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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     

 

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  

 

Revolutionary Wee Grey Fergie

 

Creative talent at Gaelic film awards

 

Letters:   Whining lefties       

 

Perth aviation firm in talks over Highland Airways   

 

Raft of objections against town hall plans     

 

Council denies trying to beat new school closure rules     

 

Drug dealers jailed over £30,000 cocaine haul   

 

Police chief welcomes sentences for Lewis drug dealers    

 

Falling house prices in the Western Isles  

 

Scottish budget is good deal for islands says MSP    

 

Live Hebrides support the Western Isles Credit Union to stream AGM online      

 

Letter:  Lib Dems could swing policies in hung parliament             

 

Allan welcomes new law over coast and sea

 

Fish Farms planning permission stays with council    

 

Motorist caught speeding at over 100 mph

 

Police files

 

Hospital ward shut in third winter vomiting virus outbreak

 

Rocket range employees told of threat in 2007      

 

Weaving course will pass on local skills

 

Letter:    St Kilda centre       

 

Hospital ward shut in third winter vomiting virus outbreak

 

Shawbost mill lands significant order from Belgian designer

 

Driver never stopped after damaging car   

 

 

Arnish earmarked for priority renewable manufacturing

 

Pensioner brandished axe   

 

Fined for taking boat           

 

Letter:   The Uibhisteach was a good thing   

 

Call for Arnish to benefit from offshore wind power  

 

Western Isles child protection service receives good report      

 

Motorist lost control of his vehicle     

 

Boys arrested over crashed van        

 

Closure hit list to axe 18 primary and secondary schools

 

Uig sets up formal body to push St Kilda centre  

 

Web site for Western Isles parents   

 

Nutrition and health participants top of the class    

 

Health board looking at axing jobs    

 

Bayhead infill could flood harbour quays    

 

Letter:   Kindly counsel for the Scottish Christian Party    

 

Interest rates on croft house loans could fluctuate widely   

 

TV documentary “was biased against fishing industry”

 

Hargreaves is sole nomination for Christian Party open primary

 

Call for extra ambulance cover after accident delay   

 

“Tiresome rants” from Labour candidate

 

Horticultural training event on Harris   

 

Offshore energy businesses set out stalls at trade event  

 

Letter:   Silence from the Scottish Christian Party

 

MP is “still in denial” over rocket range     

 

Injured car crash woman waited an hour for ambulance

 

£880,000 funding at risk after harbour project sunk

 

Comhairle is “reckless with public money on Town Hall”

 

Letter:  Foreign Secretary’s gardening expenses   

 

New HIE manager for community regeneration drive

 

Confident outlook for Highland Airways   

 

Letter:   Hold MP to account

 

Letter:   Britain too scared to tackle pirates   

 

Letter:   Use our armed forces for good

 

Shortages as freight ferry cancels sailings

 

Letter:  Air ambulance service is “not interested in islanders’ point of view”

 

Letter:   Need vision for the future   

 

Letter:  Three easy answers              

 

Letter:  Sour grapes

 

Health boss faces inquiry over Barra air ambulance

taxi row

 

Letter:  “MacSween has been caught red-handed”

 

Leading world entrepreneur visits Highlands

 

Letters:  Tired of personal attacks against Macneil  

 

Fundraising concert for Haiti    

 

Councillors given two year warning of rocket range threat  

 

Thirteen people infected by hospital vomiting virus  

 

Elderly man injured in car crash       

 

Letter:   Loyalty to humanity and not party is required

 

Freeze sparked record calls to heating helpline  

 

Bid to force sports centre Sunday opening hits hurdle

 

Appeal for mouse hunter on St Kilda      

 

Mod fundraising ceilidh  

 

Ferry disruptions         

 

Macsween’s “self-important smear” against MP

 

Allan seeks assurances over Highland Airways routes

 

Letter:  “Cynical disregard” for rocket range  

 

Buses, lorries and automobiles     

 

Open up a book when you're down    

 

Letter:   Crofting tax threat  

 

MP under pressure to explain rocket range silence   

 

Rescue talks over Highland Airways continue into weekend

 

New jobs as firms increase salmon farming production

 

Letter:  Any news of the Open Primary ?  

 

Replacement airline on standby for Benbecula flights

 

Clerical error led to Macneil’s “criticism”of SNP  

 

Labour “smears” over Uist jobs    

 

Letters:  Misunderstanding over Sunday ferry letters   

 

Political rivals accuse each other over “crofters’ tax”

 

Hospital ward reopens after second virus outbreak ends

 

Bid to rescue Highland Airways     

 

Free online advice for fragile communities    

 

Regeneration grant for Lews Castle Grounds  

 

Letter:   MacNeil is almost certainly innocent

 

Letter:  Praise for MP’s stance against Scottish Government       

 

Macneil slams SNP for “failing” cancer patients      

 

Plans for new civic hub in Stornoway town centre    

 

No decision on charging at Stornoway’s new car park

 

MP wants bull hire scheme saved  

 

Letter:  Three simple questions

 

Letter:  Real investment is in people  

 

Town Hall redevelopment is “critical project”

 

Women urged to get cervical screening

 

Change of dates for agricultural support meetings  

 

Concern over Labour’s plan to “tax crofters”   

 

West Harris residents take control of the land

 

Contingency plans to continue lifeline air links    

 

Letter:  “Shifting sands” of political innuendo

 

Glasgow Gaels organise concert for Haiti    

 

Alba squad named for Gaelic Shinty / Hurling International Challenge   

 

Letter:   “Ducking and diving, smear and slander”

 

Takeover talks over Highland Airways       

 

Call for fuel price derogation for islands

 

Letter:   “Labour sleazebags at it again”   

 

Greenland  - the re-discovered island    

 

Scottish Parliament holds crofting meeting in Benbecula

 

Wheels of fortune

 

Busy year for Stornoway lifeboat    

 

Letter:  A change is as good as a rest   

 

Runners wanted for charity     

 

Historic handover of Harris crofting estates   

 

Stricter rules to protect cockle harvesting  

 

Letter:   “Labour has learnt nothing

 

Letter:   “Extraordinary catalogue of political misjudgements”

 

Letter:   “Labour has nothing to offer the Western Isles”

 

Date Announced for 2010 Point Show    

 

Letter:  “Bring the curtains down on SNP pantomime”    

 

Fifteen people hit by vomiting virus in hospital  

 

Government’s “staggering insensitivity” to jobless Scots

 

Opportunities for community hydro schemes   

 

Letters:  No answers on wind farm stance    

 

Future of agricultural support   

 

Motorist was over the limit     

 

Labour’s “cruel policy” blows cold for island pensioners  

 

New bid to regenerate fragile island communities   

 

Debut album for glamorous Gael   

 

Uist paper scoops Community Newspaper of the Year award   

 

Second outbreak of winter vomiting virus    

 

Allan supports free prescriptions   

 

Letter:   Macneil opposed giant windfarm

 

Letter:   The islands need more children  

 

Teenager caught drink driving    

 

Raft of island schools face closure threat    

 

Probe into takeover of Brogan fuels      

 

Lewis man found not proven of sexual assault  

 

Two whales washed ashore    

 

New Stornoway homes "meet a vital need"  

 

Hospital ward reopens after vomiting outbreak  

 

Salmond urged to abandon Maldives for Uist  

 

Free training for Western Isles community groups  

 

Allan meets Digital UK     

 

High public confidence in police      

 

Airline is affected by business downturn      

 

Letter:  Chocolate covering to takeover    

 

West Harris prepares to control its own destiny   

 

