内容摘要：Almost 40,000 arrived in 2023, the highest number in three decades. So far this year, already more than 30,800 have made it to its tourist beaches, more than double the number from the same period last year.

Almost 40,000 arrived in 2023, the highest number in three decades. So far this year, already more than 30,800 have made it to its tourist beaches, more than double the number from the same period last year.

A series of options has been examined including taking all services back under local authority control.However, the council has decided to only take back its active schools and sports development programmes at present.

The current trust was established in 2003 as the Borders Sports and Leisure Trust with services expanded over the years.It has experienced significant issues since the Covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021.SBC supported Live Borders through that period by paying it a full management fee despite services not being delivered.

It allowed the trust to build up "significant financial reserves" but they have now been used up.A report to the council said that income has not returned to pre-Covid levels while also facing rising costs and pay pressures.

That has led to the local authority providing additional funding over and above its management fee in order to bail out the trust.

It has forecast a further funding shortfall in 2024/25 which has prompted the council to look at a series of options for the way forward.But there are concerns such measures could fuel inflation, with

as businesses may choose to pass on some or all of the cost of tariffs to customers.Since taking office, he has raised tariffs of 10% on goods from China and taken steps to hit other imports with duties, including directing his staff to develop recommendations for custom "reciprocal" tariffs for each country.

, leaving many businesses and analysts guessing as to whether he is prepared to carry out his threats."The 25% threat that he threw out today is in line with the high end of the range that he previously indicated," said Tobin Marcus, head of US policy and politics at Wolfe Research.