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The Comhairle has rejected claims that it is placing the future of an award-winning social enterprise on Barra “under threat” by “insisting on demolishing its premises”.

Loch a’ Tuath councillor, Calum MacLean, has called for a review of the closure of the dementia care ward at Western Isles Hospital.

The Uist and Barra Hospital ward in Benbecula reopens to visitors today (Thursday, December 5th).

The semi-finals of the National Secondary Schools’ Gaelic Debate will take place on Wednesday this week.
The first semi-final will see Inverness Royal Academy B up against Lionacleit School. The second debate will see Bishopbriggs High School take on Sir E Scott.
The two winning teams will meet in the Final, at The Scottish Parliament on Thursday, December 5th, at 7pm, where they will debate, ‘In 20 years time, the real Gàidhlig communities will be situated in the big cities’.

Calling out to all the budding artists in the Western Isles. Have you got what it takes to design the festive banners for the front page of the Stornoway Gazette for our Christmas and New Year editions?

The Comhairle has been directed by the Care Inspectorate (CI) to ensure that there are sufficient staff working at all times in Stornoway’s Dun Eisdean Care Home ‘to meet the complex health, welfare, safety and social needs of people living in the home’.

Plans for a new sculpture in Lews Castle grounds have been approved by the Comhairle.

NHS Western Isles has confirmed that the Uist and Barra Hospital ward in Benbecula has been closed to visitors due to an outbreak of Norovirus – ‘the winter vomiting bug’.

Calling out to all the budding artists in the Western Isles. Have you got what it takes to design the festive banners for the front page of the Stornoway Gazette for our Christmas and New Year editions?

At the Scottish Gaelic Awards held this week, Sgoil an Rubha’s Iolaire play, ‘An Oidhche Mus Do Sheoil I’, secured the Community, Heritage and Tourism Award.

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has been directed by the Care Inspectorate (CI) to ensure there is sufficient staff working at all times in Stornoway’s Dun Eisdean Care Home ‘to meet the complex health, welfare, safety and social needs of people living in the home’.

A scheme that could boost recruitment to ‘key worker’ vacancies in the islands is set to be introduced by Hebrides Housing Partnership (HHP).

Delays in the payment of Universal Credit (UC) are ‘unfair’ and are causing ‘major hardship’ for its tenants, according to Western Isles housing association, Hebrides Housing Partnership (HHP).

A local government officer from the Western Isles who has helped to bring 61 empty homes back into use in the first year in his job has lifted a top award.

Founded in 1919 by sisters Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton, Save the Children now works in more than 100 countries and currently responding to emergencies with appeals for Yemen, East Africa and Syria.