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- Direct flights 'key for economy'
- Navy diver joins Concordia probe
- Independence plan 'may block bank'
- Moore suggests earlier referendum
- Anorexia no fad, says MSP father
- Murder jury retraces woman's steps
- 'Serious failings' at health board
- Lockerbie probe request to Libya
- Cottage death OAP 'was murdered'
- Bronze sculpture stolen from museum
- Nursery man accused of sex offences
- Man held over street stabbing death
- Security guard robbed of £10,000
- SNP 'running away' from referendum
- '400 Scottish jobs lost every week'
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- Pupils updated on exam reform plans
- 47% of youth hide mental ill health
- Police target speeding drivers
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Plea to youth hostel boss
Scottish Youth Hostel Association chief executive Keith Legge will be urged to save its Broadmeadows facility from closure at a crunch meeting on Monday.
Holy moley! Thief goes to ground with Norman’s ball
IN LAST weekend’s Winter Woollies competition, there was a good entry and many fine scores.
COLTHERD’S ON A HIGH FIVE
SELKIRK handler Stuart Coltherd celebrated at Kelso Racecourse when Tartan Snow recorded his fifth win over fences on Wednesday.
Souters on and off target
SELKIRK Rifle Club’s tumultuous season continued last week with a Scottish League victory – breaking a run of defeats in the Lothian divisions.
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Service resumes
THERE was no Roond the Stick bowling ties at Ettrick Forest Bowling Club last week as the Angling Club was holding its AGM at the venue.
Roond the Stick
FRIDAY night saw hosts Ettrick Forest play the Ladies in the Roond the Stick league, continuing their winning streak with a fine 7-1 victory, although the individual games were much closer than the score suggests.
Bad day at the office as Heriot’s marksmen shoulder past Selkirk
YOU win some you lose some was definitely the ethos at Selkirk Rifle club this week as the team suffered one shock defeat and one much-needed victory.
Skip Skip and co edge Merchants on Ice title
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.
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.
Sticking it out
ETTRICK Forest Bowling Club continued their winning ways in their own Roond the Stick competition with a hard-fought 6-2 victory against nearest challengers the Leafers last Friday night.
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Weather for Selkirk
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Today
Light rain
Temperature: 7 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 36 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 6 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 26 mph
Wind direction: South west
