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TV watchdog investigates comments on teenager’s death   

 

Superunknowns rock for charity       

 

Consultation over conflict between aquaculture and fisheries  

 

Memoial service for Liam Aitchison    

 

Flood risk from westerly gales      

 

Barra home helps braved storm

 

Two island youths appear in court accused of murdering Liam Aitchison

 

Teenager fought with three cops

 

Razor blade offence  

 

Care worker stole £1000  

 

Broke court ban  

 

Two men admit possessing drugs   

 

Woman struggled with police officers

 

Damaged wall

 

Obscene messages      

 

Letter: Local Labour can’t find enough candidates

 

Fears schools may teach children “to experiment” with homosexuality        

 

Letter: New Year celebrations - An open letter to Stornoway Amenity Trust

 

Gay marriage risks the “moral fabric of society”   

 

Letter:  Labour Party “lets down” public sector workers  

 

Lorry firms warn RET changes will cost jobs

 

Labour advocates “political independence” in politics   

 

Decline in foreign language assistants     

 

Lewis Camanachd stays in shinty league       

 

Headteacher seminar highlights partnership  

 

Cafe opening raises funds for Harris lifeboat   

 

The Silent Weaver  

 

Police crackdown on Christmas drink drivers     

 

Stornoway cop is promoted     

 

Violent storm blasts the Western Isles       

 

44 jobs lost as Macaskill Haulage goes under  

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Crashes, smashes and bashes - the only thing not on the skids is the Comhairle’s contentious gritting policy    

 

Storm warning for Western Isles   

 

Continuing opposes gay marriage    

 

Religious observance in schools

 

Added cost of flights for ministers       

 

Island accidents as freezing weather continues     

 

Letter:   The ethnic cleansing cost of Thanksgiving              

 

Community benefits from renewables    

 

MSP welcomes drive to help unemployed youth   

 

Free Church deficit   

 

Letter:   Trifling with God’s law

 

Wintry weather

 

Water cutoffs in North Uist  

 

SNH “show contempt for the democratic process”  

 

Letter:  Support for pension strikes

 

Letter:   A warning to the gullible   

 

Rural areas left behind as cities get better broadband  

 

MSP goes back to school  

 

SNP reveal list of council election candidates   

 

Top energy company links up with Lews Castle College

 

Extra cops flown in as police say teenager’s death is treated as suspicious

 

Strikers march in protest of pension cuts

 

Broadband fault

 

Ferries cancelled   

 

Finals of students’ Gaelic debate  

 

Investigation into teenager’s death

 

Warning of hurricane winds

 

Body found in search for missing teenager

 

Wednesday’s strike will hit services   

►Strikers march over pensions threat  

►Local Labour party supports walkout

►Union accuses Government of “robbing pensions”

 

Ecumenical church service

 

Milestone for Western Isles Learning Shop

 

Seminar to provide better direction for Gaelic careers     

 

Row over latest “secret” conservation move  

 

Tendering for rescue helicopter contract    

 

Lewis woman is Highland Ambassador

 

On course to re-open Scalpay shop

 

Overturned lorry     

 

Wordsmith aims to encourage creative reading  

 

Letter: Thanksgiving Day

 

First single for Harris singer      

 

Letter:  Hydro heroes

 

► Letter: After sales service  

 

Gales create weekend disruption  

 

Politicians want more fuel concessions   

 

New Year, New You

 

Letter:  Purrfect wisedom?

 

Stornoway shoplifter is jailed   

 

Community payback order        

 

Alcohol ban      

 

Local events

 

Fuel discount scheme will start in March      

 

Flood alert for Western Isles       

 

Church denounces gay marriage

 

Submission to the Scottish Government Consultation on Same Sex ‘Marriage’ 2011

 

Tug-of-love row over cat is heard in court  

 

Man banned from going near ex-partner’s home     

 

Telephone scam

 

Teenager was unfit to drive

 

Cannabis plants found in police raid     

 

Police assault   

 

Footwear giant’s bumper order for Harris Tweed    

 

Telcom firms drop out of superfast broadband scheme

 

