Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area
and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east
Southern Uplands of Scotland. People from Hawick call
themselves "Teries", after a traditional song “Teribus”
which includes the line "Teribus ye teri odin".
The Hawick Express is perhaps the most well-known of the
town's former newspapers, established in October 1870 by
James Dalgleish as the ‘Hawick Express and Scottish
Border News’. Dalgliesh had desired a bigger share in
ownership of the Advertiser (which he published) but
Haining declined, resulting in the severance of their
business relationship. For many years John Rule was
editor and part proprietor, then Mr. Craw took over the
business, followed by James Edgar, who was editor as
well as proprietor. It was originally priced at 1 penny,
and was in competition with the Advertiser. It merged
with the Advertiser in 1915 to become the ‘Hawick
Express & Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette’, then
the ‘Hawick Express and Roxburghshire Advertiser’ from
1930 and simply the ‘Hawick Express’ from 1964. It
finally merged with The Southern Reporter in 1983.
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