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- noun a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
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Similarly the smallest seat is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, formerly known as the Western Isles, where representing a scattered cluster of islands is already difficult enough without adding on the mainland as well.
Archive 2009-01-01 Tim Roll-Pickering 2009
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Similarly the smallest seat is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, formerly known as the Western Isles, where representing a scattered cluster of islands is already difficult enough without adding on the mainland as well.
timrollpickering 2009
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"The Western Isles, which is widely considered to be one of the most religious places in the UK, has a higher percentage of IllicitEncounters. com members than most other counties." (
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To the young people of the Western Isles, Stornoway has always represented the bright lights.
Liam Aitchison murder: Isle of Lewis grieves for its lost innocence 2011
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The plan is to place hundreds off Shetland, the Western Isles and Orkney within the next five years, with 180MW of installed capacity licensed or in planning.
SNP hopes a new wave can carry Scotland to independence 2011
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These must be within 5% of the national average - with the exception of Isle of Wight, Orkney and Shetland and Na h-Eileanan an Iar, the Western Isles.
Boundary changes in England: where's my new constituency? 2011
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Na h-Eileanan an Iar, formerly the Western Isles, will remain as one seat even though it has an electorate of just over 20,000.
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Dear Sir David, we'd be most grateful if you and the Frozen Planet crew could do a wee series about the seas around the Western Isles.
Brainless and faceless? Don't get me started… | Kevin McKenna 2012
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I have eaten in Cardiff, the Western Isles, an island off the east coast that gets cut off by the high tide, and Croydon.
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Matthew Wright's Channel 5 show in which he imitated a catchphrase from the TV detective series Taggart to describe the death of a teenager in the Western Isles of Scotland has become the most complained about TV show of 2011.
Matthew Wright murder 'joke' show is most complained-about of 2011 2011
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