Islander accused of taxi office break-in  

 

Drink driver receives ban

 

Full speed ahead for MV Clansman  

 

Smiles at children’s dental drop-in    

 

Computer conmen targets islanders

 

Letter:   The enemy within    

 

Western Isles hospitals have cleanest hands

 

Three-mile run for National Mod    

 

A St Kildan looks back

 

Developer offers to share grid connection with Storas Uibhist

 

Stornoway Golf club loses Sunday alcohol bid    

 

Clansman ferry due back in service  

 

TV switchover today for most of Western Isles

 

Safe to cross town centre road  

 

Letter:   Stornoway Trust is selling out the community

 

Letter:   Fuel prices

 

Patients pleased with care from NHS Western Isles  

 

Major power cut across the Western Isles

 

Prince Philip boards royal cruise in Stornoway

 

Facebook page for Safetywise    

 

Crofters’ mutton pies at Black Isle show    

 

Convenor congratulates Fèis Eilean an Fhraoich on 20th Anniversary   

 

Lottery roadshow   

 

Scottish Government wants control of the seabed    

 

Allan selected as SNP candidate

 

Community renewables get grid connection promise  

 

Searching for a health hero  

 

Arnish yard hopes for new contract

 

Donnie Gazette lays down his pen after nearly half a century

 

French trawler grounds in harbour     

 

Supermarkets consider new stores for Stornoway

 

Allan pressurises UK Government over high fuel costs

 

Children excited as Queen strolls by     

 

Queen arrives in Stornoway for Hebridean voyage

 

Opposition to golf clubhouse Sunday opening  

 

Winding down discarded tweed firms

 

Rocket Range lobbying   

 

Macneil hits out at vote date clash  

 

Letter:    Gaelic and its survival    

 

Tesco collision       

 

Youth avoids custody with curfew option

 

Mobile phone squabble  

 

Nuisance 999 calls

 

Roundabout offence  

 

Double assault    

 

Letter:  Point Power playing “pawn in bigger game”      

 

Allan visits North Lochs Medical Practice

 

Stornoway lifeboat rescues dive boat    

 

Letter:  “Socialism is a curse”      

 

Family rescued from stricken yacht   

 

Yacht grounds at Stornoway harbour

 

Ferry changes to Mallaig for Barrafest    

 

Teenager thrashed bedsit with golf club    

 

Macneil urges communities to apply for lottery cash  

 

Man in court over alleged hospital break-in  

 

Council manager on theft charge   

 

Youth is sentenced for public indecency      

 

Teenager escaped death in car crash      

 

Eitshal analogue TV transmitter switches off    

 

Tong brothers to cycle the length of Britain for Leanne Fund  

 

Stornoway Quarter Mile Drag

 

20th Anniversary for  Fèis Eilean an Fhraoich   

 

Letter:  Al-Megrahi is innocent victim  

 

Search for missing Stornoway man  

 

West Minch Salmon sells out to rival  

 

MV Clansman will not be repaired on time     

 

  Allan meets with Cal Mac over ferry problems   

 

 ►  Macneil disappointed with MV Clansman delay   

 

Celtic Festival bar token money-back   

 

Upgrade work at island sports centres   

 

Councils failing to pass on cash   

 

Property swop on the cards for Royal Mail

 

Sabbath ferry marks one year of voyages    

 

Runrig is a big hit at Celtic Festival  

 

“Hammer blow” warning for plane passengers   

 

Melbost and Branahuie are local winners  

 

Hebridean Celtic Festival on TV   

 

Stornoway harbour community survey  

 

Two giant offshore fish farms earmarked for isles    

 

Dancing in the street    

 

Katie’s Hebridean Challenge      

 

Bards of Uist

 

Lewis Carnival calling for entries    

 

Government may stop grants for village hall turbines  

 

Hebridean Seaweed wins business prize   

 

Young and adult explore Bragar         

 

Argos chain shows interest in Stornoway    

 

CalMac treating islanders “worse than cattle”    

 

Celtic Festival stages search for missing equipment

 

Macneil calls on Cameron for island fuel relief   

 

Grants for arts and crafts   

 

Convenor congratulates Celtic Festival     

 

Digital TV switchover today from Harris to Barra    

 

Macneil presses Treasury for islands’ fairer fuel  

 

Warning over internet scams     

 

School builders help out Celtic Festival   

 

Call to carry on with cheaper RET ferry fares     

 

Presiding Officer in tweed mill visit  

 

Drink driving risks campaign   

 

20,000 people use Sabbath ferry            

 

Latest Facebook app is safety button to tackle internet grooming    

 

Lights off for Stornoway roadworks  

 

New Hebrides information website    

 

Bomb squad to deal with Uist missile

 

Salmon farmer relaunches with 70 new island jobs

 

Hebridean Celtic Festival’s Hall of Fame

 

Sea kayaking around the Western Isles

 

Three missions for Stornoway coastguard helicopter  

 

Royal Bank staff back Barra hospice appeal  

 

Visitor number boost to Callanish Stones    

 

Arnish could build Minch turbines     

 

West Minch Salmon said to be in sellout talks   

 

Scotland’s Islands 2011

 

Letter:    Offshore windfarms     

 

Coastguard helicopter finds missing walker

 

Car parking changes at council offices and sports centre   

 

Hospital volunteer awards     

 

Biodiversity at the shows

 

Death of talented young footballer       

 

Massive offshore windfarms for Lewis     

 

Pàirc community co-operative is awarded Gaelic Business of the Year prize  

 

Cal Mac considers Mallaig as temporary port     

 

Cash for islands’ culture industry to develop new projects   

 

Deadline looming for top Scotland nature photos

 

New Stornoway ferry will be 15% bigger

 

Scottish Government unveils its Gaelic language plan

 

Coping with dementia    

 

Summer gale causes ferry disruptions    

 

Assault in police station

 

Driving disqualification

 

Jail sentence for serious assault          

 

Cal Mac pressurised to charter ship over ferry delays  

 

Funding boost for rural broadband

 

Collaboration in Scottish and Irish Gaelic education resources

 

Moving story for Scottish Parliament   

 

HIE backing for Gaelic development    

 

Terrestrial TV signal is switched off  

 

Lewis marine wave energy scheme to go ahead  

 

Progress for Harris community enterprises  

 

World's Strictest Parents      

 

Pairc buyout decision delayed by legal action    

 

Letter:   More ferry chaos  

 

Government pledges to save Western Isles seat     

 

New cycle trails for Castle Grounds        

 

Investigation after blaze destroys Stornoway flat

 

Energised backing for renewable economy    

 

New boss for development agency  

 

­Conserving machair land website is launched

 

Support for Gaelic TV on Freeview       

 

Lewis shinty tribute to player who died in cliff accident   

 

New bid to enlarge Eishken windfarm    

 

Future of local ferry services

 

Letter:  Frank McAveety’s resignation    

 

Cliff-fall dog seeks owner

 

Home renewables grants running out   

 

Child taken to hospital after car accident    

 

Fuel before VAT   

 

Farcical scenes as Crofting Bill is passed  

 

►   Crofting Bill is  “double edged sword”   

 

Letter:  Insane system     

 

Ferry chaos on busiest weekend      

 

Talks over proposal to build new store  

 

First anniversary for Live Hebrides   

 

Traffic changes around council offices   

 

Letter:   Lunatics in charge of the asylum   

 

Tax credit claimants urged to beat deadline   

 

New shop opens in Stornoway

 

Islanders to air issues with Scottish health minister  

 

Women wanted for football squad    

 

Harris Tweed World Cup delivery    

 

Penny issues over Perceval Square amenities

 

Consumers warning over rogue workmen    

 

Highland Fuels breaks islands’ fuel monopoly  

 

Allan urges Parliament to act on future of crofting    

 

Letter:  Bad score for Macneil    

 

Letter:  Chickens coming home to roost        

 

£200 million wind farm planned for Stornoway  

 

Study over Barra marine designations   

 

Demand for large Minch energy cable    

 

Warning over seaside danger  

 

Amec to reveal next stage for Stornoway windfarm plan

 

Western Isles digital switchover     

 

Health board houses  

 

South Uist fèis   

 

Letter:  What is a bigot ?    

