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Complaint silences historic bells |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 00:00 |
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The historic clock bells of a Borders town have been silenced at night after an investigation by environmental health officers.
It followed a complaint by a bed and breakfast owner about the sound coming from the Galashiels war memorial.
The head of the town's Royal British Legion branch said that stopping the bells was "frankly ridiculous".
However, Scottish Borders Council said it had decided the complaint about the chimes was "not unreasonable".
The local authority received a complaint from a local guest house about the noise.
It has now decided to take action and ordered the bells to be stopped between midnight and 0715 BST.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 10:10 )
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Sykes celebrated union with reiver gift |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 00:00 |
FEW businesses can boast of client relationships of more than 20 years. However, Sykes Global Services can go one better than this having served multinational software firm Adobe for 22 years of the company's 25-year existence – although it has to be conceded that this was in a number of guises. To mark this occasion, Sykes' Douglas Watt commissioned a silver Border Reiver figure, below, which has now been presented to Dan Brown, Adobe Incorporated Worldwide operations director at its HQ in San Jose. |
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Author of Flashman stories dies |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 00:00 |
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The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way around the British Empire. MacDonald Fraser, who was appointed an OBE in 1999, also wrote the screenplay for James Bond film Octopussy. The Carlisle-born journalist turned author, who lived on the Isle of Man, had fought cancer for several years. He was married and had three children. |
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:00 |
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THE daring rescue from Carlisle Castle of one of Scotland’s most notorious Border Reivers has been brought to vivid life in a new book.
Deadlock & Deliverance, The Capture and Rescue of Kinmont Willie Armstrong by Tom Moss breathes new life into a well-worn story, celebrated by Scots but hugely humiliating for the English.
Tom, a Lancastrian, who now lives in Walton near Brampton, was also aided in his travels by Dougie Harkness of Langholm as they scoured the border countryside looking for Reiver sites. |
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A raunchy romp through Reiver land with one serious historian |
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Saturday, 27 October 2007 00:00 |
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The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser. Harper Collins. £18.99 (£15.99 in Bookends)
George MacDonald Fraser begins this book, which he says is “nonsense,†with one monstrous, contorted, cantankerous sentence – 360 words altogether – in which he contrives to quote from Shakespeare, the Bible, Lord Lytton and the BBC. He talks of “the false forecasts of Master Michael Fishe, he o’the isobars, who had predicted only light airs, gentle as zephyrs†(will our poor prognosticator ever be forgiven?), describes an equally monstrous storm, which whirls away Steeple Bumpstead and causes haystacks and livestock to crash through thatches, and wonderfully evokes the years of Good Queen Bess while at the same admonishing all the ills and contrarieties of our modern world from global warming to intellectual arrogance.
The octogenarian master is at it again. |
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