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

Last year was the centenary year of Macmillan Cancer Support – and to celebrate, the Ettrick Valley committee organised two sponsored walks.

The A7 passes through your town – or weren’t you aware of it?

Molly Buchanan

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.

Selkirk’s rig, reputedly Scotland’s oldest horseracing track, has been awarded £10,800 for refurbishment from the Payback Sports Facilities Fund.

IT may have moorland, ponds, trees and meadows, as well as being home to a myriad of birds and other wildlife, but that has not prevented Selkirk Hill from being left off a list of key local green spaces by planners.

COUNCIL planners have listened to pleas that the search for a site for a replacement for Knowepark Primary School should formally be included in the Local Plan, writes Mark Entwistle.

The Selkirk Merchant Company’s annual curling competition reached a conclusion last Thursday when the final was played between the teams skipped by David Heard and Skip Houston.

If The Pilgrim is going to have the arrogance to criticise the cancer research work of a professor from one of Europe’s largest medical universities, he should perhaps first have the decency to read the study he is criticising.