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A Reliable Taxi Company You Can Trust T: 01450 374047 | 07707 480 147 FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021 ISSUE No.243 | £1 FLAT PACK STORAGE CONTAINERS Scottish Suppliers of Kovobel Demountable Flat Pack Storage Containers The HAWICK OWNED & A1 BORDER MOVES AND STORAGE www.a1bordermoves.com | 01450 378901 EDITED Units 1 & 2, 76 Princes Street, Hawick, TD9 7EG SNS [email protected] MEMBER LOCALLY REMOVALS & STORAGE www.thehawickpaper.co.uk PAPER WWW.CONTAINERSTORAGESCOTLAND.CO.UK Jockey’s family say Jobs face axe in fresh thanks as he recovers The family of injured jockey Aidan Macdonald blow to textile trade are this week thanking townsfolk and the wider important part of the racing community for their By HILARY MACTAGGART fabric of the town and the support as the young Teri [email protected] employees have incredible Megan’s back to work in style continues his recovery from skills. Therefore, this is not a stroke. In a devastating blow a decision we have taken Aidan, 21, who rides for for the town’s knitwear lightly, but out of necessity Middleham-based trainer industry, 11 jobs look likely to protect the long-term Micky Hammond, took ill to go at William Lockie’s health of the business and a fortnight on from being Drumlanrig Square factory. remaining 110 workers. knocked out cold during The news comes just “It has been a very a nasty fall at Hexham on weeks after The Hawick unsettling time for the March 18. Paper reported potential job workforce and we expect The same day he losses at Lyle & Scott, about to conclude the process underwent extensive tests at which the firm remains as quickly and fairly as the Royal Victoria Infirmary tight-lipped. possible,” he concluded. in Newcastle, from where William Lockie’s Last week we reported he was subsequently managing director David how Lyle & Scott’s last discharged. Nuttall explained: “While remaining link to Hawick However, after falling William Lockie has strong appears to be on the brink of ill last Wednesday he was long-term prospects to meet being severed. rushed by ambulance to the present impact of Brexit It is understood that the James Cook University and the Covid-19 pandemic, warehouse staff at the Hospital in Middlesbrough we are restructuring the Liddesdale Road factory are with a suspected carotid business. in redundancy talks. It is artery dissection, the most “Although we have unclear how many jobs will common cause of stroke in not quite completed the be lost, but we believe only young adults. consultation process, two employees will be kept Alluding to the minutes 11 jobs are at risk which in post for office-related before Aidan fell ill, his dad includes the four voluntary duties. Barrie told The Hawick redundancies which we It is also not certain if the Paper: “He was giving his have accepted. firm will retain its Hawick girlfriend Ellie a lift to work “This reflects the new base in the long term. Hairdresser Megan Rathband gets to work on client Lorna Armstrong at Ellava Hair & Beauty last Wednesday and had on Monday morning – the day hairdressers were allowed to open again following the latest realities we are facing,” he We approached the Covid lockdown. Kirsten Lindores, proprietor of the Oliver Crescent business, told us: “We are stopped at a junction. His added. company to try to confirm so happy to be back open and doing what we love. 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DEPOSIT FINANCE NO DEPOSIT AVAILABLE FINANCE faces long For more information Call: Councillors call for 01750 23054 recovery after Wellwood Service Centre, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk marketing plan to critical op n CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 couldn’t put the clutch in. At this point he was just slumped over. let Galalaw flourish “Aidan was then taken by ambulance to the James Cook hospital in Middlesbrough with PICTURE: ILF IMAGING what doctors thought was a cartoid artery dissection in his By PHIL JOHNSON neck. [email protected] “It was too close [to his brain] to operate on and we were told the Ward councillors are urging the next 12-24 hours would be majorly local authority to come up with critical for him. It was a long time a marketing plan to attract more waiting but the clot-busting drugs businesses to the expanding did their stuff.” Galalaw Business Park. Aidan is now undergoing rehab It comes after work began on at the specialist Rutson Unit in a new £250,000 access road to Northallerton, and has a “long long the north which is expected to road in front of him”. be completed by the end of the Barrie, a local firefighter, and summer. his wife Claire, a domestic at the Landscaping upgrades should Work has started on expanding the business park at Galalaw community hospital, spent three 01450 376753 now pave the way for Greendale days in North Yorkshire following Email: [email protected] Car Sales to expand its footprint, of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) that actually lay dormant for ten Aidan’s stroke, but were unable to but ward councillors Stuart government development agency. years. visit him in hospital due to Covid Marshall and Watson McAteer However, they have warned “As far as Galalaw goes we as a restrictions DEATHSTAXIS hope action will be taken to lure that businesses will only come if council now require an excellent They returned home to Hawick other businesses to a park that has a marketing strategy is devised marketing strategy in order to a few days ago, before heading back been open for two years. and acted upon to attract them learn from past failures and until down south yesterday (Thursday) The work now under way will and warned that lessons should be we have secured new business I after finally allow plots to be developed in a learned from the former Burnfoot also would like reassurances that being given LEX'S TAXIS variety of shapes and sites dictated South business park. this site will be made fully secure.” the go-ahead Airport Transfers Shopping Trips by business and industrial Councillor Marshall said: “I Councillor McAteer is also to see him. Hospital Runs Corporate Contracts demand. It will also supplement would now like to see what the calling for SBC to turn any Up until the existing main Galalaw access council’s marketing strategy looks marketing plan into action and yesterday road. like for the entire site and lessons involve key stakeholders. their only 07835 729466 Councillors Marshall and must surely be earned from the He said: “Turning strategy into means of McAteer have widely welcomed former Burnfoot South site where action needs to take place and we contact the £250,000 investment, which nearly £200k of European funding all need to be involved.” with Aidan, was secured from the South was ploughed into preparing a site SBC declined to comment. pictured, was via the internet. “We’d been able to Facetime him and keep in touch with him that way, as have many many people,” said Barrie. Updating readers on Aidan’s Giant wind farm plan sparks progress, Barrie went on: “He’s going to be in hospital for a long time. Initially, he didn’t have any concerns over ride-out route feeling in his left leg and left arm, but that has come back to a degree. Hawick Taxis Proposals for a 75-turbine wind which to base any real discussion, Muirhall Energy, did not respond to “He’s been sitting up and farm at Teviothead could put the and any impact there might be on our request for comment. actually stood up on Tuesday 01450 370740 Mosspaul Ride-out route “in serious ride-outs. We can only await further Meanwhile, Future Hawick, for the first time [since being 4 & 6 Seaters Available jeopardy”, it is being claimed this information developing in due the town’s regeneration group, has admitted to hospital]. These are Loyalty Card Scheme week. course.” pledged its support for the plans “in small steps, but there’s going to be A Common-Riding source told Mosstroppers president principle”. a lot of them before he can start us that he couldn’t see how the Graeme Hodgins concurred: “The They recognised the taking the big ones.” cavalcade could possibly reach Ancient Order Of Mosstroopers “contributions” that the wind farm Sending a message to all the hallowed spot following the acknowledges the proposed wind aimed to bring locally, such as well-wishers, Barrie said: “A traditional route should the wind farm in the Teviothead area but “significant local renewable energy huge thanks to everyone for farm plan eventually be given the feel as a club that it is really too early production” and the “favouring their support for Aidan, it’s been green light.