Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Lib Dem spending collapse in race for Borders votes

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EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON ELECTION EXPENDITURE by EWAN LAMB For a generation prior to 2015 the Liberal Democrats dominated the Borders politic...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Round and round and round again!

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Guest blogger BILL CHISHOLM M.B.E. on the attitude of the "regulators" towards a multi-million pound loss of public funds It ca...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

No expense spared when democracy's at stake

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EWAN LAMB brings you the latest allowances paid to local parliamentarians Readers of the Scottish Daily Mail would no doubt be outraged...
Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Borders waste strategy needed urgently

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by DOUG COLLIE A new set of environmental data for 2016 shows Scottish Borders Council sent an extra 347 tonnes of household waste to land...
Monday, 25 September 2017

Will council sanction copycat application?

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DOUGLAS SHEPHERD contemplates a planning dilemma Councillors in the Scottish Borders who rejected proposals for a £4 million waste transf...
Thursday, 21 September 2017

Incredible accolade from Audit Scotland

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by EWAN LAMB The Scottish local authority which repeatedly refused to release information about its failed waste management contract and h...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Chuffin' heck: where's the boom?

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by DOUGLAS SHEPHERD A decision by Scottish Borders Council to borrow £7.7 million and settle their share of the Waverley Railway (north se...