60 YEARS AGO
Friday, July 23, 1948

HAWICK ON HOLIDAY: Hawick folk will be streaming out of the town tonight and tomorrow for their annual vacaction. Not for them the nearest seaside resort nowadays. Ireland, the Continent and the furthest parts of Britain will hear the "soft lowland tongue of the Borders" next week.

In addition to the service provided by the LNER, the SMT Co are apparently almost back to a pre-war service, and the numbers travelling thus seems to increase each year. Very heavy bookings have been made for the Edinburgh and Berwick routes, and also the Newcastle area, tomorrow morning. Four special buses are leaving at 6am for Blackpool. Bookings for Whitley Bay nesseciate three buses and another special bus is going to Morecombe.

WRIGHT TEAMS UP WITH AUSSIE: When Tommy Wright was met at Leeds last weekend by the secretary of his new club he also met Leeds' new Australian hooker Ken Kearney, who played against Wright at Murrayfield in November last when Scotland met the Aussie's team. Kearney wanted to meet Wright as it was in a tackle of Kearney by Wright that Tommy sustained a dislocated shoulder when Scotland were leading.

CORNET'S SUCCESS: Cornet Whillans won the Visitors' Race at the horse-racing at Musselburgh Festival on Saturday. He was riding Mantalin.

40 YEARS AGO
Friday, July 19, 1968

NO REPRIEVE FOR RAILWAY: The closure of the Waverley-Carlisle railway route will be "by far the most serious blow yet" to Borders development, says Mr David Steel, MP. In a statement from the House of Commons, he said that the decision was "disgraceful and totally unwarranted".

NEW COURSE RECORD: On a day when several low scores were returned, Bill Ponsford swept round the Vertish on Saturday in a record-breaking 69, to win the Golf Club's stroke competition. This was less than the existing record set up by Jack McAllan last year.

20 YEARS AGO
Friday, July 22, 1988

TOP TRAINEE: Russell Fair, work study trainee at Peter Scott & Co., has received a cheque from managing director Walter Davidson in recognition of his achieving first prize in the Hawick Knitwear Manufacturers' Association examinations, and also the Walter Graham Memorial Prize for the best overall knitwear student.

CHEEKY THEFT: Cameron McNairn, an electrical engineer with GEC, Manchester, whose parents reside in Langlands Road, had a rude shock on Saturday morning when he discovered all four wheels on his Golf GTi had been nicked during the night. Replacement cost £850!