 

Murder trial over death of Lewis man  

 

Armed Forces Day

 

Community renewables study looks at new loan fund  

 

Embezzler is sentenced over £22,000 swindle

 

Paible has the write stuff to win    

 

First national TV advert in Gaelic    

 

Town Hall controversy       

 

Walking for Bethesda    

 

Lewis peatlands critical in trapping carbon emissions

   

Hospital library service is axed

 

Letter:  “Bigoted nonsense” from the church     

 

Letter:   Slash the system

 

SNP urge action to bring down fuel costs    

 

Fèis Bharraigh goes on the radio  

 

Island firm on cusp of seaweed health bonanza

 

Health board balances its books   

 

Free album recording session for island musicians  

 

Talks to devolve animal health budgets

 

Council offers to mortgage new ferries  

 

Stiletto fracas woman in court

 

Islander wanted his gun back      

 

Drink driver didn’t sleep it off   

 

Man slapped girlfriend      

 

Prison holds “no fear” for persistent offender

 

Knocking back doorstep sellers

 

Garynahine estate up for sale    

 

Fast track for Arnish yard refurbishment

 

Underage drink supplier gets jail warning    

 

Prison sentence after breaking probation

 

Coffee table assault  

 

New minister for Back     

 

Council helps local economy with new business funding scheme

 

Barra forum for ferry review  

 

Call for coalition to implement fuel price scheme  

 

Parliamentary motion against air tax changes

 

Council secures site for Balivanich school

 

Free Presbyterian Church denounces Pope’s visit  

 

Opposition to abolishing Western Isles constituency

 

Free safety checks on fitting child car seats

 

Council staff payroll scheme receives award

 

Low carbon economy event    

 

New appointments boost for Gaelic initiatives              

 

Contractor challenge over gritting tender  

 

Island family wanted to motivate lazy teenagers

 

Meeting over South Uist flooding risk

 

Letter:    Well done Broadbay councillors

 

Letter:  Anyone But England row  

 

Letter:  Big is Bad   

 

Gritting row    

 

Island produce on VIP menu   

 

Concerns over rescue helicopter service     

 

Save our school but close yours

 

Officials “forget to do homework” for Shelibost School closure

 

Sounds in the Grounds    

 

Historic school rescue plan is scrapped   

 

Tears over changes in support service

 

Back School  wins national prize     

 

Community consultations over massive council cuts  

 

Council’s building maintenance service in serious trouble

 

Tong community fights to save primary school   

 

Scottish Government investigates catmaran ferry for Minch  

 

Textile tutors are “ignoring” Harris Tweed  

 

Big turnout for Heart Foundation walk   

 

Campaign marchers protest against service switch  

 

Two new directors for Stornoway harbour

 

Squeezing a cheaper deal out of gritting firms  

 

Burning emergency flares alert aircraft

 

Treasury presented with petition against high fuel prices   

 

Air Ambulance contract under the spotlight  

 

Girl from Coll is summer face of BBC Alba  

 

Crime writer on Uist visit          

 

Campaigners to march through Stornoway  

 

Ness opposition to school closure

 

Affordable house sites to attract families into West Harris   

 

Bid to bring Uig Chessmen home   

 

Deadline to get listed for council tenders

 

Mid-air display by bike stunt team   

 

Captured injured sea eagle is freed into the wild   

 

Macneil gambit at the British Museum   

 

Allan seeks assurances on Advocacy services

 

Heated meeting at threatened rural secondary school

 

Benbecula man on assault charge

 

Man created uproar in house    

 

Head-butted police officer  

 

Drink driver loses licence   

 

Health board chairman departs for Gaelic post

 

Drag racing season is here again  

 

Queen honours black pudding king   

 

Second round for Sabbath drinking bid   

 

Graduate talent scheme for rural businesses  

 

Allan urges islanders to respond to ferries review   

 

Peacock criticises second crofting register

 

Jobs and services to suffer in £ 24 million council cutbacks

 

SNP “rates shambles creates small business bombshell”

 

Deireadh an turas for Sunrise Not Secular  

 

Protestors lose vote over controversial support service changes

 

Parents up in arms over threatened primary school

 

51st Highland Division  at St Valery remembered

 

Crossroads Harris is  Scottish Charity of the Year      

 

Allan questions minister on rabbit control

 

Praise for Gaelic immersion language course at Lews Castle    

 

FilmG training programme launched   

 

MSP supports local dispensing GPs

 

Communities to have say on future ferry services

 

Enthusiasm for Council croileagan in Carloway

 

MP calls for greater recognition for carers

 

Expanding the mutton market could help the environment

 

Summer jobs

 

Fine after dangerous dog bit boy

 

Protest over changing support for vulnerable people

 

CCTV cameras caught town assault on film   

 

New home proposed for Lochs show  

 

Letter:    Dog control

 

Outer Hebrides first in Scotland with skills agreement  

 

Campaign to stop youth dying on Scotland's roads  

 

Letter:  Keep dogs on a lead in public spaces

 

Fear of job losses at council roads’ squads    

 

New sub-station is approved

 

Council ditches Gearrannan conservation bid   

 

Little Teddies Continuing  

 

Destination St Kilda   

 

Western Isles volunteer for fuel derogation trial  

 

The Singing Kettle comes to Barra    

 

£500,000 for cycle tracks and violins

 

Crofters’ Federation appoints new leader  

 

Cheaper flights between Benbecula and Inverness

 

 

More schools face statutory closure bid  

 

Gym equipment offered to community groups  

 

Opening ceremony scheduled for new Lionacleit running track   

 

BT National Debate 2010  

 

Busy day for rescue helicopter    

 

Mystery of orange light

 

Letter:  Danger of big dogs   

 

Letter:  Fuel prices     

 

Community Open Days

 

New Gaelic song website  

 

Free training on handling dogs

 

Helping cancer patients negotiate the benefits system

 

Funding confirmed for new Daliburgh primary school

 

Bailout for troubled Bridge complex  

 

Letter:  Alsatian terror

 

Butt to Barra charity trek

 

Swimming the Minch through a huge swarm of jellyfish

 

Stornoway Coastguards coordinate rescue

 

Plane veers off runway  

 

Pipe band parades  

 

Boost for Trad Music Awards    

 

Allan closes Whitbread crofting loophole

 

Pairc owner sends £ ¾ million bill to buyout body

 

Rocket Range taskforce to lobby government  

 

Island swimmer aims for Olympic bid   

 

Western Isles Bible Conference resumes after two year break  

 