Gaelic award presented to island community

 

Careless driving put passengers’ lives at risk    

 

Salmon poaching

   

Loan for Galson wind turbine    

 

Letter: Offside intervention         

 

Comhairle takes up cudgels to save Lews Castle

 

Hebridean firm in finals of major accountancy awards

 

Changes to coastguard service revealed     

 

Letter: Different manners of worship   

 

Letter:  SNP take politically correct line    

 

Cash for HHP green heating     

 

Harris artist wowing guests at Glasgow arts hotel  

   

Fishermen rescued from capsized boat   

 

Public services hit as workers go on strike  

 

Letter:  Criticism of ecumenical service          

 

Letter:  Live and let live    

 

Growth for farmed salmon   

 

Orb trade mark is Harris Tweed's biggest asset

 

Long distance mission for coastguard helicopter

 

Two days without water for Sollas homes          

 

400th anniversary of the King James Bible  

 

New Musician in Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

 

Traigh Mhòr to be dropped from environmental restrictions

 

Fire alert at Stornoway pub   

 

Giant heavy cargo ship in port      

 

Special Harris Tweed honour recalls industry birth   

 

TV presenter SOS   

 

Parliamentary inquiry into poor broadband coverage

 

Questions over Lochboisdale ferry service     

 

Top awards for island healthcare heroes    

 

Letter: Where does Labour stand on gay marriage  

 

North Uist development updates  

 

Ceilidh in the city

 

Community petition rejected under “secret” rules    

 

Western Isles Labour backs Lamont for Scottish leader  

 

Dense fog delays planes

 

Rowing the length of the Western Isles for Children In Need  

 

Feasibility study for Scalpay buyout options

 

Arnish yard upgrade is completed

 

South Ford study public meeting   

 

Inter-island ferry difficulties for local firms

 

Child healthy weight training     

 

Old Time fashion appeal for Glasgow Gaels   

 

Rise in air passengers at Stornoway  

 

Call to install large enough subsea energy cable    

 

New manager for SporsNis

 

Memories of a Lewis crofting weaving community  

 

Award for police communications team   

 

MSP supports Scottish charity

 

Search for Olympic torch helpers  

 

Community payback order      

 

Letter:  Cuts in council services       

 

Music and poetry evening   

 

Church of Scotland opposes gay marriage    

 

Talk on side effects of cancer treatment    

 

Cal Mac Ferries takes corporate troubleshooter onboard

 

Extra cash for renewable energy developments

 

Death of local musician  

 

Greenpeace activists’ boat capsizes off Barra    

 

Princess Anne is UHI chancellor

 

Islanders observe Armistice Day silence   

 

Stornoway Airport staff raise charity cash     

 

Students debate their way to Edinburgh finals    

 

South Uist and Govan join forces to tackle economic problems

  

Launch of pregnancy crisis group    

 

Sectarian Bill not to curtail free speech  

 

Call to return historical treasures to North Uist      

 

Savage cuts on the horizon as council fear £7 million blackhole    

 

Villagers block salmon farm access

 

Letter:   Plenty of signs but lack of direction

 

Harris man who died in fire “refused help”         

 

Schools’ Gaelic debate    

  

Big Apple is the new shop window for Harris Tweed

         

Vodafone fix mobile signal after weeks of problems

 

Boat towed to safety

 

Controversial fish farm planning bid is dropped

 

Ferry boss departs  

 

Lewis Camanachd - Black and Blue - on TV       

 

Stornoway Coastguard campaign nominated for national award     

 

Island sportswoman wins coaching award   

 

Salmon company faces court over employee’s death    

 

Young Lewis seaman who died in Hong Kong is buried    

 

MSP lobbies for RET on inter-island ferries   

 

Glasgow Gaels  

 

Vandal sentenced to one month per slashed tyre

 

Free vitamins for infants  

 

North Uist pastor induction in breakaway congregation  

 

Breaks in Vodafone signal in Stornoway   

 

Islands’  first solar energy farm plans are abandoned    

 

RNLI confirm new lifeboat for South Harris  

 

Barra Children's Centre awarded £5000 grant      

 

Comhairle calls for united front on Crown Estate reform

 

Where’s the fuel discount?  

