CITIZENS ADVICE DIRECT CALL-HANDLING CENTRE STORNOWAY - MACNEIL RAISES PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS

Following a meeting on Saturday with Flora Somerville (Unison), a staff representative fromCitizens Advice Direct (CAD) Call-handling Centre, Stornoway, and local Councillor Gordon Murray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MP, Angus MacNeil is to table Parliamentary Questions to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to clarify the situation in terms of funding.

Open Letter to Transport Scotland on the Benefits of Shortest Route Services

Dear Mr Laidlaw,

I write relating to the current difficulties being encountered for providing back-up provision for the Stornoway/Ullapool ferry service due to the delay in renewing the much needed link-span at Ullapool.

SNP group support council leadership on task force

Comhairle SNP group commends Transport and Islands Minister Derek MacKay's formation of a taskforce with a determined focus to have the infrastructure at Stornoway and Ullapool completed as quickly as practicable to enable the newly built £42m MV Loch Seaforth to deliver the enhanced service at the earliest possible date.

More on the Outer Hebrides Energy Supply Company

This is in response to the council administration's press release on the appointment of consultants to provide business planning support for the establishment of an Outer Hebrides Energy Supply Company.
Councillor Gordon Murray : "I welcome the Comhairle's announcement today regarding the establishment of an Outer Hebrides Energy Supply Company.

Free school meals for P1-3 introduced

Monday 5th of January saw all school pupils from primary one to three become eligible for a free school meal.

Press statement regarding Living Wage debate at Full Council on Thursday 4th December

At a full Comhairle meeting on Thursday evening SNP Councillors Gordon Murray and Rae Mackenzie proposed an amendment that the Comhairle backdated the introduction of the Living Wage for the Comhairle's lowest paid employees to 2013. This move was however defeated by 20 votes to 7. The remaining four Councillors were absent from the meeting.

New flag for the Western Isles