November 2019

The semi-finals of the National Secondary Schools’ Gaelic Debate will take place on Wednesday, 4 December, at the Macdonald Holyrood Hotel and Spa in Edinburgh, starting at 6.30pm.

The Trading Standards North of Scotland Safety Partnership is asking consumers to think carefully when buying goods from online market places and platforms during Black Friday and the run up to Christmas.

A major Housing seminar looking at innovative ways of increasing housing opportunities in Uist and Barra took place earlier this month in the Dark Island Hotel.

Laxdale School have been awarded the Gold Sportscotland School Sport Award 2019 -2022. They are the only school in Lewis and Harris to have achieved this standard. Graham Lindsey and Gary Reid from …

The Outer Hebrides Local Energy Hub (OHLEH) project has won the Partnership Scotland Award at this year’s VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards with partners The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), …

The public are reminded that the registration deadline for the UK Parliamentary Election is midnight on Tuesday 26 November 2019. The deadline for receiving new postal vote and postal proxy applications,…

A report to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar is to recommend support for a proposed Local Electricity Bill which will make it easier for Local Authorities and Community Generators to become licensed Electricity…

Quarterly Housing Update

Autumn 2019

This autumn we have 10 developments on site which are due for completion during 2019/20 – 20/21.

The Goathill Care Home, Housing and Housing with Extra Care project…

The Town Hall building in Stornoway was the setting for the first two rounds of the National Gaelic Schools’ Debate which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday the 5th and 6th of November.

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar hosted a seminar this week looking at the opportunities that Hydrogen could offer the islands. The manufacture of Hydrogen is extremely energy intensive but, with the best wind…

The initial phase of the programme, which began in 2015, was awarded European Social Fund (ESF) grant aid of £770,000.00 and the extension has secured a further £1,457,794.00 giving a total ESF grant …

Local residents and businesses are asked to note that there may be minor disruption to traffic in some locations while film production ‘Wise Blood’ are shooting at various Lewis locations in the coming…