From today’s edition of The Scotsman:
AS A town steeped in its common riding* traditions, the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Selkirk has tended to concentrate on reliving its past. It proudly proclaims itself as being the venue where William Wallace was declared Guardian of Scotland and on the second Friday** of June the streets reverberate with the sound of 500 horses inspecting the boundaries as part of the annual festival celebrations. Change is not something readily accepted by the 6,000 inhabitants of the Borders town. But as from today, Selkirk traders are looking to the future and creating their own piece of history by becoming Scotland’s first plastic bag-free town.
I care not a whit about the plastic bag issue, but the assertion that “change is not something readily accepted” by Souters is a) unsupported and b) interesting. For sure there’s an “aye been” tendency in the Borders but we’re not necessarily a bunch of straw-chewing, stick-in-the-mud, hicks.***
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