Comhairle seeks to salvage Bayhead infill project  

 

New landmark heritage project will save islands’ history records

 

Highlands and Islands ready for offshore wind bonanza

 

Iolaire bell featured in digital museum  

 

Success of Comhairle’s new sport and health initiative

 

Cal Mac launches recruitment drive for summer 2010

 

Stornoway harbour infill plan is thrown out

 

North Uist woman is Poet of the Month   

 

Letter: Council repeats mistakes on consulting with people     

 

Western Isles pupils shortlisted for Film G awards  

 

Community learning classes in Lewis and Harris     

 

One million reasons to celebrate        

 

New town square for Stornoway  

 

Teenager charged with drink driving  

 

Stornoway man’s death    

 

Culture Minister calls for Gaelic channel on Freeview

 

Letter:  “SNP will always stand up for the islands”  

 

Letter:  Politicians too often dictate  

 

RSPB  “failed to protect Eishken’s eagles”  

 

Letter:  Banks happy to lend to community wind farms   

 

Letter: Islands are “poorly served by SNP”   

 

Community need over £18 million for wind farm offer  

 

Letter:  Not cold enough in the Western Isles

 

Main hospital ward shut after infection outbreak   

 

Comhairle urges go-ahead for Minch interconnector

 

Wild land body criticises Eishken wind farm approval  

 

Ferry company could take on planes to Barra  

 

Winter vomiting bug hits Stornoway hospital   

 

Filipino fishermen allowed to stay for next 18 months

 

Land buy-out champion backs independence  

 

Lib Dem wants changes to cold weather payment criteria

 

Eishken windfarm would kill golden eagles  

 

Stornoway Town Centre regeneration consultation tonight   

 

Appeal for islanders to help Haiti’s earthquake survivors

 

Letter:  Town Hall to be “glorified tourist office”  

 

Green light for Eishken giant wind farm

 

Gale hampers rescue of seriously injured fisherman  

 

Town Hall plan is not the cheapest option claims campaigners

 

New rescue helicopter defies critics       

 

Macneil calls for increase in cold weather fuel payments   

 

Allan questions Eastern Airways over Aberdeen flights

 

Help with fuel bills in the Western Isles

 

Mod nan Eilean Siar  fundraising ceilidh       

 

Drug dealers left £30,000 of cocaine at picnic area   

 

Vital link is restored for mobile phone signal

 

Bad weather disrupts island ferries

 

Cop’s charity mountain climb       

 

2011 Mod mile challenge    

 

Dedication and commitment of care services    

 

Islands’ Lib Dem candidate backs election manifesto  

 

Gale delays Uist and Barra ferry  

 

Replacement water main pipes for Stornoway     

 

UHI expert to advise on virtual dental school    

 

Salt galore for frozen island roads      

 

Icy paths results in daily broken bones  

 

Comhairle to host crofting conference             

 

Euro cash for Western Isles jobs  

 

Stronger fishing industry required in islands      

 

Scots urged to support bid for BBC Alba on Freeview  

 

Letter:  “Wrecking” Stornoway Town Hall   

 

Letter:  Praise for hardworking island postmen        

 

Stornoway mill markets new jacket in Italy    

 

Letter:  Slippery route for bank

 

Five island schools closed on Monday  

 

Cargo of salt replenishes gritters    

 

Home care worker gets his skates on  

 

Islands internet network fault is repaired    

 

Ship chartered for isles’ salt cargo

 

Messages will obscure TV picture in analogue homes

 

Warning of freezing rain across islands     

 

Fire crews prevent fire from spreading    

 

Workers laid off because of freezing weather   

 

All Western Isles schools set to open   

 

Letter:   SNP messes up the natural environment    

 

Letter:  Search for info on Glasgow Highlanders’ pub    

 

Letter:   Correcting misinformation over Stornoway

Town Hall    

 

Fire threat student is sentenced    

 

Lewis company faces liquidation bid

 

New telcoms firm may offer free phone calls to islanders

 

Comhairle desperately borrows stop-gap salt supply  

 

£ 2 million rural development funding for Isles    

 

Ferry boss to retire   

 

Western Isles energy assistance uptake       

 

Road salt runs out on Sunday    

 

Five island schools shut due to ice    

 

Weather warning  

 

Letter:  Prepare better for snow     

 

Joyrider gets last chance of freedom    

 

Householder faces the music  

 

Careless driving  

 

Teenager defied police warning to behave   

 

Schools return after wintry weather  

 

Go-ahead for windfarms’ southern power line link  

 

Comhairle welcomes Beauly - Denny decision  

 

Conservatives slam SNP over power pylons    

 

Action to tackle absentee crofters    

 

Water main bursts in cold snap    

 

Lewis man admits sexual assault    

 

Police Swat team called over gun threat   

 

Ferry passengers stranded on Barra    

 

Many Western Isles schools to shut on Wednesday   

 

Bridge Youth club nights cancelled

 

Weather disrupts library and ferry services    

 

More wintry weather for Western Isles   

 

Ice shuts schools as salt supplies almost exhausted  

 

Scotland resolves to go smoke-free    

 

New Year arrests     

 

Lewis crash death victim is named       

 

Ban on shooting geese     

 

Green energy transmission charges are attacked  

 

Island man is killed in car crash           

 

Lewis woman presented with MBE    

 

Island villages isolated by icy roads   

 

A dry Hogmanay for Marvig  

 

Rare Blue moon rises on Hogmanay

 

Heavy snow disrupts plane services   

 

South Uist and Barra ferry delayed until midnight    

 

Shawbost mill sells cosy tweed to India   

 

Barra air service gets the soft option  

 

Advice against travelling in wintry conditions

 

Stornoway New Year Fireworks    

 

Town Hall proposal is “destruction” say campaigners   

 

Travellers diverted after ferry breakdown   

 

Man falls though ice into loch        

 

Coastguard helicopter transfers elderly patient  

 

Western Isles has second highest population rate

of swine flu consultations  

 

Fire brigade busy with chimney blazes    

 

Love your leftovers    

 

Crown Estate to reduce shellfish rents    

 

Letter:  Christmas thoughts

 

Letter:  Get rid of Big Government  

 

Letter:   Labour expenses scandal   

 

10% rise in visitors to Hebridean attractions  

 

Letter:   Political power requires responsibility  

 

Strong gusts jettison North Harris wind farm     

 

Letter:  Christian Party - an exciting opportunity  

 

Youth death family want army cadet officers prosecuted

 

Fresh blow for giant Pairc wind farm    

 

Nollaig bhon Ghàidhealtachd -  a Highland Christmas

 

Letter:  Claim that Council failed to forward Town Hall documentation   

 

Salmon power plans for energy plant          

 

Letter:   Stop "having a go" at MacNeil  

 

Help for island households to winter-proof homes  

 

Open vote search for Christian candidate   

 

Video clip of Town Hall changes

 

Cal Mac diverts ferry for Christmas supplies   

 

Letter:   MacNeil “captures the imagination of the electorate”

 

Letter:  What councillor Manford wants to know  

 

Parents sue Army over cadet’s death     

 

Crofters Federation win gains on legislation reforms  

 

Lewis ewe is thought to be world’s oldest sheep  

 

Health board staff magazine wins award  

 

Crofters welcome voluntary blue-tongue vaccination   

 

Letter:   Filling in Bayhead     

 

New opportunities for Gaelic careers   

 

Ceol Country Specials on TV

 

Back to fitness      

 

Bòrd na Gàidhlig submits action plan on learning and using Gaelic      

 