Macneil calls for lower fuel prices       

 

Sounds in the Grounds            

 

Schools closure meetings are  underway  

 

Harris Tweed industry welcomes new weavers   

 

Councillors’ salaries published online

 

Literature Day at Lewis Provincial Mod  

 

Letter:  Royal insult   

 

Letter:   Jobs  v Jobs     

 

FilmG takes the upper hand   

 

£30,000 needed to spend a penny    

 

Experience Heisker    

 

Fast track programme to find island champion  

 

Hebridean emigrants are digitally documented    

 

Fair fuel petition gathers support    

 

NHS Western Isles staff celebrate academic success  

 

Army cadets holding St Valery memorial parade

 

Iochdar man scores most votes in Stòras Uibhist election

 

Roadside assault  

 

Seaman fined for airport bomb alert   

 

Galson secure £878,000 for wind powered business centre

 

Health board faces £13.6 million of cuts  

 

10k charity fundraiser  

 

Macneil encourages Defence Secretary to visit Uist range

 

Car fire pair plead guilty   

 

Woman made nuisance 999 calls   

 

Custody for knife man  

 

Major revamp for Stornoway hospital  

 

MG Alba to sponsor Challenge Cup 2010   

 

Man jailed for bottle attack      

 

Drink driver avoids a prison sentence    

 

“Last chance of freedom” for teenager    

 

Court appearance for uninvited guest

 

TV argument   

 

Trapped pensioner freed from car

 

70th anniversary of St Valery

 

Hand washing compliance   

 

Development focus on Uist and Barra   

 

Nutritional care awareness   

 

Ex-boyfriend’s texts sparked assault   

 

Shop window public indecency     

 

Western Isles MP warns against 'super constituencies'

 

Sex offender had hundreds of child porn photographs  

 

Coffee break ends in cell sleepover  

 

Crofters’ body at  international bio-diversity conference

 

Olympic flag flyer at island sports     

 

Hundreds of jobs under threat from savage public service cuts

 

Call to take Lewis Chessmen home  

 

Gaelic banners appear in Glasgow  

 

The rising of the Free   

 

Dogs called in to hunt hedgehogs

 

Free car parking for a fortnight   

 

Calls for Church to continue reforming

 

Extra cash for Lews Castle College   

 

Dogs called in to hunt stinking hedgehogs

 

Extra cash for Lews Castle College  

 

Lewis Mod seeks volunteers

 

Charity cancer run hopes to break fund raising target  

 

Allan seeks cheaper fuel from chancellor   

 

Research money for prawn fishing

 

Letter:   Painful dental wait                        

 

Letter:   Increasing cost of fuel   

 

New college principal for Free Church

 

Big Butt Challenge  

 

Goth appeal to break Hebridean dominance   

 

Harris Tweed fundraiser for Bethesda  

 

Call to test cheaper fuel scheme in islands      

 

Letter:   Getting paid to stop bad habits  

 

Historic chessmen embark on Scottish tour

 

Severe winter fails to chill salmon farmer’s profits   

 

Lidl supermarket chain considers Stornoway  

 

Hebrides ocean windfarm sites are earmarked   

 

Internet petition for fuel duty regulator     

 

Dentist rapped after patient ends up with a swollen face

 

Sensitive private file is “dumped” by council   

 

Pairc owner insists amicable deal is still available  

 

Lews Castle College invests in youth training  

 

Offshore marine energy could power the UK  

 

Estate landlord in legal action to stop Pairc buyout

 

Stornoway golf club is refused Sunday licence  

 

Volcanic ash scuppers music concert  

 

SNP call for fair fuel prices in emergency budget

 

New chief at the helm for Cal Mac   

 

Most flights taking off this afternoon

 

Inspirational schoolgirl leads charity walk    

 

Scam warnings   

 

Flight ban grounds many island flights     

 

Harris sub-sea cable bid for community windfarms  

 

Fundraising event in memory of Jamie Hepburn

 

Scottish Government “ignoring advice on crofting bill”

 

No-fly zone imposed over the Western Isles    

 

Letter:  Mr Brown’s surrender     

 

Youth injured in car crash   

 

Public consultation over raft of school closures   

 

Police weekend blitz against speeding  

 

Letter:   Design champion    

 

Controversial crofting reform passes first main hurdle

 

Macneil calls for rural fuel discount     

 

Letter:    A dignified departure    

 

MP meets his match      

 

Scalpay boat trip         

 

Letter:   Union Jack Club    

 

Objections against Sunday drinking at Stornoway Golf Club      

 

MSP tackles Ofgem over South Uist windfarm delay

 

Letter:  Open letter to Angus Macneil (and the people who voted for him)

 

Letter:    SNP, walking with Thatcher     

 

Police shortfall leads to brief recruitment drive  

 

Teenager who inflicted severe injury avoids custody    

 

Youth fined for breaking curfew

 

Insulating island homes    

 

Letter:   Con Deming the coalition government   

 

Sea eagles kill very few lambs says SNH   

 

Labour “let in the Tories”    

 

Unspoiled environment pulls tourists to Hebrides   

 

Letter:   Labour prefers Tory rule than SNP support     

 

Letter:    Boycott Stòras election   

 

Youth prepares to tackle Minch swim challenge

 

Landmark election for Stòras Uibhist    

 

Changes to Harris mobile library  

 

Letter:    New Labour fooling most of the people   

 

Stòras Uibhist poised to reject community petition

 

Vote Macneil, get Labour ?

 

Letter:    Negative spin       

 

Island construction firms win £400,000 contract

 

Planes in air as ash cloud stays west of Hebrides

 

Letter:   Angus MacNeil is hugely popular

 

Letter:    The electorate decided  

 

Letter:   Blue sky controversy      

 

Letter:   Can’t pix and mix the law

 

No change at the Crofters Commission  

 

Ash cloud disrupts Sunday’s flights    

 

European first for Gaelic       

 

Reducing the stigma of dementia   

 

Letter:   Brown is squatting in Number 10     

 

Letter:  Macneil takes electorate for granted        

 

Volcanic ash cloud spreads over the Hebrides

 

Airport car parking charges are briefly postponed   

 

Health and home advice roadshows   

 

Teenage boy seriously injured in Barra crash

 

Plea for “bells on cats”   

 

Immediate results for diabetes screening           

 

Two youths airlifted from Barra crash

 

Loganair flights disrupted by volcanic cloud  

 

Upgrade to Calanais Visitor Centre as tourist numbers soar

 

Repair works at sports centre

 

Crofters’ body praises Scottish Parliament diligence

 

Election 2010:  SNP win Western Isles seat    

 

►  Macneil increases majority in islands’ victory    

 

► Pictures from the election count     

 

Help available at Polling Stations    

 

Letter:   Closet Labourite

 

Barra Dancers success at Highlands and Islands Dance Festival

 

Letter:   Laughing all the way to the ballot box  

 

Letter:  Accommodating different views on gays    

 

Election 2010:  Election road trip

 

Letter: Frantic apologists for Macsween  

 

Letter:   One Foot In The Grave     

 

Election 2010:    Volcanic ash alert for election count     

 

Election 2010:    SNP attack “scurrilous claims from losing Labour”    

 

Election 2010:   Vote MacNeil, get Cameron claims Labour  

 

Letter:   Funding for new island schools     

 

Letter:  Alex Salmond is no Donald Stewart   

 

All Western Isles planes are cancelled   

 

Letter:    Democracy club

 

Letter:    SNP modernising schools   

 

Letter:    Don’t wake up to a Cameron Victory   

 

Volcanic cloud paralyses all island plane services

 

Election 2010:  Lib Dem Jean Davis slams negative campaigning     

 

Election 2010:  You can still vote without a polling card  

 

Letter:  Playground squabbles        

 

Letter:  SNP offer only arrogant claims   

 

Letter:  Macsween’s fuel wait    

 

Letter:  Thank you for the clean-up

 

Letter:   New Labour fails so spectacularly  

 

Letter:   Power 2010 pledge   

 

Letter:   Sorry to have missed you

 

Letter:   Sunday sports centre       

 

Letter:   New Labour copied Thatcher   

 

Sell-out for Harris Tweed Hebrides Bethesda event   

 

No-fly zone over islands is lifted

 

Letter:   Violation of conservation order?    

