Tag: lewis

Scots islander finds thousands of midges trying to get into home

Iona Young - August 26, 2021

A HORRIFYING video shows thousands of ravenous midges trying to get into a Scots home. Iain Martin captured the massive swarm outside his house in...

Stuck stag rescued by royal marine commando veteran on Scottish Isle

Animal News

guest_deadline - February 3, 2021

A STAG has been successfully rescued by a former Marine Commando - after it spent a night on a frozen loch. The animal ended...

Trump faces war memorial backlash on Lewis

In Brief

Deadline News Journalist - December 11, 2015

PLANS to ask Donald Trump to help rebuild a Scottish war memorial are set to be scrapped following his call to ban all Muslims...

Guga hunt increase refused by SNH

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - September 10, 2015

ANGRY islanders have been refused permission to increase their controversial annual cull of baby seabirds. The guga hunters of Ness, on the Isle of Lewis,...

The island homes decaying because relatives can’t face selling up

Scottish News

Peter Laing - December 23, 2014

A REMARKABLE photographic exhibition shows family homes abandoned to decay on a remote Scottish island - because relatives cannot bear to sell them. Haunting images,...

Hailstones “size of £1 coins” smash car window

Scottish News

Peter Laing - December 19, 2014

MASSIVE hailstones battered a remote village on a Scottish island smashing through a car windscreen. Blocks of ice the size of pound coins rained down...

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