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Jun 12

'It's all they're talking about': Scotland gripped by World Cup fever bbc.in/4vDib0w

'It's all they're talking about': Scotland gripped by World Cup fever

Excitement is building ahead of Scotland's first game in the men's World Cup for 28 years.

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Jun 12

Your pictures of Scotland bbc.in/43A1ibh

Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country

A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.

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Jun 12

Giant turbine convoy makes its way to wind farm bbc.in/4awb9CL

Giant turbine convoy makes first Sanquhar blade delivery

Two of the 75m (250ft) blades were taken through Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway to the site.

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Jun 12

'Most unusual book' wins Walter Scott historical fiction prize bbc.in/43vSC5O

Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl wins Walter Scott prize

Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl wins the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize at the Borders Book Festival.

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Jun 12

Woman who has endured three cancers completes 141-hill challenge bbc.in/4vhlAlS

Highland woman who has had three cancers completes

Lorraine McCall has climbed all the Donalds after completing all the Munros, Corbetts and Grahams

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BBC South Scotland @BBCSouthScot

Jun 11

Black post box to mark home of UK's first black school teacher bbc.in/4xp76lA

Britain's first black school teacher to be honoured in Hawick

Tom Jenkins arrived in the Scottish Borders as a child aboard a slave ship in 1803.

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Jun 11

Investigation into Scotland's maternity units to start in autumn bbc.in/4dZRFbW

Investigation into Scotland's maternity units to start in autumn

Bereaved families say they are angry that the same issues have been reoccurring for years.

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Jun 11

Opposition mounts to 'monster' data centre in Borders hills bbc.in/4urt0BW

Opposition mounts to 'monster' data centre in Borders hills

An online petition against the £2bn scheme gathers nearly 7,000 signatures in the space of a week.

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Jun 11

Which World Cup stars have roots near you? bbc.in/4xnvLqu

Which World Cup stars have roots near you?

Which World Cup stars have roots near you? Find out with our interactive lookup tool

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Jun 11

Scotland's councils face £530m budget shortfall bbc.in/445GV5O

Scotland's councils facing £530m budget shortfall

The Accounts Commission has warned local authorities that their funding plans are not keeping pace with rising costs.

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Jun 10

'It's hit people hard': Coastguard volunteers no longer paid for callouts bbc.in/4ediuZ0

'It's hit people hard': Coastguard volunteers will no longer be paid for callouts

A volunteer from the Borders says plans to remove their remuneration has hit morale in the service.

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Jun 10

Two arrested after £360,000 cannabis haul uncovered bbc.in/4vFsAce

Two arrested after Newton Stewart cannabis haul uncovered

More than 600 plants were found by police in a property on Victoria Street in Newton Stewart.

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Jun 10

Fresh try for a bill to protect wild goat herd bbc.in/3QdeY8T

Fresh attempt to be made to protect Langholm Moor goats

A previous bid to secure protection for the Langholm Moor goats was refused by the Scottish Parliament.

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Jun 10

Peter Pan mansion owners snap up former mill site bbc.in/4oiX3dH

Peter Pan mansion owners snap up former mill site in Selkirk

Corespace - which runs Moat Brae in Dumfries - is now taking over Ettrick Riverside in Selkirk.

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Jun 9

Report warns of 'slowdown' in Scotland's rural land market bbc.in/4xAPYJV

Report warns of 'slowdown' in Scotland's rural land market

The Scottish Land Commission says the market has been hit by lower than expected returns from environmental schemes.

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Jun 9

Visitor levy for Dumfries and Galloway voted down bbc.in/4v3qYsW

Visitor levy for Dumfries and Galloway voted down

Councillors in the region drop the process entirely and will consult no further on the proposals.

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Jun 9

Old school asbestos clear-up to cost council more than £2.5m bbc.in/3PQGbhP

Old school asbestos clear-up to cost council more than £2.5m

Detailed surveys reveal significant issues at the former secondary sites in Galashiels and Peebles.

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BBC South Scotland @BBCSouthScot

Jun 9

Cammy meets a young Dumfriesshire dairy farmer bbc.in/4oApvbj

Landward - 2026: Episode 10

Dougie is in East Sutherland to find out about the challenges of modern crofting, and Shahbaz visits the Bone Caves in Assynt to see how an increase in visitor numbers is damaging the site.

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Jun 8

He told us we were slaves - The fight for justice on a Scottish fishing trawler bbc.in/3QcxSg9

He told us we were slaves - The fight for justice on a Scottish fishing trawler

The migrant fishermen who waited nine years to give evidence about the company that exploited them.

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Jun 8

Fishing boss fined for breaching human trafficking court order bbc.in/4xdWvK7

Fishing boss fined for breaching human trafficking court order

Thomas Nicholson, 63, is understood to be the first person in Scotland to receive and breach a Trafficking and Exploitation Risk Order.

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