 

Back to Basics theme for Fas Fallain   

 

Letter:  The SNP are worried  

 

Letter:  Macsween is a step too far

 

Letter:  The Labour Party is collapsing

 

Scottish photo contest looking for what moves you

 

Carloway mill in designer handbag deal   

 

Letter:   “The BNP are patriotic”     

 

Uist and Barra planes are cancelled  

 

Island airports shut as volcanic cloud returns   

 

Letter:  MSP’s ignorance of croft law could lead to landlord windfall   

 

Little Teddies:  Lost in translation

 

International summit in the Highlands      

 

Letter:   Arrogance of election candidate     

 

Letter:  “That woman” revelation about Labour

 

Letter:   Labour votes with the Tories

 

Letter:   News Flash     

 

Health chief queries Sunday sports closure   

 

Scotland “barred” from fishing talks   

 

Volcanic plume lurks off the Hebrides  

 

Stòras Uibhist election deadline  

 

Election 2010:  Crofting tenure under threat from SNP claims Macsween

 

Election 2010:  Where to vote on Thursday  

 

Election 2010: Main island rivals take part in BBC Alba’s election debate

 

Letter:  State of our local health service

 

Election 2010:  Lib Dem candidate signs up to the Power Pledge

 

Letter:  Opposition to Sound of Barra designations

 

Letter:  Rocket Range was under threat from New Labour

 

Stòras Uibhist takes another crofter to court  

 

Emergency landing for Loganair flight     

 

Election 2010:  Fishing campaigner claims Macsween is wrong

 

We forgot to tell you but...     

 

Election 2010:  Independent candidate leads on internet campaigning

 

Painful cuts to health services      

 

Letter:    Candidate’s role in school closure

 

Letter:   Macsween’s pledges are meaningless   

 

Letter:   Nobody wants more government    

 

Five saved from sinking fishing boat      

 

Call for catamaran ferry to tested for Western Isles

 

“Arrogant” council squeezes road gritting firms   

 

Election 2010:  SSE  bid to renege on grid connection is unacceptable

 

Election 2010:  SNP pledge to protect RET ferry fares     

 

Letter:   Town centre toilet closure causes problems   

 

Letter:   Labour plan super-council takeover  

 

Letter:   Macsween was realistic about island schools       

 

Letter:     Gays have the same rights      

 

Extra seaweed used on machair     

 

School course in Harris Tweed   

 

Council in “schooling failure” legal action   

 

Letter:  Macsween “voted against giving local builders more work”

 

Letter:  Voting poetry   

 

Letter:   Democracy club    

 

New nursery to replace Little Teddies    

 

Classroom chaos looms for school    

 

Election 2010:   How Napoleon’s hero ruined election debate

 

►    Following in the footsteps of the French Macdonalds

 

Election 2010:  Lib Dem candidate rallies the voters

 

Letter:     Dr Who obsession      

 

Letter:    Macsween pushed for school closures    

 

Letter:   Angus Brendan Macneil and the Hebrides Range       

 

Driving ban    

 

Serious assault    

 

Drink driver’s plea for clemency    

 

Help for Western Isles men abused by partners   

 

Arnish yard spearheads HIE’s drive for low carbon economy    

 

Election 2010:  Macsween warns of Tory danger to small local windfarms

 

Island shinty rivals meet for first time

 

Islander sent to prison over girlfriend incidents   

 

Letter:    Macneil’s in all of a flutter        

 

Election 2010:  Labour claim SNP threatens local construction jobs    

 

Letter:   Prime Minister’s jibe against voter     

 

Threat to islands’ community windfarms     

 

Salmon farm accommodation feed barges arrive from Chile  

 

Letter:   Council vandalism   

 

Funding boost for Scotland's seafood industry

 

Election 2010:  Hustings should have been independent of any party  

 

Election 2010:  Macsween on Christian values and Sunday ferry

 

Isles’ MSP bid to close crofting loophole  

 

Letter:    An inconvenient hub           

 

Letter:    Hustings’ question on Broadbay fish farm   

 

Letter:   Radio debate row  

 

Letter:   Monty Python politics

 

Black geese stalled by northerly winds   

 

Election 2010:   Macneil slates “moaning” Labour over hustings row

 

Police investigate internet bullying claims   

 

Election 2010: SNP call for action against marauding geese  

 

Election 2010: Labour promises to help families  

 

Election 2010:  Postal votes are in the mail       

 

Preferred bidders for new schools are revealed   

 

Election 2010:  Macsween launches development plan for the isles  

 

Green power at Clan Macquarrie             

 

Election 2010:  SNP refuse radio hustings debate  

 

Letter:  Homosexual guests in B&Bs         

 

Letter:    The man who saved the world  

 

Election 2010: Connected Communities. Not!    

 

Funds to tackle harmful drinking

 

Letter:   The silly season has arrived       

 

Letter:   Macsween “reduced to a quivering jelly”  

 

Salmon companies to showcase at world's largest seafood fair

 

Election 2010:  Macsween secures volcano refunds promise from Loganair

 

Swimming lessons for pupils

 

Bus fares go up   

 

Letter:  Time for change   

 

Letter: NHS Western Isles' bunker mentality a disgrace   

 

Call for new school for Carloway and Bernera  

 

Letter:    Labour "dirty tricks"    

 

Plans to cut parking spaces in Stornoway   

 

Health board says it’s wrong to subsidise council losses  

 

►    NHS Western Isles Little Teddies’ Position Statement

 

Letter:   Keep NATO out but retain defence jobs  

 

Election 2010: SNP activists in “day of action” inter-island canvassing

 

Cancer charity marks efforts of island runner   

 

Election 2010:  Local Lib Dem discussion on issues of faith   

 

Letter:    Interruptions in debate    

 

Letter:  Repeating smears against Macneil     

 

Celtic Media Festival date for the Western Isles   

 

►  Gaelic programmes win top awards     

 

Election 2010:   Town Hall question to political candidates

 

Salmon equipment imported from disease hit Chile   

 

Chinese style ceilidh dance  

 

Islanders wanted for Commonwealth Games ceremony   

 

Planes scheduled to take off this afternoon   

 

Mail order catalogues seek island tele-workers  

 

Allan raises plight of offshore workers

 

Election 2010:  Macneil asks health minister to intervene in Little Teddies row

 

Health board chickens out of nursery meeting   

 

 

Election 2010: Political rivals clash at hustings         

 

Western Isles scouts are leading the pack      

 

Election 2010: SNP “champion” call for fairer fuel prices  

 

Construction starts on new town square  

 

Volcanic cloud hangs over Stornoway  

 

A novel Great Escape for Lewis bus driver     

 

Restricted car parking at Stornoway hospital  

 

Letter:   Wind up Daleks       

 

No island flights on Thursday morning  

 

Council says rubbish to airport car park charges

 

Election 2010: Home insulation scheme blankets the Western Isles      

 

Appeal for Merchant Navy memorial   

 

Council welcomes insulation scheme    

 

Election 2010:  Macneil delighted with fuel price competition     

 

Little Teddies replacement proposal put on hold     

 

Councillors vote to consult on shutting schools

 

Action taken to improve Castlebay school   

 

RSPB helps raise funding for crofters      

 

Election 2010:  Concerns over volcanic disruption  

 

Price rises fears forces sale of Western Isles Brogan Fuels  

 

Airports reopen... but where are the planes?

