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Border history

Historic attractions across the Borders are keeping their doors open to visitors for longer this season.

More than 30 clansmen and women marched to Edinburgh Castle for a Scottish history landmark.


A mystery sword that could have belonged to an infamous sixteenth century Border Reiver is on display at Dumfries Museum.

Campaigners are presenting a petition to the Scottish parliament today in a bid to prevent a set of historic Galloway treasures being taken away to Edinburgh.

Campaigners say the Galloway Viking Hoard treasure, which has been in the region for over a thousand years and was found by metal detectorists in 2014 should be kept at a gallery at Kirkcudbright.

The answer to how pre-historic animals made it from the water to land has been discovered in the Scottish Borders.

A veteran pilot from southern Scotland who helped sink the Bismarck has died at the age of 97.

Simisola Jolaoso reports: 
A medal has been presented to a Borders lifeboat station to honour a rescue carried out by its crew 99 years ago.

One of the oldest traditions in The Borders is underway - the Langholm Common Riding.


