Stornoway

Explainer How large is CalMac's fleet and what are the firm's main challenges?

The Post Office has revealed plans to hand over its remaining directly-owned branches to franchisees by the autumn

The full list of Post Office branches in Scotland to be offloaded

Glen Sannox ferry forced out of service by hull fault

A still from the Cinema Sgìre project which recorded life in the Outer Hebrides in the 1970s. A collection of more than 100 videotapes filmed by residents has now been digitised and preserved by National Library of Scotland.

Fading films of life in the Outer Hebrides in the 1970s revived

Jodie Mitchell was killed in the collision

Young mother killed in road accident on Scottish island

George Massie was a regular, much appreciated writer to The Scotsman's Letters page

Scotsman Obituaries: Les Reid, teacher, Humanist, activist and jazz fan

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice

'Risk of injury' as Met Offices issues yellow ice weather alert

A family enjoying a Hebridean Farm Hike at The Fauld

The movement behind changing tourism in the Highlands and Islands

Mark Thomas

Activist and comedian Mark Thomas brings critically acclaimed show to Stornoway.

Cree Mackenzie

Under the Radar: Cree Mackenzie

Harland & Wolff rescue deal hailed as saviour for 400 Scottish jobs

These are the best Italian restaurants in Scotland.

The 23 best Italian restaurants in Scotland

Donald Trump speaks at his revamped Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire in 2016.

Donald Trump’s Scots heritage and business ties to Scotland explained

Aleksandr Benga

Search continues for teenager missing for days on Scottish island

Tesco has announced it will open its Stornoway branch, on the Isle of Lewis, seven days a week

Tesco announces Sunday opening in Scottish Sabbath stronghold

Coinneach Macleod aka the Hebridean Baker has written his fourth cookbook

How the Hebridean Baker ended up in the White House

The Free Church of Scotland in Kenneth Street, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis

The day I joined the Sabbath on a Scots isle when everything was shut

Exclusive Harland & Wolff union demand as 400 jobs 'must not be sacrificed'

The golden eagle after being rescued from a rock in Urga, near Harris, on Tracey Dinner's lap. Picture: Tracey Dinner/SWNS

How woman used her hoodie to rescue golden eagle on a Scottish island

Scotland’s summer: Washout or late starter?

Heartbreak and hope: The legacy of Operation Babylift

Dolina Morrison (far right) with her Breanish pals, in the late 1930s when the sheiling life she remembered so dearly was drawing to a close. PIC: Comunn Eachdraidh Ùig Collection

Book review: Women of the Hebrides, by Joni Buchanan

Arbroath smokies are prepared using traditional methods. Picture: Getty Images

Stornoway black pudding among Scottish foods set to be protected in Japan

James were formed in Mancheter in 1982. Picture: Lewis Knaggs

Indie-rock favourites James to play Outer Hebrides show for the first time

Oral history expert Carol Stobie is going on tour around Scotland in a bright-yellow campervan, recording the experiences of community land buyouts

Making tracks: Campervan tour to record Scotland's community land stories

The agreement marks the return of a dedicated shipbuilder in Stornoway for the first time in 100 years.

Shipbuilding returns to Stornoway for first time in 100 years

A hydrogen filled balloon is used to replicate the sun

Why low-carbon 'blue' hydrogen could solve decarbonisation dilemmas

Island music festival reveals £3.6m spin-off for economy after record audience

Alan on the beach in younger days
Dementia Arts Festival feature In June this year, Alan Farquharson was the headline performer at the launch of Born to be Alive, a compilation album of original songs co-written by people living with dementia. The gig, at An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway, sold out almost a week in advance and was featured on Radio Scotland. Alan performs two of the eight songs on Born to be Alive, both recorded since he was diagnosed with dementia last year. He will now be part of the programme for Scotland’s first ever Dementia Arts Festival, taking place in November at Eden Court in Inverness as well as An Lanntair in Stornoway where he lives.

Musical memories: the creative possibilities for those living with dementia

Murdo Morrison was an unofficial news service for his customers

Scotsman Obituaries: Murdo Morrison, Isle of Lewis postman and community worker

Stornoway was gifted to its people 100 years ago by then owner Lord Leverhulme. PIC: Colin Smith /geograph.org

100 years since the millionaire 'Soapman' gifted an island a town

The Stern of the MV Plassey, Arran Islands, by Alex Boyd

Lost and Found: Highlights of Stornoway's Faclan book festival

The shipbuilding that took place on the River Clyde was once the "envy of the world" as 'Clydebuilt' boats became synonymous with high-quality.

