Author: Lesley Young

BY ADAM GORDON A jackdaw who fell down a chimney in north Skye has become something of a local celebrity after being adopted by a family on the island. Sooty…

BY MICHAEL RUSSELL An American company that operates 300,000 cash machines around the world was due to fix the one in Broadford on Skye this week. Houston-based firm Cardtronics told…

Free outdoor family fun has been available to the Broadford and wider Skye community throughout the October holidays in the form of woodland workshops. This is a new and exciting…

BY ADAM GORDON The Small Isles Community Council chair has said that island residents should not be “held hostage” by Highland Council’s relationship with CalMac amid delays to harbour maintenance…

Mina Stewart celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday of last week surrounded by caring staff at the Howard Doris Centre in Lochcarron. Several of her oldest friends and former neighbours…

BY ADAM GORDON Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP and Scottish finance secretary Kate Forbes has called for the UK Government to “radically improve” its Universal Credit system amid a dramatic…

BY ADAM GORDON Skye shinty star Lorna MacRae made a debut to remember as she stole the show with a four-goal salvo to propel Inverness Caledonian Thistle Women to a…

A Skye fisherman involved in the discovery of more than 100 eggs belonging to a critically endangered type of skate in the Inner Sound has called for the government to…

BY NORRIE T MACDONALD Speaking last week about how football, the only sport I really thought I knew anything about, had undergone such a radical transformation, made me examine my…

One of the founders of the Skye and Lochalsh Young Carers charity has been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours with an MBE. Pat Walsh, who is affectionately known throughout…