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The change from analogue to digital TV has begun in the Scottish Borders where the analogue BBC 2 service was turned off just after midnight.

It is the first full-scale switch in the nationwide programme which will give viewers a greater choice of channels.

Around 52,000 households in the Selkirk transmitter group will be affected by the changes being made on Thursday.

The remaining analogue channels will be switched off on November 20.

All TV regions are expected to go digital by 2012.

A trial switchover was run in Whitehaven, Cumbria, in October last year.

Paul Hughes of Digital UK, the independent body overseeing the changes, said: "Scottish Borders residents have really responded to the information campaign and they're well prepared to lead the first, full-scale digital switchover."