Duns Sheriff Court continues to be a disappointing read as Sheriff Kevin deals out justice for more and more humdrum drug cases. This week he had an incident of racial abuse to cope with when there was an exchange in German in Market Square Duns. A local man abused a German resident of Coldstream and the defending solicitor explained that it was the German who had started it by swearing at the Duns man in German with the latter reacting as 'he knew what was said as a result of his own knowledge of the language'. Sheriff K had no doubt where the blame lay and the Dunse was fined £300-the Dunsderhead had anyhow overreacted by adding a bit of physical to the verbal.
A knowledge of Polish may prove useful in Chirnside as it is widely rumoured that a local agency has recruited a number of Poles to work in the area. Not only at the Fish processing plant but also as trades people including it is believed some Plumbers. It is said that the plumbers are female which may cause the same kind of bother for local blokes with their apparent reluctance to go to female hairdressers-see recent rant. But on the other hand perhaps not. We already have a distaff chimney sweep hereabouts so female plumbers may become all the rage.
