Berwickshire News, May 4th
Apologies for the absence of the last couple of weeks....
Front page of this week's News is dominated by the news that Duns is to be one of the venues for a farewell parade by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) ahead of their amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
A body has been recovered by the Dunbar lifeboat off Pease Bay - belonging to a West Lothian woman who went missing from her home on April 26th.
Coldstream Primary received a positive report from the schools inspectors - good or very good in 12 areas and adequate in the remaining three.
In Sheriff Kevin's court at Duns - a 21 year old Selkirk man was convicted of drink driving, driving without a licence and having no insurance and banned for 18 months and fined £380 (hardly a deterrent I'd suggest - given what many people pay for insurance for a year anyway). Sentence deferred on a 36 year old Eyemouth woman who had a disagreement with her partner upon returning from a drinking session, convicted of breach of the peace whilst on bail. Two youths convicted of criminal damage on a property under renovation in Coldstream - apparently they'd been "having a laugh" when a fire they started got out of hand. Another youth had sentence deferred on a charge of breaching the peace at a filling station in Eyemouth where he "shouted and swore" at another man and then challenged him to a fight.
Meanwhile over at the rival to the court of St. Kevin of Duns.... the Berwickshire District Court: Four motorists fined and disqualified after being found guilty of speeding on Berwickshire's roads. £590 in fines and 16 penalty points between them. All were disqualified under totting up procedure. Two men admonished for stealing a bottle of vodka from Eyemouth Co-Op - they paid back the £8.50 for the vodka apparently. Lorry driver fined £110 and given 4 penalty points for doing 56mph on the A1 near Penmanshiel, and a motorist fined for doing 72mph also on the A1 - £100 and 3 points. This week's Darwin award hopeful has to be the man who was admonished for "without reasonable excuse, wilfully or recklessly punch and break a window".
On the letters page there's a moan from a Reston correspondent that Berwickshire is poorly served by SBC - citing the state of the roads, the road sweeping, burial grounds amongst others before launching on to the new refuse & recycling arrangements. They have a fair point that there are no civic amenity sites in the eastern Borders (the Paper Boy frequents the Northumberland County Council-provided tips at Wooler or Berwick en passant simply because they're easier to get to than the chew on to get to Galashiels) Another correspondent bemoans the state of the public toilets in Eyemouth & St. Abb's - imploring SBC to see how East Lothian do it in Dunbar & North Berwick.
Picture of Duns Sheriff Court courtesy of the Scottish Courts website
Front page of this week's News is dominated by the news that Duns is to be one of the venues for a farewell parade by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) ahead of their amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
A body has been recovered by the Dunbar lifeboat off Pease Bay - belonging to a West Lothian woman who went missing from her home on April 26th.
Coldstream Primary received a positive report from the schools inspectors - good or very good in 12 areas and adequate in the remaining three.
In Sheriff Kevin's court at Duns - a 21 year old Selkirk man was convicted of drink driving, driving without a licence and having no insurance and banned for 18 months and fined £380 (hardly a deterrent I'd suggest - given what many people pay for insurance for a year anyway). Sentence deferred on a 36 year old Eyemouth woman who had a disagreement with her partner upon returning from a drinking session, convicted of breach of the peace whilst on bail. Two youths convicted of criminal damage on a property under renovation in Coldstream - apparently they'd been "having a laugh" when a fire they started got out of hand. Another youth had sentence deferred on a charge of breaching the peace at a filling station in Eyemouth where he "shouted and swore" at another man and then challenged him to a fight.Meanwhile over at the rival to the court of St. Kevin of Duns.... the Berwickshire District Court: Four motorists fined and disqualified after being found guilty of speeding on Berwickshire's roads. £590 in fines and 16 penalty points between them. All were disqualified under totting up procedure. Two men admonished for stealing a bottle of vodka from Eyemouth Co-Op - they paid back the £8.50 for the vodka apparently. Lorry driver fined £110 and given 4 penalty points for doing 56mph on the A1 near Penmanshiel, and a motorist fined for doing 72mph also on the A1 - £100 and 3 points. This week's Darwin award hopeful has to be the man who was admonished for "without reasonable excuse, wilfully or recklessly punch and break a window".
On the letters page there's a moan from a Reston correspondent that Berwickshire is poorly served by SBC - citing the state of the roads, the road sweeping, burial grounds amongst others before launching on to the new refuse & recycling arrangements. They have a fair point that there are no civic amenity sites in the eastern Borders (the Paper Boy frequents the Northumberland County Council-provided tips at Wooler or Berwick en passant simply because they're easier to get to than the chew on to get to Galashiels) Another correspondent bemoans the state of the public toilets in Eyemouth & St. Abb's - imploring SBC to see how East Lothian do it in Dunbar & North Berwick.
Picture of Duns Sheriff Court courtesy of the Scottish Courts website
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posted by The Paper Boy at
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1 Comments:
Isn't £8.50 for Vodka good value. Shurely not a good brand.
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Huttonian, at May 08, 2006 9:49 PM
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