The UK is a high quality and competitive producer of agricultural and agri-food products.  The UK’s new trade agreements, including with the US, will bring new opportunities for the UK farming sector.

LOCAL MP David Mundell and constituency MSP Oliver Mundell have thanked 3,000 people who signed their petition to have 10.32 Lockerbie to Edinburgh service reinstated after it was axed in the December timetable changes. 

This Friday, I'm sure, people across the constituency will mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe with pride, sadness and a mixture of other emotions.

ONE OF the consequences of Parliament having to adapt to coronavirus is the increased use of video technology which I have been arguing for now for sometime and I hope will still be a part of proceedings after this crisis is over.  

I would like to take this opportunity to praise the work of all those on our local coronavirus frontline be they NHS, key workers or in the wider care community. 

They truly are going above and beyond in these difficult times.

A CAMPAIGN highlighting the value of local newspapers is being backed by Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell.

A LOCAL politician is seeking reassurance that key worker mobile testing for coronavirus will be easily accessible in his largely rural constituency.

THERE can be little doubt that for most of us there have been few events in our lifetime that have had such an impact on everyday life as that of the Covid-19 pandemic.

COMMENTS by Nicola Sturgeon suggesting that under certain coronavirus scenarios the Scotland-England boundary could be closed are causing concern in border areas of Dumfriesshire.

LOCAL MP David Mundell is calling on the Government to press banks to do more to help businesses through the coronavirus emergency.