A shocker for Lewis – today’s revelation that the Scottish Land Court has ruled in favour of the Melbost and Branahuie Grazings Committee in their battle with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited over the disputed land at Stornoway Airport. The […]
Sometimes I really love my job. Most times, in fact. But that sense of appreciation, gratitude and good fortune has been particularly acute these past couple of weeks – and it’s something that I’ve noticed among my freelance friends, as well. […]
‘Dynamite’ – that was the word used by one land reform veteran on Twitter about the guest post by Lewis Kermack the other night, on the subject of Stornoway Trust’s lease to Lewis Wind Power. The article, Who Is Your […]
On the eve of the Scottish Land Court hearing into the case of Lewis Wind Power versus The Crofters, I have brought in a guest blogger with a special interest… Scots land law. And he is going to be looking […]
If you are from Lewis or Harris, you cannot fail to have noticed the many types of memorial we are having right now to the Iolaire tragedy. Many of us will attend a good number of them but there will […]
I made a mistake in a press release for one of my clients last week. It was a piece on Gaelic resources and made a passing reference to Deputy First Minister John Finnie. A wee Freudian slip, but possibly understandable […]
Serious apologies to any of my readers who are here for a variety of subjects and yarns… I’m still on wind farms, I’m afraid. But that’s only because there’s loads going on (and I promise to bring you something different […]
Straight news today, for those of you following the ‘David and Goliath’ battle between French multinational EDF and the crofters fighting them for the rights to develop wind farms on their common grazings… The Scottish Land Court has announced dates […]
What an emotional launch last Thursday for the book about the Iolaire tragedy. It was quite an event at An Lanntair – much, much more than just a book launch and entirely fitting for the subject… the loss of HMY […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the greatest tragedy to ever befall Lewis and Harris – the loss of HMY Iolaire, which went down on the Beasts of Holm, just outside Stornoway, in the early […]