 

Letter:  All the councillor’s fault   

     

Letter:  Treated like second class citizens

 

Health care bus takes the road

 

Lews Castle rescue funding blow   

 

Slashed post office service for Middle District        

 

Letter:  Scottish Government failing to help build homes

 

Free smoke alarms   

 

New operator takes over Blar Buidhe care home   

 

New lifeboat to cover Uist and Harris    

 

Letter:  Macneil is off his axis    

 

Scalpay plans commemorative events to celebrate school’s history

 

Muirneag sails to Baltic Sea    

 

Healthcare heroes announced as award finalists  

 

Letter:  Comhairle proposed legal U-turn is commonsense   

 

Tory “time bandits” warned over daylight robbery   

 

Stornoway RP minister inducted

 

Letter: Comhairle in “facile macho posturing” over schools  

 

Elderly islander found dead   

 

Greenpeace campaign ship in Stornoway stop     

 

Council may drop legal action against school closures     

 

Rescue work begins on historic Eye Church    

 

Teenager faces motoring charges  

 

Man charged with alleged assault on nurses  

 

SNH urged to abandon airport beach designation plans  

 

Lawyer set to make legal history

 

Belgium couple still in hospital after crash  

 

Bilingual signs bring Gaelic to hundreds of thousands of people

 

Rising star of Scottish poetry in Hebrides   

 

Accused failed to appear in court   

 

Mystery over temporary closure at island post office   

 

Vehicle safety checks

  

Rogue door step callers

 

Video medics for critically ill babies  

             

MSP represents Government at Convention of Highlands and Islands

 

Breastfeeding support group celebrates fifth birthday    

 

Reformed Presbyterian Church induction    

 

£1 million funding shortage for Lochboisdale redevelopment   

 

Airport security staff wear it pink   

 

Youth in court after girl injured in car smash

 

£100,000 de-icer equipment for Benbecula Airport  

 

Teenager seriously hurt in car crash    

 

Campaign against industrial expansion of salmon farming  

    

First timer scoops traditional gold

 

Dundee Choir toast absent friend  

 

Mod piping competition results

 

Bòrd na Gàidhlig to establish network of Gaelic medium education head teachers           

 

New music course in Gaelic rap   

 

More viewers switch on to Gaelic TV          

 

Canadian crowned Bàrd at the Royal National Mòd  

 

Acair launch Gaelic teddy

 

Summer Reading Challenge  

   

Recognising how to save someone from a stroke  

 

Gales disrupt Royal National Mod

 

Criomagan  a’ Mhoid  

 

Islanders die younger

  

Marine wildlife survey starts in the Minch  

   

Skills development for new Gaelic writers   

 

Conference on finding health workers for rural areas  

 

Consultation on rural schools

 

Monday- Royal National Mod results  

 

New Gaelic courses launched at the Mod   

 

Barra Airport in global accolade vote

 

Retracing St Columba’s footsteps     

 

Mobile phones back on line      

 

Gaelic teachers conference   

 

Wild West Beer Festival     

 

Around the Mod in pictures      

 

Failte gu Mòd nan Eilean - Royal National Mòd kicks off   

 

Saturday results - Royal National Mod     

 

Main Mod events

 

Funding for Gaelic hub in north Lewis  

 

Western Isles coastguard tug is reinstated  

 

Gaelic rehearsal   

 

Comhairle backs giant wind energy scheme

 

Lewis rapist is jailed for six years

 

Cat and dog may be summoned as courtroom witnesses in pet custody fight   

 

First legal Western Isles whisky is launched      

 

Embezzler given more time to repay stolen money  

 

No lookouts caused island trawler sinking     

 

Lifetime driving ban        

 

Sexual assault   

 

Pairc buyout dispute tied up in court for years

 

Movember moustache challenge              

 

Letter:  Citylink and ferry luggage service  

 

Letter:  Understanding the equation          

 

North Uist water is finally safe to drink   

  

Plans to set up community trust from Stornoway windfarm   

 

