Dumfries and Borders

The Tour de France is coming to Edinburgh as the Capital becomes the first ever Scottish location to host the Grand Départ of the historic race.

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They will be riding £14,000 bikes at up to 60mph or more, attracting some 3.5 billion viewers across the world - welcome to the Tour de France.

Start of the Tour de France through Edinburgh city centre revealed

Knockinaam Lodge, Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway

Celebrated chef on his new role at ‘brilliant’ Scottish hotel

Drivers tracked by AI cameras face fines for dropping litter on roads

‘World first’ as recycled glass innovation approved for Scottish housing scheme

Kilmarnock Station

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£5m funding and jobs boost for Scottish building firm tackling UK housing crisis

The four best performing high schools in the Scottish Borders for exam results.

Top Borders High Schools 2026: All secondary schools ranked

Four of the best performing secondary schools in Dumfries and Galloway.

Top Dumfries and Galloway High Schools 2026: All 16 ranked

Center Parcs hopes its inaugural Scottish resort will be open by 2029. Picture: Contributed

Exclusive Quango urged to provide detail over £30m Center Parcs subsidy

Sam Heughan will take part in a flagship event at this year's Stranraer Oyster Festival

Sam Heughan to host 'flagship' event at Scottish oyster festival

Rail Sidings Limited managing director Gary Draisey aboard shunting locomotive “Charlie” at the Eastriggs site

Ambitious rail hub plan on site of 'devil's porridge' munitions plant

Four of the best performing primary schools in Dumfries and Galloway.

Top Dumfries and Galloway Primary Schools 2026: 12 best performing

Steven McCreadie of Dry Ice by Eco at the Whigham's Inn in Sanquhar, where work is due to begin on the facade.

Pub frequented by Robert Burns to be restored to ‘former glory’

'King Atehene' and 'Queen Nandi' with handmaiden 'Asnat' of the self-styled "African tribe", Kingdom of Kubala.

Explainer Kingdom of Kubala: Timeline of the African tribe evicted from Borders

Road Policing officers are appealing for information following a crash on the A697 near Lauder in the Scottish Borders.

Boy, 9, in 'serious condition' after crash in Scottish Borders

Four of the best performing primary schools in the Scottish Borders.

Top Borders Primary Schools 2026: 10 best performing primaries

£2 maximum bus fares across Scotland pledged by SNP

Scotland is home to some of the best stargazing in Europe.

Here are 11 of the best places for stargazing in Scotland

Scottish whisky distillery in ‘world first’ move to tap into wasted wind power

Borders estate agency Paton & Co expands across Scotland with ‘strategic merger’

Sam Heughan's Sassenach whisky display at The Great Tapestry of Scotland

Sassenach whisky on display at The Great Tapestry of Scotland

Greg James with Jamie Laing on the road during the penultimate day of the Radio 1 Longest Ride challenge for Comic Relief.

The route Greg James will take in Scotland for Comic Relief challenge

Police appeal for witnesses after lorry crash near lake

Stunning new Scottish Borders retreat targets ‘high-end’ staycation market

Nancy Hill

Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing woman

The collision happened near the village hall

Woman, 65, taken to hospital after being hit by quad bike

The man was taken to hospital after being attacked by two men

Man, 35, hospitalised with after brutal attack in Borders town

Café and deli in grounds of Scottish castle taps into electric car boom

Craig Milligan.

Scottish man jailed for £1 million identity fraud

View of proposed pedestrian approach to new station

Potential plans for new Stranraer rail station unveiled

Early morning crash closes busy road in both directions

Pensioner who died after van crash named

Exclusive Power shortage forces ’100% electric’ train firm Lumo to use diesel

Poor transport 'significant barrier' for 230,000 rural disabled Scots

Edinburgh will host the 2027 Tour de France Grand Depart

Tour de France Grand Depart route from Edinburgh revealed

Former Celtic player Jim Craig, specialist midwife Hilary Alba from Glasgow, and Lorna Dawson from the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.

