Entries by Hedley Phillips

New Whisky distillery for Walkerburn

Walkerburn Distillery proposal – A second proposal in the space of a week has emerged to construct a whisky distillery in the Borders. A local businessman , Mr Alasdair Day from Stonedean Ltd who currently blends whisky in Coldstream is looking to raise £5m towards the project in the Tweed Valley near Walkerburn. He, along with […]

Peebles wins Creative Place Awards

Peebles, Falkirk and Helmsdale win Creative Place Awards Three communities have won a total of £300,000 towards arts and cultural projects at the Scottish Creative Place Awards held in Kilmarnock. Falkirk secured the £150,000 prize for places with under 100,000 residents. Peebles in the Scottish Borders landed £100,000 for areas with under 10,000 inhabitants and […]

Caerlee Mills, Innerleithen – Auction

Innerleithen Mills to be sold at auction It’s a sad end to what was Scotland’s oldest continually-operating textile mill as Caerlee Mills in Innerleithen are put up for auction. The auction of the mills starts at 7:30pm on the 13th February 2014 and comprise: Substantial Category B Listed Mill Building and Other Subjects in the […]

Bing’s cheeky response if you search for Google

Bing: Searching for “Google” results in a pop up advert for Bing Typical of Microsoft. Rather than spend time and effort making your product better than everyone elses. Use childish tactics instead. Microsoft have been running their Bing it On campaign for a while now to try and tempt people away from Google and over […]