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Updates from Abbey St Bathans, Bonkyl & Preston
Preston Village Hall Closure
Preston Village Hall is now closed for refurbishment until spring 2025 Work will soon start on the upgrade of the village hall, which is anticipated to take about 6 months. During this time Abbey St...
Mobile Library – Preston Village
A mobile library will visit Preston every two weeks on Tuesday afternoon from 2:45pm to 3pm. The library will be located in Law View for the 15 minutes it is in Preston. For dates this year please...
Mid-Berwickshire Community Housing Survey
As part of our place planning initiative we are gathering information from residents as to the housing needs in our community. We would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this...
Preston Village Book Exchange
The Preston village book exchange has now been set up in the old village phone box. Please feel free to swap your books & DVD's so everyone in the village can enjoy them. This has taken a while...
Swimming grant awarded by ABPCC
Keira travelled to Aberdeen on the 10th April 2024 for 5 days of competition with 11swims at the Scottish National Age Group Swimming Championships. This event attracts talented age group swimmers...
Cumledge Mill – Resilience Shed
After a delay due to the recent wet weather, the Resilience Shed in Cumledge Mill is now ready for use. The Cumledge Mill housing association were granted funding by ABPCC to erect a shed to store...
Preston Village Hall – Improvements
Planning consent for the improvements to Preston Village Hall has now been received from Scottish Borders Council (SBC). Once indicative costs have been received from the Quantity Surveyor the plan...
COABP Spring Newsletter
We will be posting out our first Community of Abbey, Bonkyl & Preston (COABP) newsletter in the next few days. Please keep an eye out for our colourful publication dropping through your...
Speed Limit in Preston
Two police officers were in Preston near the village hall today (Thursday 11th April) checking drivers using speed guns. Although it is suspected many of those speeding do live outside the area...