The decision by the Clan Donald Lands Trust to flog off 20,000 crofting acres of Sleat in Skye for £6.75 million has prompted predictable hand-wringing from people who have long had it within their gift to do something about it – and chose not to.
South Uist has been dealt a further blow after another CalMac ferry, the MV Hebrides, was detained in drydock for two more weeks due to a fault having been found with its bow visor.
Gaelic language campaigners have made a last-ditch impassioned appeal for substantial changes to the Scottish Languages Bill in order to provide a proper framework that will enable Gaelic to be sufficiently supported in its traditional heartlands.
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