Rachael Hamilton MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, is encouraging local charities and community groups to apply for funding from a pot of over £3 million that has been raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

John Lamont MP and Rachael Hamilton MSP have completed their 6-week long surgery tour of the Borders.

The surgery tour was the largest in Scotland, and took in 84 towns and villages from Newcastleton in the south west, to St Abbs in the north east of the region.

As the first day of the Border Union Show gets underway, local MSP Rachael Hamilton has published the Scottish Conservatives’ plan to accelerate the growth of the agritourism sector in Scotland.

Rachael Hamilton MSP visited Whitriggs Farm near Denholm to see the excellent work being carried out by farmers to diversify.

Whitriggs Farm kindly hosted a Walk and Talk organised by Scottish Land and Estates, which showed visitors farm diversification and succession.

Rachael Hamilton MSP recently visited Redford Barracks near Edinburgh on an Armed Forces Parliamentary visit.

Rachael Hamilton MSP has expressed her deep concern at the latest figures, which show that recorded drug deaths in Scotland are the highest in EU.

Rachael Hamilton MSP has expressed concern at the rising number of casualties on the A1, A68 and A7.

In the past decade, there have been around 1000 casualties on both the A7 and the A1 with them ranging from slight to fatal. 

Rachael Hamilton MSP met with Police Officer David Waddell, Operation Close Pass Local Area Co-ordinator, to hear more about how the operation is designed to educate drivers who pass too closely to cyclists.

Rachael Hamilton MSP supports a project aimed at regenerating Jedburgh High Street, which sees empty shops being transformed into galleries.

Rachael Hamilton MSP has praised the growth of the Open University in Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

In the Borders, given the rurality of the region, the Open University is a great way of allowing those unable to attend university an opportunity to obtain a degree.