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Borders businesses won big in the 2024 Scottish Countryside Alliance awards, dubbed the ‘rural Oscars’ by organisers.

The Gordon Arms won best pub, Foston’s Fine Meats in Duns won the award for best butcher and Lauder’s Black Bull won best local food and drink. 

Business Stream recently wrote to customers to inform them of higher 2024/2025 charges. 

They said: “From 1 April 2024, the wholesale charge for water and sewerage services will increase by 8.8 per cent.”

Last week, I helped open the newest branch of The General Store in Selkirk, a not-for-profit organisation in the town.

The Scottish Conservatives have defeated the SNP in the Jedburgh and St Boswells by-election.

Rachael Hamilton MSP and I have written to the First Minister over the NHS Borders financial crisis.

We have urged Humza Yousaf to provide more funding to prevent cuts to local health services.

I was delighted to visit the team at Johnstons of Elgin’s knitwear factory in Hawick after the company recently announced a £1.8m expansion in Hawick. 

Shocking new figures have revealed that Borders children are waiting up to nine months for a mental health appointment.

After raising endometriosis in the Scottish Parliament, I am please to have secured a meeting between local campaigners and a Scottish Government minister to discuss treatment in the Borders.

Local organisations have been successful in securing funding from the UK Government Shared Prosperity Fund.

The SNP Government cut funding to rural areas by nearly £100 million in the latest Scottish Budget, which was announced on Tuesday.