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The Council Headquarters is a municipal building in Newtown St Boswells, in the Scottish Borders council area in Scotland. It serves as the headquarters of Scottish Borders Council. Roxburghshire County Council built the first office on the site in 1896. The site later became that council's headquarters and meeting place in 1930, known as the ...
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Galashiels and District Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count SNP: John Mitchell: 1,519 28.2 1 1 Liberal Democrats: Jim Hume: 1,466 27.2 2 1 Conservative: Fiona Lackenby: 735 13.6 4 6 Borders Party Sandy Aitchison: 693 12.9 3 6 Independent: Bill White 453 8.4 Solidarity: Graeme McIver 210 3.9 Independent ...
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Jedburgh and District Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count Conservative: Sandy Scott: 1,011 26.0 1 1 Conservative: Len Wyse: 878 22.6 2 4 SNP: Jim Brown: 877 22.6 3 4 Liberal Democrats: Alistair O'Neil 716 18.4 Borders Party Jim Smith 316 8.1 Independent: Jim Millhouse 87 2.2
The building ceased to be the local seat of government when the new unitary authority, Scottish Borders Council, was established at Council Headquarters in Newtown St Boswells in 1996. [8] However, it continued to serve as an events venue [9] and also as a meeting place for the local area committee of the Scottish Borders Council. [10]
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Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Kelso and District Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count Liberal Democrats: Alec Nicol: 1,116 25.7 1 1 Conservative: Alasdair Hutton: 982 22.7 2 5 Independent: Tom Weatherston† 814 18.8 3 5 Independent: Trevor Black 431 9.9 Conservative: Andrew Thomson 427 9.9 SNP: Paul Cartledge 346 8.0 Scottish Green ...
The reorganisation of local government in Scotland was a matter of political debate from the mid-1960s. In June 1963 the Scottish Office published a white paper titled The Modernization of Local Government in Scotland (Cmnd.2067). This proposed a large decrease in the number of local authorities in the country.
The Borders Party contested the 2007 Scottish Borders Council election and returned two councillors. [6] The party also contested each ward in the 2012 Scottish Borders Council election [7] returning Sandy Aitchison and Nicholas Watson to their respective wards for a second term. The two councillors joined a coalition administration as ...