Crime

A gamekeeper has been banned from keeping birds of prey for ten years after admitting failing to protect an eagle owl in his care from suffering.

A gamekeeper has been banned from keeping birds of prey for 10 years after admitting failing to protect an eagle owl in his care from suffering.

Police Scotland is warning the public to be alert after businesses and individuals across the country were scammed out of millions of pounds.

Police are investigating the theft of a DAF LF45 lorry from business premises at Station Road Industrial Estate, Duns, on Tuesday, February 6, at around 9pm.

British Transport Police officers in Scotland are supporting a national week of action tackling knife crime.

Police arrested and charged five men in connection with hare coursing offences alleged to have taken place in the Duns and Gifford area last Thursday.

Police have detained a man after a break-in at a car showroom on Berwick Road, Duns.

A 37-year-old man has been jailed for 12 months at Selkirk Sheriff Court for producing cannabis with a maximum yield of £11,500 at his Berwickshire home.

A 36 year old man has been charged in connection with three break-ins in Eyemouth earlier this week.

Police are investigating the theft of a quantity of diazepam from a doctor’s surgery in Priors Walk, Coldingham, on Tuesday, December 12.

Police in the Borders are appealing for witnesses following the theft of a scissor lift access platform from Farne Salmon and Trout Ltd’s Duns premises some time between 8pm and midnight on Sunday, November 5.

Police are appealing for witnesses following two shed break-ins in Earlston and an attempted mini-tractor theft 12 miles up the A68 in Oxton.

Two teenagers carried out an assault on a disabled man in his mid-40s in Market Square, Duns. Ronan McDougall, 18, was told his victim could have died during the assault, which would have resulted in him appearing in another court.

Police in the Scottish Borders are appealing for information and issuing a warning to the public after an elderly man was defrauded of several thousand pounds.

Borders MP John Lamont has welcomed the tougher sentences for killer drivers announced by the UK Government this week.

An Eyemouth conman who swindled his own partner and members of the public out of thousands of pounds to pay for his gambling addiction has been jailed for 12 months at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.

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South of Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne (Conservative) has raised the vexed issue of police numbers in the Borders in the Scottish Parliament.

Crimestoppers is urging people to report incidents of hate crime across Scotland.