Plans to use a £420,000 bequest to convert a substandard care home into a healthy living centre, complete with spa and gym, for pensioners in the Galashiels area have been ditched following a three-month public consultation.

The report from the Southern Reporter can be found here.

Edwin Morgan, who died last year aged 90, is thought to have left the SNP a significant part of his estate.

He became the Scotland’s first national poet – or Scots Makar – in 2004 by then First Minister Jack McConnell.

The report from the BBC can be found here and the Sunday Herald here.