 

Cancellations hit Wednesday’s air services

 

Letter:   Alasdair Allan's recent epistle     

 

Election 2010:   “You can't trust Labour” say the SNP    

 

Election 2010:   Macneil welcomes boiler replacement scheme  

 

Letter:   Volcanic finances   

 

Letter:   Labour planned to axe Hebrides Range jobs

 

BBC Alba up for eight top awards at the Celtic Media Festival   

 

Business community lecture  

 

Election 2010:  Five election candidates confirmed for May 6th       

 

Coastguards pledge to learn lessons from tragedy

 

Fresh flight chaos as volcanic cloud intensifies   

 

Man refused to leave hospital

 

Buyout residents “should be allowed personal opinion without public criticism”

 

Letter:  “Labour smears but silent on fuel prices”   

 

Letter:   SNP’s fact-free attacks on Labour    

 

Loganair flights on regular timetable for Tuesday

 

Election 2010:  MacSween speaks on housing  

 

“Get Growing” on Harris     

 

Day of action on seatbelt law  

 

Erupting volcano disrupts hospital appointments       

 

Election 2010: Liberal Democrats on campaign trail

 

Letter:     Labour is the party of division     

 

Scottish Hydro election poster warning         

 

“Hostile” landlord accused of spreading propaganda against estate buyout    

 

Vatersay Boys in wind turbine fundraising

 

Harris Tweed in spotlight at Scotland Week   

 

TV documentary on funeral industry

 

Letter:   Using the Bible as an excuse for blatant homophobia

 

Letter:   Wrong accusations  

 

Celtic Festival tickets released for sale  

 

Coastguards flies pregnant woman to hospital

 

Laxdale School catchment changes    

 

Letter:   Part-time  Tories         

 

Letter:     Most Labour MPs have privileged backgrounds   

 

No plane services on Monday as volcanic cloud spreads

 

Letter:   Part time MP  

 

Election 2010:  DJ MacSween supports Little Teddies   

 

Sunday flights cancelled      

 

Letter:     SNP failing to let the dust settle    

 

No serious harm from volcanic fallout says health board

 

Letter:   Same old rant from the Labour Politburo   

 

Letter:    Petition against Barra fishing threat            

 

All planes cancelled in new volcanic cloud ban

 

Election 2010:  Macneil supports service for vulnerable people  

 

Tories back action plan for Gaelic  

 

Queen of the South v Ross County live on BBC Alba  

 

Western Isles flights getting back to normal      

 

Letter:   “Labour should retract lies” on Hebrides range  

 

Letter:   Labour’s “disbenefits” for the islands  

 

Community on alert for illegal muirburn activity    

 

Limited flights for Western Isles today

 

Coastguards airlift injured Norwegian fisherman  

 

Allan speaks in Parliament on future of Gaelic      

 

Letter:  B&B owners turning away Gays

 

Bayble Primary School demolition  

 

Election 2010:   Macneil welcomes Arnish boost   

 

Volcano eruption grounds island plane services   

 

RAF take over launch of coastguard helicopters after fishermen drowning

 

Eight schools earmarked in latest closure round   

 

£ 3 million investment for Arnish    

 

Drink driver in court      

 

Woman shouted racist comment    

 

Going for a smoke was expensive trip    

 

Smashed into car in front     

 

Motorist unaware of erratic driving    

 

Nuisance 999 calls    

 

Sex offender downloaded indecent images    

 

Probation for stealing TV

 

Election 2010: Labour best for helping pensioners says Macsween    

 

Election 2010:  Labour betrays its own island voters with high fuel prices says SNP  

 

Stornoway lawyers in legal bid to prevent council “secret deal”

 

MSP says action plan is a “big step forward” for Gaelic  

 

Community Planning Partnership        

 

Letter:   What has Macneil done for the Western Isles ?

 

Letter:  Not the Government’s business to fund Gaelic  

 

Balivanich man jailed for weekend incident  

 

Man admits assault charge   

 

Council accused of failing people with learning difficulties

 

Gearranan villagers oppose extending conservation rules  

 

Harris Tweed weavers will require official qualification  

 

Drive to create a new generation of Gaelic speakers

 

New funding pot for local arts and culture      

 

Letter:   Scotland is failed by unfair Union

 

Major military exercise around the Hebrides

 

Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape  

 

Americans buy 50% more Scottish salmon   

 

Parents launch internet campaign to save threatened nursery

 

Jobs boost for Arnish as BiFab clinches massive order   

 

International fashion gala for Bethesda    

 

Election 2010:  Lib Dems reveal manifesto for Western Isles

 

Electricity giant buys stake in Arnish yard

 

Letter:    SNP claim “breaches Trade Descriptions Act”

 

Election 2010:   SNP criticise “Labour's poll tax on wheels”

 

Election 2010:  Labour pledges concordat with islanders to rescue local economy     

 

Election 2010:  Macsween’s vision for the Western Isles   

 

Council threat to adults with learning difficulties

 

Letter:   Robbing the elderly to pay for nuclear weapons        

 

Teenager on drugs charge   

 

Election 2010:  Young Nats out in force for Macneil in Stornoway  

 

HIE summit in emerging tele-health sector

 

World Master piper   

 

Maternity ward changes     

 

Comhairle accused of acting illegally over Town Hall   

 

Coffee Pot cafe is up for sale  

 

Improving nutritional care    

 

Lonesome snowy owl returns to islands     

 

Letter:   Strange interpretation of Sabbath observance  

 

Loganair takes over newspaper flights     

 

Election 2010:  Election battle is going to be close say Lib Dems

 

Teenager accused of assault   

 

Election 2010:  Scottish Christian Party backs Murray   

 

Election 2010:  Labour candidate confirms pro-fishing stance    

 

Letter:  Gordon Brown’s responsibility for economic crisis    

 

Election 2010:  Make sure you are registered to vote    

 

Election 2010:  Chuck the charges    

 

Letter:    No choice between political parties  

 

Letter:   SNP propaganda machine  

 

New Sunday drinks licence for golf club   

 

Election 2010:  Blundering political campaigners score own goal   

 

Health board make cuts to avoid £ 4 million loss  

 

Sick nurses cause financial headache for health body   

 

Election 2010:  Copycat marketing stunts for election campaign

 

Election 2010:  Macsween warns SNP policy threatens Uist defence jobs

 

Election 2010:  Macneil says “scrap the fuel tax rise”    

