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The island bike mechanic keeping TV stars on the road

It has been a crazy time – absolutely crazy, with work. I’ve been running so many PR jobs lately that I’m like the proverbial plate spinner. It’s an interesting thing, self-employment, particularly when it’s all deadline driven. Every so often, […]

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Runrig: The Last Dance at Stirling Castle

I was at the Runrig show in Stirling on Saturday night. I was there. Along with my husband and eight-year-old son, I was among the crowd of 25,000 at The Last Dance. I’m feeling a bit lost now but I’m […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Arts, Family, Featured, Gaelic, Home Page, Music
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The Breasclete boy who made transplant history

There are public stories and there are private ones. Very occasionally, the one story will be both. The story that I’m going to tell here is profoundly personal but also so well known among Leodhasaich of a certain generation that it’s […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Family, Featured, Home Page, Tradition, Uncategorized
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EDF plan giant offshore turbines for Stornoway and Eishken

Breaking news tonight. EDF Energy are hoping to put giant turbines, of the size normally sited offshore, on their wind farm sites on the Isle of Lewis. The turbines being planned by EDF would be up to 200 metres tall […]

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Too Many Soldiers, Not Enough Scouts

The main story in Stornoway this week is that there’s an election happening soon – for five people to be elected to the Stornoway Trust and effectively become our landlords. For the benefit of those who don’t know, the Stornoway […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Featured, Home Page, Opinion, Politics
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Marking my anniversary and celebrating other female bloggers

If you do social media, yesterday was a pretty good day to be online. It was International Women’s Day and there was so much positivity, so much celebration. It got me thinking about all the wonderful women I know, some […]

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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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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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A first blog from the child taught no English in school

I have an extra special guest on the blog this week — my son Michael, aged seven-and-a-half. He has been asking me for ages if he could write a blog post himself, “to show my class”, so I thought, why […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Blogging, Family, Featured, Gaelic, Home Page
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Top Story prize at Highlands and Islands Media Awards

It’s been a big weekend. I’m a bit lost for words so I’m just going to share with you here a news release put out last night from the organisers of the Highlands and Islands Press Ball and Media Awards…  Lewis-based journalist Katie Laing’s coverage […]

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