Cyran de la Lanne Mirlees, 27, has been the owner of Great Bernera since 2012 following the death of Count Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees. The count originally purchased the island in 1962 ...

Residents of Great Bernera have voted to push ahead with a proposed community buyout of the island. On Thursday night, 142 people voted in favour of the plan and 37 against. The ballot had a ...

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It is part of efforts to keep transport links open between Great Bernera and the mainland of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. A planning application for a new Bernera bridge has been lodged by Western ...

Grimsay and Great Bernera, a hundred miles to the north, have both been given full fibre broadband, meaning every home in these tiny remote communities can now get fibre piped right to the door.

“He will know it well from their many family picnics there.” Mirrlees owned Little Bernera along with Great Bernera and ­Kearstay. His Stornoway-based lawyer Ken MacDonald said: “The will ...

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Scotland has 250 islands – Paul Murton reflects on the remarkable 87 he has visited in the last 4 years—Series 4, Off the Map: North Rona and the Monach Islands ...