 

Shawbost mill stars on New York catwalk    

 

Hebridean projects benefit from John Muir Trust  

 

Giant wind farm benefit fund may pay for land buyout       

 

North Tolsta residents take over local shop  

 

Election 2010:  Lib Dems relish Western Isles election battle      

 

MP concerns over delayed newspaper delivery    

 

Scotland-Canada history brought to life     

 

Councils told to presume against closing rural schools

 

Election 2010:  MacNeil wants to “make Labour pay” at polls  

 

Islander runner in marathon for Alzheimer’s research

 

Letter:   Don't offend the banking community    

 

Letter:   Chief executive’s salary      

 

Election 2010:  Labour candidate invites rivals to debate issues

 

Election 2010:  General Election race gets underway  

 

Two islanders in court  

 

Assault charges    

 

Stornoway sorting office    

 

Letter:   SNP slow in Treasury complaint  

 

Harris Tweed in the Big Apple  

 

Questions over Treasury’s stance in companies’ collapse

 

Hospital considers ward closure to save cash

 

Lib Dem slams rivals campaign spat   

 

First bottles of Lewis whisky     

 

Publishers in efforts to deliver the news       

 

Chief executive’s pay beats First Minister’s   

 

Lost climbers airlifted from the Clisham    

 

Support for Gaelic signs at Scottish Ski Centres   

 

SNP politicians eye catamaran ferry potential for Western Isles

 

Cheaper prescription charges     

 

Letter:    Labour and families

 

Letter:    Take him To Havana    

 

Letter:   Carbon dioxide emissions      

 

Teenager admits serious assault     

 

Brue man denies brandishing a knife  

 

Union anger over nursery closure     

 

St Valentine Day assault in Lochs    

 

Jail sentence for islander  

 

Two wheels on the Danube  

 

Loganair passengers get double frequent flyer points  

 

Letter:  Exterminate, exterminate   

 

Prison warning for Lewis youth  

 

Teenager breached probation  

 

Web developer sentenced for wife assault    

 

Islander banned from seeing girlfriend    

 

£256,000 for Western Isles projects to reduce Co2

 

Cal Mac ferry goes underground   

 

Newspaper chaos in wake of airline collapse  

 

Public meetings over advocacy service threat   

 

TV series explores the archaeology of Scotland      

 

Rusty Lewis shinty team succumb to Argyll rivals

 

Letter:   Dr Who MP  

 

100 days until TV switchover    

 

Island guesthouse listed as one of the 30 coolest in Britain  

 

Chairman appointed for airport operator  

 

Letter:  Views of a few control the livelihood of many  

 

Christian Party pulls out as last minute independent rival goes for votes

 

Letter:  Labour Party is “more Thatcherite than Thatcher”   

 

Labour budget “cares for the most vulnerable”

 

Redundancies at HIE to save £ 2 million a year   

 

First major step towards funding Lews Castle regeneration plans  

 

Dr Who boost for Harris Tweed industry     

 

Letter:    Rampant Socialism  

 

Letter:    Britons are the fattest people in Europe  

 

Letter:    Pudding politics    

 

New mental health course

 

Future of Scotland's land being debated in Stornoway    

 

MP concerns over Treasury role in companies going bust

 

Letter:  The UK is falling apart at the seams  

 

Letter:  Fuel prices       

 

Western Isles seal numbers fall by over a third   

 

Full steam ahead for new arts development body    

 

Hospital appointments cancelled after airline

is grounded      

 

Rebel pupils strike at Castlebay School

 

Castlebay parents want Government to step in   

 

► Castlebay School chaos:  Comhairle “is not fit for purpose”    

 

Giant electricity network planned for Lewis   

 

Loganair take over Benbecula air route   

 

Taxman’s role in bringing down airline        

 

From Hirta to Australia  

 

Towards a mentally flourishing Western Isles  

 

Job losses as grounded Highland Airways stops trading

 

Highland Airways falls into administration    

 

Letter:  Councillors failing a generation of Barra pupils  

 

Cheque for BHF heart failure service

 

RAF chases Russian bomber planes off the Western Isles

 

“No explanation” on resolving Castlebay school problems

 

Labour “hammer islanders” with fuel price rise   

 

Staggered budget fuel rise is “too little, too late”   

 

Little Teddies Nursery to close as health board pulls out

 

Large fish farms “not worse” for the environment   

 

Hundreds sign petition against controversial fish farm

 

First female boss of a Harris Tweed mill   

 

Storytelling session in Arnol Blackhouse   

 

Council rebuts MSP’s “dictatorship” claim in Castlebay School row    

 

Crofters’ chance to press home geese problem  

 

Letter:    Broad Bay fish farm is unnecessary   

 

Row over Benbecula golf course land   

 

Hebrides energy testing site for £10 million Saltire Prize  

 

Autumn delay for decision on Gaelic Freeview TV channel

 Disappointment as BBC puts off imminent decision for wider access to Gaelic channel      

 

►  BBC Trust accused of dithering like an old horse  

 

Internet dating scam warning    

 

Trade unionists meet in Stornoway    

 

New opportunities for Gaelic speaking students   

 

New fund to back marine energy prototypes    

 

Letter:   Pudding politics    

 

Fears Benbecula Golf Club may shut under new landlord’s changes

 

Lewis rape case not proven        

 

Stornoway woman takes the helm at harbour board

 

£90,000 funding for two island organisations    

 

Marauding geese problem under the spotlight  

 

High Court jury consider evidence in Stornoway rape trial  

 

Dark Sky Scotland events in the Western Isles     

 

Woman accused of abusing 999 network  

 

Dyslexia Scotland open meeting     

 

Call for hit squad to sort out Castlebay School  

 

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar host reception for island blood donors    

 

Island shoppers urged to give the real gift of life this Easter     

 

Letter:   St Valery anniversary    

 

Afro Celt Sound System  for Heb Festival     

 

MSP concerns over hospital power cuts

 

Uist Builders praised for eco construction standards

 

Showdown over problems at Castlebay School    

 

Pairc buyout bid reaches second final stage   

 

Rape trial jury hears police statements

 

Harbour board leases new car park site to council

 

Developing spiritual care in the community   

 

Celebrating legacy of Stoneybridge School as doors to finally close        

 

Barra parents may seek to oust council from controversial school  

 

Teenager “raped at students’ party”      

 

Letter:   Free spending socialism  

 

Islanders on Uist and Benbecula can shape local development strategy

Outer Hebrides Rural Network meet in Berneray      

 

Letter:  Totalitarian tactics in Castlebay censorship      

 

BBC Alba launches new Gaelic education websites

 

Bid to relaunch Celtic Supporters Club

 

£200 million Eishken wind farm for sale     

 

Letter:  Labour brought Britain to the verge of bankruptcy

 

Letter:    D J Macsween is negative   

 

“Speak to us,” Castlebay pupils urge education director   

 

Children’s Gaelic Books now available on CD   

 

Letter:   Labour has acted on the economy   

 

Letter:   Totalitarian tactics in Castlebay censorship   

 

Crofters’ Federation oppose crofting register plans      

 

Premature twins recovering after desperate 200 mile

air rescue    

 

Lib Dems launch rural fuel petition     

 

First Lewis dram goes on public sale     

 

Lights up for first Lewis Coastal Film Festival     

 

Council censors pupils on school computers   

 

Letter:   Mud-slinging SNP   

 

Letter:     Writings of the father   

 

Higher grants for community projects      

 

Stornoway firm lands £2 million media centre construction contract    

 

Driver disqualified for 15 months   

 

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar switches off     

 

Two staff for machair life conservation project    

 

Hearaich invited to SNH reception

 

Letter:   Rights and freedoms  

 

Letter:   St Kilda Centre idea        

 

Tories all at sea over Achmore harbour    

 

Salmon company revamp for Hebrides

 

Volunteer effort to help digital TV switchover       

 

Uig backs move for £6 million St Kilda Centre  

 

Conference on Gaelic planning     

 

Letter:   Unanswered questions   

 

Letter:    Mud slinging from the looney left     

 

Letter:  Political quiz show   

 

Government refuses to repatriate Uig Chessmen   

 

Lewis woman in court over attempted murder charge

 

Call to allow private ferry on proposed Mallaig route

 

Stornoway scientist solves puzzle of scrambled chickens

 

Davis: RET ferry fares were a political bribe   

 

Letter:   Where was MacSween ?     

