Thanks to ITV's Border Life the story of William McMurray and his photographic collection has been brought to homes across the Borders TV area.

Partners in a new European heritage project will be visiting Gatehouse in May.

Help is needed to identify people and places in the McMurray collection of photographs dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Gatehouse of Fleet community Councillor and Development Initiative member Ron Forster has become a well deserved Community Champion.

Locals will be aware of a project by Graham and Margaret Wright to collect old school photographs and to annotate them with names. These have recently been added to a new history website: www.gatehouse-folk.org.uk which has been developed to make this sort of information publicly available.

A bright frosty morning greeted pupils from the Primary 5/6 class as they made their way to Trusty's Hill on Monday 4th November accompanied by their teacher, National Scenic Area officer Anna Johnson, writer Liz Niven and ceramicist Andrew Adair.