Highlights from Island News, June 2015:
Front page story: A figurehead has gone missing from the replica ship Galley Aileach. A note in Gaelic was left, saying "I should be on the high seas, not locked up in a field".
HM Coastguard is recruiting volunteers.
Call for munro baggers to raise money for Scottish Mountain Rescue
The definition of Young Farmer for grant eligibility has been changed to under 41 in a bid to attract more people into agriculture.
Liniclate school pipe band came 12th in the Scottish schools pipe band championships in Inverness
Daliburgh primary school has achieved Gaelic status. Scotland's minister for learning, science and Scotland's languages toured the school and said "What Gaelic status means is up to this community"
A six month, £400,000 project to protect Benbecula's runway from coastal erosion will be completed this month
A Leverburgh lad was thrilled to find a message in a bottle, from a Faroese lad of similar age
The second ever ploughing match was held, 76 years after the first, on the Uist machair. Prizes were awarded for Best Ploughman, Best Finish, Best Ins and Outs, Straightest, Oldest Ploughman and best looking ploughman, (chosen by the judge's wife). Veterans of the first match said "there have been lots of changes: no horses - there were thousands of horses on Uist back then"
An RSPB project aims to eradicate rats and help ground nesting seabirds on the Shiant Isles
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