 

Letter:   Helping the enemy   

 

Letter:    Massacre of frogs    

 

Virtually all of the Hebrides captured in internet pictures  

 

Letter:   Welcome back stranger   

 

Blaze wrecks Benbecula salmon factory         

 

Lib Dems condemn RET ferry fares for Western Isles

 

Letter:   Freezing council tax is lost opportunity   

 

Health board gets £58 million budget   

 

Scam alert as cheating conmen target B&B operators

 

Green energy scheme for North Tolsta  

 

Letter:    Socialist whiners  

 

Letter:   Stop putting stuff in Philip Maclean's tea    

 

Letter:   Don't risk losing civil servants     

  

New vision to develop islands’ tourism  

 

Letter:   Wallowing in their shame        

 

Letter:  Born and bred on Lewis

 

Letter:   Kenneth Morrison is a kind man  

 

Tenth of council’s technical staff want redundancy     

 

Macneil seeks extension to RET cheap ferry fares   

 

Castlebay teachers told “must do better”

 

90 new salmon jobs as Marybank factory reopens   

 

Allan condemns fishing rights give-away   

 

SNP accused of assaulting island life     

 

Harris Tweed Hebrides hits Russian market    

 

Crofting community mapping    

 

Westside connection for Conservative Party

 

Labour accused for dodging difficult decisions for islands   

 

24% leap in salmon exports   

 

Letter:   Candidate parachuted in              

 

Lib Dem looking forward to election fight

 

Future funding for agriculture  

 

Planning reform for the fish farm industry    

 

Meat marketing for crofters   

 

Double whammy ferry fare increase   

 

Scottish Christian Party field island election candidate

 

Eòrpa examines Bosnia rape cases

 

Campaign for wader-friendly crofting  

 

Letter:  Striking a nerve   

 

Letter:   Quiz for the Day   

 

Macneil supports PCS union workers      

 

Making new rural connections  

 

Letter:   Tangled prose    

 

Cèilidh factor singers release charity album  

 

Letter:   Insight into the writer       

 

Lib Dems targeting success      

 

Creative learning for infants              

 

Recognition on the way for Gaelic Community and Business of the Year   

 

“Drunk in charge of a child” charge woman banished from islands   

 

Man in court over disturbance involving girlfriend

 

First step in next generation of weavers

 

Burnt pan causes kitchen fire   

 

Expenses row boss quits Cal Mac      

 

Former isles health boss leaps to top of salmon giant   

 

Dead Barra man is named     

 

Letter:  Personalities rather than policies   

 

Letter:  Character assassinations

 

Consumer warning on unlicensed traders     

 

Lib Dem  slams rivals over late arrival into fuel price rises  

 

Letter:  Anti-Sabbath lobby “are ignoring the facts”  

 

Letter:  Sunday opening   

 

Letter:   Hands off Sunday   

 

Letter:   Siding with the rich  

 

Letter:   Macsween certainly “doesn't fight for Labour”

 

Businessman punched his estranged wife in row over girlfriend

 

Salmon firm’s “management instability” causes concerns  

 

Vandals wreck transport history group’s workshop  

 

Free mini recording session for musical hopefuls  

 

Letter:  Time for Sunday opening  

 

Letter:  Not a government agency    

 

SNP push for fair fuel regulator

 

Radio award for Isles FM

 

Letter:   Irrational Sabbath dogma  

 

Hospital’s major electrical fault is finally repaired

 

Letter:   delays over Barra hospital  

 

Exploring trade potential with Scandinavia    

 

Lighthouse Caledonia boss resigns   

 

Sudden death on Barra      

 

Letter:   Pecked to death by ducks

 

Letter:   Another little agency       

 

Campaigners warn Broad Bay fish farm risks wild salmon   

 

Filipino crew allowed to work on island fishing boats  

 

Drink driver is disqualified   

 

Lewis man stopped woman calling 999    

 

Man admits assault   

 

Salmon boss is suspended from job      

 

Harris Crossroads retains top grading  

 

Letter:   Macsween is “playing lowest common denominator”

 

Letter:  Is the party over for Macneil ?        

 

Letter:   Sunday policy should be transparent    

 

Motorist receives temporary disqualification    

 

Sex offender breached internet ban           

 

Grant for Barra Water Sports Club      

 

Local sports star features in new BBC ALBA documentary  

 

Cal Mac’s Spring advertising campaign underway  

 

Hospital operations postponed in case of power cuts

 

New Ness charity shop cleans up with community grant

 

Chef claims he was battered by vicious thugs on Harris

 

Legal bid to open Stornoway sports centre on Sabbath

 

Pairc buyout in multi million pound race against time

 

Broadbay fish farm protesters step up campaign     

 

Training scheme brings new blood into Harris Tweed industry       

 

Study into usage of Gaelic signs at Scotland’s ski centres      

 

Letter: Troubled by Macneil’s “political misjudgements”

 

Letter:  Policies not personalities       

 

Broadbay fish farm lodges official planning bid   

 

Runrig musician needs new heart implant urgently      

 

Nightclub bouncer was allegedly injured by a stiletto    

 

Third Sector Hebrides’ decade of Investors in People

 

Celebrity cook link in police probe at island hotel   

 

Stolen vehicle      

 

Five people charged after Stornoway disturbance

 

Council investment could improve fashion choice   

 

Former Minister condemns UK’s “economic colonialism” in Falklands

 

Letter:  Sunday golf : “urinating on Christian ethos”    

 

Last minute funding found for drugs sniffer dog

 

Name change in store for salmon grower

 

Letter:   Frozen meals for pensioners     

 

Third day of disruption on island ferry    

 

Drugs trial halted in final stages       

 

MacSween “dodges important votes”    

 

Council owes £34,000 to Stornoway harbour   

 

Labour slams Macneil's voting record   

 

Allan encourages crofters to respond to Pack   

 

999 emergency service restored   

 

Allan criticises proposed airport parking charges   

 

Comhairle criticised over Sunday closure  

 

Glasgow Film Festival showcase for Gaelic     

 

Two days of disruption for ferry passengers    

 

Letter:  No cooperation from  SNP councillors

 

Letter:  Council taking over business   

 

Letter:  Scaremongering about the weather ?    