Island SNP critic lands minister in blogging row     

 

Letter:   Infill of inner harbour at Bayhead   

 

Lewis man dies after found unconscious in freezing temperatures  

 

Healthy Start vitamins free this winter      

 

McGrigor holds talks with crofters in Parliament    

 

Drink drivers may lose vehicles      

 

Motorists abuse 999 service for road conditions

 

Disposing out-of-date marine flares  

 

Accountancy firm in payroll initiative for small businesses  

 

Boost for shellfish waters of Loch Leurbost  

 

Weather disrupts travel services    

 

Council complains over fuel monopoly     

 

Lewis singer nominated for folk music award  

 

Letter:    Not chuffed with Eurostar   

 

Glasgow pub gets Harris Tweed refit      

 

Council fails to issue performance report for three years

 

Watchdog’s concern on council DSO losses    

 

Islanders urged to support BBC ALBA on Freeview  

 

Cold snap affects Western Isles      

 

Weather warning to motorists     

 

Storm survey on Stornoway harbour infill project     

 

Letter:  MacNeil's “scaremongering” on Hebrides Range

 

Paible post office computer is fixed        

 

Marine Harvest plans job recruitment in Western Isles

 

Funding for three island youth groups                   

 

Western Isles at forefront of new national community protection scheme

 

North Uist pensioners hit by Post office breakdown

 

Letter:   The return of Rev Hargreaves      

 

Schoolbag burden for Nicolson pupils  

 

Campaign to promote South Uist rocket range to foreign armies

 

 Macsween: SNP defence policy would kill Uist jobs  

 

 Macneil welcomes Hebrides Range assurance  

 

Big Brother is watching     

 

New site for radio station   

 

Uig case wins vote in St Kilda centre controversy

 

Council warns of £10 million cuts   

 

Christian Party prepares for election campaign    

 

Barra man accused of threatening to shoot police      

 

Naked peat cutters frozen out by big bank  

 

Call to redesign Town Hall proposals     

 

Prime minister agrees to discuss Merchant Navy crisis

 

Search for owner of unwanted wall

 

Winter gritting of Stornoway piers    

 

Five new schools get planning permission  

 

Free Presbyterians protest over Sunday ferry

 

Letter:   Stornoway Town Hall   

 

Scottish & Southern Energy clean up Battery       

 

Works licence for Lighthouse Caledonia  

 

MP condemns seafarers’ redundancies      

 

Macneil seeks official probe into fuel monopoly          

 

Threat of new fuel monopoly in Western Isles

 

Film of Rally Hebrides 2009 released on DVD

 

Award winning Scottish salmon     

 

Port authority obtains seabed lease    

 

Letter:   Watch fuel prices rise with Scottish Fuels

 

Letter:   St Kilda centre row    

 

Recruitment for new harbour chief executive   

 

Rise in Stornoway harbour dues    

 

Scottish Fuels takes over rival oil supplier Brogans  

 

Macneil hits out at spiraling fuel costs       

 

Slàinte Mhath from Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar              

 

Town Hall council told “stop resisting, start listening”  

 

I see my boyhood land in paradise island   

 

New discount fuel card for transport firms      

 

Youths detained over stolen cars’ case   

 

Leverburgh wants “honesty and fairness” over

St Kilda row    

 

Council insists Town Hall changes will increase usage   

 

Island residents in candlelight vigil for climate action

 

Cal Mac summer timetable open for bookings  

 

Young photographer wins regional prize   

 

Letter:  Labour “up to old tricks again”      

 

Bright ideas sought to answer age old problem      

 

Housing cash delay under discussion  

 

Pairc buyout in race against time  

 

Bid to establish trades council on Lewis and Harris  

 

Petrol price war bypasses the islands   

 

Coastguard helicopter in airlift for sick baby     

 

Mainland fog disrupts island flights  

 

Letter:  MP expenses     

 

Letter:  Unexplained difference in fuel prices  

 

Campaigners stage protest against town hall plans

 

Open night at Nunton Steadings     

 

Council to consider Town Hall refurbishment

plan next week    

 

Thief dumped stolen car in sea        

 

Town Hall challenge to McCormack   

 

Hairy Hearaich are Scotland's number one      

 

Pairc Yes vote a "decisive step" says Allan

 

BBC2 Scotland broadcasts documentary on Free Church professor  

 

Council under pressure to meet Town Hall campaigners  

 

No decision on new schools’ accountancy contract

 

Pairc community votes Yes on buyout ballot    

 

Hostile bid to take over Pairc estate             

 

Youth is placed on weekend curfew     

 

Chef damaged kidney in car crash  

 

Student threatened to burn down restaurant     

 

Man spat in bouncer’s face    

 

Concerns over gap in Daliburgh ambulance cover   

 

Councillor accused of contempt for Town Hall campaign  

 

Crofting Bill to tackle absenteeism, neglect and speculation

 

Crofters prepare for reform debate     

 

Crofting Bill ditches contentious proposals  

 

Pairc community vote over estate buyout   

 

Youth is banned from entering the Western Isles

 

Attacker ordered to pay compensation to victim    

 

Crofting minister to attend industry conference in islands  

 

Bank “pushed” remortgage business     

 

Expensive trip to reclaim jumper    

 

Curfew teenager keeps her freedom    

 

Training courses for new weavers     

 

Macneil slams chancellor’s budget sums          

 

Festive plea keeps offender out of jail    

 

Filling station fire threat man is jailed     

 

Councillors stall on St Kilda centre decision         

 

Serial offender is sentenced   

 

Over £4000 raised for ill youngster   

 

Helicopter airlift for stroke victim off fishing boat    

 

Stornoway Christmas lights       

 

MP adds his support to Town Hall campaign  

 

Court threat for making a mess    

 

Macneil highlights the plight of low income carers   

 

Tough new laws could see drink drivers forfeit their cars

 

HIE underlines commitment to value of Gaelic language    

 

Letter:  What Gaelic Enlightenment ?   

 

Exhibition commemorating Comhairle nan Eilean Siar headquarters anniversary

 

A creative approach to the economy of the islands

 

Springfield Road pathway        

 

Student Christmas workers could get a tax gift   

 

Council insists no secret over Town Hall  

 

MSP hopes for progress on Crofting Reform Bill    

 

Compensation refused for disrupted ferry voyage     

 

Allan chairs Western Isles "Commonhealth"  

 

Phil Cunningham opposed to Town Hall changes

 

New Scottish Gaelic ‘enlightenment’ is boosted by

£ 5  million investment      

 

Rudhaich in tree planting challenge   

 

SCF last-ditch attempt at halting electronic tagging 'crisis'

 

Cash for Gaelic learners website    

 

Calls to reinstate crofters’ housing loan   

 

Bids to revamp defunct site into media base

 

Charities back Scottish Water's winter warning

 

Allan visits Stornoway Royal Mail delivery office  

 

New website for well known Harris business

 

Ferries cancelled as gales batter Western Isles   

 

Hebrides Madness from ferry crew   

 

Two sentenced for baseball attack      

 

Welcomed boost for Western Isles fishermen

 

Politicians welcome possible day at sea exemption   

 

Rates halved on house loans for crofters     

 

Allan welcomes cut in crofters interest rates   

 

United Nations role over St Kilda visitor centre

 

Tree O’ Clock world record attempt    

 

Progress on green energy transmission charging

 

Sheriff orders Stornoway resident’s arrest   

 

Funding boost to island community windfarm        

 

Macneil campaigns for Gaelic TV      

 

Letter:  Can’t understand Town Hall redesign philosophy  

 

