Melrose – A small town with a big history – Every year in April the border town of Melrose becomes the focus of international attention. The occasion is the Melrose Sevens, a rugby event devised and first played in the town in 1877. Cue TV cameras, about 16,000 visitors (that’s six times the resident population) […]
Melrose – A small town with a big history
The Tweed – recreation, romance and history
The Tweed – recreation, romance and history – The Tweed, one of Scotland’s great rivers, (in spite of the fact that its final few miles flow through England) is a magnet for those who look upon fly fishing as a sporting art form. Taking life from a 1500 sq mile (4000 sq km) catchment area […]
Getting connected to the Reivers Road
Getting connected to the Reivers Road – The first of six innovative GPS-triggered audio trails of the Borders has been launched by new company, The Reivers Road. Debi Webster and her co-director, Alastair Cunningham, (above), have worked in the tourism industry for almost two decades and were frustrated by visitors seeing little of Scotland beyond […]
Scottish Borders on track for new opportunities
Scottish Borders on track for new opportunities – The Campaign for Borders Rail has received a top level boost following a meeting with Scotland Office minister, Iain Stewart MP. He confirmed the UK Government’s support for the project and gave a commitment to drive the plans forward with his ministerial colleagues. It was revealed that […]
Berwick – a bastion of Borders history
Berwick – a bastion of Borders history – Mapping the border between England and Scotland must have been a plumb commission for medieval cartographers. No sooner had a new line been charted than a new round of hostilities would herald a land grab by one side or the other and it was back to the […]
