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The Clarion
Hi-BEER-nation! Why can’t country pubs survive the winter?
VILLAGE PUBS ARE A DYING BREED in the Borders. This week two more once-loved hostelries have succumbed to a premature wintry blast. . .
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BARRICADED AGAINST BADDIES! The sad sight of village shops today
LOOKING BACK, RITCHIE BLAKE WAS GLAD he had not disturbed the gang of thieves as they ransacked his shop.
“I’m glad we didn’t hear anything...
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A startling revelation by President Donald Trump that he has spoken to thousands of centenarians has evoked this response from an illustrious predecessor, GEORGE...
The North
Hi-BEER-nation! Why can’t country pubs survive the winter?
VILLAGE PUBS ARE A DYING BREED in the Borders. This week two more once-loved hostelries have succumbed to a premature wintry blast. . .
The...
BARRICADED AGAINST BADDIES! The sad sight of village shops today
LOOKING BACK, RITCHIE BLAKE WAS GLAD he had not disturbed the gang of thieves as they ransacked his shop.
“I’m glad we didn’t hear anything...
They died for us. Not so we could have Silly Poppy Stories every year
NOVEMBER IS THE MOST SOLEMN, sombre time of any year; this year – the hundredth since the Great War guns fell silent – more...
Assaulting, obstructing and abusing Environment officer costs Tillside farmer £4,000
A TILLSIDE FARMER’S long-running grievance with Environment Agency officers over pollution problems at his New Heaton dairy farm erupted into a confrontation, Berwick magistrates...
On the trail of a callous crimewave that kicked off in Cornhill
LAWLESSNESS HAS COME TO GODZONE, APPARENTLY.
I say ‘apparently’ because the evidence for what follows is largely anecdotal: gossip, in other words, from the mouths...