Letter:  Strong drink  

 

Letter:  Bank bonuses     

 

Online tax return reminder        

 

Scottish Government considers future of bull hire scheme

 

Campaign to “save” Stornoway Town Hall is launched  

 

Letter:  Town Hall campaign gathers support   

 

Nike weaver fury over Government minister’s “anti-Harris Tweed” comments

 

Legal action threat against higher charges to export island wind farm energy   

 

'No substitute' for iconic Stornoway black pudding  

 

Hebridean Celtic Festival thanks supporters    

 

VAT alert for Highlands and Islands businesses

 

Stornoway ferry crashes into Ullapool pier       

 

Appeal launched after family loses home in blaze  

 

Labour candidate “manufacturing bad publicity for Harris Tweed”

 

SNP slammed over “outrage” comments against Harris Tweed

 

Needs to do better says school’s inspection report  

 

Barra residents invited to discuss community aims and objectives        

 

Celebrity film star stripes for Western Isles’ bees     

 

Southend date for Santa Dash      

 

Success for Stornoway Primary School in National Gaelic Writing Competition         

 

Don't give bicycle thieves a chance  

 

Feed Good factor comes to Stornoway    

 

Rock legend calls on Scottish Government to stop seal slaughter

 

Government minister who blocked council is sacked from education job

 

Letters:  Campaign to save Stornoway Town Hall    

 

Call to use windfall cash to boost Western Isles broadband

 

Bringing peace to Rwanda at Christmas

 

How to beat the Christmas blues   

 

Pairc buyout takes a step forward  

 

Single Farm Payments for crofters  

 

Beatles and Rolling Stones tribute nights      

 

Letters:   Stop the terrible plans for Town Hall   

 

Energy giant invests £250,000 in isles’ insulation scheme  

 

Seal pup's 300 mile journey from Harris        

 

Free Gaelic tour of Scottish Parliament   

 

Harris Tweed is Victorian costume says Scottish rural affairs minister   

 

Western Isles winners from Scots Trad Music Awards

 

Man arrested over Harris disturbance

 

Police staff offered redundancy in cost cutting exercise

 

Northern Constabulary pledges best possible service

 

Community consultation in Broadbay area   

 

Letters:   Labour will not shy away from Scotland's problems  

 

Letters:   We are sailing  

 

Carloway School wins top green accolade from Yellow Pages

 

Restricted post office service for Amhuinnsuidhe  

 

The Santa Run       

 

Letters:  Surprise new school for Daliburgh    

 

Passengers stranded after no ferry for days

 

Allan condemns Labour on alcohol pricing row  

 

Another £ 3 million needed to replace Daliburgh Primary

 

Letters:   “SNH tried to cheat the people of Barra and Government”

 

New primary school for South Uist    

 

Sgitheanaich talk their way to success in BT Alba debate finals

 

New Uig Chessmen theory is disputed     

 

Storm delays rescue of injured fisherman    

 

Arnish operator short-listed for green energy award

 

Lewis croft up for alternative energy project prize  

 

Fears people could die waiting for Barra air ambulance  

 

Oldest house in Stornoway is demolished  

 

Scaffolding finally removed from Stornoway town hall

 

Carers Rights Day  -  Caring for your income  

 

£275,000 grants for Western Isles fisheries industry  

 

Police Board meeting being broadcast on internet  

 

HIE supports life science conference at marine institute  

 

Allan addresses transport committee on island fuel costs

 

Storm causes major ferry disruptions         

 

Ferry cancelled as gale batters Southern Isles   

 

Two schools going head to head into Edinburgh finals of BT Alba Debate  

 

Labour’s fuel tax hinders recovery says SNP

 

Donald Macleod to retire as Free Church College Principal  

 

MacNeil slams Labour for “taking money from disabled people”

 

Fire safety burden on B&Bs to be relaxed   

 

Stornoway trawler nets shocking catch

 

Free Church suspends talks with Kirk over gay stance  

 

Ideas sought over future of St Kilda    

 

New face for SNH in Uist    

 

Allan expresses anger at EC Fisheries talks outcome  

 

Letters:  “Manford creaks and groans to the SNP tune”  

 

Contractors to bid for new Western Isles schools

 

Outer Hebrides winner at tourism awards   

 

Skye businesses win tourism prizes

 

Social partnership bid gets the go-ahead

  

Youth pleads guilty to assault

 

BP hits island economy by half a million pounds     

 

Cal Mac criticised over its Sunday ferry claims     

 

Labour candidate slammed over “electioneering stunt”

 

Letters:  Barra SAC row      

 

Hello Vietnam as west musicians face east   

 

Hospital rapped after baby develops cerebral palsy    

 

Cal Mac publishes Sabbath ferry legal advice  

   

Labour slammed for “deep bureaucratic mess”

 

Assurances to protect island cockle industry  

 

Row over BP fuel cards   

 

Letters:  ConCom is an example of “human stupidity”   

 

Letters:  Brainwashed with left wing socialism   

 

Iolaire book short listed for major literary prize  

 

Letters:  Could do a better job than HHP   

 

Island MP and MSP welcome salmon factory progress

 

Change of name for crofters’ body   

 

Letters: Horrendous price of fuel   

 

Lifejackets useless unless worn highlight coastguards

 

Letters: Glasgow by-election values trust in a local man

 

Letters:  Can manage better without politicians   

 

HIE grants Arnish lease for new salmon processing plant

 

Council saves 100 new homes after bailing out

Hebridean Housing Partnership from crisis

 

Tourism committee urged to reject St Kilda centre choice    

 

Power giant fined over South Uist oil slick  

 

Radio ham course in Stornoway     

 

Council  abolishes structure of its loss making commercial operations unit

 

Immigration rules may hit isles’ fishing industry   

 

Car parking charges at Stornoway Airport   

 

New boss for Gaelic development agency          

 

Tories challenged over “threat to scrap” Gaelic TV  channel  

 

Uist task force seeks business and community views  

 

St Kilda features on Clydesdale Bank’s new £5 note   

 

SNP accused of smokescreen over Sound of Barra row

 

Pairc residents to vote over hostile land buyout  

 

Uig group welcomes St Kilda reaffirmation    

 

Salmon farmer announces bumper profits  

 

Cost cutting leads council to delay gritting icy roads

 

Massive shake up as council trades sections haemorrhages cash  

 

Cuach Na Cloinne 2009 winners to appear at Alba cup final     

 

CnaG Gaelic Graduates at Lews Castle College    

 

Council issues statement after over St Kilda centre row

 

 Jura Consultants’ defence on St Kilda centre controversy

 

Affordable homes for Harris        

 

Jobs boost from town redevelopment scheme  

 

Air ambulance bosses hear Barra concerns   

 

Woman needed stitches after being struck by door     

 

No u-turn over St Kilda centre location choice

 

Joyrider loses freedom after five-car spree      

 

Meeting for international games  

 

Fisherman loses finger after accident     

 

Cash award to improve Stornoway town centre   

 

“Outrageous” changes to St Kilda centre assessment are posted on the internet

 

Barra wins concession on environment row   

 

Macneil seeks assurance on Benbecula runways   

 

Angry visitor centre rivals wait decision of St Kilda panel

 

Isles MSP urged to act on local debt crisis   

 

Queen congratulates Stornoway BBs  

 

Letter:  No smoking at tram works    

 

Comhairle warn of bogus e-mail scam    

 

Lawyer says council’s Sunday closure stance “doesn’t make sense”

 

Woman fined for drink driving    

 

Letter:  New smoking ban  

 

