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Business Stream recently wrote to customers to inform them of higher 2024/2025 charges. They said: “From 1 April 2024, the wholesale charge for water and...

Last week, I helped open the newest branch of The General Store in Selkirk, a not-for-profit organisation in the town. Now almost 3 years old, The General Store...

The Scottish Conservatives have defeated the SNP in the Jedburgh and St Boswells by-election. Scottish Conservative & Unionist candidate John Bathgate won with...

Rachael Hamilton MSP and I have written to the First Minister over the NHS Borders financial crisis. We have urged Humza Yousaf to provide more funding to...

I was delighted to visit the team at Johnstons of Elgin’s knitwear factory in Hawick after the company recently announced a £1.8m expansion in Hawick. The...

Shocking new figures have revealed that Borders children are waiting up to nine months for a mental health appointment. A new Freedom of Information request by...

After raising endometriosis in the Scottish Parliament, I am please to have secured a meeting between local campaigners and a Scottish Government minister to...

Local organisations have been successful in securing funding from the UK Government Shared Prosperity Fund. The fund, which forms part of the UK Government’s...

The SNP Government cut funding to rural areas by nearly £100 million in the latest Scottish Budget, which was announced on Tuesday. Analysis of the budget shows...