 

Master piper heads to Stornoway

 

Fears islands will lose sniffer dog

 

Ferry disruptions due to heavy weather  

 

Controversy over new rule for Stòras Uibhist directors

 

Council plans takeover of Wee W premises    

 

Macneil chief laid to rest on Barra

 

Letter: Curriculum for Excellence is positive development

 

Labour accuse SNP councillors of ‘slash and burn’ policy

 

Slàinte Mhath:  first (legal) Lewis whisky in 160 years

 

Port authority in showdown with council     

 

Let’s hear it for the girls!    

 

Letter:  Curriculum of Excellence              

 

Crofters Commission headquarters is relocating    

 

Letter:  Should wealth buy political influence ?   

 

Letter:  MacSween and school closures

 

Crofting, commons and communities  

 

2013 National Mod heads to Paisley       

 

Chickens “coming home to roost for SNP”

 

Letter:   SNP councillors are in a muddle  

 

Letter:    Absent candidate     

 

SNP queries whereabouts of Labour candidate  

 

Health board cash to get people fit

 

Get Growing in Galson    

 

Lib Dems deplore cuts affecting vulnerable people

 

Letter:   Macsween, where are you?  

 

Green light for landmark dental centre in Stornoway

 

Major housing grant changes hit homeowners

 

Have Your Say event in Harris    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Island youth get input in council’s decisions        

 

Multi venue book launch for Lewis author    

 

Ness Youth Group broadcast radio programme on Rapal tonight

 

Harris Golf Club wins Sabbath battle          

 

Letters:    Tory mistakes

 

Letter:   Council cuts are hitting the most vulnerable  

 

Letter:   Time for change at the council    

 

Letter:   Predicted Labour policies for the Western Isles   

 

Stornoway resident embezzled £22,000

 

Community appeal for Stornoway black pudding  

 

Letter:  Change of political culture is needed     

 

Letter:   Power hungry council  

 

Letter:    Election fever    

 

Stornoway harbour to fight council takeover  

 

SNP fail to halt school closures    

 

Flowers banned as hospital recovers from virus outbreak  

 

Comhairle “may have broken the law” on Town Hall  

 

Fury over salmon farm go-ahead   

 

Master piper heads to Stornoway     

 

Letter:  Town Hall should reflect community needs

 

Clan Chief will be buried on Barra      

 

Council plot to take over Stornoway harbour    

 

Council applauds stringent budget cuts       

 

Allan and Macneil concerned over schools’ cuts  

 

New moderator for Free Church Continuing    

 

Woman was pulled along floor   

 

Vandals pay for smashed bus shelter

 

Driver was three times legal limit  

 

Woman was drunk in charge of a child   

 

SNP challenge council cuts on frontline services     

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Lifeline investor in advance takeover talks with airline

 

Bid for community say over council services   

 

Runrig is headline act for Celtic Festival  

 

Comhairle accused of misrepresenting the people    

 

Letter:  No justification for Town Hall changes   

 

Old folk will be hammered by council cuts  

 

Letter: “Vote councillors out of office”    

 

Letter:   Birds and bells                   

 

Go-ahead for contentious Town Hall changes       

 

Stay of execution for Advocacy service    

 

Council manager charged with theft     

 

MP’s concerns on Town Hall  

 

Letters:    Misuse of historic building   

 

Letter:   Congratulate Advocacy campaigners

 

Letter:  Save Town Hall   

 

Letter:   Sad day for Town Hall

    

Ravens not killing off rare water fowl says study   

 

Letter:   Leave the Town Hall alone   

 

Letter:  Town Hall objection  

 

Council cuts: “What is going to happen to us now?”

 

Cuts and more cuts      

 

Death of MacNeil of Barra      

 

Musical gathering in Harris is hailed a success   

 

Seventeen hit by hospital vomiting virus

 

Slàinte Mhath fitness scheme signs up 1000 members

 

Cash raised for Haiti disaster appeal  

 

Buy with Confidence  

 

Letter:  Protect front line services   

 

Manford quits Sgoiltean Ura    

 

Comhairle is in the wrong say Town Hall campaigners

 

Experts recommend massive shake-up in ferry service    

 

Call for new economic survey for Broad Bay   

 

Council cuts: “attack on the elderly, disabled and children”  

 

Tourists flock to the Callanish standing stones

 

A “singing” bell for Bosta beach      

 

Council  v  Council in Town Hall planning row   

 

Question:  What does LaMpMo stand for ?  

        

Counting the delays in schools’ accountancy contract

 

Letter:  Council’s “extreme bullying” against harbour board

 

Lib Dems hits out at council cuts       

 

"Town Hall funding raided from other projects"     

 

Concern over health board’s silence on St Brendans

 

Archaeologist sought for St Kilda     

 

Stornoway mill reopens as island’s smallest tweed producer  

 

Letter:  No cuts for councillors   

 

Savage cuts in Western Isles frontline council services   

 

Letter:  Councillors should listen to their constituents  

 

Concern over replacement Barra hospital   

 

Town Hall architects’ second chance for contentious changes  

 

Salmon farm protest meeting     

 

Crofters’ body give evidence on reform bill  

 

Housing repair grants wiped out for most     

 

£100,000 to upgrade two community centres   

 

First step for car parking charges at Stornoway airport

 

New scheme to preserve islands’ cultural history

 

Letter:    Call for Gaelic TV channel on cable    

 

Scottish Parliament backs BBC Alba    

 

School closure savings will improve other services says council  

 

Top boss departs HIE  for energy job  

 

New lockers for old school    

 

Taxi driver loses lengthy legal fight to regain licence  

 

Point Girls Club do their bit for Haiti    

 

No bridge over troubled waters in Stornoway

harbour row

 

Letter:  MacNeil seeks “extra money for Glasgow”   

 

Letter:   Stand up for Tong school     

 

All set for the islands’ first science festival       

 

Scottish Government rejects specific land buyout fund  

 

Gearranan crofters face improvement ban

 

Winter snow cost Western Isles £2 million     

 

Town Hall campaigners applaud council planning officers    

 

Letters:   Lieutant Columbo is on the case   

 

Letters:   Unanswered questions about Macsween     

 

Councillors vote on timetable for mass school closures

 

Temporary reprieve for Stornoway Town Hall changes

       

Isle of Lewis whisky draws international interest    

 

Lid Dems secure island petrol prices debate   

 

Letter:  MP must have been "on the moon"  

 

Letter:   Vicious “hate campaign” against MP   

 

Letter:   Whining, lefty socialists

 

Return of the Uig chessmen       

 

Changes for two rural Lewis GP practices

 

Letter:   No Town Hall venue for Royal National Mod   

 

Internet petition against Broad Bay salmon farm

 

Consumer alert over unlicensed traders   

 

Letter:  “Labour and council’s honesty crisis”    

 

Community engagement meeting in Benbecula  

     

45 redundancies at enterprise agency   

 

Letter:  Sex discrimination against female pupils    

 

Letter:  Macsween was “kept out in the cold”  

 

Bull hire scheme to continue   

 

Rev Hargreaves pulls out of election race      

 

Councillors urged to “save Stornoway Town Hall”

 

New bus ticket machines require up-to-date travel passes    

 

Outbreak of vomiting bug worsens at Stornoway hospital    

 

Free Press photographer is journalist of the year   

 

Council axes skills courses at Nicolson Institute       

 

American celebrity gets Gaelic tattoo