BACKGROUND reports have been ordered into a Hawick man who admitted striking a man on the head with a glass in a local public house.

The Conservatives have urged John Healey not to raise tax when he delivers his first Budget at the end of the month. Mr Healey’s Conservative opposite number, Andrew Griffith, said the Chancellor ...

All nine deaths occurred before officers arrived, the city said, and no additional shots were fired after that.

A bid is being made for a judicial review of the Secretary of State’s decision which was announced on Friday night.

A GROUND worker who crashed his car on the picking night for Kelso's festival celebrations was three and a half times the drink drive limit, Jedburgh Sheriff Court has been told.