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This is where you'll find a comprehensive resource on Scottish accommodations. Electric Scotland's Article Service where you can both read articles and post your own. Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is a monthly publication giving genealogy advice as well as what's hapening on the Scottish Scene around the world. This is where you'll find around 300 books on Scottish history that we've published on the site. Our pages where you'll find books and articles about Robert Burns and his work. Gives you some information on the business scene in Scotland. This is where you can view Scottish events around the world and add your own. Learn about the history of Clans and Families of Scotland and the Scots-Irish. The personal site of Alastair McIntyre where he's posted his own mini biography as well as his travel journals. 5 volumes worth of biographies relating to Significant Scots. A weekly newsletter about the political scene in Scotland from the Scots Independent Newspaper. Lots of Scottish recipes along with contributions from our visitors. Play our collection of online games. 6 volume Gazetter on the place names of Scotland. This is our page for trying to give you advice on Genealogy. A FAQ where you go to get answers to frequently asked questions. Information and pictures about Historic places in Scotland such as castles and other properties. Main index page for our very large history section. Children resources including over 800 children's stories and lots of online and offline games. A bit of a catch-all page where you find loads of pages about music, haggis, scots language, culture, religion, humor and lots more. Our nature page where you can explore information on Scottish Wildlife, Plants, Flowers and lots more. Our weekly newsletters archive. Thousands of pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy. Loads of poetry and stories for you to enjoy with many contributions from visitors to our site. Our very own Webcard program which you can use to send online postcard to friends and relatives. Huge resources about the Scots Diaspora around the world and here is where you can find this information. A continually building information resource on the Scots-Irish who emigrated to Ulster and then onto many parts of the world, especially the USA. Create your own family tree with our special software. You can also import and export gedcom files. Our web-based scottish search engine which is a free resource for Scottish companies as well as Scottish organisations around the world. Current Scottish News headlines and links to Scottish news resources. A range of services, both big and small, that we currently offer. Our Tartan pages, giving you access to information on Tartans as well as tartan search engines. Sponsored by House of Tartan. Our travel section where we have loads of suggested tours of Scotland as well as old historic travel books. A wee collection of videos some of which we've produced ourselves. Learn about the last 100 pages we've added to our site which is updated daily.

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SCOTTISH BORDERS COUNCIL

Scottish Borders Council
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835-824000  Fax: 01835 825001
e-mail enquiries@scotborders.gov.uk

Education
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825090 Fax: 01835 825091

Social Work
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825080   Fax: 01835 825081

Housing
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825020   Fax: 01835 825021

Financial Services
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825010   Fax: 01835 825011

Economic Development
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825066 Fax 01835 825061

Leisure and Recreation
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825030 Fax: 01835 825031

Environmental Health
Scott House, Sprouston Road, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0QD
Tel: 01835 825111 Fax: 01835 825112

Consumer Protection
St Dunstan's, Melrose, TD6 9RU
Tel: 01896-823922  Fax: 01896-823924

Technical Services (Roads, Lighting, Estates)
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825070   Fax: 01835 825071

Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835-824000  Fax: 01835  825001

Cleansing
Scott House, Sprouston Road, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0QD
Tel: 01835 825111 Fax: 01835 825112

Planning & Development
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 825060   Fax:  01835 825061

Licensing
Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835-824000  Fax: 01835 825001

Library Headquarters
St Mary's Mill, Selkirk
Tel: 01750 20842  Fax 01750 22875

Police Headquarters Lothian & Borders Police
Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh
Tel: 0131-311-3000

Emergency
All out-of-hours emergencies
Tel: 01896-752111

The areas major industries are farming, forestry, fishing, textiles, and increasingly, light engineering and technology.  The Scottish Borders covers 1820 square miles of South-East Scotland containing some of Scotlands most beautiful scenery, the ancient Border towns and abbeys and many sites of scientific and historic interest.