Friday, 30 June 2017

Council unaware of complaints against funders

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EXCLUSIVE by EWAN LAMB Scottish Borders Council was unaware of numerous complaints lodged by investors against the controllers of a group...
Thursday, 29 June 2017

Second crushing defeat for secrecy

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by DOUGLAS SHEPHERD Another concerted attempt by Scottish Borders Council to cover up information linked to their costly and disastrous wa...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Hike in homeless across southern Scotland

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EXCLUSIVE by DOUG COLLIE The number of applications to services for the homeless across Scottish Borders, East Lothian and Dumfries &...
Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Common Good revisited: still under-performing?

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EXCLUSIVE by EWAN LAMB The nine Common Good funds in the Scottish Borders received only £69,000 from a combined investment portfolio of £2....
Sunday, 25 June 2017

Another ‘under-spend’ at council HQ yet debts climb by12%

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EXCLUSIVE by DOUG COLLIE Scottish Borders Council has declared a wafer thin under-spend on its £261 million revenue budget for the fif...
Friday, 23 June 2017

Will May keep this gravy train running?

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by ROLY MEADOWS,   OUR RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR  Farmers in the Scottish Borders and elsewhere must be hoping at least one Tory manifesto polic...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Creditors of SBC contractor will get 1.5p in the £

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EXCLUSIVE by EWAN LAMB The mountain of debt which finally engulfed Scottish Borders Council's waste management contractors New Earth ...