, at St Joseph’s Church Hall, Pat Neil will give a talk on quilting.

Antiquarian society members gather on Wednesday at 7.30pm in Selkirk Parish Church Hall.

BACK in 2009, a public vote in the town gave the Selkirk Regeneration Group a mandate to “seek to develop a wind farm of up to six turbines on the North Common”.

A crafting group from Ettrickbridge are busy knitting hats to keep British soldiers’ heads warm under their helmets in Afghanistan.

Molly Buchanan

Lilliesleaf Primary School pupil Amelia Purkis was on the ball when it came to a national competition, writes Sandy Neil.

Selkirk Fairtrade’s competition for Selkirk High School pupils to design a Fairtrade cotton t-shirt promoting the cause has been won by second-year student Harry Murphy.

A GROUP of teenage boys in Selkirk are at the centre of a groundbreaking initiative which seeks to sew the seeds of harmony across the generational divide in the town.