Lamb prices up in both opening Uist sales

BF lambs – 1 st J M MacDonald, Sidinish, £51; 2nd D J MacDonald, 3 Island Flodda, £39.50. Suffolk cross lambs – 1 st H Macdonald, 3 Hosta, £68.50; 2nd A Ferguson, 3 Claddach Kirkibost, £64. Continental cross lambs – 1 st H MacDonald, 1

Improved Hebrides.net services in the offing

... islanders gathered in the committee room at the Claddach Kirkibost Centre on Tuesday (22 September) to hear the latest developments on the £146m fibre broadband roll-out across the region- a situation which looks to be leaving large parts

From The Butt to Barra

Archaeology - Stornoway Diver Chris Murray gave an interesting account of his finds from Dun sites in freshwater lochs, some of them in the Lochs district, at an Islands Book trust event in the Old School Balallan last week. The finds thought