The Scottish Opera night at An Lanntair is A Big Deal. Tickets sell out way in advance for what is always one of the most popular nights in the arts centre’s calendar. My first time seeing Scottish Opera in Stornoway […]
First time I ever saw Phil and Aly play, it was 1998 and I was a baby reporter with the West Highland Free Press on Skye. They were playing a gig down in Sabhal Mor Ostaig, in the old barn, […]
There was only one story in our house last week… Michael, five, went to the Mod! This, as many of you will know, is a great festival celebrating all that is fabulous in the Gaelic tradition and includes a whole […]
Talk about a coup for the Outer Hebrides. Mark Beaumont, at one time the fastest man to have cycled around the world, launched the Hebridean Way Cycling Route by biking up through the isles in 24 hours. He was “amazed” […]
I have been a journalist for a good few years now and have written about all manner of things in that time, some of them challenging. But the articles I have always struggled with most are the ones like this; the […]