MSP suggests ferry luggage alternative  

 

Go-ahead for first Western Isles wave farm

 

Comhairle pays off staff in cutbacks drive     

 

Harris man found dead

 

Looking for musicians for Mod Fiddlers’ Rally

 

Recycle North Uist plastic water bottles   

 

Citylink axes ferry luggage service   

 

Fundraising for Mary's Meals   

 

Cruise liner marketing       

  

Comhairle sees red over jamming

   

Allan says Barra  opposes fishing restrictions    

 

Bid to double number of Gaelic speakers  

         

MP hits out at absence of emergency coastguard tug     

 

U-turn over holiday sailings       

 

Concern over scrapping hospital beds    

 

Next Free Church moderator is named   

 

Norgrove parents spend anniversary fundraising

 

Concerns over high fuel prices   

 

Police officers honoured for bravery  

 

Daliburgh school frame erected

 

First Barra Mod      

 

Barra and Vatersay Mod prizewinners     

 

Opening event for new Bethesda charity shop  

 

Cross country horse jumping event  

       

Good prices at Stornoway ram sales  

           

Reserve champion - Stornoway ram sales   

 

Letter:  Lack of parliamentary representation

 

Protest against high fuel prices

 

Stranded whale to die on Uist beach   

 

Extreme waves measured off Lewis

 

Free flu jabs

 

New machinery for traditional reaping           

 

Attempts to refloat stranded whale  

 

New law risks killing off crofting says former government  minister

 

Ferries cancelled at start of a blustery week   

 

Management planning for conservation areas

 

High fuel prices result in dearer bus fares    

 

No maritime tug cover as legalities delay reprieve

 

Anniversary of radical legislation which ended Clearances    

 

Last minute reprieve for coastguard tug - long term funding expected to be found within months

 

Concerns over drastic cuts to work scheme for disabled people

 

Loganair investigates aircraft fault    

 

Reprieve sought for island commercial ferry scheme   

 

World beneath the waves revealed in new report  

 

Petrol price check - well over £7 a gallon for South Uist motorists  

 

Scottish Fuels agree to discuss high price row   

 

Crofting community way of life  

 

Sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich officially opened

 

Warning about doorstep salesmen  

 

Objections jeopardise Stornoway windfarm  

 

Public crofting conference

 

Support for North Uist wind farm   

 

Loganair assurances after plane emergency   

 

Concern over losing specialist teachers  

 

Petrol price check

 

Mod fundraising     

 

Gaelic Community of the Year     

 

Licence revoked

 

“Frightening” ordeal for women  

 

Speeding driver crashed car  

 

Islander was aggressive when refused entry    

 

Secondary school pupils celebrate Celtic links with Ireland    

 

Temporary principal for college    

 

Strupag at the Mod     

 

Home insulation scheme  

 

Fall in hospital infections

 

Crofters Commission report    

      

First local dental students   

 

Advice over winter vomiting bug

   

200th Rockall anniversary    

 

Fuel price check  

 

Official opening of first new council school on Lewis for nearly 20 years.

 

Norgroves mark one year since daughter’s kidnapping   

 

Plea for last ditch reprieve for rescue tug  

 

HIE investigates impact of community business  

 

Two new churches after 140 years in the wilderness    

 

Marine Scotland urged to mediate in Barra row

 

Fury as Stornoway coastguard tug removed    

 

Macneil attacks “reckless withdrawal of coastguard tugs

 

Spòrsnis gets “community MBE” award      

  

Mod 2011 run hailed a success

 

Coastguard tug leaves station a week early     

 

MPs in Crown Estate inquiry      

 

Crofting reform comes on stream  

 

Petrol price check   

 

Hebrides rioters petition apology   

 

Community Council Elections

 

High fuel prices raised with Scottish Affairs Committee

 

Sudden death on Lewis  

 

Driving disqualification     

 

Three more years for mink trapping scheme      

 

Crofters claim chemical ban fuels wildfire risk   

 

Drink driver

 

Letter:  Single ivory tower   

 

Police warn of telephone scam   

  

Call for Scottish control of fisheries  

 

