Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Borders waste treatment fiasco: post mortem (part two)

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by DOUG COLLIE A large delegation of councillors and senior local government officials from the Scottish Borders spent almost £4,000 of ...
Monday, 28 November 2016

Borders waste treatment fiasco: 'post mortem' (part one)

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EWAN LAMB reports Two heavily censored documents containing the findings of separate "lessons learnt" workshops during and aft...
Thursday, 10 November 2016

Borders council's "bankers" under investigation

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by DOUGLAS SHEPHERD The offshore business chosen by Scottish Borders councillors to bankroll a £21 million waste management project is n...
Thursday, 3 November 2016

Risky technology means bankruptcies and broken promises

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by DOUG COLLIE The risky and untried gasification and pyrolysis technologies which Borders councillors sanctioned for a failed waste tre...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Will bamboo join NERR on financial scrapheap?

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EWAN LAMB reports A second 'eco-friendly' fund run by the Premier Group Isle of Man stable is facing oblivion only weeks after s...
Sunday, 16 October 2016

Contractor demanded money from Borders council

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DOUG COLLIE reports Scottish Borders Council has been instructed to release more 'confidential' material linked to its disastrous...
Sunday, 9 October 2016

Future of Scott's Abbotsford now seems secure

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by DOUGLAS SHEPHERD Only a decade ago one of the best known stately homes in the Scottish Borders faced an uncertain future following th...