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The Walrus · Jan 26, 2024

Dumfries and Galloway councillors calls for investigation over £1.8 million repair bill for school built just 12 years ago

The extent of the damage at Beattock Primary in Moffat and the cost to taxpayers has been described as “woeful” and “astonishing” by furious councillors

Daily Record · Jul 11, 2023

Four dogs shot dead by farmer after being abandoned in Scots countryside and killing sheep

Police received reports of unaccompanied dogs in the area around Moffat, Dumfriesshire, at around 8.40am.

Daily Record · Jul 9, 2023

Moffat Mountain Rescue Team stretcher woman from hill

The woman had hurt her leg while walking bear Brattleburn Bothy

Daily Record · Apr 18, 2023

Scots hillwalker stretchered from mountainside and rushed to hospital after fall

Police raced to scene near Brattle Burn Bothy in northwest Moffat, Dumfriesshire, after receiving reports that a woman was injured at roughy 12.40pm on Sunday, April 16

Daily Record · Apr 17, 2023

Ambitious £400,000 tribute plans for Moffat World War Two hero take flight

The Moffat Spitfire Project will see the relocation and installation of the replica aircraft in the grounds of Sir Hugh Dowding’s childhood home

Daily Record · Apr 10, 2023

Scots mountain biker found after 'out of character' disappearance

Stephen Sanderson, 53, has been traced safe and well.

Daily Record · Apr 7, 2023

Conservation charity launches £1million appeal to buy second side of Dumfriesshire's Devil's Beef Tub

Borders Forest Trust wants to purchase just over 115 hectares of the dramatic hollow in the hills above Moffat as part of its aim to restore denuded landscape

Daily Record · Apr 6, 2023

Fundraising page set up to help Lanarkshire hiker who plunged 60ft down waterfall

The father-of-one slipped on rocks at the Grey Mare’s Tail, neat Moffat, on January 14

Daily Record · Feb 9, 2023

Charity fundraiser Speedo Mick walks through Dumfries and Galloway in just his swimming trunks

Michael Cullen, known as Speedo Mick, reached Moffat and Lockerbie at the weekend in his “final ever stomp”

Daily Record · Jan 31, 2023