Letter:  High petrol prices   

 

Letter: Salmon farmer insults island communities

 

Upgrade planned for Daliburgh Post Office  

 

Historical project to track island emigrants  

   

Island museums urged to shape their future  

 

Dead man named  

           

Island petrol prices at highest level    

 

Mod Gold Medal concert     

 

Gaelic pub quiz goes live on the web   

 

Letter: Local economy hit by high fuel prices

 

Salmon farm worker injures fingers

 

Scottish nuclear veterans’ flag is retired in Stornoway

 

Climate change meeting at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

 

Double award for Proiseact Nan Ealan   

 

St Kilda and Mingulay log books go online  

 

Body found on Luskentyre beach

 

Plans for Harris whisky distillery         

 

Allan wants inquiry into island fuel monopoly        

 

MSP takes up issue of petrol price hikes

 

New tourism campaign promotes the Outer Hebrides

 

Crown Estate inquiry heads to the Hebrides

 

Islander dies in fire

 

Business excellence awards for island enterprises   

 

Move for environmental restrictions in Sound of Barra  

 

Outer Hebrides beat Glasgow and Edinburgh in music award  

 

Parade marks anniversary of the Battle of Britain   

 

Lewis man raped 15-year-old girl   

 

Helicopter airlifts child off hill

 

Emergency services charity football match   

   

Comhairle axes specialist PE lessons for rural pupils   

 

Open house at Sustainable Uist project

 

Jail warning

 

Prison for resisting arrest     

 

“SNP Government apathy” over rural broadband problems

 

Beware door to door traders  

 

Infants learn about hand hygiene  

 

Macneil urges Ofcom to improve mobile coverage

  

MSP favours wild goose hunt    

 

Drug dealer sentenced to 30 months  

 

Islander accused of driving vehicle into man   

 

Fairground assault    

 

Island visitor vandalised cars    

 

Construction worker headbutted island man

 

Concerns over changes to mental health service     

 

Stornoway lunar walk

 

Famous Uig chessmen return home for a day    

 

Ferry cancelled

 

Rival sides agree talks over Pairc estate dispute   

 

New company formed to run Blar Buidhe  

    

Save Scotland’s Tugs     

  

Lewis victim remembered in 9/11 memorial  

 

Hurricane eye to pass over Hebrides  

 

Lewis & Harris Football League  

 

New man at the helm at Comunn na Gàidhlig

  

Call for new £10 million for land buyout fund       

 

Letter: World’s Biggest Coffee Morning  

 

Safe driving scheme for Western Isles youth   

 

MSPs’ support call for direct Lochboisdale ferry   

 

►Huw Francis’ statement to the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee

 

Is the health board communicating properly?

 

New books about St Kilda  

 

Letter:  “Poor consultation” on mental health care changes  

 

Letter:  Civil same sex marriages    

 

Letter:  Off their brolly

 

Health board seeks permanent dentist for Harris  

 

Last day for Lewis Chessmen exhibition     

 

Tribute night to Ishbel MacAskill      

 

Hurricane Katia alert for Hebrides

 

What’s On  

 

Argos plans January opening for new Stornoway store

 

Stricken boat towed to port  

 

£1.5 million repairs for Lews Castle   

 

Suicide Prevention Week in the Western Isles  

 

Events for Suicide Prevention Week  

 

Back clinch league championship   

 

Angry fishermen ban SNH from meeting    

 

Top marks for Western Isles hospital cleanliness

 

Saints win title after 25th year

 

Running for the Mod    

 

Police appeal over Stornoway incident

 

Car smash in Back  

 

Plans to replace Callanish water pipes  

 

Blue shark found on Lewis beach

 

SNH favourable towards giant Stornoway wind farm  

 

Comhairle’s umbrella idea for a rainy day   

 

New caravan site for Vatersay  

 

Council considers setting up new campaign against high fuel prices

 

Map test of mobile phone blackspots

 

Lewis man must pay victim £400 compensation  

 

Curfew for Lewis man

 

Lewis and Harris Football results

 

Four taken to hospital after car crash      

 

