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With many businesses now able to reopen, including the tourism and hospitality sector, Borders MP John Lamont is calling on the SNP government to provide long term reductions in business rates to ensure they can stay open.  

Local MP John Lamont has said he will be voting again for a General Election this evening as the only way to get Brexit sorted.

Despite repeated claims from EU negotiators and opposition MPs that the previous Brexit deal would not be reopened, the Prime Minister has renegotiated a new deal and scrapped the controversial Northern Irish backstop.

Local MP John Lamont is calling for more police officers for the Borders after joining the Hawick Community Policing Team on the beat.

In the last 24 hours we have seen some promising signs that the EU and the UK may be able to come up with a new Brexit deal.

The Scottish Government has finally announced that BT will be awarded contracts for its key broadband programme a year later than previously planned.

R100, or the Reaching 100% programme, is the SNP’s pledge to roll out super-fast broadband to 100% of Scotland’s inhabitants by 2021.

A number of key businesses in the Scottish Borders are set to be hit with significant duties as a result of a trade dispute between the US and EU.

Local MP John Lamont is calling for extra funding for NHS Borders, after new figures show the health board is cancelling operations and failing to meet key A&E targets.

Scottish Borders Council is facing a £30m black hole in its finances over the next 5 years.

The figures have been revealed as the local authority launches a new public consultation ahead of its next budget, which will be set in February 2020.

NoteMachine, the UK’s second largest ATM provider have announced it will start charging for nearly half of all its free to use machines in a move which could affect cash machines in Hawick, Jedburgh and Galashiels.