The UK Government has announced new measures to continue to help British holidaymakers get home from all around the world.

Local MP, John Lamont has welcomed a decision by the UK Government to grant a temporary extension to MOTs due from the 30th March 2020 onwards, as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak.

Rachael Hamilton MSP and John Lamont MP have welcomed the Prime Minister’s latest statement updating the nation on the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 is continuing to spread at both a local and national level. COVID-19 is an illness that affects your lungs and airways. It is caused by a virus called coronavirus.

The outbreak is rapidly changing and is being monitored closely by governments of all levels.

Pensioners in the parliamentary constituency that covers most of the Scottish Borders are not claiming the benefits they are entitled to, statistics show.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, has delivered his budget which has shown a huge cash boost for Scotland. It also sees a whole host of measures to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak.

Yesterday, the four mobile network operators in the UK – EE, O2, Three and Vodafone – signed a £1bn agreement with the UK Government to extend rural mobile coverage via the Shared Rural Network. The deal involves the operators sharing network equipment to better serve rural areas.

Borders MP, John Lamont, and presenter Anneka Rice have joined forces to help Marie Curie provide care and support to more people living with a terminal illness.

Borders politicians have expressed their concern at the possibility that laundry facilities at the Borders General Hospital are to close. 

NHS Scotland’s National Laundry Programme Board recently conducted a national review which earmarked facilities for closure.

Local politicians, John Lamont MP and Rachael Hamilton MSP, have written to the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, to ask for help for flooded areas such as Newcastleton.