Features Archive

CalMac extends summer Go Days Out trips and teams up with ScotRail for Rail & Sail Summer has just been extended

Posted on August 23, 2016 | No Comments
Summer has just been extended – it’s official. With public demand high for its popular Go Days Out trips, CalMac has announced that many, enjoyed by 14,000 people from […]
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ALLAN VISITS COMMUNITY GROUPS IN HARRIS

Posted on August 23, 2016 | No Comments
Na h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MSP Alasdair Allan undertook a range of engagements in Harris including yesterday (Monday) meetings with the West Harris Trust, the Bays of Harris buyout steering […]
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Less than 40 days left to make young ferry fan’s Lego dream come true

Posted on August 22, 2016 | No Comments
Young Luke Ball from Kilmarnock has a dream – but he has less than 40 days left to make it a reality. The 15-year-old, who now lives in East […]
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Islanders may be forced to take the ferry for medical appointments

Posted on August 19, 2016 | No Comments
Highlands & Islands MSP Rhoda Grant has questioned the viability of the plan by island NHS Boards, who are considering making patients take the ferry instead of flying to appointments […]
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Hebrides first for Openreach tests to boost fibre broadband

Posted on August 18, 2016 | No Comments
THE remote community of North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis is the first in Scotland to test a new technology to increase the speed of fibre broadband over long […]
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Baby Otter Crosses Over The Sea To Skye – on the ferry!

Posted on August 18, 2016 | No Comments
A baby otter has taken the old traditional ferry crossing on board the “Glenachulish” from Glenelg to Kylerhea to get help on the Isle of Skye. The cub was found […]
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St Kilda Centre Symposium

Posted on August 17, 2016 | No Comments
The Western Isles is set to lead the way in creating “remote access” to hundreds of World Heritage Sites which are currently out of reach for reasons of geography, environmental […]
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Mission Complete!

Posted on August 16, 2016 | No Comments
It’s been a very busy few months for the team at Befriending Lewis as we prepared for our volunteer Befriender Hector to take to the skies to perform a sponsored […]
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Pregnant? Time to call your midwife!

Posted on August 16, 2016 | No Comments
As soon as you find out you’re pregnant, make an appointment with your midwife. That’s the message NHS Western Isles is sending out to women across the Western Isles: […]
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Grant welcomes assurance of EU subsidy match until 2020

Posted on August 16, 2016 | No Comments
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP and Rural Economy and Connectivity spokesperson, Rhoda Grant, has welcomed the assurance from the UK Government that the Treasury would match the EU Common Agricultural […]
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Scottish Rural Parliament takes step towards ‘rural movement’

Posted on August 15, 2016 | No Comments
Scottish Rural Action is taking a significant step forwards in their development of a rural movement this month, with the launch of a new volunteer programme. Scottish Rural Action, […]
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Emergency Towing Vessel cost would be ‘drop in the ocean’ for UK Government

Posted on August 13, 2016 | No Comments
The cost of reinstating an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) on the west coast of Scotland would be a ‘drop in the ocean’ out of the UK Government’s budget but would […]
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Barra Airport Celebrates 80 Years of Beach Flight

Posted on August 11, 2016 | No Comments
An island community airport with the world’s only beach runway used for scheduled flights will get a month of 80th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start on Monday. The […]
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Two shouts in two days for Stornoway RNLI

Posted on August 11, 2016 | No Comments
Stornoway RNLI launched today (Wednesday, August 10th) at 1235 hours to the aid of a small sea angling boat which had broken down two miles from Cellar Head with two […]
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Petition to reinstate tug on west coast of Scotland

Posted on August 8, 2016 | No Comments
A petition demanding that the UK Government reinstate an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) on the west coast of Scotland has been launched. Western Isles SNP Councillors Rae Mackenzie and […]
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CROFTERS MAKE IT CLEAR: THE COMMISSION CAN STAY BUT THE CONVENER HAS TO GO

Posted on August 8, 2016 | No Comments
A meeting attended by eighty crofters in Stornoway concluded that a Crofting Commission is good for crofting, but it is currently not fit for purpose so the convener, Colin Kennedy, […]
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Italian Ambassador to the UK to visit the Western Isles

Posted on August 8, 2016 | No Comments
The Italian Ambassador to the UK will be welcomed by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Convener, Cllr Norman A. MacDonald and Chief Executive, Malcolm Burr, at a concert “A Musical Journey”, – […]
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Over £700,000 funding for crofters

Posted on August 4, 2016 | No Comments
Crofters in some of Scotland’s rural and remote communities will benefit from better housing through funding under the Croft House Grant. Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy Fergus Ewing confirmed 21 […]
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Belladrum 2016 exclusively live on BBC ALBA

Posted on August 3, 2016 | No Comments
SUMMER continues on BBC ALBA as The Tartan Heart Festival returns to our TV screens with three exclusive programmes live from Belladrum. One of Scotland’s friendliest festivals, it welcomes pop veterans Madness, […]
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BBC ALBA charts the story of award-winning community newspaper, Am Pàipear

Posted on August 3, 2016 | No Comments
IT was a newspaper that was started with the aim of giving a voice to the community. Now, four decades on, BBC ALBA examines the story of Am Piper, which has moved from […]
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