Highest ever number of teams challenging for Cuach Na Cloinne      

 

Car chase charges  

 

Man placed on sex offenders register

 

Drunken fight after lock out   

 

Prison for drink driver   

 

Shawbost School has good community links say inspectors        

 

Open season for shooting greylag geese  

   

Dictionary for Gaelic bureaucrats     

 

Hitches over “unworkable” fuel discount scheme

 

Askernish golf weekend worth £18,000 for local economy  

 

Primary and Secondary football competitions

 

McGrigor to give key note crofting speech

 

Mobile phone theft     

 

Mock gas explosion tests emergency response

 

Registration deadline for tobacco retailers  

  

Rocket range to continue beyond guaranteed five years

 

South Uist’s role in Libya offensive  

 

Linda Norgove charity helps Afghan children    

 

Senior Free Church minister quits over hymns row  

 

Nicolson Institute inspection report

 

Ness fire

 

Allan calls for cheaper charges to export electricity  

 

Debt warning as households worse off    

 

Scope for more sea farms but only in appropriate locations

 

Heavy weather disrupts sea crossing    

 

Fishing boat was taking on water

 

10% rise in bus fares

 

Hospital inpatient mental health service may be axed   

 

Last minute deportation reprieve for Filipino Fishermen  

 

Lewis & Harris Football Results

 

Wind speed masts for Amec’s turbines   

   

Community council elections

 

Outdoor Mod concert        

 

Emergency exercise at Stornoway gas works

 

Cambodian dental nurses in Lewis   

 

Changes to children’s health services    

 

Final game of Lewis Camanachd’s debut season

 

£42 million maintenance backlog for island roads

 

Defence minister tours South Uist rocket range

 

Cycle for Steven    

 

Relay swim across the Little Minch            

 

Annual dog show

 

“Banca nan Eilean” could offer Comhairle mortgages   

 

Macneil criticises petrol prices

 

Letter: Disgraceful insult against Western Isles

 

Lewis and Harris football league table   

 

Death of local radio star    

 

SNP accused of betrayal after“sham consultation”      

 

Gaelic is vital to Scotland    

 

Letter:  Keep rioters down south     

 

Lewis and Harris Football results     

 

Letter:   Water disruptions

 

Back lose Highland Amateur Cup final   

 

Scottish Government restricts fishing off Barra seas  

 

Drug dealer convicted after trial     

  

Send rioters to Hebrides not jail urges petition

    

Banks impose rival cash machine ban     

 

Water supply disruptions affect busy visitor centre   

 

Trial hears drugs found in Stornoway house

 

Nine month curfew imposed on teenager

 

Goose scaring scheme  

 

Scottish salmon exports on the rise  

 

Lewis drug dealer avoids jail sentence  

 

Rise in diabetes

 

Changes to hospital hand hygiene

 

£1000 penalty for assault

 

Frustration at regular water supply faults at Callanish   

 

Allan wants fairer share of UK broadband funding     

 

Top quality produce at island show

 

Family convinced 30-year lost daughter is alive     

 

Guga voyager  

 

First 2 islands half marathon

 

Lewis duo cycle length of UK for charity   

 

RSPB offers to withdraw wind farm objections     

 

Hospital inspection finds outstanding infection control issues

 

Letter: Praise for council switching off   

 

Two new community gyms for Pairc

   

Uist & Barra League Update    

 

Skipper asleep when vessel hit rocks     

 

Motor show pictures

 

Surveying seas around the Western Isles

 

Lewis & Harris Football Results

 

Letter:  All guilty of discrimination    

                

Historical talk

 

Counterfeit money scare was false alarm

 

Busy young mum is student role model    

  

Beware of computer scam  

   

Letter:   Flying the flag

 

Letter:   Double standards over killing birds

 

Uig swimmer takes the plunge  

        

Campaign to save Coastguard tug

 

Councillors in the dark over street lights     

  

Rare beetles found on Uist

 

Old shops of Stornoway  

 

Record numbers of runners for hill races     

 

London rioters nearly ruin everything for local man

 

New Point school is ready on time   

 