The full list of Scots recognised in the New Year Honours 2026

Energy transition technologies come with greater performance risk (Picture: John Devlin)

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Mad Friday has arrived.

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Old Bridge House Museum, Dumfries, which dates to the 17th Century, is threatened with closure as Dumfries and Galloway Council considers its budget. PIC: Contributed.

Call to save tiny museum and former ale house linked to Robbie Burns

The feral goats are popular with visitors and locals alike in the Langholm community

Plans for 18 turbines revealed where goats are culled for 'rewilding'

Charlie Reid and Craig Reid of The Proclaimers are heading on tour around Scotland in 2026.

The Proclaimers announce nine date Scottish tour - here's what to know

Heavy persistent rain and trains delayed as weather warning issued

Services on busy train line disrupted after 'lorry strikes bridge'

The crash happened at around 1pm on Tuesday

Driver, 23, airlifted to hospital after horror motorway crash

Phillip Rotherham is described by his family as "a quiet and thoughtful man who loved nature"

Tributes paid to 'quiet and thoughtful' grandfather who died in crash

Vendace is the UK’s rarest native freshwater fish and is a priority species in the Trust’s Plan for Nature.

Ice Age Relic: Britain's rarest fish thriving in Scottish loch

The contracts will help to get more of the green power generated in Scotland to homes and businesses across the country.

Plans for one of Scotland's tallest wind farms spark 'error' anger

Rural bus service cut threat to pay for zero emission vehicles

70 jobs for south-west Scotland as building panel pioneer tackles housing crisis

Burns Light Image by Stuart Walker

Bob Dylan and Beatles to be projected onto Burns Mausoleum

The rescue team were called out at 12:42pm on Thursday

Girl, 10, stretchered off hillside in mountain rescue mission

Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein

All the Scottish cinemas showing Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Nursery 'deeply shocked' after children hit by runaway trailer

The crash happened on Pleasance Avenue.

Baby and toddlers in hospital after pram hit by trailer

Mavis Paterson, known as Granny Mave, poses with her bike in the countryside of Dumfries and Galloway. Picture: Paul Hackett

Woman, 87, takes on bike ride with a twist in memory of her children

The group's self-proclaimed king was former businessman and opera singer Kofi Offeh.

'King' of tribe living in woodland detained for 'immigration offences'

Four-storey Scottish tower named as best place to stay in Scotland

Police are investigating the incident.

Man, 21, taken to hospital after assault at Scottish bus stop

Self-proclaimed King Atehehe, Queen Nandi and handmaiden Asnat set up camp in Jedburgh.

Two people arrested as 'African' tribe evicted from Scottish Borders

The self-proclaimed 'tribe' have been living in woodland in the Borders.

Kingdom of Kubala in Pictures: The African Scottish Borders 'tribe'

The Outlander star has taken over the former Crafty Distillery and rebranded it as Galloway Distillery, and has called for a new Scotch whisky region.

Outlander star Sam Heughan wants new Scotch whisky region

Robert May, managing director of Historic Newspapers, with a copy of a rare 1909 edition of "The Scotsman", reporting the first flight across the English Channel .

Inside the 'incredible' newspaper exhibition at book festival

A self-styled "African tribe" has been evicted from privately-owned land in the Scottish Borders - and has moved over a small fence.

'African tribe' refuse to budge from woodland despite eviction notice

Jessica Fox is to make a film about Wigtown Book Festival.

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A self-styled "African tribe" has been evicted from privately-owned land in the Scottish Borders - and has moved over a small fence.

'African tribe' evicted from woodland - but set up over nearby fence

King Atehehe, his queen Nandi and handmaiden Asnat who have set up camp in woods in Jedburgh.

Sheriff issues warrant to remove African 'tribe' from woodland

An example of Stibnite, one of the minerals illegally removed by Dagmara Lesiow Lasczcewski .

Mineral shop owner guilty of damaging protected rock site with hammer

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