Local Labour Party calls for pay changes at Calmac to be abandoned
The Western Isles Constituency Labour Party deplores the threatened cuts to the pay and allowances of 70 shore staff at CalMac which have been recently announced.
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Barra Children’s Centre developments
THE Barra Children’s Centre have announced they have been successful in a stage one application to Big Lottery Community Spaces Scotland for funding to build an extension to the nursery unit this week.
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MP wants daily newspapers delivered on mail plane
Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil has written to Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in an attempt to cut Royal Mail costs by also carrying the daily papers to Lewis Harris and Uist and Benbecula.
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Threat to Western Isles prawn fishing fleet
Much of the Western Isles prawn fishing fleet could be ‘put out of business’ if Marine Scotland gets the go-ahead to reduce their fishing effort by 15 per cent in the year ahead in a move which could also have serious consequences for the processing sector.
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OHCG concerns about impact of air link reductions
The Outer Hebrides Commerce Group (OHCG), which represents business and communities across the islands, has written to Leader of the Comhairle to ask for a meeting about the impacts of the decision to reduce island air transportation links.
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Island travel advice asked on Lonely Planet
IN a continued campaign against the Comhairle’s decision to axe inter-island flights to Barra and reduce air connections between Stornoway and Benbecula, Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil has questioned whether the local authority believe the islands “can afford to lose tourists?”
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