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Western Isles MSP and convenor of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Gaelic Alasdair Allan has welcomed the news that work has begun on adding Gaelic to Duolingo, the world’s most popular online language learning service.

Celebrating Laxdale Primary pupils achievements at this year’s annual prizegiving ceremony.

The parents of aid worker Linda Norgrove have found a novel way of raising funds for the charity they established in their daughter’s memory.

The Stornoway Trust will no longer engage in answering public comments on its Facebook page as of this morning (Monday, July 15th) when the privacy setting on its social media platform was changed from ‘Public’ to ‘Private’.

Isle of Lewis fundraiser Amy MacAulay, Chair of the Cancer Research UK Isle of Lewis local fundraising committee, last week attended the Royal Garden Party in the presence of The Queen, in recognition of the inspiring feats of fundraising by the amazing Isle of Lewis committee in their local community.

To mark the start of the annual Farm Safety Week campaign today (Monday), the Health and Safety Executive has released its latest Fatal Injuries in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing for Great Britain 2018/2019 report.

Renting prices and what you could bag yourself for a £1,000 vary wildly across the UK.

Celebrating Nicolson Institute pupils achievements at this years’ annual prizegiving ceremony.

Using the arts to engage with people and support their health was the focus at Blar Buidhe Care Home in Steinish during the recent ‘Care Home Open Day’, an initiative to connect care homes, their residents and staff with the wider community.

Scotland’s island residents are helping to shape the policies that affect them.

Tape recordings of the New Testament being read in Gaelic by members of a Lewis congregation around 30 years ago are to be digitised, cleaned up and preserved for all time, thanks to support from Point and Sandwick Trust.

Music lovers heading to the Hebridean Celtic Festival will have all the information they need at their fingertips by using new phone apps this year.

Reading the front page headline ‘ferry wake up call’ in last week’s Gazette (July 4th), made for alarming, almost unbelievable reading concerning Calmac’s Islands’ ferry operations.

In just a matter of days the Western Isles Island Games Association will jet into the arena of top class international sporting combat as they compete in the prestigious NatWest International Island Games for the eighth time.

If you’ve experienced dreadful service, been ripped off by a rogue trader or need advice on how to save money, consumeradvice.scot should be your first port of call.

It is that time of the year when the Gazette celebrates the achievements of the Island School Pupils in our Prize-giving photo galleries.

Over the next three years, the land adjacent to Goathill Farm will be transformed to provide a new care facility for Lewis and affordable housing for residents of Stornoway.