South of Scotland Live: News, sport, weather and travel updates from the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway on Thursday 30 April

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Updates for Thursday 30 April
More news, sport, travel and weather from 09:00 on Friday 1 May

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Giancarlo Rinaldi and Nichola Rutherford

Football resultspublished at 13:19 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Vale of Leithen drew 1-1 in the Lowland League against East Kilbride last night.
In the East of Scotland First Division, Peebles Rovers beat Ormiston 6-2 in their top of the table clash last night.
Eyemouth United won 2-1 at Kelso United. And Duns lost to their visitors Heriot-Watt University, also 2-1.
Back pagepublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Galloway News
Managerial changes at Threave Rovers and Dalbeattie Star make the back page of The Galloway News today.
Image source, Galloway News
Sunshine and showerspublished at 12:47 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
BBC Scotland Weather
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It'll be an afternoon of sunshine and showers across the south-west and the Borders, though the showers will become increasingly isolated as the day goes on.
They are most likely to crop up towards Dumfries and Moffat, but they'll be few and far between.
Northerly winds will be fresh along the coast. Temperatures will reach 13C in the west.
Accident on A77published at 12:34 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
BBC Scotland Travel
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tweets:, external #A77 Cairnryan to Stranraer road partially blocked by RTA at Innermessan - traffic managing to pass in both directions but slow moving. T.T.
Time to tune inpublished at 12:23 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Get the latest radio bulletins for the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway at 12:30 today.
More news, sport, travel and weather coming up at 16:30 and 17:30.
Clay army revivedpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Scottish Borders Council
tweets:, external Borders schools bring to life Chinese Emperor's incredible clay army http://ow.ly/Mk8CI, external
Laidlaw's Gloucester decisionpublished at 12:01 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Scotland scrum-half Greig Laidlaw has stood by his decision to leave his hometown club Edinburgh for Premiership side Gloucester last summer.
Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,
Greig Laidlaw has kicked 139 points in the Premiership this season
The two teams will meet in Friday's European Challenge Cup final, with Edinburgh hoping to become the first Scottish side to win a European trophy.
"It was the right decision to move away," said 29-year-old Laidlaw.
"I've really enjoyed it and feel I've played a lot of good rugby this year. I'll need to do that again on Friday."
Ecclefechan police appealpublished at 11:46 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Police want to trace a man seen carrying a large television through Ecclefechan early yesterday morning.
The man was seen on Langlands Road at 05:20, following a break-in to a house when a television and sound system, worth £4,000, were stolen.
A Police Scotland spokesman urged people to report suspicious behaviour at the time, giving officers the opportunity to check the incident out as it happens.
He added: "Calls made which turn out to be a false alarm are never frowned upon and we would rather check them out at the time as opposed to making a protracted enquiry at a later time, when the result will be the same."
The man was wearing dark trousers and a dark hooded top with the hood up.
Close to completionpublished at 11:30 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
A work by renowned landscape artist Charles Jencks on the site of an old opencast coal mine in southern Scotland is close to completion.
Image source, Crawick Artland Trust
Image caption,
The Crawick Multiverse will be launched to the public on the summer solstice on 21 June
The Crawick Multiverse will be launched to the public for the summer solstice on 21 June.
Materials found on the site - including 2,000 large boulders - have been used to create the work.
It hopes to attract international visitors and boost businesses in nearby Sanquhar, Kelloholm and Kirkconnel.
'Toddler assault' trialpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
A woman is to stand trial accused of assaulting a toddler at a retail park in Falkirk.
Image source, Google
Image caption,
The incident is alleged to have happened at a Pizza Hut restaurant at the Central Retail Park
Jodie Mitchell is accused of dragging the two-year-old girl along the ground at the Central Retail Park on 6 February, as well as seizing her by the head, lifting her from the ground and shaking her by the body.
The 26-year-old, of Selkirk, failed to appear at Falkirk Sheriff Court.
Her solicitor said she was "unwell", and entered a not guilty plea.
Eggs are hatchingpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
RSPB Dumfries and Galloway tweets, external: At the RSPB @MullofGalloway we are proud to announce our shag eggs are hatching! We're watching them from the visitor centre on live cameras!
Postpublished at 10:50 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
The Daily Politics tweets, external: Time to chop @reporterboy puns down to size, you say?
He's getting Scottish Borders #ge2015 views on Thu #bbcdp
Local links to Nepal disasterpublished at 10:35 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Galloway News
The Galloway News is out today and it is leading with a Creetown man's experience of the Nepal earthquake.
Image source, Galloway News
David Knox, Borders journalistpublished at 10:15 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Border Telegraph reporter David Knox, who was in Nepal during the earthquake, tweets, external: Well that was one hell of a holiday #SupportNepal
Cup triumphpublished at 10:00 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Newton Stewart lifted the Haig Gordon Cup last night, after beating league champions Wigtown 2-1 in the final which was played at Creetown.
Image source, Thinkstock
Ryan McKie put Newton ahead in the 40th minute of the game played at Castle Cary Park, Creetown, on a bitterly cold windy night.
His angular shot beat the Wigtown keeper but the lead was short-lived for a minute later it was 1-1 when Harry Fiddler palmed the ball out and Rab Jamieson prodded it over the line for the equaliser.
The winner came in the 63rd minute when McKie turned provider when his free kick was picked up by Jason Gallagher who forced the ball home from close in.
Railway's final phasepublished at 09:47 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
The final phase of earthworks has started ahead of the return of rail services between the Scottish Borders and Edinburgh.
Image source, Borders Railway
It will see material excavated during construction taken from the Ferniehirst area through Stow to Falahill.
Drugs teachers to be struck offpublished at 09:30 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Two teachers from Dumfries and Galloway who lost their jobs after being caught in a pub with cocaine are set to be struck off.
Image caption,
Mr Turner was head teacher at Dumfries High School
A hearing has been scheduled to remove them from the professional register.
Mark Turner and Lesley Wilson were caught with the class A drug in a bar in Carlisle in June last year.
Mr Turner was the head teacher at Dumfries High School at the time, while Ms Wilson was deputy head at Wallacehall Academy in Thornhill.
Travel newspublished at 09:16 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
There are progressive works taking place on the A75 between Stranraer and Dunragit and there's also temporary lights in place for repairs to the Cree Bridge at Newton Stewart.
On the M74 there are north and southbound lane restrictions for works between junction 15 Beattock and 16 Johnstonbridge.
Stop - Go boards will be out today on the A701 Dumfries to Moffat Road at the Shieldhill junction.
And on the A76, Dumfries to Kilmarnock Road traffic controls remain in place at Enterkinfoot. Temporary lights will also be in use at Elliock Bridge just south of Sanquhar.
Another showery daypublished at 09:07 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
BBC Scotland Weather
Latest
In the Borders, it will be another day of sunshine and showers. It'll be a grey start with a good many showers during the morning, but most of them will clear, leaving some sunshine for the afternoon.
Winds will be fresh at first, easing through the day. Temperatures will reach 12 Celsius.
It will be similar picture in the south-west, but an improvement on yesterday, with a shift in the balance towards dry and bright weather. Showers will be mainly towards Dumfries and Moffat, but they'll be few and far between.
Winds will be occasionally fresh at first, easing through the day. Temperatures will reach 13 Celsius in the best of the sunshine.
Postpublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 30 April 2015
Nichola Rutherford
BBC Scotland
Good morning.
Welcome to Thursday on the South of Scotland Live page. The picture on the front page today was taken from the Eildon Hills, near Melrose.
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