Tag: Outer Hebrides

DNA tests prove Scots clan are Viking not Irish

DNA tests on a Scottish clan have destroyed their claim to royal Irish ancestry - and proved they are Vikings. For centuries the MacNeil clan...

Winds force evacuation of MoD staff on St Kilda

THE MINISTRY of Defence was forced to evacuate St Kilda amidst safety fears during last week’s storm, it has emerged. The chain of islands was...

Storm sees car crushed under shipping container

A SHIPPING container weighing two-and-a-half tonnes crushed a car as it was blown 80ft by hurricane-force winds. A family on the Isle of Harris in...

The island homes decaying because relatives can’t face selling up

A REMARKABLE photographic exhibition shows family homes abandoned to decay on a remote Scottish island - because relatives cannot bear to sell them. Haunting images,...

Whisky Galore returns to Scottish islands

By ALEXANDER LAWRIE THE SCOTTISH islands made famous by the movie Whisky Galore! are to have their very own distillery – almost 200 years after...

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