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Peter Urpeth

Reporter · GB

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Peter Urpeth

    Island businesses 'suffering badly' as Harris ferry remains out of service (opens the original)

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    BUSINESSES on both sides of the Sound of Harris are “suffering quite badly”, councillors have warned, with the route’s regular ferry expected to be out of service all winter and replacement vessels yet to be ordered. The issue dominated questions to Transport Scotland officials at last week’s meeting of the Comhairle’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee. Committee chair councillor Uisdean Robertson said the MV Loch Portain had spent two or three months in dry dock not long ago and was now ba

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Peter Urpeth, local democracy reporter

    Scottish island fish farm confirms nearly 50 per cent mortality rate (opens the original)

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    A SCOTTISH fish farm has recorded a mortality rate of nearly 50% over its most recent production cycle, it has emerged. Bakkafrost Scotland has confirmed that its Vuia Mor fish farm in Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis, recorded a mortality rate of 48.2% over its most recent production cycle, which ended with the site being fallowed in July. A company spokesperson said the losses were “largely concentrated within one externally sourced batch of smaller smolts that experienced significant gill health chal

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Peter Urpeth, Local Democracy Reporter

    Scottish island set to be used for major NATO military exercise (opens the original)

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    THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) is planning on using a Scottish island as a base during a NATO live-fire military exercise. The MoD has applied for temporary planning permission to site modular cabins at West Camp on the Isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, to provide welfare, meeting, reception and security facilities for Nato’s Formidable Shield military exercise, which returns to Hebridean waters in 2027. Nato describes Formidable Shield as the largest live-fire naval exercise in Europe, fo

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Peter Urpeth

    Restoration plan for 1224 hectares of ‘degraded peatland’ on Scottish island estate (opens the original)

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    Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. PLANS for the fourth phase of restoration works to approximately 1224 hectares of "degraded peatland" on a Scottish island estate have been set out. Details of the project by at the Morsgail Estate, on the west side of the Isle of Lewis, by Morsgail Peatland Pr

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