Berwickshire News November 30th

Clearly it's a slow week for news in Berwickshire this week - even slower than normal that is - English MP wants border road toll screams the 100 point type headline on the leading article. It seems that some MP from Essex is tabling a private members bill in reprisal for a trial of road tolling in his constituency that includes provision for a toll to be levied on the A1 southbound over the Border. All the local politicians seem to have jumped on the bandwagon of declaring it a silly idea. Local MP Michael Moore (Lib Dem Crew) astutely surmises that it has no chance of beciming law anyway.

A Duns man who holds that the Act of Union (1707) is an unlawful act, and has been to the Court of Session to fight the case and subsequently unilaterally declared himself Regent and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Scotland has declared St. Andrew's Day a public holiday. He refers to the Holyrood Parliament as "Vichy Scotland" and he must be short of things to do to be doing such things.

Euan Robson MSP (Lib Dem Crew) welcomed the allocation of £1.3m in funds for education-related matters by Holyrood - why his welcoming of this is worthy of reporting isn't clear.

Not much more to report from this week's News - Sheriff Kevin's court continues to process the drunks, disqualfied drivers and other petty wrongdoers dishing out low grade punishments to all and sundry.