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

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.

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.

Oh well, I suppose enough of the great independence referendum plot has emerged into the public domain for us to believe it might eventually take place – so I reckon we had better get on with it.

SELKIRK’S John Nichol returns home to conclude Ideoms’ alternative Burns Night Borders tour.

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.

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?

A SELKIRK mill has answered the call to produce a tartan for Britain’s largest charity supporting wounded servicemen and women.