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Call 'M' for 'Mother'For years BT have been wanting to close down a number of telephone boxes in the area-Hutton was on the list once but seems to have been reprieved after 'public uproar'-at least two people complained as did the Community Council. We never reached the stage of an official notice in the box itself giving us 42 days notice of closure but the phone had its 'Internet access' removed and was converted to 'no cash'. As I was aware of only one person using the phone in 11 years (a lost White Van driver looking for the Manse, Antrim House, Old Manse, New Manse or Former Manse-his mobile had no signal. Ha!)I doubt if many people were inconvenienced by the dumbing downAt Ellemford, which if not exactly in the middle of nowhere is at least on the periphery, there is one of those...

Driven off the front page to his usual position in the letter column of the Berwickshire the Regent of Scotland has taken slight exception to the 'story' about him in last weeks editionIn the fine article by Janice Gillie on Berwick being already in Scotland which appeared in both the Berwickshire News and the Berwick Advertiser last week, I was designated as “self-appointed Regent”. I was only self-appointed initially as the Parliament at its first meeting confirmed me as Regent a few months later.In this it was following the precedent of Robert the Bruce’s self-appointing himself as King of Scots with the Parliament confirming him as king a few years later.MICHAEL RITCHIE,Greenlaw.So that's alright then. And I wonder if he saw a spider at work on his way to his coronation?...