Crime

A man has been ordered to pay almost £4,000 after assaulting an Environment Agency officer and threatening to burn down his house.

A pensioner has been accused of sexually assaulting two young girls.

Recorded crime has risen by 12% in the Borders, figures released by Police Scotland this week reveal.

Police are appealing for information after the theft of two caravans from a storage yard in Greenlaw.

Police in the Borders are appealing for witnesses after equipment and items worth four figures were stolen from a van in Duns, which was also vandalised.

Police Scotland’s new Chief Constable started his first day in the role by speaking to the force’s newest recruits.

Police are appealing for information after two motorbikes were stolen from a showroom in Duns in the early hours of Friday morning.

Alarming new figures reveal more than a quarter of teenagers confess to behaving in a way that could endanger their life on the railway – and one in admitted to walking along the railway line.

A charity is warning of fraudulent collections after discovering its logo is being used on unauthorised clothes recycling bags.

Borders MP John Lamont has supported calls for tougher sentences for supplying fentanyl, a drug 50 times stronger than heroin.

A Road Crime Team in east Scotland has seen more than 650 road traffic offences dealt with, 240 vehicles seized and thousands of pounds worth of drugs and cash recovered in the past year.

Notorious Bathgate wife murderer Harry Jarvis, whose accomplice was Carol Heyster from Coldstream, died in prison from natural causes.

Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted fire-raising in Deanhead Drive, Eyemouth, at a round 4am on Monda, June 18.

A man has been charged in connection with defrauding members of the public in Selkirk and Greenlaw.

Police are appealing for the public’s help following the theft of power tools in the Eyemouth area.

A motorist has admitted careless driving after she drove her car twice into a 77-year-old man standing in front of it and blocking her path.

The number of police officers based in the Borders seems to be steadily reducing according to research carried out by Scottish Conservatives.