Breastfeeding support group set up in Balivanich  

 

Banks refuse to give mortgages to crofters       

 

Injured runner is airlifted off hill   

 

Exam results turnaround for Castlebay School

 

Demand to stop guga hunt       

 

Western Isles in global 100 beauty spots  

 

Rogue workmen claim to be school builders

  

Environment minister caught up in salmon farm controversy  

 

Letters:  London looting

 

Letter:  Overpaid Equality boss

 

Loch Sandabhat algae

 

Horse owners urged to be cautious over strangles risk  

 

Big crowd at Lewis Carnival     

►  Carnival photos

►  Fun at the carnival

 

Medal success for police athletes

 

Full scale airport emergency      

 

Lewis & Harris Football Results  

 

Island lawyers’ hit by “World Cup £400,000 prize” hack in Free Topiary campaign  

 

Search for lost fiddle    

 

Letter: Balivanich new school

 

New beef scheme is better for crofters  

 

Gaelic jargon lessons for civil servants   

 

Environment body’s warning over coastguard tug cuts  

 

Angus Macleod Memorial Lecture

 

Letter:   Too many plane breakdowns

 

Letter:   The chocolate orange price scandal

 

Driver smashed into two vehicles    

 

Traffic diversions for Lewis Carnival   

 

Warning about tarmac gangs    

 

St Kilda Day in Uig  

 

Physio equipment amnesty

 

Algae at Lewis loch  

    

Allan meeting over wave energy scheme    

 

First breeding tree sparrows in 25 years          

 

Salmon bosses concede to meet locals over controversial fish farm   

 

Drugs courier jailed after drugs bust

 

Breast screening survey     

 

Careless driving at beach party bash

 

Teenager sentenced for assault

 

English coastguards to handle island maritime emergencies

 

Loganair flight cancelled  

 

Campaigners question salmon farmer’s “caring” image

 

Tractors raise cash for Afghanistan  

 

Letter: Some people are gay. Get over it!

 

New discovery suggests Lewis Chessmen come from Iceland   

 

Technical fault disrupts flight

    

Volunteers sought for Lewis Carnival

 

Island trawlers face crewing shortage

 

Uist survey into Hard to Treat houses  

 

Lewis & Harris Football Results    

 

New gardening therapy project   

 

Harris Tweed biker jacket     

   

Row over Jaffa Cake prices   

 

Youth encouraged to take up science and technology

 

Cow stuck in bog     

 

Scottish Salmon promises commitment to islands   

 

Call for year-round goose shoot      

 

Delayed ferry    

 

New rules for Harris Tweed toys    

 

Polar bear risk in archaeologist hunt   

 

New Balivanich school is completed

 

Uist and Barra Football  

 

Stornoway harbour hampered in development plans  

   

Harris Tweed Hebrides throws a party  in New York

  

“Unfit for purpose” hospital requires urgent replacement

 

Emergency response as plane engine shut down  

 

Student’s Harris home seized to pay criminal debts  

 

Demands for major reform of Crown Estate  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire crews called to fishing boat    

 

Harbour wave farm scheme in jeopardy  

 

Seeking the answers on shared parenting    

 

Letter:  Intolerance to different sexual orientation

 

Letter:  Part time government

 

Recycling politician

 

Letter:  To "ER"  is human

 

Call to trial Lochboisdale to Mallaig ferry route

 

Children’s publishers co-operate on new book series   

 

Letter:   An enemy within   

 

Row over air tax  devolution

 

Letter:  Fuel prices   

 

Letter:   Macneil’s fantasy     

 

Fury over large scale salmon farm

 

Exploring the Harris mountains      

 

Hundreds of passengers disrupted by ferry engine problem

 

Government may rethink red tape burden over fuel cut  

 

Protecting girls against cervical cancer

 

Ferry detour for music festival  

 

Pope’s congratulations to long-serving priest    

 

Treasury chief reveals interest in isles’ credit union   

 

Australian satellite evidence in Lewis trial     

 

Pair guilty of public indecency     

   

Relief after rocket range spared         

 

Jewellery firm bought out by workers  

 

