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A702 West Linton, Biggar & Coulter
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On behalf of the Scottish Executive, Amey will shortly begin to install the signs. The date from which the new limit is enforceable will be notified to local press when work is nearing completion. The new speed limit will operate at busy times of the day when lots of pedestrians, particularly school children, are around - before school starts, during lunch time and at the end of the school day. Occasionally the limit will be in place for special events at the school. Kenny Kerr, Amey's unit manger for south east Scotland explains: "Before and after school, and during lunchtime the LED signs will show a '20' symbol and will flash 'SLOW DOWN' if you are travelling too fast. Out with these busy times the speed limit will revert to 30mph but if drivers speed through the zone they will be flashed '30 SLOW DOWN' as a reminder of the limit." Significant reductions in speeds can produce substantial road safety benefits including the reduction of accidents and severity of casualties. The new 20mph speed limits will help protect vulnerable road users including children, pedestrians and cyclists and it is hoped that this measure will encourage more young people to walk or cycle to school and work. Research shows that in areas where 20mph zones and traffic calming measures have been introduced injury accidents have fallen by 60%, child pedestrian accidents by 70% and child cyclist accidents by 48%. (Source DFT research project 1996) |
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West Linton Drama Club - 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - Reviewed Reviewed by Douglas Roberts in the Peebleshire News 27 February 2004. |
| Scotland Recommended 2003-04 | In Kenneth Roy's book, Scotland
Recommended (Carrick Publishing, cp@carrickmedia.demon.co.uk)
West Linton was voted as the Town/Village of the Year! The
Old Bakehouse was also favourably reviewed. |
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Eric Small (left) announced
the unveiling of a locally sourced and carved stone to mark the 200th
Anniversary of the Whipman Festival, on the 1st June 2003. |
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Robert Sanderson |
Why? Well he started life as a humble Woollen Weaver, was later regarded as a trustworthy Surveyor and became Inspector of Poor - a post regarded highly in those days. But his outstanding achievement was as a writer of songs and poems, having published two books - one in 1865 and one in 1888. His style has been compared to Burns with similar romantic, family, nature, church and historical topics. The famous classical scholar and Edinburgh Professor, John Stuart Blackie, enthused over his work by saying: "The cult of Robert Burns is no' deid - as long as that man's leevin'". He was outstandingly popular with all levels of society from the most humble and deprived to those of nation repute. |
| Lady Gifford |
The text on the plaque reads:
"The replica above was replaced on the clock tower in 2001, funded by the family & friends of the late Isabelle Paterson MBE, FSA Scot., as a tribute to the many years of dedicated service she gave to the community and the seminal part she played in saving the original Lady Gifford stature." |
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In
order to improve road safety at schools on the trunk road network,
a mandatory part-time 20mph zone will soon be installed on the A702
at local primary and secondary schools in West Linton, Biggar and Coulter.
The reduced speed limit is enforceable by the Police and will be indicated
by vehicle activated LED signs that will flash when the 20mph limit
is in force.
Robert,
one of West Linton's well known sons, was born on 10 November 1836
and died on 20 November 1902, the Centenary of which was celebrated
by the West Linton Historical Association from 17th to 22nd September 2002,
with a Robert Sanderson Festival including Poem Reading and
Song on the evening of the 17th, wreath laying at his monument on the
20th followed by a small Victorian styled Exhibition - including a
few items that belonged to Robert. 
