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Details: Created: 04 August 2026

Yesterday's decision by NatureScot to obliterate a thousand years of island tradition by banning the Guga Hunt is part of a modern harrying of the Highlanders, according to Scotland's Columnist of...

Details: Created: 03 August 2026

Teaching staff on Barra who are members of the EIS union, have voted to take action over their Castlebay In-Service dispute. The Consultative Ballot closed on Friday 24July – 24 members were...

Details: Created: 21 July 2026

People of all genders who might feel unsafe on nights out in the Western Isles now have a new way of discreetly gaining help, Ask for Angela. Staff from local licensed premises have recently...

Details: Created: 21 July 2026

A major project milestone has been reached with completion of key construction work of the new MRI facility at Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway. The project has now moved into its next...

Guga ban part of new 'harrying of the Highlands'

Barra teachers in big yes to industrial action

Pubwatch brings 'Ask for Angela' safety initiative to Isles

MRI suite on course for September launch