New community fund hives off Crown Estate profits   

 

Sollas Week kicks off today with Highland Games

 

Air travellers lured to Hebrides by TV shows

    

Sot?  Snd ££ 2 Txt     

 

B&Bs urged to watch out for scam guests  

 

Lewis biscuits at Westminster reception

 

South Uist flag could represent the Hebrides   

 

Letter:   Same-sex B&Bs   

 

Lochinver lifeboat evacuates cruise passenger to Stornoway hospital  

 

Dangerous driving   

 

Jailed for assault   

 

Drinking ban    

 

Racial abuse

 

Delay to Pairc buyout appeal    

 

Barra hotel for sale  

 

Environmental monitoring in North Uist lochs

 

Lewis mum runs six marathons in six days

 

Letter: Revamping land reform

 

Letter: You're Fired

 

Sick baby taken to Glasgow hospital  

 

Thousands visit Tall Ships at Stornoway harbour

 

Barra hospital forced to stop accepting patients  

Uist and Barra League Results

 

Successful campaign wins specialist MS nurse for islands

 

Paper Aeroplane singer KT Tunstall tops the scales at Storno-weigh airport

 

Review:  Vibrant finale to Celtic festival     

 

Lewis and Harris football results  

 

“Most memorable” Hebridean Celtic Festival was big success

 

High energy blast at the festival   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Search finds no trace of man  

 

Redundancies loom as council faces more cuts

 

Hopes for Blar Buidhe care home

 

Foot stomping crowd  at Celtic Festival  

 

Letter:  The Continental Chippie  

 

Macmillan asks islanders to support coffee fundraiser

 

Health board invests in revolutionary life saving equipment       

 

Surge in SNP membership

 

Parade of  Sail

 

Jock Stein Cup

 

Lifeboat searches for man in sea

 

Festival review  

 

Community campaign saves Stornoway Coastguard station

 

►Coastguard staff have to reapply for their jobs

 

Fight continues  to retain emergency tugs  

 

Volunteer effort to open Heb Celt Festival

 

Fleet of traditional sailing ships in Stornoway

 

Arabian-owned Stornoway care home faces fresh concerns

 

Macneil’s vision of a new Scotland

 

Sollas Week 2011 events

 

Big turnout for Fèis Tìr an Eòrna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uig runner at ultramarathon halfway point  

 

Crofters election for revamped Commission

 

Cookery event raises cash for Norgrove charity

 

Young Highland dancers entertain the crowds

 

Traditional sailing ships visit

 

Talks over future of Stornoway care home

 

Stop gap contract to ensure coastguard rescue helicopter cover

 

Charity walkers raise funds for Bethesda

 

Hebrides in best fest awards tussle

 

Lewis and Harris football results

 

Land reform law requires revamp says Allan

 

Loganair takes over charter airline

 

Lung disease rehab service is launched

 

NHS 24 establishes island base

 

Letter:   Feeding the birds

 

Share sale for community shop

 

Recruitment drive for coastguard coastal rescuers

 

School pupils take stage at Hebridean Celtic Festival

 

Second chance for army recruit

 

Scotland should “control own seabed”

 

Pairc landlord seeks breakaway buyout talks without hostile bid leaders

 

Call to use record Crown Estate profits to pay for coastguard tugs

 

Summer judo school

 

Woman charged with obstructing emergency staff

 

Man urinated on cell floor

 

Teenager smashed windscreen with bottle

 

Youth cut by shards of glass

 

Vintage wedding fashion show

 

Breach of the peace

 

Drugs charge

 

Man rescued as dinghy swept away    

 

First Gaelic speaking teddy      

 

New extension at Ravenspoint Centre is opening

 

Fears SNH is spreading the conservation boundaries too far

 

Shop charity worker “local hero” attends Parliament opening

 

Letter:  Knocking down schools

 

Gaelic love poems in Scots

 

Fèis Eilean an Fhraoich

 

Teenage cancer trust at school prize giving  

 

Cashback for old boilers

 

New croft woodlands handbook

 

Harris True Blues  

 

Donald Stewart award

 

Play therapy room developed