Prison warning for misbehaving son    

 

SNP MP suggests solution to mobile phone blackspots

 

Three-times drink driver is sent to prison

 

Health board rapped for poor response to problem data        

 

BP withdrawing fuel cards for businesses in islands       

 

Ton-up success for hedgehog trapping  

 

Car passenger jailed over “illegal” lift      

 

Man in court after car is wrecked in blaze  

 

HIE leads the way in region’s renewable energy   

 

Allan meets Lloyds TSB Foundation over charity concerns

 

10-year-old takes council to court over Sabbath sports ban   

 

Warning that St Kilda row threatens tourist industry efforts

 

Enigma of the Uig Chessmen  

 

Council adopts new debt recovery policy        

 

Live Hebrides host highly successful workshops  

 

Claim that islands left in the cold in fuel poverty row

 

Authority congratulates Shawbost mill on Style Award

 

Research into rural land use

 

New home insulation scheme gets underway       

 

Uist Builders secure local jobs   

 

Citizens Advice Bureau seeks feedback for improvement  

 

Letter:  Council wastes money on consultants   

 

Macneil should pay Uist task force costs say Lib Dems   

 

Teenage drink driver was twice the legal limit    

 

Letter:  Cheaper to use traffic lights at Laxdale Bridge        

 

Letter:  St Kilda centre “is patronising”   

 

Offender smashed glass

 

Three Hebridean Gaelic singers short-listed for Trad title   

 

Dance classes this winter   

 

Council takes steps for Springfield public foot path

 

Faulty gas cookers warning

 

Letter:  Be “fair and open” over St Kilda centre    

 

Face the West in running for Live Act award

 

Two cars wrecked in fire-raising attack    

 

Fight to secure west coast sub-sea energy cable  

 

Online flu seminar   

 

Proposal to widen Laxdale bridge  

 

Islands remember the war dead   

 

Allan renews calls for Stornoway regeneration money

 

Lib Dem hopeful welcomes Arnish sub sea cable

 

Studio Alba's music show nominated for award

 

Allan raises Western Isles prawn quotas in Parliament  

 

Hebridean Celtic Festival Nominated for Top Award   

 

Concerns of “manoeuvring” to skew St Kilda visitor centre selection

 

Broadband campaign goes to Digital Britain minister

 

More investment needed for Isles dementia care says north MSP

 

New member for Stornoway Port Authority

 

Scottish Government slammed over crisis for community land buy outs  

 

Claim islanders losing out under Energy Assistance Package  

 

Sub-sea cable for Arnish connection  

 

Air scare on Benbecula flight  

 

New £ 5 million salmon factory will create 100 jobs

 

New book chronicles the influence of a Highland minister    

 

Help for fuel poor in the Western Isles  

 

Allan encouraged by extension of Energy Assistance Package

 

Allan welcomes former Barra priest to Parliament  

 

Lewis soldier returns from fighting the Taliban       

 

BT Gaelic Debate 2009 semi finalists announced     

 

Hebrideans keen to cheat on spouses says dating agency  

 

Crofters' views on reform published       

 

Marine energy challenges on the agenda at HIE-backed seminar

 

Sub-sea cable excluded from green energy investment scheme  

 

Letter: Blair promised to get rid of quangos    

 

Uig ‘honoured and delighted’ over St Kilda recommendation  

 

Coastguard helicopter in long distance rescue  

 

Chance of a lifetime expedition experience  

 

Ferry owner launches Gaelic Language Plan consultation  

 

Letter:  Salmond brand won't work         

 

Round Two draw of BT Gaelic debate announced  

 

Teenage joyrider responsible for spate of car thefts  

 

Letter:  Tunnag worried about ducks        

 

Hairy Hearachs all set for Movember    

 

Letter: Subtle manipulating   

 

Schools debating competition starts off today

 

Comunn na Gàidhlig awards cross the sea to Ireland        

 

Controversy over location for St Kilda centre  

 

£ 2 million project will convert old mill into modern media centre      

 

New funding scheme for community renewables  

 

Harris Tweed Hebrides is top company at Scottish Style Awards  

 

European court judgement could halt plans for Lochs wind farms

 

New care home for Harris      

 

Valtos canteen to be demolished  

 

Mill gets office in call centre   

 

Water pipe burst at Sgoil Lionacleit    

 

Call to ban SNH from island schools     

 

Letters:  SNP should stop quangos riding roughshod over people

 

Lewis guest house wins golden accolade   

 

Letters:  SNH did not have the guts

 

Man was severely injured in baseball attack    

 

Council “bans” school organised protest  

 

Letters:  Disgust at SNH performance in Barra      

 

Angry Barraich walk out of heated SNH meeting    

 

HIE supporting businesses towards economic recovery  

 

Barra recipe in MSP charity cookbook        

 

TV viewers urged to respond to review of BBC Alba

 

National Trust may go to court over St Kilda name dispute  

 

Island band represent Scotland in international competition

 

Decade delay for SNH response to Barra row   

 

Allan raises Barra designation controversy in

Parliament     

 

Mangersta preferred for St Kilda Centre

 

West Highland Free Press is Britain's first employee-owned newspaper

 

Thousands of pounds to improve school before demolition  

 

Coffee morning for Christian sponsored schools    

 

Call to suspend contentious Crofting Bill   

 

Isles health staff magazine short listed for national award  

 

Four year ban for drink driving   

 

Smashed car was too powerful for driver     

 

Delivery of free home insulation attacked by councillors       

 

Warning Uist is at risk from the invading sea       

 

Bus company changes “stupid” timetable    

 

Ferry services secured   

 

SNP must honour Western Isles ferry promises say Lib Dems

 

Youth supplied ecstasy to friends     

 

Woman made nuisance 999 calls    

 

Drink driver collided into car    

 

St Kilda mouse research starts        

 

Free fire safety visit for all homes in Western Isles   

 

Raft of school closures on the horizon      

 

Go-ahead for delayed Pentland Road wind farm  

  

Windfarm fears of serious damage to important

     moorland habitat

 

EC challenged over Barra marine designation

 

The 2009 Donald Stewart Memorial Trust Award goes to Barra    

 

Allan welcomes  review into BBC ALBA  

 

Scottish Government urged to make broadband a

legal right    

 

Letters:  Switch off porn channels in favour of BBC Alba

 

Letters:  Cut the number of politicians  

 

Call for Chancellor to reverse spending cuts      

 

Public consultation on BBC ALBA Gaelic channel   

 

MG ALBA welcomes BBC Trust’s review into Gaelic TV channel     

 

Council criticised for stopping up Springfield Road    

 

Christmas gifts for Third World poor   

 

Safetywise urge the responsible use of fireworks   

 

Five mainland firms in running to build new island schools    

 

Teenager took van without consent    

 

Councillors expected to vote for delayed wind farm     

 

Clansman comes to aid of stricken yacht      

 

Isles’ council severely rapped over complaints attitude     

 

Macneil raises geese problem in Lewis   

 

Island author's new novel to be written on twitter    

 

Advice group marks 20 years serving islanders   

 

Northern Constabulary wins awards for its good work   

 

MP pushes to get BBC ALBA onto Freeview  

 

Northern Constabulary provides winter advice for motorists  

 

Lewis man drove while twice the drink driving limit

 

Suspect bomb found in Stornoway  

 

Western Isles nurse in running for Scottish award  

 

Power giant in court over South Uist oil slick  

 

New manager for youth business body            

 

Isles patient care survey seeks patients’ views    

 

Harris Tweed designs for luxury hotel      

 

Storm over Sound of Barra conservation proposal    

 

