News

  • Comhairle Welcomes ADS Announcement

    5 March 2019

    Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has welcomed news that ADS (Air Discount Scheme) is to be extended and that students in the Islands with a main residence elsewhere will now qualify for the scheme.

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  • ROADS 05 MARCH 2019

    5 March 2019

    05 March 2019 6.15 am. Gritters deployed treating Priority 1 - Manor Roundabout to Barvas and Newmarket to Tolsta Grid. Please drive to the conditions.

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  • Arctic Day Registration now Open

    4 March 2019

    A day of debates, workshops and networking to celebrate Scottish-Arctic links and explore new avenues for cooperation and policy-exchange.

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  • Comhairle Welcomes Town Centre Fund

    4 March 2019

    Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has welcomed a Scottish Government allocation to the Western Isles of £223,000 under the Town Centre Fund 2019/20.

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  • Fisheries Meeting

    4 March 2019

    Cllr Alasdair Macleod, Vice-Chairman of Policy and & Resources and Chairman of Fisheries JCC and Duncan MacInnes, Secretary of WIFA (Western Isles Fishermen's Association) met with Mairi Gougeon, Minister for Rural Affairs and Natural Environment, and a senior official from Marine Scotland in Edinburgh to discuss a number of fishery issues relating to the Hebrides.

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