- More uni courses cut in England
- Haulier fare subsidy 'must remain'
- Tax-dodging landlords 'targeted'
- Housing market recovery 'not there'
- 'Little prospect' for oil fund plan
- Disability cuts 'are devastating'
- Heart care 'more likely for rich'
- Lockerbie probe request to Libya
- Lennon bomb plot accused for trial
- 'Serious failings' at health board
- Cottage death OAP 'was murdered'
- Murder jury retraces woman's steps
- Pine marten control called for
- 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
- Bronze sculpture stolen from museum
- Nursery man accused of sex offences
Letters to the Editor
Concert benefits cancer group
SIR, - On behalf of Breakthrough Breast Cancer I would like to thank you and your group for your continuing support in advertising our charity events. On Friday, January 27, we had a wonderful evening in the Eildon, with our country music event featuring John Clancy. The marvellous sum of £604 was raised.
Great honour
SIR, - I should be grateful if you would allow me, through your pages, to thank the many people who have gone out of their way to congratulate me by cards, letters, e-mails, telephone calls and in person, on my being honoured with the award of an MBE.
RNLI quiz
SIR, - I would like to express a special thank you to all those that attended the recent RNLI Quiz Night at Oblo in Eyemouth.
Villages don’t want monstrosities near them
SIR, - We read in The Berwickshire News (February 9) that a new wind farm is being proposed at Horn Burn, within a stones throw of Ayton.
Bottle tops
SIR, - Through you column I would like to thank Debbie and Garry from the First And Last (The Gulls Nest) at Burnmouth for their help in collecting hundreds of metal tops from the cans of juice they sell. These have been collected to raise money for a kidney dialysis machine on behalf of my friend in West Lothian who is very grateful to them and has asked me to thank them.
Trying to trace field gunners from 1956
SIR, - In 1956 I was in the Royal Navy’s Devonport Field Gun Crew whose base was HMS Drake in Devonport and subsequently Devonport Dockyard remained the home for the Devonport Field Gun Association.
Great occasion
SIR, - The Committee and members of the Whiteadder Burns Club would like to thank everyone involved with making our Diamond Jubilee Celebration Supper an outstanding event.
Don’t be duped by Westminster’s scaremongering and tales of doom
SIR, - As soon as Alex Salmond announced the date of the independence referendum I knew that all sorts of scare stories would emanate from Westminster, many from MPs who actually call themselves Scottish.
Youth Trust
SIR, - A very successful coffee morning was held on Saturday, February 4, in the Mason’s Hall, Eyemouth when £566 was raised for the ongoing work of the Berwickshire Christian Youth Trust with young people across Berwickshire. Thanks are expressed to all who contributed, helped and supported to make this such an enjoyable and financially successful morning.
Residents urged to bag it and bin it at Dunbar
SIR, - January 25 saw sewage being pumped into the Cromwell Harbour in Dunbar.
Information sought on whereabouts of sculptures
SIR, - In the 60s I was creating some rather way-out sculptures.
Wind farms
SIR, - I was interested to read Ian Woolen’s letter on wind farm presentations and agree that developers generally wildly overstate the projected output of windfarms since they quote capacity not actual prospective generation.
Cross party support for Reston station
SIR, - In Cat Macdonald-Home’s letter of January 27 concerning the campaign to reopen Reston Station she states that that ‘Councillors from the main national parties have let us down repeatedly because their hands are tied as a result of party policy dictated from Westminster and Holyrood.’
Is court closure decision a wise one?
SIR, - We are in the process of pursuing a Civil Court action.
Knitting patterns
SIR, - Has anyone got any toys and dolls clothes knitting/crochet patterns they don’t use anymore as my daughter is learning to knit and crochet and we are finding any of these patterns very difficult to come across.
EVG fundraisers
SIR, - My I, through your column, thank everyone who supported Eyemouth Variety Group’s recent grand raffle.
Good Samaritan
SIR, - My wife and I were in Duns last Friday and got a puncture in Station Road outside the Council Yard.
Caring Merse Medical practice
SIR, - With reference to a recent letter concerning the Merse Medical Practice, I thought it only fair that I share my experience.
Wind farm presentations were not adequate
SIR, - We have been following with interest the letters in your newspaper written pro and con wind farms in the Borders, mostly against, for some time now.
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Weather for Duns
Thursday 23 February 2012
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Cloudy
Temperature: 6 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
Wind direction: South west
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