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4 Thursday July 9, 2020 Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser www.eladvertiser.co.uk
EMERGENCY
NUMBERS

POLICE SCOTLAND Margaret’s mural therapy
Langholm.......................101
Newcastleton ................ 101
COUNCILS
Dumfries and Galloway Council
.................................030 3333 3000
.............www.dumgal.gov.uk
Fault reporting (potholes/street- PAINTING a colourful uni- a hedgehog, squirrel and two deadlines so it was a way of
lights etc) ............................ corn on the wall of a stable mice. having some fun. The weather
0800 042 0188 yard was just the tonic She also painted Presie, who was absolutely glorious.
Langholm Town Hall/Library .. Langholm artist Margaret is 22, and hairy Bobby, the mini- “Kai, my grandson, tried to
013873 80255 Walty needed while her daugh- Shetland, with blue sky around help so I let him paint a few
Dumfries and Galloway
bus timetables ter’s horse was having an them and swallows. spots here and there.”
www.dumgal.gov.uk/timetables operation. The appaloosa was done by
Scottish Borders Council .... Margaret, who is renowned special request from Kez and
0330 100 1800 for her botanical and fantasy the rainbow unicorn was done
out of hours ..01896 752 111 paintings, keeps her to show appreciation for the
Scottish Borders and her daughter Abi Barker’s NHS during the pandemic.
bus timetables
......www.scotborders.gov.uk horses at Thorniewhats near Margaret said: “We discovered
Canonbie. that Presie’s eye injury had been
UTILITIES The rainbow-spot unicorn was caused by a hayseed. It had
Scottish Water completed while Presie (Pre- worked its way around her eye
.....................0800 0778 778 suming) was having her eye socket.
......www.scottishwater.co.uk removed. “Painting the unicorn was a
Scottish Power Margaret said: “There’s noth-
.......................................105 way of distancing myself from
.....www.scottishpower.co.uk ing like a bit of artwork for tak- the operation.”
Scottish Gas emergency .... ing your mind off unpleasant- She added: “There’s nothing Wee moose An appaloosa meets a pink hedgehog
0800 111 999 ness.” much happening; I have no
National Rail enquiries ........ Normally, she would be busy
03457 484 950 preparing for exhibitions coming
.........www.nationalrail.co.uk up in the months ahead but these
Floodline SEPA
.....................03000 996 699 past few months have been very
.................www.sepa.org.uk quiet.
Amey (A7) The idea for the murals came
.....................0800 042 0188 after she started going to the
...www.scottishtrunkroadsse yard to help Abi put drops and
.amey.co.uk cream in Presie’s eye after she
punctured it.
POST OFFICES
Langholm .....013873 81109 One of the livery owners at
Newcastleton ..013873 75361 the yard, Kez, decided she would
Canonbie ......013873 71348 paint the exterior walls and that
Rowanburn ...013873 71542 was how Margaret became
involved.
HOSPITALS She firstly painted an orange
D&G Royal Infirmary horse, along with a blue one,
......................01387 246246
Cumberland Infirmary which was of Lucca, their two-
......................01228 523444 year-old Connemara, and a swal-
Borders General Hospital ... low.
01896 826000 Anita Thorburn, who manages
Thomas Hope Hospital the yard, asked her to paint her Rainbow unicorn for the NHS Pressie and Bobby with some friendly swallows
.....................013873 80417
DOCTORS
Langholm .....013873 83100
Newcastleton ..013873 75100
Canonbie .....013873 71313 Buccleuch ‘Lights it in Red’
NHS24 ...........................111
CHURCHES
Langholm,Eskdalemuir Ewes and
Westerkirk Parish churches
Ms Joy Lunn
Session clerk...07584 357180
Canonbie United Parish church
Session Clerk..013873 25255
Liddesdale Parish church
Session Clerk..Glynis Cambridge
07469 397065
SCHOOLS
Langholm Primary
......................013873 80900
Langholm Academy
......................013873 80418
Newcastleton
......................013873 75240
Canonbie
......................013873 71336
CHEMISTS
Dalston Pharmacy, Langholm
......................013873 80220
Monday to Friday
8.45am -1pm; 2pm-5.30pm. thousand busi- ference hotels, theatres, concert out, and will be the last ones
Saturday 8.45am-12.30pm. nesses and over halls, playhouses and nightclubs) back in. We are calling for help!
Boots Pharmacy, Longtown half a million throughout the UK are invited Our goal is to have a conversa-
......................01228 792859 CHRIS Jones and Glen Cavers are currently prohibited due to workers throughout the UK to join together on the night of tion with politicians and the
Monday-Friday 9am - 6pm. of Centre Stage lit up the the COVID-19 crisis. Corporate directly suffering the ill effects. the 6th of July 2020. By lighting government about how the bil-
Saturday 9am-5pm. Buccleuch Centre last night events, conferences, concerts, A mass appeal and a call for their buildings, or buildings in lion-pound events industry can
in support of the #Light it in festivals, weddings, trade shows help to politicians to save the their region, red in order to draw be saved from a massive wave
DENTISTS Red campaign. and theatrical performances are
Mark Buddy .013873 80521 events industry Companies from attention to the dramatic situation of insolvency and how the
Emergency - outside opening hours Since early March, the events no longer able to go ahead. This all across the events industry, in the event industry we can preservation of over half a mil-
01461 202508 industry has been mostly without is leaving an entire industry dor- as well as event locations, (event make a statement that can't be lion jobs can be ensured support
work. All kinds of major events mant, with over twenty-five centres, convention centres, con- ignored. We were the first ones our movement.