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Dumfries students enjoy culture club

THE STUDENTS of Dumfries Academy have been enthralled at assemblies recently.Read

Georgetown kids take on Chess tournament

A GROUP of children from Georgetown Primary School travelled up to Newton Mearns, Glasgow, recently to take part in the UK Chess Challenge Mega Final.Read

Chieftain o’ the puddin’ race wins award

A DALBEATTIE butcher has been crowned the 2009 Haggis Champion after successfully competing in a national competition at Perth.Read

Drumlanrig sporting dinner raises charity cash

A CHARITY sporting dinner at Drumlanrig Castle was attended by a host of Scottish celebrities and raised more than £10,000 in the process.Read

Riders gear-up for charity challenge

ALMOST 300 cyclists descended on the ancestral home of the Duke of Buccleuch to gear-up for an annual charity ride.Read

Artist donates profits to Olympians

SPRING Fling artist, Gill Shreeve, is donating £20 from each painting she sells during the Spring Fling Open Studios Event at her studio in Moffat to Emma Birley and the team of 17 Special Olympic Games athletes representing the Scottish Borders.Read

Charity boxing night hailed a fighting success

A SUCCESSFUL charity boxing fight night was held at the Easterbrook Hall on Friday night.Read

Be in the money with the People's Lottery

YOU now have a fantastic opportunity to win up to £25,000 every week, plus one of three other prizes, including £1,000, after The People's Project linked up with Unity, the Nation's charity lottery.Read

Moffat Mountain Rescue cleebrates 40th year

MOFFAT Mountain Rescue team was originally founded as Moffat Hill Rescue Service in January 1969.Read

Kids clean-up at Burns award

YOUNGSTERS from across the region swept the board at this year’s Robert Burns World Federation School’s Competition.Read

Guid Nychburris launches shop window competition

CONTINUING with the Homecoming festivities this year, the Guid Nychburris Festival Association has launched its annual competition.Read

Communitie groups get £57,000 windfall

EIGHT community groups in Dumfriesshire were awarded lottery grants worth nearly £57,000 in total.Read

Snowball Committee present £500 to garden

MEMBERS of Chapelcross Charity Snowball Committee went along to Annan Activity and Resource Centre (ARC) at Ednam Street, to view their garden area.Read

Dumfries Cornets do the honours at dinner

DUMFRIES Cornets Club held its annual dinner on Friday at the Duncan Rooms, Easterbrook Hall, to introduce Cornet Elect 2009 Donald Stewart and Cornet’s Lass Elect 2009 Lauren Paterson.Read

Motorcyclist visits seven countries in seven days

A MOTORBIKE enthusiast clocked up charity cash during a daring 2,000 mile bike ride.Read

Wallace Hall pupils step up to university

A GROUP of senior pupils from Wallace Hall Academy has been the first cohort of pupils in Dumfries and Galloway to benefit from the University of the West of Scotland's Step Up to University module.Read

Braille machine donation

MEMBERS of Chapelcross Charity Snowball Committee recently joined Lewis Shaw at Hecklegirth Primary School where a group has been formed to allow sighted pupils to learn Braille reading and writing skills.Read

Dumfries High business lifts top award

IT WAS celebration time for Dumfries High School on Wednesday night when its Young Enterprise Company, Pro-cess, scooped the top prize for young entrepreneurs in Dumfries and Galloway.Read

Overseas market traders

A GROUP of youngsters from Dumfries High School recently returned home from a successful visit to an international trade fair in Sophia, Bulgaria.Read

Pupils take up walking challenge

PRIMARY pupils across Dumfries and Galloway are being challenged to walk the Southern Upland Way.Read

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