New schools’ plans go on public display  

 

Council offers £10,000 to drop accountancy legal action

 

Allan seeks further changes to Crofting Bill   

 

Bosses reappointed at Cal Mac ship owners     

 

Council applies to demolish and rebuild schools

 

Lib Dem candidate calls for rethink on Springfield Road ban

 

£ 50,000 invested for new Harris Tweed training   

 

Public meeting on Uist coastal erosion   

 

Gaelic speaking teenagers get together with Irish students        

 

Stream of ideas from Gaelic teachers’ conference  

 

Air ambulance service reviewed in run up to new contract   

 

Queen Mary 2 sails down the Minch          

 

Sum mistake at the Mod   

 

Cal Mac asked to extend summer timetable into November

 

Marine Harvest asked to build giant fish farms at Arnish

 

Offender jailed for going near underage girls    

 

Drinking ban imposed on island teenager   

 

Wider Commons support for Hebrides range  

 

Man jailed for obstructing on-duty nurse         

 

Successful day for island choirs at the Oban Mod  

 

Lewis student wins Mod Gold for traditional singing

 

Changes to visiting hours at Balivanich hospital   

 

MP says credit checks hinder small businesses     

 

Back and Lochs choirs collect prizes at the Mod   

 

SNH launches new Gaelic natural history packs        

 

South Uist woman clinches Mod Gold Medal     

 

Islanders going for Gold as Royal National Mod  comes to climax    

 

Woody's launch mail delivery service         

 

Cocktail of success for Stornoway prawn fishery      

 

Revamped Bòrd na Gàidhlig seeks new senior bosses    

 

Murphy’s reputation is staked on Uist jobs says SNP  

 

Stornoway youth crashed car    

 

Drink-driver knocked down youngster  

 

Islanders urged to get the flu jab       

 

South End run is back on   

 

Outer Hebrides’ business in final of  tourism awards   

 

Island groups lose out in cash crisis for bank charity funder   

 

Concern over Lloyds TSB funding shortfall     

 

Over 50 medals for Western Isles competitors at Tuesday’s Mod events     

 

Murphy underlines future of Uist jobs     

 

Leaflet gives low down on Gaelic medium education        

 

Macneil sees red over Orange     

 

New awareness campaign urges public to act against harm  

 

Isles MP ordered to repay excess expenses  

 

Management skills master class for local businesses

 

Cabag, the blethering puppet, introduces infants to Gaelic education    

 

The Light of Three    

 

Radio Mòd broadcasting from Oban     

 

More success for Western Isles competitors at Oban Mod   

 

Call for Scottish Government to change ConCom    

 

Police force to improve complaints handling       

 

Coastguard helicopters monitored after safety alert    

 

CalMac launches 2010 Explore brochure at Royal National Mod    

 

All charged up for business idea      

 

Fiddle prizes for Stornoway Primary   

 

Putting on the style                 

 

Ferry boss pays back “inappropriate” expenses    

 

Western Isles youngsters lift medals at Oban Mod    

 

Modernising the Uist rocket base   

 

Blue sky thinking by Scottish Government     

 

Government denies Uist range stealth cuts

 

MP seeks clarification of “plot” to run down rocket range  

 

RNLI walk-about talks on fishing safety in the Hebrides  

 

Anne Lorne Gillies awarded Scottish Government Gaelic Ambassador title   

 

Macsween is “politically blinkered” says SNP    

 

More cash support for Gaelic language announced as Mod 2009 opens  

 

Islanders head to Oban for the launch of the Royal National Mod     

 

Sensory garden is opened at Stornoway hospital    

 

Scottish Marine Bill report calls to protect seals

 

Call for Cal Mac to be relocated north      

 

Six people infected with swine flu in Western Isles   

 

Secret plot to downgrade the Uist rocket range                 

 

Christian politician threatens action against critic  

 

Scottish Government urged to permit commercial

geese kill

 

Council to debate Con Com  services review    

 

EU gives the Ok ma tha for Gaidhlig      

 

Allan Please  d at symbolic step for Gaelic in Europe    

 

Russell welcomes EU Gaelic agreement    

 

BBC ALBA tunes in for live country music   

 

Digital investment is key to local economic growth

says HIE  

 

Casualty trapped in car      

 

Jobs boost as Marine Harvest expands into giant

off-shore fish farms

 

Isles MP and MSP welcome salmon jobs announcement

 

Comhairle welcomes Marine Harvest discussions     

 

Environment minister praises salmon investment   

 

 

Barra’s new Co-op opens for shopping   

 

Labour MSP  demands dignity and fairness for elderly   

 

New video link for treating stroke patients     

 

First deep water fish farm promises jobs boost

 

Pour me another cup of coffee           

 

SNP: “Politically jaundiced Macsween is in denial”    

 

Defence committee MP visits rocket range   

 

Labour slams MP’s “cosy Tory links”      

 

Marine Harvest plans salmon related proposal for Barra   

 

Job losses as water works dry up      

 

Better broadband petition gathers support     

 

Davis calls for more responsible alcohol advertising  

 

Concern over turning Stornoway Town Hall into offices       

 

Macsween blasts SNP over budget cuts  

 

Public invited to meet Cal Mac bosses at the Mod

 

Stornoway lifeboat rescues stricken yacht with eight people onboard  

 

Rescue helicopter clocks up 350 missions     

 

Lifeboat stands by trapped yacht  

 

Yacht calls for help in storm force winds    

 

 High winds causes ferries disruption across

the islands  

 

Shark attack off Barra              

 

Cal Mac threatens disgruntled passengers with police   

 

Daily Record is to print the Stornoway Gazette   

 

Twenty jobs lost as island plumbing firm crashes   

 

Stornoway rescue helicopter in Lochabar search

for missing diver  

 

Royal National Mod live on BBC Alba       

 

Gaelic information day    

 

Daliburgh runners cancel race  

 

David Macbrayne Group publishes annual report   

 

Crofters warned of fraudulent marketing    

 

Lewis Chessmen to visit Stornoway  

 

 Lewis Chessmen need further moves   

 

 Welcome for Uig Chessmen exhibition      

 

 Western Isles MSP hails Lewis Chessmen homecoming   

 

New Hebridean face for STV news     

 

Shipwreck economy from Scotland's marine heritage   

 

Vats warn warmer weather increases risk of livestock disease   

 

New director for ferry company       

 

Eighty hours for “wicked” remark      

 

Man regrets assault    

 

Pairc community seeks help to overcome stalling tactics     

 

 Pairc Trust: Questions and answers    

 

Free Church Presbytery  quiz MSP    

 

Baseball attacker injured man

 

Offender broke ban from going near girls      

 

“Spectacular” alcohol count driver gets licence back

 

Call for action from community land groups  

 

UHI and the Open University explore scope for

collaboration       

 

Sex offender abused girl for seven years     

 

Allan's Gaelic amendments passed by Parliamentary Committee   

 

Wilson calls for restoration of Scottish Land Fund     

 

Crofting project aims to inspire youngsters    

 

Welcome for commitment against croft land speculation

 

Does your oil storage container fit the bill?

