Retailers hope town centre facelifts and a new relief road opening in Galashiels can help reverse the trend.
Last year, crime reduction efforts by a town centre partnership in Galashiels were recognised with a special award.
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The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) wants to move its current depot in Galashiels to the site near Melrose.
Miroslav Wosik, 42, of Galashiels, denies murdering Bernadeta Jakubszyk, 30, at her home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, last May.
Austin Lindores, secretary of the Galashiels Homing Society, said he could not recall as many birds ever going missing.
ProStrakan was founded 15 years ago and employs 300 people, about 80 of those at its headquarters in Galashiels.
Galashiels-based pharmaceutical company ProStrakan is to be taken over by a Japanese group.
It wants to build the facility to replace its old depot in Galashiels.
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The killing happened after Wosik had travelled south from his Scottish home in Beach Avenue, Galashiels, to visit his family.
BBC: Miroslav Wosik guilty of murdering wife in Hemel Hempstead
Miroslav Wosik, 42, of Galashiels, was found guilty of murdering Bernadeta Jakubszyk, 30, at her home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
BBC: Miroslav Wosik guilty of murdering wife in Hemel Hempstead
Miroslav Wosik, 42, of Galashiels, denies murdering his wife Bernadeta Jakubszyk, 30, at her home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, last May.
In March last year, he found work and accommodation in Galashiels, but subsequently made two trips back to see his family.
Arguably Scotand's best ever player, Townsend was a First XV senior at Galashiels Academy, when Paterson was an 11-year-old first-year pupil.
Works are under way to return trains to a 35 mile (56km) route between Edinburgh and Tweedbank, near Galashiels, by 2013.
The line will include 30 miles of new railway and seven new stations at Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Stow, Galashiels and Tweedbank.
In March last year, Mr Wosik found work and accommodation in Galashiels.
Mr Morgan has returned to work at the Tesco store in Galashiels where he is supported by a job coach from brain injury charity Momentum.
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The Galashiels firm said the bid was too low and after a number of approaches has decided to recommend the offer from the Japanese company.
The most popular shopping street in the region was Channel Street in Galashiels, with average figures several thousand higher than its closest rival, Hawick High Street.
Mr Morgan works on the Galashiels-based charity's newsletter alongside colleague Kieran Robb who also told his story about his remarkable recovery as part of Brain Injury Week.
BBC: Phil Morgan on the mend after Minch Moor tent gas poisoning
The line will include 30 miles of new railway with three existing stations and seven new ones - at Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Stow, Galashiels and Tweedbank.
The firm, which has offices in Galashiels, has grown in part thanks to winning a major contract from Scottish Borders Council to provide care services across the region.
The study also found that while pedestrian numbers had not fallen after major supermarket openings in Galashiels, they had done so after similar developments in Hawick and Kelso.
The affected Clinton Card stores in Scotland are in Airdrie, Coatbridge, Edinburgh - The Fort, Galashiels, Glasgow - Byres Road, Glasgow - Sauchiehall Street, Greenock, Hamilton, Paisley and Stirling.
Murrayfield was used in '91 when England were the chief hosts, while Glasgow's Hampden Park and Netherdale in Galashiels were also used when the tournament was based in Wales in '99.
Out of 12 soldiers from Galashiels Detachment, A Company, 52 Lowland Volunteers, 6th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, to give it its full name, four of them are serving in Helmand right now.
The new 35-mile line will run from Waverley station in central Edinburgh as far as Galashiels and then to Tweedbank where there will be a park and ride which is designed to give access to the network to people from surrounding towns.
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