Famous ships built in Scotland to honour SS Metagama 100th anniversary

During the quarter, Inverness Airport saw passenger numbers rise 17.6 per cent, year on year, to 240,631.

Inverness surge helps regional airports continue post-pandemic recovery

The Proclaimers headlined the final night of the Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway at the weekend.

Music festivals should work together when dust settles on rollercoaster summer

Pilot whales off the coast of Shetland in 2019. Picture: PA

More than 40 pilot whales dead after mass stranding on Scottish beach

This coastal cabin looks out over one of Scotland’s finest beaches

Mary Anne MacLeod was born in the village of Tong which is a few miles away from Stornoway; the main town on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Raised in a Gaelic-speaking family, the Scottish tongue was her native language while she learned English in school. As was common with Hebridean islanders following historical events like the Highland Clearances and World War One, she left for the United States in 1930 as a youth at 18. She later met and married Fred Trump and the two would have Donald J Trump; the 45th president of the country.

11 Famous Scottish Gaelic speakers (or students) like Trump’s mother

Village Bay on Hirta, part of the St Kilda archipelago, where a man was rescued after falling ill on Friday. PIC: Gajtalbot /CC.

Man, 76, rescued from St Kilda after suffering suspected stroke

The property is being advertised as having one bedroom, one bathroom and in need of full renovation. PIC: Contributed.

'Tin House' in Outer Hebrides hits market for £150,000

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), has reported a 38.7 per cent year-on-year increase in passenger numbers for 2022/23,

Highlands and Islands Airports records surge in passenger numbers

Some of 300 emigrants arrived at the pier at Lochboisdale to board the SS Marloch in 1923. Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Musicians, writers and actors to mark 100 years since mass Hebridean emigration
It was an exodus of islanders that would have a long-lasting impact on the Outer Hebrides.

CalMac service between Stornoway and Ullapool resumes service after days of cancellations

Sailings between Stornoway and Ullapool resume following days of cancellations

Alex and Jo Lawrence have been stranded on Lewis after having a difficult few days seeing Jo's father die in hospital.

Couple worried about bringing late father's body back home amid ferry chaos

MV Loch Seaforth berthed in Ullapool harbour in 2015

'I am absolutely sick of it' - Islanders despair over latest CalMac chaos

Stock image: CalMac's biggest ship was hit by a technical fault resulting in yet more ferry disruption for islanders.

More ferry disruption for islanders as MV Loch Seaforth hit by technical fault

Daibhidh Walker, Sam Jams Smith and Dòl Eoin MacKinnon in rehearsals for Stornoway, Quebec PIC: Rhona Dougall

Stornoway, Quebec: The making of a 'Gaelic Western'

Inverness Airport is reassuringly visible to walkers from its new railway station. Picture: The Scotsman

New train station may be revolutionary (and not just for Wayne's World fans)

Inverness is among airports affected by the industrial action of staff at Highland and Islands Airports.

Key flights from Inverness Airport to islands suspended amid industrial action

Lews Castle will provide a historic backdrop to the festival.

Everything you need to know about the Midnight Sun Festival

A vintage classic, Whisky Galore! was filmed in the late 1940s on the Hebridean island of Barra

Islander, 100, reveals how he smuggled Scotch bottles from Whisky Galore! wreck

An architect's drawing of the new visitor centre to built at Calanais Standing Stones. PIC: Contributed.

Calanais in £6m upgrade amid rising visitor numbers and arrival of cruise ships

Colin Macleod, centre, with CAA director for space regulation Tim Johnson and CAA space engineering manager Emma Cuddy. Picture: CAA

Booming satellite market could see first Scottish rocket launch in 2023

Beth Malcolm PIC: Graeme Rogers

Arts review of 2022: Jim Gilchrist on the Year in Folk & Jazz

The new range was conjured up in cahoots with Coinneach MacLeod. Image: Sophie Carson

Ad Feature Stag Bakeries on combining tradition with innovations that are bang on trend

The Bragar Cemetery on Lewis which is being threatened by coastal erosion. PIC: Barvas Estate Trust.

Cemetery on Scottish island at risk of 'falling into the sea'

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries