Eilean Siar County, Scotland News

The renewable energy industry could create more than 10,000 jobs on Scotland's islands by 2030, according to a government-commissioned study.

Mom and Dad may relish family time unplugged from workday electronics, and grandparents admire the beauty of a rolling green landscape given over to rugged coastlines and pristine lochs, Highland ponies and paint-splotched sheep.

The Comhairle's 2013 roads surface dressing programme is due to start this week with two weeks of work in the Uist area.

LEWIS Wind Power announces today that a major milestone in the development of The Stornoway Wind Farm has been reached with the recent submission of a grid application to the National Grid for the project.

A MAN claimed he was involved in the killing of a teenage boy in the Western Isles, a court has heard.

The appointment of Free Church minister the Rev Ruairidh Maclean - who was inducted to the Redevelopment Charge in Leverburgh, Harris, five years ago - is to be terminated next month.

Mom and Dad may relish family time unplugged from workaday electronics, and grandparents admire the beauty of a rolling green landscape given over to rugged coastlines and pristine lochs, Highland ponies and paint-splotched sheep.

Next week, I have instructed my lawyers to launch an all-out challenge at the Scottish Supreme Court to 'Mad Alex', as I believe history will some day call Alex Salmond.

The mother of one of the accused told the High Court in Glasgow yesterday that Liam Aitchison had tried to jump out of the window of her house in Plasterfield on the night he disappeared.

WEstern Isles SNP MSP, Alasdair Allan, has welcomed the willingness of Scottish Natural Heritage to look at changing the rules around selling meat from greylag geese.

A COASTGUARD volunteer has told how he discovered the partially clothed corpse of missing teenager Liam Aitchison in a derelict building.

At the depths of their decline in the 1970s, healthy populations could only be found in Scottish strongholds beyond the reach of harmful pesticides.

A woman whose body was found on a Western Isles beach has been named locally as the first female chief of a Harris Tweed mill.

Western Isles SNP MSP, Alasdair Allan, has chaired what he hopes will be the first in a series between island residents and MSPs at Holyrood.

On a visit to Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate were told the hospital had introduced visits of a therapy dog to a ward with patients suffering cognitive impairment.

A four-year-long campaign over their local delicacy ends in success for butchers and MSP in the Isle of Lewis town.

A wind turbine manufacturer hopes to win orders worth hundreds of thousands of pounds after securing a deal with a major water supplier.

A meeting to discuss how communities can better prepare for emergencies such as severe weather, power failure and wild fires is being held at the Clan MacQuarrie Community Centre, Borve, on Tuesday 14th May at 8pm.

One of two men on trial accused of murdering Western Isles teenager Liam Aitchison left him in a ditch, the High Court in Glasgow has been told.

Langabhat Medical Practice in Lewis has become one of the first GP practices in Scotland to host undergraduate nursing students for formal placements.