 

Mature movers dance your way to health and fitness  

 

Ten years of Childcare Partnership     

 

Isles MSP and Childrens Minister at events in Lewis    

 

Isles MSP and MP welcome Crofting Bill change   

 

SCF baffled by Cairngorm National Park's attitude     

 

Stornoway lifeboat aids broken down creel boat   

 

Hostile bid mooted as Pairc landlord frustrates estate buyout

 

Occupancy requirement ruled out of Crofting Bill   

 

New lease of life for seabirds     

 

Coping with a changing climate  - opportunities and challenges    

 

Love comes to BBC Alba         

 

Lib Dem candidate calls for zero carbon islands

 

Macneil asks MoD to pay Uist task force costs    

 

Debate over role of the crofter and small farmer

 

Technological first for carbon footprinting      

 

Stornoway Coastguard co-ordinate rescues    

 

Breathing new life into rural Scotland

 

MSP wants home insulation scheme for Uist and Barra

 

Hundreds attend teenager’s funeral     

 

Law boss voices concerns over car crash deaths in islands    

 

Student remanded over alleged threat to burn down restaurant  

 

New bird study to help wind farm developers

 

Cigarette display ban a step closer in the Western Isles

 

Council welcomes new business advice service

 

Stornoway lifeboat in marathon tow      

 

Youth music tuition network hits half a million notes    

 

Comunn na Gàidhlig delivers for Gaelic communities  

 

Key visit to prevent repeat of Labour’s “recklessness”

in Uist

 

Crofters Commission launches Gaelic Language Plan     

 

Two hours weekly for new Amhuinnsuidhe post office

 

Gàidhlig gu Leòr  -  Gaelic information day    

 

Sustainable growth conference over Scotland's islands   

 

A fresh start for Britain - and for the Western Isles

say Lib Dems

 

Council banks on recession prices for new schools  

 

Harris Tweed documentary was “patronising freak show"   

 

Drink driver was four times legal limit         

 

Stabbed man broke curfew

 

Stornoway coastguards praised for St Kilda rescue  

 

Island communities lose out on rural broadband upgrades  

 

College prepares for UHI showpiece event     

 

Tuning into Scottish viewers              

 

Must do better inspectors tell primary school    

 

Hedgehog trappers again out in force    

 

The wonder of WeeW         

 

Uig all clear on land for St Kilda Centre bid         

 

Visit of Nigerian delegation to Lewis     

 

Comhairle holds credit crunch meeting in Benbecula   

 

Grenitote Travel wins tourism award   

 

Fish farmer which cut hundreds of island jobs wins business award  

 

Awareness raising roadshow about dyslexia   

 

Community windfarm cash boost for Bethesda   

 

Naked peat cutters go online in bid to raise £100,000     

 

Buy with confidence seminar     

 

BBC Alba turns its lens towards Dalmally charity Mary’s Meals  

 

Experts discuss management of major incident control                

 

Doorstep advice on energy scheme    

 

Cal Mac unveils timetable changes  

 

Allan tables Gaelic amendments to Schools’ Bill  

 

Eisgein wind farm will kill golden eagles say RSPB  

 

UHI announces three new honorary fellows  

 

Island students warned over danger in city       

 

Lifeboat called out to stricken fishing boat   

 

Tragic death of Lewis teenager        

 

Declining seabird numbers on Bishop’s Isles  

 

Independent Christian candidate quest bows out   

 

Allan questions Whitton's comments on Gaelic budget     

 

Blythswood Square debut for Harris Tweed     

 

Unlicensed traders sent packing   

 

Comhairle slams HIE's £ 25 million Inverness investment  

 

Allan raises Uist jobs success at First Minister's Question Time  

 

Woolworth replacement opens in Stornoway    

 

Allan welcomes budget increase for RET   

 

Man trapped under toppled forklift truck    

 

Masked attackers wielded machetes on victims    

 

Drink driver knocked down teenager      

 

Birthday drink landed woman behind bars  

 

£ 326,437 to boost rural economy in the Western Isles    

 

Moldova Appeal        

 

Government U-turn on rocket range job losses   

 

SNP councillors say Government U-turn is community triumph

 

Davis welcomes Government U-turn on Uist     

 

Long term guarantees wanted over MoD climbdown

 

Labour's Macsween hails Uist defence jobs   

 

MoD abandons downgrade of Hebrides Range

 

Peacock welcomes Uist jobs reprieve    

 

MoD ditches downgrade of rocket range

 

HIE praises community fight for Uist jobs

 

 

Last minute stay of execution expected for rocket range  

 

Proud to be Scottish    

 

Burnt pie results in hospital visit    

 

Youth denies catalogue of charges     

 

Rocket range decision to be announced Tuesday

 

 Scottish secretary challenged over island jobs  

 

Fancy dress for a past Era   

 

1000th mink caught in Western Isles

 

Shawbost mill give assurances on Harris Tweed  

 

Hebrides Range advert that gives the game away is raised in Scottish Parliament  

 

MSP praises Year of Homecoming events in islands      

 

Lib Dem candidate calls to protect lifeline flights  

 

Government expected to get rid of Uist jobs as project team is set up to run down rocket range

 

Scotland no more for Shawbost mill     

 

International tour for the Great Book of Gaelic       

 

Mass stranding of jellyfish in Uig    

 

Firemen tackle fire on fishing boat  

 

Stornoway lifeboat tows boat to safety    

 

Broadband cheer for Hebrides.net users  

 

Positive response to multi-agency survey  

 

Warning over isles’ tombstone craze       

 

Dangers of tombstoning     

 

Robert Key confirms visit to Hebrides Range  

 

Amhuinnsuidhe Post Office closes temporarily  

 

Latest technological innovations advice at conference

 

Evening classes slashed after cash problems     

 

Online seminar looks to future of the World Wide Web    

 

Process underway to select Christian election candidate

 

Scottish Government retain crofting grant scheme   

 

Fuel costs and poor prices hit fishermen

 

Stornoway lifeboat aids second stricken yacht

 

Teenager injured in crash  

 

Macneil urges roaming networks    

 

Macsween relishes political fight with firebrand challenge

 

Stornoway lifeboat tows yacht to shelter   

 

Christian candidate could fight Western Isles election

 

Scottish Government aims to protect Stornoway marag

 

MSP wants better measures to protect Scottish food   

 

Allan welcomes moves to protect Stornoway Black Pudding  

 

Barra hosts first-ever Whisky Galore festival  

 

Macsween warns against abolishing crofting grants

 

Worries over crofting grants:  Open

 

 to First Minister

 

Allan asks Labour to explain billion pound budget cuts

 

Arctic terns return as mink are eradicated        

 

Severe gales batter Western Isles            

 

Wrecked Spinningdale removed from St Kilda    

 

Good progress for Western Isles health board     

 

Allan welcomes Nicola Sturgeon to Stornoway   

 

Treble win for Back FC      

 

Legal bid to overturn Sabbath sports centre ban

 

Choose Life campaign kick starts Suicide

Prevention Week

 

Haggas’ mill to reopen in Spring     

 

Barra lifeboatman remembered on national memorial

 

Shipwreck hall is officially opened             

 

Blow the whistle on drug dealers urge police  

 

The Big Cancer Conversation   

 

Chinese lanterns being mistaken as distress flares

 

Centenary of Girl Guides in Scotland      

 

£ 12 million needed for community windfarm       

 

Court told girl was sexually abused 100 times      

 

Harris man “lost” a day and a half    

 

Motorist was over the limit   

 

Allan and Macneil congratulate youth business winners

 

Opportunity for businesses to visit Boston     

 

Health board tribute to Dr John    

 

Temporary reprieve for ferry commercial fare scheme  

 

Councillors unanimously back giant Eishken wind farm  

 

Watery destination for car

 

Allan welcomes move towards safeguarding

of rural schools     

 

Long running internet sexual slurs case collapses

 

Soldier drove while over the limit   

 

Council wins over £1 million extra for elderly in islands  

 

