Breaking news

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION – WHERE ARE WE?
Tuesday 8 March 2011 - 12:55
Broughton residents are well-accustomed to the vagaries of political boundaries. Our own have long cut across numerous ties of shared obligation and…
Read More
LOCAL BAND WILL SNOG US WITH SPIRIT
Monday 7 March 2011 - 09:57
Broughton-based Whisky Kiss are an untraditional Scottish band riding the wave of international interest in folk-tunes cut with DJ culture.Over the…
Read More
LOCAL TORY CANDIDATE HEADS NORTH INSTEAD
Saturday 5 March 2011 - 08:32
Local Scottish Conservatives' plans for the Scottish Parliamentary election on 5 May appear to be in some disarray following the surprise withdrawal…
Read More
LOCALS TO TAK HIGH ROAD SO KENYANS CAN BE IN SCOTLAND AFORE LANG
Thursday 3 March 2011 - 15:17
Students, staff and community users are all getting together on Friday 1 April to raise money for the Drummond/Kenya Partnership and enjoy a lovely…
Read More
PLANNING UPDATE – 28.2.11
Wednesday 2 March 2011 - 10:22
Roxburgh Investment Ltd have been granted listed building consent to convert 26–8 Albany Street into 4 flats and a townhouse (Ref. 10/03518/LBC).…
Read More
HARD WINTER WORKS OUT FOR 'LOCAL HERO'
Tuesday 1 March 2011 - 21:38
In Issue 192, Scott Reed described how élite sponsorship from the Bank of Scotland would help daughter Kimberley's progress next season as a highly…
Read More
McDONALD ROAD COOP PLAN: REACTIONS
Tuesday 1 March 2011 - 16:54
Since we broke the news last week that the Coop Group plans to open a new 'convenience store' on McDonald Road, reactions have started coming in from…
Read More
What's in, what's oot, what's shaking it all aboot this month in Broughton and beyond ...
Tuesday 1 March 2011 - 14:54
Edinburgh Bands Together on Sunday 6 March at The Jam House (5 Queen Street) to raise money for St Columba’s Hospice. Standing tickets are £10,…
Read More
PROFILE: LAURENCE JAMES NICOLSON, THE 'BARD OF THULE' (1844–1901)
Tuesday 1 March 2011 - 08:41
In Rosebank Cemetery, an inscription ends:SERENE HE SLEEPS WHOSE SONGS OF LOVE AND HOME HAVE OFTEN CHEERED US ON THE WORLD’S HIGHWAY; AND HERE WE…
Read More
FINE FOODIES FAVOUR BROUGHTON, DAMN IT!
Monday 28 February 2011 - 23:10
Surely, nothing is more irritating than metropolitan lifestyle journalists dipping their oh-so-delicate toes into the too-hot-too-cold-too-tepid…
Read More