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A final plea for money for Stornoway Primary

A final attempt is to be made tomorrow (Wednesday) for Stornoway Primary to be allocated money for improvements in this term of the council — a story that I have written about for the Gazette this week. The full newspaper […]

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A whole lot of media activity

Friday — and I’m feeling almost punch drunk. Completely dazed, thrown about, and wondering ‘what just happened here?’ In a good way, I think. What a week it has been. There has been so much going on – some of […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Featured, Home Page, Politics, Renewables, Uncategorized
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Anyone got £71million to lend the Comhairle…?

I went to a play on Friday night. It was about Hebridean women. In particular, those women — our great-grandmothers and grandmothers, mainly — who were out there in the world, making an impact and fighting for women to have […]

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EDF up the ante with a new wind farm base in Stornoway

Looks like the French multinational with grand designs on the crofting ground of Lewis is strengthening its grasp on the Hebrides. Lewis Wind Power (the disingenuously titled partnership of EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler) is setting up a new base in […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Harris Tweed, Opinion, Politics, Renewables
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A problem at Stornoway Primary alright (but it’s not the prayers)

My father used the phrase “vague news” today when he really meant “fake news” — but it really got me thinking and, actually, vague news is something we’re getting a lot of in Lewis just now. People were getting their […]

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Scottish Crofting Federation boosts community windfarm hopes

It’s been nearly a month since the deadline for objections to the Scottish Land Court over the plans by Lewis Wind Power — AKA multinationals EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler, in partnership with landowners Stornoway Trust — to develop a 36-turbine […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Opinion, Politics, Renewables
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Pressure grows on Allan and MacNeil as Comhairle’s SNP group declare support for crofters

The clock is ticking. We are on a rapid countdown to the deadline for objections to EDF’s Section 19 application to the Scottish Land Court, which would allow them to build a giant wind farm around Stornoway and give them the […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Opinion, Politics, Renewables
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A few days to save the next 70 years

I cycle out the Pentland Road early in the morning quite often. When the weather is kind, it’s lovely and peaceful, with an atmosphere of real tranquility. I always pass under the shadow of the three turbines at Beinn Ghrideag, […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Featured, Home Page, Opinion, Outdoors, Politics, Renewables
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There shall be a Hebrides Women’s Network, starting now

Encouraged by the very positive response to my blog post, A Plea For Some Feminist Action in The Isles, which advocated setting up a women’s network here in the Outer Hebrides in response to an inspirational talk by the First […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Opinion, Politics, Tradition
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A plea for some feminist action in the isles

When I went to Glasgow University in 1992, I thought the world was my oyster. I soaked up lectures in the wonderful atmosphere of the quadrangles and felt absolutely assured of my place in society. Centuries of literature were at […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Arts, Books, Family, Home Page, Opinion, Politics, Tradition
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