Allan welcomes SNP government priorities

for coming year  

 

Councillors plan U-turn over axing business ferry fares

 

Free Presbyterian Church asks islanders to boycott Sunday ferry

 

Economic boost for isles  

 

Council faces nearly £ 4.5 million cutbacks

 

Comhairle sadness at death of deputy Lord Lieutenant   

 

MP pays tribute to Dr John      

 

Annual check up for Western Isles health board     

 

Three island sites in the running to be St Kilda centre

 

Live Hebrides website goes live   

 

A high noon opening for Weew    

 

Labour concerns over camper vans in Western Isles

 

Sizzling weather cools Harris Tweed sales  

 

Unanimous backing for giant Eishken windfarm  

 

Comhairle want upgraded interconnector    

 

Shark and sunfish in marine stand-off    

 

Nurse overturned car in crash     

 

Bad driver trapped inside smashed car         

 

Macneil calls for snappy decision over Uist range  

 

Cal Mac should hold ferry space for locals says MSP

  

Man possessed lock knife in GP surgery     

 

Scary driving from island teenager       

 

Worries over voluntary sector funding         

 

Allan welcomes political dialogue on Crofting Bill  

 

Funding efforts for Mod 2011 now underway

 

Helicopter airlift from St Kilda    

 

St Kilda centre proposals         

 

Cunningham to discuss crofting reforms with MSPs

 

Call to save attendance allowance    

 

Alleged assault accused broke bail     

 

Cervical cancer vaccine offered to Western Isles girls

 

Cash help for students studying Gaelic courses

 

Tackling climate change                                 

                   

Giant Eishken wind farm set for approval         

 

Council asked to play fare over inter-island ferries   

 

Allan speaks out against UK Treasury fuel increase  

 

New police boss for Western Isles   

 

Successful 1st phase for weavers fund     

 

Suicide prevention funding cuts  

 

Western Isles Credit Union welcomes 1000th member

 

Eishken wind farm benefits are “grossly exaggerated”

 

Police appeal for help over man’s death        

 

Council consider strategy over court action     

 

Western Isles groups warned over tighter funding  

 

Move to save Gaelic digital jobs            

 

Lifeboat rescues drifting boat         

 

New hours under alcohol licensing changes    

 

Police continue inquiries into Point death  

 

Seriously ill man pulls through          

 

Island football season winds down     

 

Sudden death on Lewis        

 

St Kilda anniversary highlights current depopulation threat  

 

Masked attackers raid Stornoway house

 

Stornoway lifeboat rescues stricken boat

 

Person charged over vandalism to boats  

 

Man injured in car crash    

 

Allan comments on inter-island ferry row    

 

Record number of island children registered with dentist

 

Call to apply RET on inter-island ferries    

 

ND Continuing takes over former prawn factory

 

Allan presses Scottish Water over Tarbert supply     

 

Ness to Barvas charity walk    

 

Disposal of waste from Stornoway slipway

 

Survey reveals youth’s views of the

Highlands and Islands  

 

Police want to give public a voice through new survey  

 

Marine renewables potential       

 

Council refuses to raid homes in crofting bill opposition

 

Councillors expected to approve giant wind farm    

 

Radio Barra tunes into funding award    

 

Green fingers compete on Saturday   

 

Council million pound boost for local economy      

 

Point Free gets new minister      

 

SSPCA dog show this weekend  

 

Businesses shocked at hike in inter-island ferry fares   

 

Temporary hard standing for boats at Stornoway harbour

 

Gaelic war of words over English speaking post  

 

Salmon farmer makes £ 3.4 million profit    

 

Call to eke out new schools’ construction for

more local jobs   

 

Traditional arts working group seeks views      

 

Allan writes to housing minister about home insulation funding  

 

Anti-fraud initiative proves popular in the Western Isles   

 

Naked Hebridean peat cutters convoy        

 

Plans to cut prawn catch by 50% abandoned

 

100 new homes for Western Isles

but many more are needed

 

Heated criticism  as insulation scheme

details kept under wraps  

 

Stornoway brothers broke curfew order    

 

Rudhach is first UHI degree graduate  

 

Scrap September fuel hike duty urges Macneil

 

St Kilda Day to be celebrated in North Uist  

 

Highland and Islands couture promoted in Japanese market   

 

Hurricane Bill scares off Hebridean castaway   

 

Stornoway coastguards airlift injured boy off Cuillins

 

Macneil raises concerns of Western Isles fishermen

 

Gaelic events to commemorate St Kilda Day   

 

Countdown starts to Harris emigration conference   

 

SNP: Scottish Secretary should resign if Uist jobs are cut   

 

Defence jobs are vital to Scottish economy say Labour    

 

Father and son die in canoe accident       

 

Macsween trawls for top meeting over prawn

fishing threat     

 

SNP slams Labour’s “duplicitous tactics” over Uist cuts

 

Allan attends 'historic' UHI graduations

 

Stornoway lifeboat to rescue of Guga hunters’ boat

 

Driver was over the limit           

 

WeeW staff move into new shop      

 

Isles’ Labour party submission on rocket range

 

Gearing up for Sounds In The Grounds     

 

Warning over bogus charity collections   

 

Support for fresh approach to future of Hebrides Range        

 

HIE submission over rocket range

 

Isles MSP takes to sea on fishing boat     

 

Seatbelt message not getting through     

 

Healthy return for two Western Isles organisations   

 

Sun safety campaign for young people    

 

New isles’ electrical employer rises from historic name  

 

Labour accuses SNP of “outright hypocrisy” over

Uist range

 

£ 2 million awarded to encourage crofting on machair   

 

Allan welcomes major funding for islands’ habitats  

   

Lews Castle students first to be awarded UHI degrees  

 

Macneil urges Labour to ditch “reckless” rocket range cuts  

 

Allan urges defence minister to reject Rocket Range cuts  

 

MSP’s rocket range consultation submission   

 

Uist range cuts are a “serious strategic risk to

UK defence”

 

Trust counts costs of MoD withdrawal from St Kilda    

 

Rocket Range campaign goes to Prime Minister

 

Labour leaders visit islands’ key economic enterprises  

 

Scottish Labour vows to maintain pressure

in Uist jobs fight  

 

Fisherman tagged over assault   

 

Vandals given six months to pay £ 2000   

 

Driver overtook in face of oncoming vehicle

 

Woman cut plaster cast off child’s injured arm

 

Drug abuser warned he faces jail    

 

Clandestine fisherman lands community service       

 

SNP councillors appointed onto island health board  

 

Finance and business key to local economy  

 

Reducing the pressure in Tarbert  

 

Scotland and Norway sign salmon farming agreement   

 

Cuts warning over Benbecula air service    

 

North Police crackdown against speeders      

 

Gray urges restoration of HIE’s budget

 

Rally fever grips Stornoway        

 

Communions to be monitored over swine flu concerns

 

Scottish Labour leaders in island visit     

 

Motorist denies being three times the legal drink limit   

 

Year of Homecoming at Museum Nan Eilean    

 

Launch of handwashing campaign for Western Isles pupils  

 

New SNH adviser’s local roots run deep         

 

Car crash driver loses control of disabled

husband’s money

 

Western Isles Labour party seeks new chairman

 

Car stolen from west side of Lewis      

 

Boats drift dangerously in dark after vandals untie ropes

 

Motorist held in cells over drink-driving charge    

 

Four people arrested after disturbance    

 

9500 defence jobs axed in Scotland under

Labour say SNP  

 

Authors to gather in Hebridean book festival    

 

Motorist accused of knocking down child