In fact, Hawick’s riding properly kicks off even earlier, on the common riding’s election night in early May. This year, a few hundred local residents stood outside an unassuming house on the ...

The Cornet will remain a man of stature for the rest of his life, their name and year of office part of the town's collective memory. There is, perhaps, no fonder figure in Hawick than Charles Noel ...

Every year, towns and villages across the Borders mark the tradition of Common Riding, with this year's celebrations, called Return to the Ridings, marking the 500th anniversary of the Battle of ...

THE first women to be invited to join a Hawick horse ride for more than 60 years yesterday completed a gruelling 26-mile trip across country. If the men resented the presence of the campaigners who ...