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Everybody can save a life – including you
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsIt’s Organ Donation Week from September 5-11, and people across the Western Isles are being urged to make it count by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. With figures […]Continue Reading...
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Comhairle Repeats Calls on Crown Estate
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsComhairle nan Eilean Siar has repeated calls for the Scottish Government to devolve The Crown Estate powers to local authorities, as set out in the recommendations of the Smith Commission. […]Continue Reading...
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Older people can now protect themselves from shingles
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsNHS Western Isles is currently offering the shingles vaccination to most people aged between 70-73 and 76-79 years. Check with your GP to see if you are eligible yet and […]Continue Reading...
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Transport Select Committee agree to call Transocean to Committee Hearing
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsMCA must also be questioned The UK Government’s Transport Select Committee will carry out an inquiry into the grounding of the oil-rig Transocean Winner which ran aground on […]Continue Reading...
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Childhood flu vaccination programme in the Western Isles
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsParents and guardians are being asked to look out for the letter about flu vaccination for their child. This letter will be in the post for children not yet at […]Continue Reading...
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CROFTING FEDERATION REGRETS THE LOSS OF THE COMMISSION’S HELM
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsThe Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) have expressed good wishes to Catriona MacLean, the CEO of the Crofting Commission, who is moving on, and its concern that the organisation is left […]Continue Reading...
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Pregnant women in the Western Isles reminded to protect their babies from whooping cough
Posted on September 7, 2016 | No CommentsPregnant women in the Western Isles are being urged to contact their GP or midwife for information on how to get the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. The pertussis vaccination […]Continue Reading...
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Improving broadband for rural communities
Posted on September 6, 2016 | No CommentsA HARD-hitting manifesto and broadband working party report will be unveiled in Edinburgh on Thursday (September 8) by Scottish Rural Action. The documents will be launched at a media conference […]Continue Reading...
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Protected status for sports playing Field at Bayhead, Stornoway
Posted on September 6, 2016 | No CommentsThe sports playing field at Bayhead, Stornoway, is now protected, thanks to national charity Fields in Trust, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and The Stornoway Trust. Protection with Fields in Trust […]Continue Reading...
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MP presents west coast tug petition to 10 Downing Street
Posted on September 6, 2016 | No CommentsNa h-Eileanan an Iar MP Angus MacNeil presented a petition to 10 Downing Street this afternoon (Tuesday) calling on the UK Government to urgently reinstate an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) […]Continue Reading...
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Grant supports Cnoc Soilleir centre
Posted on September 6, 2016 | No CommentsHighlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, has said she was delighted to meet with the project team who are working to establish a centre for Gaelic music, dance and […]Continue Reading...
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CROFTING FEDERATION AND SLEAT GENERAL GRAZINGS COMMITTEE MEET TO CONSIDER FUTURE OF CROFTING COMMISSION
Posted on September 6, 2016 | No CommentsThe Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) met last week with crofting representatives of Sleat, Skye, to discuss proposals to replace the Crofting Commission. “The ideas put forward by the Sleat […]Continue Reading...
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NEW WELFARE POWERS TRANSFERRED TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Posted on September 5, 2016 | No CommentsThe Scottish Parliament today [Monday 5 September] takes on new powers which will allow it to adapt the existing UK welfare system more closely to Scotland’s needs. Among Holyrood’s […]Continue Reading...
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ALLAN DISMAYED AT MCA EMERGENCY TUG DECISION
Posted on September 5, 2016 | No CommentsResponding to reports that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has ruled out reinstating a second emergency towing vessel in Scotland, Na h-Eileanan an Iar MSP Alasdair Allan commented: “If […]Continue Reading...
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Is the Crofting Commission seeking to prevent VAT registration of Common Grazings?
Posted on September 5, 2016 | No CommentsCrofters should be concerned by the revelation that someone (possibly the Crofting Commission) is potentially questioning their ability as shareholders in a common grazings to be VAT registered. In a […]Continue Reading...
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Merchant Navy Day Stornoway
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsOn Merchant Navy Day, 3 September, the Red Ensign will be flown at Perceval Square in Stornoway to raise awareness of the UK’s ongoing dependence on Merchant Navy seafarers […]Continue Reading...
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ALLAN WELCOMES CALMAC COMMUNITY RELATIONS POST
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsNa h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MSP Alasdair Allan has welcomed the announcement from Calmac that is it to appoint a director of community and stakeholder engagement. This follows the company […]Continue Reading...
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MSP meets salvage team
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsHighlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, met with the salvage team responsible for the refloating and safe removal of the stricken oil rig, the Transocean Winner, in Stornoway today. […]Continue Reading...
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ALLAN RAISES TRANSOCEAN WINNER ISSUES
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsNa h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MSP Alasdair Allan today had a meeting by phone with Hugh Shaw, Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention, regarding the ongoing situation […]Continue Reading...
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NHS Western Isles achieves top marks in patient experience survey
Posted on September 1, 2016 | No CommentsAn Inpatient Patient Experience Survey published yesterday (Wednesday) gives NHS Western Isles top ratings in a number of areas, with higher patient satisfaction rates since the last survey in 2014, […]Continue Reading...