Scottish Borders

noun

a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)

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Police have evicted members of a self-styled African tribe who had set up camp on council-owned land in the Scottish Borders.

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Her life changed with a visit to Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, where she came across a figure of a horse made from scrap metal.

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In the 1989 documentary John's Not Mad, he cut a sad and lonely figure as the cameras followed him around his home town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

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A self-styled "African tribe" have been served with another eviction notice after moving from their previous camp to a new site in the Scottish Borders.

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Scottish Borders Council began legal action to evict them after establishing that the new camp was on land owned by the local authority.

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