A SUDDEN closure at the RBS branch in Biggar was only temporary, local MP David Mundell has been told.

The Clydesdale representative was given the assurance after he was contacted by worried constituents in the South Lanarkshire town.

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell and Dumfriesshire constituency MSP Oliver Mundell have been alerted by constituents to scam calls, emails and texts, wrongly purporting to be from the UK Government.

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell has raised community concerns in Langholm about difficulties some, mainly older people, face in obtaining cash, due to the temporary closure of the town's Cumberland Building Society branch.

TWO LOCAL politicians are determined to keep in touch with constituents during the Coronavirus crisis.

Both Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell and Dumfriesshire Constituency MSP Oliver Mundell plan to hold regular telephone surgeries.

THERE can be few topics dominating conversations more just now than Coronavirus (COVID-19) and that looks certain to remain the case in the weeks and months ahead.

CONCERNS about TransPennine Express train services at Lockerbie railway station were raised in the House of Commons yesterday (Thursday).

This was an excellent Budget which will be good for the country at this challenging time.

LOCAL MP David Mundell has renewed his calls for an end to a decline in free-to-use cash dispensers.

He has been a long-time campaigner against the trend which has impacted on his largely rural Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency.

FRESH calls have been made for a long-term solution at a flooding blackspot on the A701 north of Broughton.

A stretch of the officially designated scenic route linking the M74 and Edinburgh has repeatedly suffered damage after heavy rain in the Mount Bog area.

UK TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps is again calling rail operator TransPennine Express to account for poor service at Lockerbie Station -- following a meeting with local MP David Mundell.